And just in time for the holidays! Click image for larger version because this one isn’t awesome. And because I’m nice: Mary Worth, December 1, 2019 And this smug bastard is why Iris should get a female doctor. No woman smirks at menopause. It’s like smirking at a charging rhino or something. Mary Worth [...]
Tag: feminism
Dress for sanity
“As for formal meetings, while men have abandoned the tie, many women feel obliged to wear high heels. These give some women a sense of empowerment and femininity (not to mention extra height). But in health terms, heels can seem like the Western equivalent of the ancient Chinese practice of foot-binding: bad for women’s feet, [...]
Wonder Woman
So I saw Wonder Woman, and was crying during a lot of it, and get choked up thinking about it still. Yes, even my old, leathery heart was touched to the point of tears, but I didn't know why until I read these three reviews, I highly recommend you read, the next day: "Wonder Woman [...]
America isn’t great? Since when?
"'Donald Trump chose racism as his weapon, but his aim is exactly the same as the rest of the Republicans,' Warren said. 'Pound the courts into submission to the rich and powerful.'" Elizabeth Warren labels Donald Trump 'nasty, thin-skinned fraud' in speech, by John R. Ellement, Boston Globe, June 9, 2016 I like E Warren, [...]
Where are the women bloggers?
Oh, wait, that should be where are the women philosophers? (Sorry, I need the blog hits.) "'One of the biggest problems is that philosophy is treated like a contact sport: an argument is a contest, a chance to knock your opponent down, to utterly destroy him. Look at the way male philosophers report on question-and-answer [...]
41% of Professional women are not having kids because she who travels fastest, travels alone
And the patriarchy runs our society sucks. "First off, 41% of professional women these days are choosing not to have children, and unlike ten years ago, they're comfortable with their decisions on this front. In the straitened circumstances of a high unemployment, low growth economy, many women believe that it's wiser to do two things [...]
“…invalidated the choices they and their wives had made…”
"A group of researchers from several universities recently published a report on the attitudes and beliefs of employed men, which shows that those with wives who did not work outside the home or who worked part-time were more likely than those with wives who worked to: (1) have an unfavorable view about women in the [...]
Lara Logan is my hero
"In an interview with 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley, CBS reporter Lara Logan recounted the day she was sexually assaulted by a mob of 200 to 300 men while covering the protests in Egypt." In aftermath of Lara Logan's attack, CPJ learns more about journalists sexually assaulted on the job, by Mallary Jean Tenore, Poynter, Published [...]
1966
Was the world really a better place then? https://youtu.be/szZsKdJYR-A I wonder. You just don't see PSAs like this anymore.
That’s Furies, not Furries
Furies Publishing (working title: 3 Girl Group) is just in the begin to beginning stages and trying to raise a little money. Please go over and click on their Google Ads or drop them a donation (the donation button is way down the sidebar, or here for those of you who'd just like to toss [...]