Those worst hit by global heating are left out of talks, says feminist coalition calling for systemic changeWomen must be enabled to play a greater role at the Cop26 summit, as the needs of women and girls are being overlooked amid the global climate c…
I figured he knew what he was talking about.
Dan Savage Revolutionized Sex. Then the Revolution Came for Him. What does he believe now? This is a Slate article. If you hit the paywall you may be able to read it with private browsing.
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…
“grit & valor” not “sissy pants” & “girlie guns”
Over the years in China, “little fresh meat” celebrities and male beauty bloggers have disrupted the traditional image of what it is to be a man. But recently, Chinese cultural authorities have announced a purge of “morally flawed celebrities.” Settin…
Lockdown has made UK families reconsider the cost of childcare – and they’re furious | Gaby Hinsliff
Somehow we have ended up with a system that’s too expensive for parents, but not lucrative enough to pay staff properlyBuild the tower up, only to knock it to the floor. When my son was tiny, he could play that game for hours. As he got older, often it…
Salesforce offers to help staff leave Texas as abortion law takes effect
Software company sends message to workforce addressing access to reproductive healthcareThe cloud-based software giant Salesforce is offering to help relocate employees out of Texas following the state’s enactment of its extreme new abortion law.Referr…
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’.
Female directors still being paid a small fraction of their male counterparts
Gender pay gap among blue-chip companies far worse than in the general population, a new report showsFemale directors at the UK’s biggest companies are still being paid a fraction of the amount their male counterparts receive, new research shows, under…
ウォーゲームの世界にはなぜ女性がほとんどいないのか？
未曾有のブームの真っ只中にあるボードゲームやテーブルトップRPGのゲーマーがミレニアル世代やX世代に拡がる一方で、ミニチュア・ウォーゲームのジャンルはいまだに時代遅れの女性蔑視的な空気が根強く残り、女性プレイヤーはわずか数％だ。多様な人々が興味をもち、もっと活躍してしかるべき趣味の世界になかなか入ることを許されない現状を変えるには、女性や性的マイノリティ、あるいは子どもや初心者にも居場所をつくるべきだ。
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Plymouth gunman ranted online that ‘women are arrogant’ days before rampage
Exclusive: Jake Davison, adherent of misogynistic ‘incel’ culture, may have been trying to quit toxic community, final messages revealThe gunman who killed five people in a mass shooting in Plymouth ranted at a 16-year-old girl that “women are arrogant…