Can I just say AMEN to that?! For years I've known I don't want children and I don't want to be married and I ALWAYS get the same response "You'll change your mind when you get older." No, I won't. (posted to Not every woman wants to be a mother)
I don't live in a large city (just a small college town that they like to call a city), and me, my friends, and my roommates have all been harassed on the streets and eve on campus. Me and two (posted to Fighting Back Against Online Harrassment )
Here's a link I found to a brief description of this show. While the actual article isn't terribly interesting, the comments are (in a trigger-warning kind of way). http://gizmodo.com/5035681/gadget-or-the-girl-reality-show-makes-you-choose-between-ipod-or-ipoon This is my personal favorite (from user "banmojo"). (In case you (posted to Game Shows and Women as Commodities (and Prizes))
@enave I'll keep this short. The point of the post is that PATRIARCHAL beauty standards are being enforced by both men AND women, but in my experience it has been mostly by women. Women did not create these standards, and (posted to Hair, make-up, and high heels: Making choices about your body)
Kayla, thank you for this post. I agree with you. Women in the Olympics are sexualize much more often and more viciously than men are. It plays into the deeply ingrained stereotypes that women are for looking at, and whatever (posted to The Sexualization of Female Olympians)
And it goes both ways too - my daughter was super skinny when she was born, and a lot of people assumed I had been dieting while pregnant. She was born at 34 weeks, when they have just had a (posted to Pregnant women are making their fetuses fat.)
"I am studying to be a teacher and I've got a list of words that are not to be used in these "Just Playing" manners...gay as in that "homework assignment was so gay" or retarded "lord that was retarded...and recently (posted to Facebook and Rape...Not Funny)
i was also APPALLED. I actually re-read the flair about 15 times because it was so unbelievable to me that it actually said "Friends hug you when you leave; best friends rape you in the hallway". so I reported it. (posted to Facebook and Rape...Not Funny)
I'm 47. I can't count how many times I've been told I'd change my mind, that by having a dog, I'm practicing for having a baby, or that my dog is somehow a surrogate child. My dog is not half (posted to Not every woman wants to be a mother)
Ugh. Way to alienate women from the geeky tech world. I, however, like pink. I might not object to to it being pink. This doesn't mean I'm fine with the gadgets 'needing' to be pink to get women to want (posted to Game Shows and Women as Commodities (and Prizes))
