My thought exactly. It’s rare a woman hasn’t been groped by some asshole in her lifetime. It’s pretty messed up that in that regard, men are considered so terribly neutral on this issue.

We have baby showers for all babies, because it’s about celebrating the baby. BUT, we don’t necessarily give big-ticket gifts for second babies (like car seats or strollers and stuff) since there will likely be re-use. We ask mom if there’s anything she needs (i.e., we usually do consumable stuff such as bum balm and…

So rape juries are entirely composed of people who don’t know that rape is a thing? What the actual fuck?!

This was my exact thought. How on earth do they find any women to serve on such juries?!?

Pretty much anyone who’s ever been sexually assaulted or done anti-sexual violence prevention work is deemed “biased” in sexual assault cases, and dismissed from the jury pool due to their supposed inability to be “impartial”. They have to call 2-3x as many people for the jury pool on a rape case compared to normal. I…

I'm anti. Put on a SWEATER LADIES.

Meanwhile, at UT Austin.

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Alicia Keys can get away without makeup because, well, she’s really attractive.

The whole gendering thing is obnoxious. My daughter is in LOVE with superheroes right now but when I go to Target or Walmart all the stuff in the girls section is purple or pink or rainbow or glittered. And she won’t wear it because “it’s not real” since it’s not the real logos. (She’s 3 and very literal). So off to…

I’ve tried to bust ghosts many times but have always ended up nursing them or marrying them. Or sometimes both. Us ladies are just too nurturing for the violence of it all.

I have an ugly suspicion that at least some of it is companies trying to cut down on the usefulness of hand me downs, though it seems like toys have gotten more gendered since I was an 80s baby as well.

Yeah, it’s dumb. And it’s weird how much more gendered things are than they were when, say, I was a wee one in the 70s. I feel like we’ve lost ground in a lot of ways.

I actually think “Born Leader” is better and more flattering than “Future Leader.”

Ugh. At least it’s not “Ghostbuster’s girlfriend”.

Whyyyyyy are clothes for kids under the age of 9 or 10 (when bodies start to be different) or especially under the age of 3 or 4 (when kids can have their own opinions about what they wear) so terribly gendered?

who’s the girl standing in front of you?

idk, I think mine’s better...