Some of the worst BS I’ve dealt with as a young woman who works in a blue collar field has been from women—either older women who work in the offices, or my co-workers’ wives who think I must be up to no good. I’m a feminine, conventionally attractive person so they assume I either have designs on the men I work with,…
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Agreed. I recently moved to the Burlington area from New York’s North Country, and the level of whiteness here astounds me.
Even in my very red, Trump-y area of New York, we had a fair amount of racial diversity between the colleges, military base, and hospitals. And this was one of the least diverse areas of the…
Yea, the now-husband and I relocated from New York’s North Country at the beginning of this year, and were hoping we’d get all the things we like about rural life without all the confederate flags we were used to. Have been pretty disappointed with the overall political culture.
We live within commuting distance of…
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Picky eaters. I like to try different cuisines, cook a lot of different dishes, and am in general a very adventurous eater. I dated a picky eater through college, the sort who ate like a small child, who would straight up refuse to go anywhere they couldn’t order pizza or chicken tenders. Ever since we broke up it’s…
This is something I’ve wondered about too—I was a tomboy when I was a prepubescent girl, and when I hit puberty early and hard and started getting a lot of negative adult male attention doubled down on it. I know a lot of other women who went through a similar stage. I’m a little worried we’re still so stuck on the…
Precisely. While I’m pro-decriminalization because workers need to protected, I find it sad how many “feminists” think commodification of women is acceptable. While it’s a multifaceted issue, most situations boil down to men buying women they wouldn’t have access to outside of the black market. Many of these women are…
Pimps are a valid part of this discussion. While it’s unpleasant, it is the reality of many sex workers.
There is more demand than supply, simple as that. In a misogynistic/homophobic/etc culture that means trafficking. Capitalism is a helluva drug, that means sex workers are a commodity to be exploited.
That’s why I’m pro-decriminalization, as opposed to pro-legalization. Protect the worker, not the john.
I see it as a (small) act of defiance against the patriarchy— “Nice girls don’t have tattoos” is a stereotype that still holds pretty strong among a lot of people. I’ve found that a lot of sexist guys see it as “ruining” a pretty woman, or as a signifier that a woman is “easy.”
While many workplaces and other social…
Ugh, I have a tattoo in the middle-to-lower part of my back that I got when I was pretty young (19 or so) and the artist creeped me out, but I didn’t think I could complain—he kept commenting on how gorgeous my skin was, how he wanted to tattoo ALL OF IT, kept positioning me/holding my skin in place on much lower…
I think it’s tough to find someone in that sweet spot of “attractive enough body/face/demeanor to bang, but not to catch feels for.”
I had exactly one of these situations where I found them very attractive, and didn’t catch feels. It was one where we were both super busy and had very different life goals that the…
Yea, I was diagnosed in at 25 (now in my late 20s) with Asperbergers/ADHD morbidity after spending years of being told it was everything but. A lot of this was due to me being fairly outgoing, and as a person on the high end of the spectrum, someone who learned to mimic fairly well from a young age.
As an intelligent…
Yea, I was diagnosed in at 25 (now in my late 20s) with Asperbergers/ADHD morbidity after spending years of being told it was everything but. A lot of this was due to me being fairly outgoing, and as a person on the high end of the spectrum, someone who learned to mimic fairly well from a young age.
As an intelligent…
Yea, I grew up in an evangelical church and from what I understand, a complete lack of any sex education beyond the menstrual cycle/the principles of conception leads to a lot of these issues. This combined with the gender politics (woman=sexual outlet for man, bad wife if she says no) and many couples getting married…
Posted something similar. As a woman on the spectrum, I’ve found that I end up in more friendships with men due to the way we enculture boys and girls differently. Women tend to be raised to read between the lines, give support without it being asked for, etc.; this is a skill set I lack, and I think that many of my…
As a woman on the high end of the autismmspectrum, while I’ve never thought/said “women are terrible/I prefer friendships with men,” I may be able to give a bit of insight.
Having been raised in a conservative area that had very distinct and enforced gender roles, as a girl who wasn’t socially talented or literate, I…
Pretty much. I’m somewhat involved with my local and state Green Party, so am included in a lot of our online communications between various state parties and activists.
The recount effort was kickstarted when Stein voters checked the public polling records for their precinct and found that there were 0 Stein votes…
In many of the fundamentalist sects, 12-14 year old girls are forcibly “married” (non-legally) to much older men, often times with the consummation/rape being a community spectacle.