“Moms were seen as less competent and committed. Moms were half as likely to be hired as childless women or men with or without kids. Moms were offered $11,000 less in starting pay than non-moms. And, just for good measure, they were also judged more harshly for tardiness.” (via Pandagon)
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“In this fucked up society we’re living in, many socially progressive poor folks have to sacrifice their ideals in order to keep a roof over their heads, and while it’s tempting to redefine the work you’re doing as progressive in and of itself because it’s keeping you alive, well, it’s not.”
“I have something to say about the recent Supreme Court decision that upheld the ban on late-term abortions, whether or not the pregnancy endangers the woman’s life. I’m a pragmatic contextual ethicist with a spiritual sensibility, and I cannot be silent. I cannot pretend that I don’t understand the next step in this game. If
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“The program schedule for WisCon 31 will go live on April 30, 2007.” So, um, where is it?
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“The trouble with manhood, American-style, is that it is maintained at the expense of every man’s feminine side — the frantically repressed Inner Wussy — and the demonization of the feminine and the gay wherever we see them.“ I do love that even in an article about how we demonize the feminine, the feminine is
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Great conversation over at Pandagon about advertising and breast augmentation.
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There’s an interesting conversation going on at Jed’s about gender identity. He actually asks *how* you know you’re a girl/boy, but I’m also quite interested in when? When did you know?
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Hannah had a post up a while back discussing Megan Lindholm’s short story “Cut,” which is about a girl speaking to her grandmother about her decision to be circumcised because, bascially, “all the kids are doing it these days.” This one stirred up a lot of complex feelings for me (I read it when it
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But even women who don’t put their pictures or real names online are subject to virtual harassment. A recent study showed that when the gender of an online username appears female, they are 25 times more likely to experience harassment. The study, conducted by the University of Maryland, found that female user-names averaged 163 threatening
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