Nick Fletcher says likes of female Doctor and 007 mean only cultural role models left for boys are criminalsCasting women in TV and film roles previously given to men, such as in Doctor Who or the James Bond franchise, risks leading young males into cr…
A quiet revolution: the female imams taking over an LA mosque
While many have misinterpreted a hadith to mean women can’t enter a mosque, these women are covering progressive topics like sexual violence, abortion, pregnancy loss, domestic violence in their sermonsWhen Tasneem Noor got on the stage at the Women’s …
It’s clear capitalism isn’t working when US politicians try to bring back child labor | Arwa Mahdawi
There is something very, very wrong with a system that would rather recruit more kids instead of paying better wages and providing more benefits to adultsBack in the good old days American children didn’t sit around playing video games, making TikToks,…
Science for the People
From Scientists to Salesmen – A Review of Noah Hutton’s In Silico.
Pervasive corporate managerialism has made it such that the number and prestige of publications in prestigious for-profit journals has become the key metric of one’s value, and the cri…
It’s the patriarchy
In this interview in Jacobin, Calvin University’s historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez address the conundrum of evangelical support for Donald Trump. She points outs that much of modern liberalism (feminism, acceptance of alternatives to heterosexuality, etc…
UK far right promoting sexual violence against women, report finds
New analysis reveals misogyny increasingly prevalent online and being used to steer people into racism and antisemitismSexual violence is increasingly being promoted by the British far right, according to new analysis documenting how misogyny is used t…
Dude, patriarchy messed up my life – and yours too
I was a kid who adored choir practice and wanted to melt when a fly ball was hit my way, but I felt I had to pretend to be someone elseWhen I was seven years old, a classmate informed me that a girl who acted like a boy was known as a tomboy. But a boy…
On singleness, self-sufficiency and masculinity
There is no real guidebook for a woman alone in her home. No one threw me a shower. To give me pots and pans. The ones I’d left behind and couldn’t afford to replace. No one to give me hammers and socket wrenches. No one told me about furnace filters o…
Read It and Weep
Margaret Atwood on the Intimidating, Haunting Intellect of Simone de Beauvoir and her untimely lost friend Zaza (NYT link). Beauvoir wrote this book [Inseparable] in 1954, five years after publishing The Second Sex, and made the mistake of showing it t…
But! That is what happened, and so here we are.
Autostraddle reports: Also.Also.Also: Guardian Edits Out Judith Butler Accurately Labeling TERFs Fascists After Quote Goes Viral – which is referring to the new Judith Butler interview in The Guardian: ‘We need to rethink the category of woman’.