I dunno. She has a point, but I’m not sure how much I agree with that point. I preferred Bernie, and I think a lot of people also preferred Bernie. It was a tough choice for me to make, but because ranked choice voting isn’t a thing, I couldn’t vote for both of them. Not that it mattered, because my state went hard-Biden. I liked them both, but when pressed, I had to vote for the actual socialist. I think msogyny had a role, but so did the rejection of capitalism.
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Unfortunately, misogyny isn’t unique to capitalism, it much more fully embedded in our social and cultural practices in a way that just rejecting capitalism won’t fix.
I read this years ago and it’s a great book that I highly recommend…
If I’m remembering correctly, Dr. Harsch actually came to our class discussion?
But anyway, it gets to the uphill battle women in East Germany had in breaking the misogyny that had not gone away, but rather just ended up getting papered over, ignored, or actively denied. Women had to figure out ways to work the system to their advantage in order to make their lives match the rhetoric that they heard on gender. We could have a similar discussion on race in Cuba, for example, where the state makes claims about the the elimination of racism under Castro, but the reality being very different.
These things really do need to be tackled together for things to change…
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Probably not the message they think they’re sending…
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bi’te me shell
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This is a nice little example of why diversity is important for companies (in addition to being the right thing to do in any case): if they had enough people who weren’t straight white men making decisions, there would be more candid discussion about the wisdom of going public with something like this.
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Cross post-able
“ Female high school hockey player taunted with “gender reveal” sign, called a “dude” by opposing team”
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The maker of that sign was definitely secure in their sexuality and gender identity /s
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Related to that, Stephen King continues his recent theme of hyper-privileged douchery:
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10 posts were merged into an existing topic: On Stephen King, privilege, and douchery
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An interview with the author of “Gone Girl”:
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On the one hand, it’s great that an incident of human trafficking was thwarted before it happened. On the other, I have to wonder if the mom in question had been a woman of color, would the outcome have been the same?
And yeah, it SUCKS to even have to think like that, but such is the reality we live in.
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On top of all the ways this is wrong, there is a fundamental belief that skinny chefs aren’t good publicity for their cooking.
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Apparently there was enough of an immediate backlash that the principal rescinded the demand within hours:
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Now when do we get his removal for being that creepy?
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The principal is a woman. Misogyny is an equal opportunity prejudice, unfortunately.
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Ah, yes. Sorry. I hadn’t even read the article before getting my dander up. That said, I wouldn’t want anyone in charge demanding to review pictures of my kid.
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