I just found out that Sazz, a radical feminist whose blog I read periodically, is pregnant, and blogging about her experiences with pregnancy and the medical establishment. I didn’t realize this, but she’s been studying reproduction as a Ph.D. student for two years. It looks like it’ll be a fascinating series to follow.
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Archive for the 'women' Category
Pregnant Feminism
09Aug07Here it is
11Jul07I just posted a video of a journalist refusing to read a story about Paris Hilton, a story which said journalist felt was not fit to be a lead story, despite the feelings of that journalist’s producer.
I didn’t know where to start, but I watched the clip again, and now I know exactly where to [...]
Where to start?
11Jul07Found on Just Dreadful.
Admission Omission
09Jul07A couple weeks ago my friend Emily forwarded to me a U.S. News and World Report article, “Admittedly Unequal“, which reports that many schools are rejecting female applicants at a much higher rate than male applicants. For example, in 1997, The College of William and Mary admitted 51 percent of their male applicants and [...]
Men in the shadows
05Jul07I just read this intense story on feh-muh-nist. I thought it was powerfully written, and started to write a comment saying how I thought it was powerful and beautiful, but I stopped myself. There were already several insightful and supportive comments from women and transmen, and I decided it’d be better not to [...]
Academic Dishonesty
02Jul07I just read a shocking blog post on the Science Matters blog about shocking study done in 1995, showing that in despite the fact that 46% of the 114 applicants for 20 Swedish medical post-doc positions, only four women won positions, compared to 16 men. From the blog:
“Being female was a major liability: a [...]
Joss Whedon’s Equality Now speech (Video)
Avril Lavigne has a new video out. Give it a look. Especially the first 17 seconds.
In the beginning of the video, this hetero couple walks by Avril and the girl gives her a nasty look. They keep walking and Avril walks up behind them, and he playfully kicks the guy in the [...]
Patriarchy, in its purest form
30May07The US Supreme Court has decided that workers have 180 days after their salary is set to file a complaint about unfair pay. After that, it’s too late. Your employer gets to keep the money they failed to pay you.
Now let’s imagine a woman, call her Jill, discovers 12 months after being hired [...]
Observation
30May07I didn’t realize this was happening until at least halfway through the meeting, and it was too late to change anything. The women all seemed either withdrawn or uninterested in speaking up. Making eye contact, which sometimes works to shift the tide of the conversation didn’t do a thing. I’m not sure [...]
