(thanks to Dead Wild Roses https://deadwildroses.com/2023/03/05/the-dwr-sunday-religious-disservice-eggs ..read more

When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court? Her answer: When there are nine. “[L]egal challenges to undue restrictions on abortion procedures … center on a woman’s autonomy to determine her life’s course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature …” Gonzales v. Carhart [She wasn’t pleased with the argument of Roe v Wage b/c it focused on privacy instead of autonomy] “[T]he ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives …” Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v ..read more

Be sure to look at both slides, 6 then 7: https://www.theonion.com/birth-control-myth-vs-fact-1851274941/slides/6 https://www.theonion.com/birth-control-myth-vs-fact-1851274941/slides/7 ..read more

So I watched “The Assault” (on peacock) last night … about a cheerleader who gets raped by the team … sigh … but there was something that really made me stop and think.  (Always a good thing.) They claimed she consented, she was drunk/unconscious so even if she had consented, it would be considered invalid because when drunk, you’re incapable of consent.  All good.  (Well, sort of.  I think it’s more complicated than that: as I argued in my Master’s thesis 30 years ago, I think consent is best conceptualized as continuum …)  But then one of the boys said “I was drunk t ..read more

“Adrienne Rich (1979) [commented that] objectivity is the name we give to male subjectivity.” Introduction, p5 “Anna Bexall (1980) [ has suggested that] males have a great emotional investment in objectivity.”  Introduction, p5 “… the ways we have been ‘protected’ from obscenity, yet made the object of much of it.” from “A Thief in the House: Women and Language,” Mercilee M. Jenkins and Cheris Kramarae, p11 “For those of us who studied literature, a previously unspoken sense of exclusion from authorship, and a painfully personal distress at discoverin whores, bitches, muses, and heroines ..read more

Great video. Watch to the end, as Irene Brit expresses the situation so … succinctly ..read more

A hefty book of over 500 pages of entries, but worth, at the very least, a skim through for words of interest to you.  Here are a few that I love: Academia: a hierarchy whose “purpose is the production of prestige”  (Jo Freeman, 1979) Acknowledgements: … where authors acknowledged the ideas and intellectual contributions of males and the clerical and editorial assistance of females and where men thanked their wives for critically reading their manuscripts without asking for co-authorship. Adam: History’s first nonfunctioning head of household (Midge Lennert and Norma Willson, 1973) C ..read more

Well worth the read.  Some quotes and notes … “Because law is based on male experience, it ‘understands’ men.  Thus, courts apply male values to conclude that sexual and sexist workplace conduct is merely annoying, that fear of a stalker is unjustified, and that sex against a woman’s will is seduction.” (p3) “Men’s physiology defines most sports, their needs define auto and health insurance coverage, their socially designed biographies define workplace expectations and successful career patterns, their perspectives and concerns define quality in scholarship, their experiences and obs ..read more

https://babylonbee.com/news/i-dont-want-my-skull-fractured-by-a-man-says-bigoted-female-athlete ..read more

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