September 2009
2 posts
“These are the prettiest witnesses we have had in a long time. I imagine you are...”
– Strom Thurmond, to a group of feminists testifying before the Senate (via syntheticpubes)
August 2009
7 posts
“And there is the denial about engaging in misogyny, even when it’s...”
– Shakesville: The Terrible Bargain We Have Regretfully Struck
“We have to give murdered model Jasmine Fiore a posthumous “You go girl!” Cops...”
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Jasmine Fiore’s Car Shows Struggle - Jasmine fiore - Gawker
skybarn:
What the fuck kind of writing is this? What’s the perspective that makes it acceptable? It’s not the fact that it’s funny, because it’s one of the least funny pieces of writing that I’ve read.
The problem here is that the...
“There are the stereotypes—oh, the abundant stereotypes!—about women, not me, of course, but other women, those women with their bad driving and their relentless shopping habits and their PMS and their disgusting vanity and their inability to stop talking and their disinterest in Important Things and their trying to trap men and their getting pregnant on purpose and their false rape...
abbyjean:
For anybody who has ever watched the gendered social interactions of women — watched a woman get browbeaten into accepting attention she doesn’t want, watched a woman get interrupted while speaking, watched a woman deny she is upset at being insulted in public, watched a woman get grabbed because of what she was wearing, watched a woman stop arguing — and said and done nothing, you...
You said it!
youngmanhattanite:
misogyny is mostly for dudes who can’t get laid.
July 2009
6 posts
“Forty-two male-female pairs, matched for ability, played two chess games via the...”
– When knowing is losing – gender factors in chess
Wow.
via notemily (via sexartandpolitics)
“Isaac’s no monster, though, or at least he isn’t meant to seem like one. His...”
– Emily Gould Takes Manhattan, This Recording
“Slumdog Millionaire? Fail. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? Fail. Juno...”
– Sisters on screen - The Irish Times - Fri, Jun 26, 2009
The new confessional journalism turns female... →
gauntlet:
This genre has nothing to do with journalists opening a window into what life is like for women today. It does women no favours at all. It is entirely about perpetuating an editor’s misogynistic image of what women are like (self-hating, self-obsessed) and making a semi-celebrity out of the writer in the belief that readers like to read journalists whose names and faces (and breasts)...
June 2009
6 posts
“So you have a movie that tries to reassure men that they can actually be masters...”
– io9 - Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie (Charlie Jane makes dumb boy things awesome!)
“So if multiple mating does not award females with genetic benefits, what exactly...”
– io9 - Science Still Cannot Explain Why Women Sleep Around (on seed beetles, but!)
“Women consistently rate themselves as less competent than men do, across all...”
– From a talk the awesome Eszter Hargittai gave at the Berkman Center this week (my other life).
“A demonstration of higher value, or DHV, is a routine in which the pickup artist...”
– The internet is a venue, right?
"what the hell am i doing here?"
I made this because I am in disbelief that guys on the goddamn internet think it’s some badge of man’s progress to admit their dating games used to be even creepier towards ladies than it is now that they are grownups with blogs. What’s up, misogyny?