Tag: misogyny
Out of Sight; Out of Mind
Disability did not become fashionable. Disabled people became harder to ignore.
what even is a gender? we still don’t know
recently one of my friends asked me about my gender experience when i was a child. she's a woman of a certain experience herself and because of *gestures vaguely at the concept of a commonality between a lot of afab trans people* she kind of assumed my experience would be similar to other afab trans people she's met. but i'm kind of a huge weirdo, and i'm full of surprises.
Scott Adams, "Scientific" Misogyny, and Roland Barthes's Mythology
The right's "scientific" case for misogyny isn't science. It's myth in the sense Roland Barthes meant—political prejudice dressed up as natural fact.
Uncreative thinking for such a creative industry
I wrote a post - okay, a rant - over on Google+ about sexism in the software industry: Tim O'Reilly had to post a code of conduct for his conferences, which made immediate waves. (Quite a few of the women I know who aren't in the tech sphere shared it with me.) I've heard accounts of women having to deal with all kinds of come-ons, and being physically assaulted as if it was nothing, at tech events. Even in the comments to his post here on G+, people were suggesting that their Asperger's Syndro