Why Men Don't Read: How Publishing is Alienating Half the PopulationMy tags express my feelings here. And this thing pissed me off so much because I've begun to worry about my chances of getting published because none of my books have male leads. (And all of my planned books star girls of color, making it even harder because who wants to read about ( Read more... )

It's an interesting experience, arguing with a man that men are the expendable gender.

Oh. By interesting I mean angry making.

WHY DOES A WEB SITE CALLED FALSERAPE.NET EXIST.

So, I am looking around for an article about women in Europe for the Women's History Month thing I'm doing for ontd_political (i.e. I post an article a day about something related to women's history) and I come across this: Polish activists use Hitler poster to warn against abortion

I have words.

Dear Pro-Life people around the world,

STOP COMPARING ABORTION ( Read more... )

Have some almost content!

( cut for talking about rape within the military )

France parliamentary bill to impose fines for wearing burqas I really hate that these guys are using feminist* langauge about the status of women to legally control what they wear. It's also stupid to believe that targetting Muslims like this makes them feel wanted imo. I think if they really cared about their Muslim women, they would find better ( Read more... )

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Victory Through DaughtersTHIS IS THE CREEPIEST THING I HAVE READ IN LIKE A DAY. There were other creepy things I was reading yesterday. Now, one can and should attack this through a feminist perspective. Because while I fully support any woman who CHOOSES to be a housewife and mother and they should get ten billion times more respect than they do ( Read more... )