Feminism

However, for women outside Hollywood, escaping the tyranny of the hair dye bottle is not always so easy.

The things that oppress them, eh?

Boys learn by watching how the men they respect treat their partners, female colleagues, women on the street. Now is the time for those men to step up

Therefore we are going to slap around the head any man who insists on daughters wearing the hijab etc.

The G would denounce it as hate speech, wouldn’t they?

It was the left that retheorized family and marriage, reshaping the age-old institutions into ones that could better accommodate gay relationships and women’s equality.

And look what happened?

It’s possible to tell the story in standard economic terms. Getting pussy became very much cheaper – perhaps it should have done too, that’s a different argument – so and therefore the price paid for pussy in terms of committment and all that fell.

So, here we are then.

And we’ll show you the outcome:

British mothers who bring their children with them when returning to the UK after fleeing from domestic abuse abroad – which can lead to them being accused of abduction – could be given greater legal protection and support.

The government has agreed to examine how domestic abuse features in international child abduction cases, with a view to giving survivors of domestic abuse more help fighting partners’ demands that they return children to their home countries.

Cue a rise in divorcing mothers insisting they were subject to domesti abuse by dastardly foreigners.

That some really are isn’t the point being made here, it’s that change the incentive to so claim – like, not going to jail for abduction – and you’ll change the number who do claim.

In The Guardian!

I know, shocker, eh?

South African women were killed at a rate of 12.2 per 100,000 in 2022, nearly six times the global rate,

The male murder rate in S Africa is some 45 per 100,000. Three, nearly four, times as much.

The Commission for Gender Equality has called for an urgent safety audit of the affected areas.

Guess which rate the CGE is complaining about?

Nolethu Ndude is a South African social entrepreneur,

Being an entrepreneur means finding out what the audience wants then giving it to them. Which she’s done rather well with The G here, no?

The enduring cult of male genius is keeping down female film-makers, one of the only two female directors in the running for the top prize at this year’s Venice film festival has warned.

“I’ve never ever read an article where a female director is promoted as a genius,” said the Danish-Egyptian director May el-Toukhy, whose film Woman Unknown has been selected for the Golden Lion competition on the Lido this year.

Different shapes of the bell curve between genders. Well known fact, that.

Even tho’ saying so cost Larry Summers his job as President of Harvard it’s still one of those true things.

“Don’t think about making women fit the world‬ – ‪think about making the world fit women.”‬

Well, yes, to change our surrounding environment is the human urge. It’s what makes us successful, of course. But it also seems to be a prescription for shrieking stasis – as anyone who’s ever observed an HR department will know.

“We badly need to raise our boys more like our girls.”

No more than we should be raising girls like we do boys. There really are innate differences.

“We’ll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”

See shrieking stasis above.

Are you tired? Feeling flat and irritable? Finding it difficult to concentrate? Maybe you’re experiencing the seemingly ubiquitous symptoms of modern life. Or, if you’re a man, you may have been told by countless uncredentialed online influencers that you’re probably suffering from “low T”.

For decades, testosterone has been marketed to men as a means to maximise virility. But in recent years, social media has fuelled the “T-maxxing” trend, in which men are encouraged to maximise their testosterone levels through either natural or artificial means.

Low testosterone is being blamed in the rightwing manosphere for a crisis of masculinity; global search interest in the term is up 60% from last year.

You know, manipulation of hormone levels is bad, very bad….

The Guardian view on child marriage: girls should not be wives
Editorial

Yes, OK. Up for that.

There’s growing agreement that under-18s need to be protected

Girls, in this meaning, until 18, eh? So, no votes, no decisions on abortion, or sex, or anything? Helpless little darlins who must be protected? Or what?

However, the small island, in the Outer Hebrides, is at the centre of a bitter conflict after the adoptive daughter of Sally Kellerman, one of the film’s stars, complained of discrimination after claiming she was told her dog was not welcome in local cafes.
Two community groups say they are on the brink of financial ruin after Claire Kellerman – whose late aunt and adoptive mother played Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in Robert Altman’s 1970 film – took legal action over access rights for her pet.

Fairly cute, as you’d expect given that bloodline.

Before moving to Great Bernera, Ms Kellerman had travelled between Hawaii, New Zealand and the UK, working in permaculture, and is also a writer, singer and songwriter.
She was a founding permaculturist for a 260-acre regenerative agriculture project in Makawao, Hawaii, and according to social media “trained for 12 years to facilitate Celtic Viking Mysticism”.

Ah, a nutter. Never stick your dick in crazy, obviously.

Women’s football offers distinct audiences and values that should be highly attractive to sponsors. Think match-day experiences combining sport with music, food, art and community that would attract people who don’t see football as “for them”.

OK, mebbe.

Try it out, see if it works. If the crowds turn up then you’re golden. If they don’t, you’re not. There we are, that’s the test, the decision making method. Try it out in the marketplace and see whether it works or not.

Get on with it then.

So the only option left for many women is to wait for death in silence, because of course their voices are considered shameful to be heard. So what could a system like this be called, other than enslavement?

It is indeed vile.

But despite the blackout, the problem was never that the “civilised” world does not know what is happening. It knows very well what happened and what was done in Afghanistan, but as usual, it chose to just watch.

FFS, Honey, we invaded the place, fought a war for many years. And we lost. So what are we supposed to do now?

As predicted, a cohort of conservative critics emerged on social media to bemoan AOC’s personal choice, which challenges their prescriptive vision for American mothers: young, married and uninterested in pursuing a career.

There will deffo be those out there who insist that there’s only the one way to live life, barefoot and pregnant. There are rather more muttering something about, well, 36, not getting any younger, biology does matter, yes, so throw away the condoms and get shagging lassie.

Apparently the boyfriend/fiance has just left which isn’t going to make it easier of course. But prescriptive? Or realist?

This is also glorious word salad:

The decision to go public with her egg-freezing distinguishes Ocasio-Cortez as the rare Democrat willing to articulate an alternative vision of gender politics in an era when the Trump administration and its allies have rapidly eroded women’s civil rights protections, reproductive rights and workforce access, but when many mainstream Democrats have eschewed a robust defense of women’s 20th-century gains in favor of coveting white male votes and making overtures to the manosphere.

I thought having a second baby would be easier – but, from food to teeth to poos, I’ve forgotten so much
Bim Adewunmi

As has been pointed out – notably by my own mother, who had four – if mothers remembered exactly how everything was we’d all be only children.

During her Sunday interview on ABC, Ocasio-Cortez discussed her decision further.

“In this political environment where this administration is denying reproductive care to women across the country, from abortion rights to the ability to carry out a healthy pregnancy, I think it’s important for us as leaders to have these conversations and share these processes, especially for working women across the country and normalize them,” she said.

Ocasio-Cortez’s announcement drew praise.

Amanda Litman, co-founder and president of Run for Something, a political action committee that supports young progressive candidates, said on X: “I’m just so grateful for her honesty & vulnerability.”

Xochitl Hinojosa, a Democratic strategist, responded to Litman’s post by saying: “THIS. We don’t talk about women freezing their eggs or what women have to go through to start a family. Thank you @AOC for your bravery.”

Why not just burn her boyfriend’s condoms and get with the jiggy?

Every period, right on schedule: the cramps arrive, and right behind them, the urgent need to poop.

If this is your experience, you’re in good company: in one study, 73% of healthy premenopausal women reported at least one significant gastrointestinal symptom in the days before or during their period. Abdominal pain and diarrhea were the most common complaints, but women reported nausea and constipation too.

Menstrual and digestive discomfort often coincide: “If you ask women about ‘period poops’ they’ll tell you they’re having menstrual cramps and those GI cramps at the same time,” said Taylor Judkins, a nutrition researcher at the University of Florida who has spent more than a decade studying the phenomenon.

I assume this is the sort of thing mothers would tell daughters about along the way in previous times. But The Guardian now stands in loco etc, no? Or at least, for some, the wimmins’ pages do…..

But just because Tate’s style of masculinity is popular on the right – in which sex is seen to elevate men’s status at women’s expense, in which women’s aspirations to education, skilled work, dignity, public participation, or even mere decency are mocked; and in which men’s mistreatment of women is the key way for them to gain the esteem of other men – does not mean that it is popular with the public. Tate’s version of vulgar, avowed, preening misogyny has a constituency of Republican politicians and unlikable teenage boys; it does not have a constituency among the majority of the American public.

To be liberal means to allow each to follow their own dream.

Sure, sure, we patrol that – violence, imposition and so on. But just because the majority don’t like it is not good reason to ban it – not in a liberal society that is. You know, like uphill gardening – might be a minority activity but the very definition of liberality is that as long as no direct harm is being done to anyone then folk get to get on with it. No, we don’t have to celebrate it, have pride in it, go watch parades or anything, but we do – because we’re liberals, see? – have to chacun a son gout.

If the Tates have been raping people then jail the little fuckers. But if the crime is promoting a lifestyle you don’t like then you get to shriek about it all you like – liberality includes being able to say what you like about the choices of others – but not invoke the law.

A woman in Australia is killed by someone she trusted every 11 days

Can’t he do it to some other bird for a change?

As to the substance:

On Wednesday, senator Pauline Hanson claimed domestic and family violence is “a two-way street”, blamed the cost of living for perpetrators’ actions, and suggested women experiencing abuse should simply “not put up with it”.

These comments are not an aberration. They sit within a broader political project that has, for decades, attempted to build support on the basis of normalising prejudice, particularly against migrants, Muslim communities and communities of colour. That same platform can also risk lending credibility to dangerous myths about domestic and family violence.

We seem top have got to where Hanson is the only feminist left standing – don;t put up with it, leave, do not make excuses for him, leave – and all thsoe calling themselves feminists are making excuses for guys called Mo.

Vile tossers, obviously.

It has taken more than seven decades, but the grievous wrong done to Ruth Ellis has finally been recognised. Ellis was the last woman to be hanged for murder in the UK, the victim of a pitiless justice system that was uninterested in her history of horrific domestic abuse. The announcement of a posthumous conditional pardon is a tribute to the tireless campaigning of her family, including her granddaughter, Laura Enston. But it also highlights continuing shortcomings in how the criminal justice system deals with women who commit crimes after being treated horrendously by their partners.

She really did murder the bloke.

Ah, yes, sorry, this is Joan Smith, isn’t it? Feminism means strong independent wimmins aren’t responsible for their actions.

At Menopunkapalooza, riot grrrls sang and rallied around a topic still taboo today: women’s health during midlife

Srsly?

We never stop hearing about it. Especially from those enjoying women’s midlife…..