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02-08-2016, 02:47 AM
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Re: Return to Gender 101
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I’m not sure what the actual reason Fiorina wasn’t allowed into the debate was, and it’s not like I actually feel particularly sorry for her specifically; she’s a terrible person who would likely be disastrous for women’s rights as president both due to her politics and due to her personality, and the sooner her candidacy collapses in flames the better off the country will probably be. But whatever the reasoning behind it, leaving out the only female Republican candidate while allowing in people who have worse poll numbers and/or caucus results does not look good, guys.
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It seems obvious to me. Despite her faults, and they are many, she is sharper and better informed on a wide variety of issues than the other candidates. The Old Boy Network just can't take the risk of allowing a mere woman to upstage and out-debate the male candidates.
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02-08-2016, 11:26 PM
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I read some of your foolish scree, then just skimmed the rest.
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Cal Osha and AIDSHealthcare foundation (with such a name, you can guess they don't give a shit about health), think poor little women need to be protected from themselves by requiring insane rules on porn sets that will effectively destroy the industry. While under the guise of health, every single porn star who has commented on this has said these regulations are not only unneeded but *more* dangerous. The start, stop, start, stop nature of actual filming means friction inducing items like condoms create microabrasions which *increase* the risk of infection.
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02-13-2016, 10:11 PM
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Re: Return to Gender 101
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02-18-2016, 01:07 AM
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Some highly troubling sexual assault allegations have recently resurfaced against Peyton Manning. It seems highly likely that Manning removed his pants and sat on a female coach, then engaged in an horrific cover-up and smear campaign of the victim. As a result of this, she was harassed and lost her job. The University of Tennessee denied that any assault had taken place and does not seem to have improved its approach to cases like this in any meaningful way. The school is currently the subject of a lawsuit complaining that it has violated Title IX by protecting athletes who commit sexual assault, and the Manning case is cited as one example.
Meanwhile, Emily Ratajowski discusses the effects of being shamed for her sexuality while growing up.
Finally, a discussion of the role of gender and feminism on elections. Spoiler alert: Democrats are way more likely than Republicans to be favourable towards considering a candidate who is female or a feminist. I'm sure you're all shocked.
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02-18-2016, 05:33 AM
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Re: Return to Gender 101
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Spoiler alert: Democrats are way more likely than Republicans to be favourable towards considering a candidate who is female or a feminist. I'm sure you're all shocked.
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02-18-2016, 06:17 PM
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Safety glasses off, motherfuckers
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When long-form journalism goes horribly, horribly wrong.
SB Nation Publishes, Deletes "Complete Failure" Of A Story About Convicted Rapist Cop Daniel Holtzclaw
The comments on LGM make a good point:
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Also, it really doesn’t surprise me that people would say that about someone who turned out to be a serial rapist. There are a lot of rapists – small as a percentage of the population, but amounting to huge raw numbers. The famous Lisak & Miller study of college men in 2002 found that about 6% had attempted to rape or completed rape of someone, which suggests that most people have known a rapist, since most people have known a whole lot more than 20 men (and that study didn’t even get into women rapists). Rapists very frequently appear to be nice people – covering up what you did often requires a certain level of social skills. And they don’t wear neon signs on their heads to let everyone know who they are. It’s not surprising that people are surprised when they find out.
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I guess it was inevitable that at some point something this terrible would have come out of the recent trend towards long-form pieces, but it's still saddening that it happened.
Also, just because life is just too fucking weird, the "The Rent Is Too Damn High" guy makes an appearance. Go figure.
In other news: Getting in God’s Way
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The report, by a former Muskegon County health official, Faith Groesbeck, accuses Mercy Health Partners of forcing five women between August 2009 and December 2010 to undergo dangerous miscarriages by giving them no other option.
All five women, the report says, had symptoms indicating that it would be safest for them to deliver immediately. But instead of informing the women of their options, the report says, or offering to transfer them to a different hospital, doctors – apparently out of deference to the Mercy Health Partners’ strict ban on abortion – unilaterally decided to subject the women to prolonged miscarriages.
As a result, the report claims, several of the women suffered infection or emotional trauma, or had to undergo unnecessary surgery. None of the women were pregnant beyond 24 weeks, when an infant can survive outside the womb.
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The report squarely links these events to Mercy Health Partners’ Catholic sponsorship. In the US, hospitals that advertise themselves as Catholic must follow a set of medical directives written by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. All doctors working at the hospital must follow church teachings, regardless of their personal beliefs, and the hospital is responsible for instructing its staff on the directives.
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Also, for some reason I forgot to post this piece on Latin America's problems with abortion rights and how they affect the response to the Zika virus: Zika and Latin America's War on Women - Lawyers, Guns & Money
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02-18-2016, 07:55 PM
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Digby has more on the Zika crisis. You won't be even slightly surprised that the "right-to-life" whack jobs care not in the slightest that potentially millions of babies might be born with severe birth defects, nor has it softened their stance on contraception. And of course, the American "pro-life" movement is right there with them.
Luckily, the Pope is actually helping: he suggests that contraception may be acceptable in cases like these. Given the enormous impact the Catholic Church has over Latin America, it is quite likely that this will help substantially, though unfortunately given the time it takes to effect political change it probably won't do so immediately. Pope Francis isn't perfect, but he's been a hell of a lot better than his several immediate predecessors.
In other news, Wonkette reports on a shocking (ok, it's not shocking) new study that indicates that men significantly overestimate the intelligence of their fellow men, while women only overestimated the intelligence of their fellow women by one-nineteenth as much. This explains a rather large number of things wrong with our society, not least of them the heinous discrimination women face in STEM fields. Unfortunately, this trend seems to be fairly constant across generational lines, so it is not likely simply to improve as old people die off.
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03-02-2016, 10:19 PM
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This may or may not be an appropriate or amusing thread for this, or both, or whatever
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03-07-2016, 10:44 AM
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03-10-2016, 07:44 PM
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Spanish judge asks rape victim if she closed her legs and "female organs" firmly. The judge is woman. No word on how exactly she closes her female organs. My guess is she has some sort of flap like a dolphin's blowhole.
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03-10-2016, 09:56 PM
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Solipsist
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03-14-2016, 06:42 AM
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Safety glasses off, motherfuckers
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lol
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With this week's announcement that both people who directed The Matrix are trans women, I'm tempted to wonder how the Men's Rights movement, who've adopted a piece of The Matrrix mythology as their own, handles the cognitive dissonance of their favorite red pill / blue pill metaphor coming from a couple of broads. But cognitive dissonance requires cognition, so they're probably fine with it.
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Weirdly (probably spurred on by watching V for Vendetta), I was actually thinking about the cognitive dissonance of the “red pill” assholes adopting their nomenclature from a film directed by a trans woman a couple of days ago, and realised I couldn’t remember the name of the Wachowski sibling not named Lana. This will make it easier for me to remember now, I guess (protip: they’re now Lana and Lilly).
Meanwhile, via Balloon Juice, a lengthy New York Times piece on the viciousness of the sexist attacks President Hillary Clinton is likely to receive.
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03-14-2016, 09:08 AM
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Projecting my phallogos with long, hard diction
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Yeah, I had the depressing thought a while ago (a month or two ago?) that even if there is some sexism among the Bernie Sanders supporters, they're not posting things on this level (that I know of):
The fight about her right now is mostly on the left, with the GOP candidates throwing in potshots during the debates. But I fully expect a tidal wave of misogyny during the general election if she's the nominee. We've never had a woman be the candidate, and those came from when she was a lot less than that. That rebus is OLD. I remember seeing it way back in fricking high school.
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03-14-2016, 09:20 PM
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I am no longer accommodating men | mathbabe
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Not sure if you’ve read this article, entitled She Was Asked to Switch Seats. Now She’s Charging El Al With Sexism. Well I have, and I have to say what the woman is saying makes a lot of sense. I share her annoyance. Favorite line:
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I think to myself, here I am, an older woman, educated, I’ve been around the world, and some guy can decide that I shouldn’t sit next to him. Why?
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Let me clarify: I had read that article, a couple of weeks ago, before my recent flight to London for a talk.
I’ve been traveling too much lately: Brussels last month, Amsterdam and London these past two weeks. I’m behind with my consulting work, and I was desperate to catch up when I boarded my Norwegian Air flight in London. I worked on my computer after getting through security in Gatwick, and I was happy to have secured an aisle seat with an empty seat next to it on the plane so I could be somewhat comfortable while I worked on the 8 hour flight. Norwegian Air doesn’t make it easy to arrange your seat, but I’d gotten early to the airport to do it, and I got on the plane and immediately cracked open my computer and started coding.
Leave me the hell alone, world. I’m working.
So you can imagine my mood when a flight attendant approached me and asked me to switch my seats with another so that an orthodox Jew could sit in my seat, away from women.
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03-15-2016, 02:57 AM
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My only quibble is that even when I wanted children, I wasn't accommodating men. Good looking or not. Dumb speech is not attractive.
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03-19-2016, 10:09 AM
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The Hacker Who Created 'the Fappening' Is About to Have Something Taken From Him
Good. I find it very difficult to fault anything with this article, either.
This is probably also as good a place as any to dump the $115 million judgement in the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against Gawker. I suspect it is very unlikely that the verdict will survive an appeals process with that many zeroes intact, but it is likely that Gawker will still have to pay something. Of course, I am not particularly an expert when it comes to privacy laws.
Also, a follow-up to that piece on long-form journalism gone wrong. I'm not sure why it took me over three weeks to share this link, other than that I kept forgetting. The essential takeaway from Deadspin's follow-up postmortem on SB Nation's reporting process is that senior editor Elena Bergeron, who has the distinct advantage of being neither white nor male, saw the piece before it was published and strenuously objected to it, raising essentially every single objection that critics of the piece raised after it was published. So, of course, she was ignored. One lesson might be that you ignore the experiences of women and minorities in your editorial staff at your peril and a better lesson might be that you're probably better off just putting them in charge of the whole shop. Both the Deadspin piece and LGM's summary are worth reading in full.
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03-19-2016, 01:19 PM
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One. Count. That's not enough justice for what he did.
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I suspect it is very unlikely that the verdict will survive an appeals process with that many zeroes intact, but it is likely that Gawker will still have to pay something.
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I've been mad at Gawker since way back when they thought it was a good idea to out people who didn't want to be outed. I'm calling this some kind of karmic victory even for the Hulkster. Even if he never sees a dime of the money, this is about sending a message. Just because a celebrity (or anyone) talks about their sex life doesn't make an illicitly filmed video newsworthy.
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03-20-2016, 07:20 AM
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I read some of your foolish scree, then just skimmed the rest.
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Hahahaha! Gawker is a sexist piece of shit rag of an online magazine and I hope they fold because of this.
I'm an avid reader of Jezebel (well not much anymore as every other article is a poorly written 'basic vanilla white girl trying to be edgy' ads for products and shows) and have watched the staff turn over at least 3 times due in direct part to Gawker Media and how they were treated. The owners and runners of the main gawker site and misogynistic crybaby bottom feeders and they have consistently destroyed anything good about their site.
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03-20-2016, 03:35 PM
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Yes, but apart from all of that, how do you feel about Gawker?
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03-24-2016, 03:36 AM
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Hahahaha! Gawker is a sexist piece of shit rag of an online magazine and I hope they fold because of this.
I'm an avid reader of Jezebel (well not much anymore as every other article is a poorly written 'basic vanilla white girl trying to be edgy' ads for products and shows) and have watched the staff turn over at least 3 times due in direct part to Gawker Media and how they were treated. The owners and runners of the main gawker site and misogynistic crybaby bottom feeders and they have consistently destroyed anything good about their site.
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Reading Jezebel these days makes me feel matronly. I can almost see the thought bubble over my head, "Tut-tut!" I think it's because I can't figure out the site display--is this an ad or content? is this an aggregator or not?--and whatever I clicked on to read more about ended up being written by someone who has no life experience and/or intelligence.
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03-24-2016, 04:45 AM
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I miss Valleywag a lot. Also that reminds me I still need to post the Microsoft thing to the Springtime thread.
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03-25-2016, 05:09 AM
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I read some of your foolish scree, then just skimmed the rest.
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What do you do when you have so many copies of a shitty abusive misogynistic Twilight fan fic you could die if they fell on you? Build a sex mansion of course!
Mr Grey will see you now, please duck to enter his fort!
Thrift store had enough copies of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' to build a fort
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03-25-2016, 08:22 PM
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As of right now, today, this is the second best video on the internet.
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03-26-2016, 07:04 PM
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Gender is costing Hillary Clinton big among men | USAPP
Priming men (in NJ) with a gender role threat flips them from supporting Clinton to Trump:
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Past work on these issues has shown that gender role threat tends to polarize men, making liberal men hold more liberal views, and conservative men hold more conservative views on gendered issues.
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They've got my number.
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03-27-2016, 06:43 AM
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The cat that will listen
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I posted the first and ultimately correct id of a plant from a picture that others said did not have enough detail for id. Then I was told that it wasn't possible to id cactus by its flowers alone and the other person ("He knows his stuff!") suggested an id that, to me, did not seem possible. I also find it difficult to think you can't tell a saguaro from a hedgehog cactus based on flowers alone, but whatever.
Only after several others (men) commented to agree with me did the id get resolved. I am the only woman commenting. What annoys me is that *I* participated in treating myself like I couldn't be right--I wrote my id as a question and caveated my explanation. I did learn something along the way, but I still am kicking myself.
Writing it up because I'm annoyed and to remind myself not to do it again.
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