What could go wrong?
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That last bit about construction is utter tripe.
Ask any foreman and he will say that the women he’s had working on jobs were more detail-oriented and less prone to injury than men on the same site. Ask me how I know.
And I know, I know, this is anecdotal, not data. But it’s hard to make an accurate determination about overall workplace injuries, since the PPE is generally not designed with women in mind, and in some construction, like roadwork, women are most often tasked with being flaggers, so are more prone to injury by drivers, not due to any physical shortcomings they might have as women.
Just utter tripe. But written with such confidence!
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I know women art preparators who were given some shit about the idea that they aren’t that useful for large sculptures but it’s like… The forklift does the work for the big stuff and most of the little stuff is more about patience and diligence work than brute strength. So there’s less raw need for only peak male muscle there actually.
Like machining, the thing that actually keeps the women away is that skilled labor men view women as competition and make a union against them pretty quick on the fly sometimes.
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Sick fucks all the way down too.
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This was a hard read
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“Reveals” ?!?
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How could they have known? It’s a private family matter, every time.
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Ugh
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Either way, it strikes me that this is a decent microcosm of how these creepy dudes talk about women and children and other humans: as property to acquire if it has value, as a thing from which to grow that value for itself, extract value and then discard once the value is extracted, to sell off the losers, and to always always always take all the value for themselves. Women and children and other human beings and human structures have a whole point, to be defined and measured by them, while they and only they get to be the whole point of themselves.
So this also strikes me as a decent way of looking at the way they think of society, as something that exists for them to acquire and own and use, instead of as a natural occurrence that is made by all of us, that creates a generative, sustainable, inheritable value that ties us all together, to which we all owe a responsibility, not to fulfill by fitting a role defined by some master class, but simply by fully being ourselves.
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Creepy, and they’re not even right!
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If only there were some way to further traumatize new mothers after forcing them to give birth.
Warning - upsetting.
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Good God, that was an infuriating read. Unless you want to truly get your BP up and your rage on, I would not click through on that. It’s exactly what you would expect from Texas Republican Asshats (but I repeat myself) but having laid out so plainly is painful.
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I apologize for upsetting people and I have added a warning, but I felt that, rage-inducing as it is, it was necessary to inform people. I didn’t really know where else to post it.
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I put it somewhere else, maybe yesterday?
Ah, yes: Gilead Watch.
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That is it in a nutshell, isn’t it? A succinct way of explaining that they are not at all the same.
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That’s literally a version of: men are afraid women will laugh at them; women are afraid men will kill them.
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Speaking of men killing women… @KathyPartdeux will likely appreciate this account on Burroughs relationship with Joan Vollmer, and how despite murdering his wife, he still went on to become a famous and beloved countercultural figure…
Trigger warning for a pretty stark description of Vollmer’s death, including an image of a mexican newspaper that had a picture of her right after the shooting…
Here is her grave down in Mexico…
And here is a picture Ginsberg took of her, undated…
Like all of us, she deserved much better than she got. Far too often, men’s successes come at the expense of the women in the lives.
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