Anyone else find it unsettling that as we make great strides in LGBT issues, we are being jettisoned back to the dark ages when it comes to Women’s Reproductive Rights?
Anyone else find it unsettling that as we make great strides in LGBT issues, we are being jettisoned back to the dark ages when it comes to Women’s Reproductive Rights?
Somebody call the CDC and get Lorde away from that gross douche.
That’s a very stupid and distinctly male thought to deploy as the final note of a piece of reporting on a pop star alleging sexual abuse against the most powerful pop producer in America.
The world is still very much a men’s club. I grew up in the Free To Be You And Me days and was so naive as to really believe that shit. Looking back over my life now - there is not one aspect of my life that was not greatly affected by sexism. I shrugged it all off for years but now I’m really pissed. As a woman, I…
I’m in the midst of completeing a doctorate (full funding, federal scholarships, all of the things.) and the same applies. I talk about this with colleagues (profs - even full profs!, postdocs, fellow grad students) and no matter how excellent our scholarship, men of all stripes (regardless of level of education or…
There’s a male graduate student in my cohort who literally falls asleep in seminars when women are talking. He is, of course, very left wing, in fact never shuts up about how progressive he is. A male professor I work with interrupts women every time they speak and yet bills himself as a liberal, intersectional kind…
Some of the most regressive, sexist men I have met have been otherwise liberal academics. There’s a significant amount of cognitive dissonance between how they tend to talk about women’s issues in the workplace and how they treat their peers.
But hey, don’t forget to vote Sanders in yr primary, since all that 2nd wave feminism is bullshit now.
Uber markets itself as simpler and cheaper than cabs because you don't need to tip. If they've changed their pricing scheme to the point where tipping is now necessary to make any money, they need to make that clear!