A Crash Course in Feminism Mk. II (or, why everyone should be a feminist)

[Psychosplodge]

Psh, not a sport, glorified rounders.

Yeah that's what I thought.

[eldargal]

[URL="http://aladycalledkatie.tumblr.com/post/81353011806/dontbeweirdbabe-female-comics-are-my-life"]Source[/URL]

Makes me sick that we have HALF the population who can't enjoy drinking in safety because the other half can.

Women are told it is unfeminine and gross to have muscles and to cultivate strength, which in turn leads them to actively avoid doing things that will build muscles and strength, which then makes them even less capable of doing things that require strength, which the critics then use as proof of women’s inherent physical frailty. And so the cycle continues…

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And I always want to point out here: women, on average, possess more lower-body strength, while men, on average, possess more upper-body strength. There’s a lot of overlap and it isn’t always individually applicable, but that’s the generalization, averaging across the population.
But we SOCIALLY value upper-body strength, and upper-body muscles. So we construct women as weaker, because we refuse to measure them on the body parts where they may be stronger, we devalue those.
Lifting is mostly done with the legs. So women may be as good or better at heavy lifting as men. But we socially construct lifting as having to do with large, muscular arms and chests. You don’t really need powerful arms and chests to lift—you need powerful thighs, otherwise you’re gonna throw your back out. We actually lie about what makes a person strong and capable to favor men.
Push-up and pull-ups are upper-body strength exercises. So they’re socially valued. The military doesn’t tell you to do 20 squats as penance. No one is ****ing impressed by all the squats you can do. Squats just sound stupid, hah, squats. We laugh at them because women might be better at them than men, on average. They’re worthless.

[URL="http://wocinsolidarity.tumblr.com/post/80365616461/women-are-told-it-is-unfeminine-and-gross-to-have"]Source[/URL]

[Kirsten]

sexism reversal in this video

[url]http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/apr/04/everyday-sexism-turn-tables-women-men-video[/url]

[Psychosplodge]

Women can't do hand jobs right anyway.

[URL="http://randomyrandomthings.tumblr.com/post/80347875052/good-handjob-tips"]hand job tip[/URL] <- also helps stop the carpol tunnel

[eldargal]

First rule of handjobs: If you want something done right, do it yourself.

[Psychosplodge]

Well there's always that, I think that holds true both ways tbh...
I think it was from the pov a helpful instructional manual though

[Mr Mystery]

Gang rapists sentenced to death in India.

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/26887723[/url]

I never agree with the death penalty, on account two wrongs don't make a right. But in this case, it seems reserved for serial sex attackers. Given India's somewhat lax approach in the past, it may be the necessary deterrent.

[eldargal]

Very good article:
[URL="http://feministing.com/2014/04/03/our-days-of-rage-what-cancelcolbert-reveals-about-womenof-color-and-controversial-speech/"]Our Days of Rage: What #CancelColbert reveals about women/of color and controversial speech[/URL]
Can add 'racist, privileged, dismissive ****er' to 'transphobic ****bag' to Steven Colberts resume.

[URL="http://www.dailydot.com/fandom/black-widow-reviews-wrong-captain-america/"]The same old misogynist bull**** about Black Widow emerges in the Cap'n 'merica reviews.[/URL]

“Yes, being in a female dominated field, I do know what it means to be marginalized. “
oh
my
god
omg
oh my ****ing god

The really ugly part is they’ve actually done multiple sociological studies on this, and guess what the result is? Men in female-dominated fields aren’t marginalized at all; they get special treatment and are fast-tracked to the top, getting more credit for their work, faster promotions, and greater pay and benefits than their female colleagues.
Here’s one study. Here’s another. And another.

I’ve actually experienced this myself. When I was read as male I worked in women’s clothing stores and departments, and rather than treat me as less knowledgeable, customers assumed I was MORE knowledgeable and preferred to talk to me because they assumed that if men (or people they perceived as men) were in a “women’s” field, they must be REALLY qualified. Sometimes they would assume I was the manager. And I really didn’t know anything, but they took my word as gospel.
The opposite is true now, when people read me as a woman and I’m doing something computer related. Despite that that IS something I have a background in, people tend to assume I don’t know anything, are skeptical at what I say, and prefer to get a man to help them, because they feel more confident in what he says, even if it’s wrong.
In my experience, people don’t assume that women in male dominated fields must be there because they have superior knowledge or ability, they assume they’re the weakest link in the chain. But for men, they assume they must be the strongest link to have made it in. Regardless of whether a field is male or woman dominated, the ideas we have in society about men being more knowledgeable, rational, able to solve problems, determined, and as the most reliable narrators still persist.

[URL="http://feministbatwoman.tumblr.com/post/81727493095/ami-angelwings-freedominwickedness"]Source[/URL]
Links mentioned in the second quote are [URL="http://dspace.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/3799/1/Work Employment and Society.pdf"]this[/URL], [URL="http://books.google.com/books/about/Still_a_Man_s_World.html?id=3cXIvGbwWx0C"]this[/URL] and [URL="http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520201088"]this[/URL].

[Wildeybeast]

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[eldargal]

She sounds like a very impressive young woman, I approve. Her response to being labelled a prostitute was extremely articulate.