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Australian singer Sarah @CommasAndAmpersands created a funny and on-point "she shanty" about mansplaining.

In three parts, fully captioned, a Tiktok trend I highly approve.

  1. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeLj54fj/
  2. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeLja8y3/
  3. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeLjWaE9/

Sarah is also [instagram.com profile] commasandampersands where she talks about books.

jesse_the_k: Zoe from Firefly looks fierce with her sawed-off shotgun (Zoe's Gun)

Just listened to 90 minutes of fascinating audio: Here to Slay. The podcast features Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom interviewing smart black women.

Because it's on Luminary, you have to pay to listen. The good news is this teaser ep is free, where they discuss how Kamala Harris is a first and she's also problematic. (No transcript I can find)

https://luminarypodcasts.com/listen/roxane-gay-and-dr-tressie-mc-millan-cottom/hear-to-slay/b52dbaee-2243-4230-ac20-8dc36ca6a453

jesse_the_k: Zoe from Firefly looks fierce with her sawed-off shotgun (Zoe's Gun)

No detailed descriptions of rape, but many survivors describe their cruel dismissal by the police and courts.

overview and lots of quotes )

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Ingrid Tischer's name was mentioned several times at the recent SDS@OSU conference. Ingrid Tischer is a disabled white woman who works in the philanthropy sector. She blogs the hell out of that experience and much more, with honest surrealism and humor. She spouts “FEDup rants” opposing TED’s goal of making knowledge a commodity.

You can spend hours exploring her site; this essay lent itself to excerption:

My FEDup™ Rant: RespectAbility, Class and Race Privilege, and Leveling the Erring Field

quote and great takedown of Hockenberry )

jesse_the_k: Those words with glammed-up Alan Cummings (Drama queen)

Faking It: The Lies Women Tell About Sex and the Truths They Reveal

Lux Alptraum, 2018
ebook, print, audio (Overdrive)

five out of five stars

I enjoyed this educational screed about Western patriarchy. Alptraum examines misogyny through the lens of lies women tell to cope, including:

  • faking orgasm
  • the (fake) concept of virginity
  • faking 'natural' appearance through makeup
  • claiming a fake boyfriend to minimize harassment
  • 'fake' rape claims

Alptraum’s accessible prose is bolstered by footnotes to science as well as the popular press. She strategically deploys current media images, and she’s writing directly to the reader. I think it would be an excellent gift for any person on the threshold of sexual maturity. (Opinions from actual parents most welcome!)

quotes and excerpts )

content notes: no explicit discussions of violence or assault

jesse_the_k: That text in red Futura Bold Condensed (be aware of invisibility)

I read the Democratic Socialists of America’s Northern Virginia branch’s meeting guidelines1, thanks to a Metafilter discussion2.

One thing I know is I'm good at running meetings. I’ve herded cats in many contexts, from true consensus to Roberts’ Rules. This brilliant idea stood out from [twitter.com profile] dsa_nova’s suggestions:

Men talking over women is definitely not the way socialist feminism works. To counter ingrained patriarchal behavior, whenever a white male comrade interrupts a person of color or a white woman, everyone should raise their fist.

The goal is surrounding the interrupter by raised fists–not as a precursor to violence, but as a sign of solidarity.

What do you think? Would this be effective? Do you think it would backfire by enraging the white men so notified?

jesse_the_k: Two bookcases stuffed full leaning into each other (bookoverflow)

BROAD BAND: The untold story of the woman who made the Internet—Claire L Evans5 of 5 )

Excerpt )


1493—Charles C Mann 5 of 5 )

snippets )

jesse_the_k: harbor seal's head captioned "seal of approval" (Approval)

Life in Code—Ellen Ullman5 of 5 )


Real American—Julie Lythcott-Haims5 of 5 )

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Just finished a stunning essay on #metoo and the huge mismatch between women & men re painful sex.

https://theweek.com/articles/749978/female-price-male-pleasure

That's right: PubMed has almost five times as many clinical trials on male sexual pleasure as it has on female sexual pain. And why? Because we live in a culture that sees female pain as normal and male pleasure as a right.
Lili Loofbourow





Albuquerque is indeed SUNNY and WARM. (Well, 49° is plenty warm enough for me, really. It's just cool enough that hot flashes don't matter.) MyGuy and Bella have found a suitable dog park. The local co-op is lovely, a 10-minute stroll away, and its deli does right by the ingredients. We scoped out the local pool and I will report tomorrow.
jesse_the_k: Extreme closeup of dark red blood cells (Blood makes noise)
Doing pretty well on the political newsfast, but the sexual-harrassment firestorm has come over the wall.
contains: sexual harassment: descriptions & rhetorical arguments )
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Greetings, o wise ones

I've poked the standard free searches available to me and haven't found out who first used the words "sex object" to describe how patriarchal culture defines women as nothing more than a being with whom to have sex.

I'm looking for the coiner of phrases like:

He whistled at me then pawed me like a sex object because I wore a skirt

He asked my husband where he worked; he asked me how many kids we have. I hate that kind of sex objectification.

Feel free to signal boost!
jesse_the_k: Underwater picture of chubby woman stroking and blowing bubbles with a grin (lynne cox swimming)
I had one of those encounters in the weeks before WisCon. I want to record it for posterity, and I welcome your thoughts as well.
What she said, what I did and didn't say )
The ideal response is not having it matter it all. Not surprisingly, Dave Hingsburger's recent entry explores what it's like when we can really not care. Dave Hingsburger's recent entry explores what it's like when we can really not care. )
jesse_the_k: Vintage photo of two well-nourished white women in a close embrace (Lesbian vintage hug)
Jim Hines reliably posts interesting things to his blog; about science fiction, about social justice, about this that and the other.

Every once in a while, his posts make me cry.

Like this one:
http://jimhines.livejournal.com/593825.html
begin quote  In an alternate universe back in 1974, a girl named Jane C. Hines was born. Her family moved to Michigan when she was four years old. She grew up with a little brother, had a three-legged black lab named Silver (after Long John Silver), and wanted to be a teacher, a veterinarian, a psychologist, and ultimately an author.

Her first fantasy novel, Goblin Quest, came out in 2006 from DAW. She sold two more goblin books, then published a series about three kick-ass fairy tale princesses. She’s currently writing the third draft of a modern fantasy book called Libriomancer. She also maintains a moderately popular blog.

But while she and I have had parallel careers, the results haven’t matched up exactly quote ends


Jim then details the death of a thousand sexist cuts that Jane Hines must cope with, while Jim Hines skates free.

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