JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE BREYER and JUSTICE KAGAN join, dissenting.

The Court’s order [allowing the Texas anti-abortion law to stand] is stunning. Presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of ( Read more... )

What you're describing sounds like a New Puritanism toward sex that is riding along with the Me Too movement. Not only is it bad to commit sexual assault, but it is bad to even want consensual sex with a woman. Just wanting to have sex is now bad - proving your male entitlement. Asking a coworker on a date is now equated with sexual assault. Saying ( Read more... )

Feminists, be wary

Wary of projecting aggression onto men as a category

which then relieves women and non-cis-men of having to recognize

The forms of aggression that dwell within us

The forms of violence that we can and do unleash

-----

People, groups, are never one thing

Never a pure “fuck this” or “love this”

--Clémence x. Clémentine

A female human infant gains admission to the society which ‘has been lying in wait for her since before her birth and seizes her before her first cry, assigning to her her fixed destination’.

Just saw a Republican politician refer to his two "beautiful daughters", and I was reminded that for Republicans, it is very important that their daughters be beautiful. President Trump has set the public tone on this, when talking about Ivanka and how beautiful she is -- she's definitely his favorite because of her beauty. And it is fairly ( Read more... )

If your band (as in music) is composed of six white guys, I wanna know why only guys, and why only white guys? This was a choice you made, to be only white guys.

And it was a choice we made, to listen to them anyway.

Unlike male chests, female chests are considered to be an “erogenous zone.”

When it comes to nipples, there are “criteria” to help both human and technological reviewers identify a nipple as male or female, Instagram’s Newton said. The criteria include indicators of the person’s gender, an Instagram spokeswoman said. As a man who has experienced ( Read more... )

"the world of Middle-earth is one of male dominance and patriarchal societies, in which women are scarcely present"It wasn't that long ago, but when I first watched these movies I didn't think, "Wait, NOBODY in this Fellowship of the Ring presents as female ( Read more... )

"We wouldn't be in this place if women were in charge ( Read more... )

Single fathers with children at home have a median household income that is 50% higher than single mothers with children at home ... even though single mothers tend to have more educational credentials than single fathers (58% with some college, vs 49 ( Read more... )