14 posts were split to a new topic: The Arc of Justice
Indeed. They enjoy engaging in it too much and see it as their right as men.
I wish I believed that. I don’t believe about the arc of history bending towards justice, because, well, I study history. I hope it does, but that guarantees literally nothing.
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I’m trying to find stuff online about Queen Silver. There’s an LA Times article, but it won’t let me share the link. And there’s this:
http://www.queensilver.org/
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does this sketch have a sketchy subtext?
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It was a woman who came after me. I don’t normally say things like this about other women’s motivations, but she went from 0 to 100 in a way that made me wonder if there wasn’t something going on between her and the harasshole.
Patriarchy can’t persist without female foot soldiers.
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I have to respectfully disagree with that first line. Stupid bitch, ugly cow, and slut all show up in the schoolyard bully’s lexicon towards the end of elementary school. Instead of being colourful, they are absolutely bog-standard, boring, and showing a complete lack of imagination. If anything, they’re a mighty poor reflection on the sort of person ('cos it’s not always men) who use such insults.
We’ll know women politicians are being taken seriously when what’s thrown at them improves in quality and relevance. The only woman politician I can think of who achieved such a status was Thatcher.
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Jordan Peterson has come up with a Great Books list…all white men, what a surprise.
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I haven’t found a better source, but fuck. Sticky header warning.
https://rewire.news/legislative-tracker/law/utah-vital-statistics-act-amendment-hb-153/
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That story ended up in my fucking feed yesterday; I immediately adjusted my settings to ‘restrict all articles from BigThink.’
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You know how crime victims are humanized by talking about their work, hobbies, etc?
Police and the victims’ families identified the women as: newlywed Cynthia Watson, mother-of-two Marisol Lopez, mother-of-three Jessica Montague, grandmother Debra Cook and mother-of-seven Ana Piñon-Williams.
For the record, 4 of those 5 women were employees at the bank. Not sure about the 65 year old newlywed…maybe she’s a farmer, or maybe she’s retired? Must have had a life before she became Mrs. whomever. No way to know, because that’s not important.
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It’s so weird how women are always seen in relationship to others and not for their accomplishments. Like, 85 year old newlywed has lived for more than 80 years before she married that dude, but now she is his wife so whatever she did in the preceding years apparently not nearly as important as landing that man.
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And this is why I hate book titles like The Astronaut’s Wife. Even The Time Traveler’s Wife, a book I really love… I hate the title. The Time Traveler’s Marriage would have reflected the story better.
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65, not 85, not that it matters. She still lived 60 years before she met her current husband. So what about her life before that? I assume she was a farmer, because she lives on a farm now, but she has probably led a rich full life besides farming and having met her husband at age 60.
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Yep. The story was not really about her, and it’s not even about him so much as it’s about their relationship. The relationship is the part that I’m really having trouble wrapping my head around. They start meeting when he’s an adult man and she’s a small child, but then they meet for real when they are both in their 20s, yet she never catches on. Not to mention the weird time travel paradox of how he basically goes back in time to alter her trajectory in life (and thus, his own).
/hijack
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That Guy Who Kept Appearing in Her Life and Then Ghosting Her.
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