This is pretty much exactly what our gender neutral parental leave is in Canada.
SleepyCat
SleepyCat
It is possible to care about more than one thing. It's also possible to praise Pacific Rim for its racial diversity and criticize it for its lack of female characters. Having an admirable quality does not, and should not, exempt a work from comment on all of its other failings.
Not that the Bechdel test itself isn't fraught with flaws, but the problem with the Mako Mori test is that it encourages the Smurfette Syndrome/The Chick trope. If you only need one female character to pass (albeit a relatively deep and interesting one) that fails to critique a film for only including one female…
I believe your anecdote.
Eh, so shave. It's what women have been forced to do for the past century to wear modern fashion while disguising the fact that they are hairy.
Yeah, that all sounds like it really happened.
It feels like I'm stanning for elopement on every post about weddings sometimes, but seriously, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. It was beautiful, memorable, and many times cheaper than a formal wedding. Having seen my friends go broke and destroy relationships and put incredible strain between themselves…
This strikes a chord. Not having to deal with my mother (and my father) is a big part of why I eloped. My mom would otherwise have nitpicked every last decision I made - even though she wouldn't have spent a dime on it (and my dad would have used the reception as a chance to get into an embarrassing drunken argument…
I think the problem is that people already know this, for the most part. I challenge you to find me a grown woman who is unaware that her fertility declines with age and will eventually end with menopause. "Have babies while you can!" is intended less as "educational" for young women, and more an attempt to…
The 25% rate is based on super old data, actually. It's been around 40% (for women in the 35-40 age bracket, ~50% for younger and ~30% for older) for years now, and the rate is steadily increasing as techniques improve. Some (albeit more expensive) clinics have success rates as high as 70%. And as you say, that's…
Yeah, my dad thought he was being pretty subtle about being disappointed that I was born a girl, but... no, no he wasn't. I've known since I can remember. Kids are inexperienced, not stupid. This mom's son probably already knows, too.
Nope, sorry olds, I find it adorable. More young men for me, I guess. (Oh no!)
I don't know what era you grew up in, but in my day fighting back (even if you won) meant "next time they catch you alone they'll gang up on you with a huge group of friends and/or use a weapon". It didn't deter them in the slightest - it only made them meaner. And the teachers did fuck all. I beat up on girl who was…
The boys' aren't bad, but the girls' are all so samey.
I hope most moral people would.
I'd put "presently, immediately, extremely suffering" ahead of "might theoretically abstractly suffer in some way at some point" on my table of priorities.
Yeah, I feel the same way... provided they actually do deal with it. If they continue to ignore it and leave the girls where they are, sold into sexual slavery by strangers, kidnapped, and raped, I doubt the girls themselves would care if our "complicity in colonialism" was what got them rescued if they ended up…
Eh, better than yet another Emma or Sophie.
Yeah, pretty much. I don't hold it against people who go "but not _all_ (insert group here)" because I feel just as put out when someone makes a statement about "women" (as a monolith) then acts so terribly scandalized when I point out "not all women do/are that" as if it should have been ~obvious~ that "women do/are…