Tag: misogyny
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.
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