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#sexism

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Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​

Watching iview.abc.net.au/video/ZW4321A, being S2 E2 of #DarbyAndJoan. Within first few minutes i was slackjawed in disbelief at some unexpected #sexism. Greta Scacchi's character Joan Kirkhope, retired senior nurse of 30 years, has taken [with Bryan Brown's Jack Darby] a road crash victim to the local regional hospital, after stabilising her & thus saving her life after coming across the crash scene. In said hospital, local doctor reacts to her obvious medical proficiency with the surprised question "Are you a Nurse?"

Not "Are you a Doctor?", or even "Are you a Doctor or Nurse?", but simply the traditional sexist stereotype. Ofc we viewers do know she's a retired senior nurse, but that's not the point... he doesn't. Why would the scriptwriters do that? Is that an indication of the target viewing demographic for this series, or even the ABC overall... geriatrics of 90+ who grew up in that sexist world?

Ffs 🙄🤦‍♀️

ABC iviewDarby And Joan: Series 2 Episode 2In a small surfing town, Jack and Joan come to the aid of a hit-and-run victim. They learn the local nurse has been implicated in a series of suspicious deaths at the hospital, and many people may have wanted her dead.
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Silver Arrows

We had a customer in who insisted he had to talk to the owner about the issues with his bike.

So when my boss came back from his break, I told him and he got really annoyed. The customer came back a little later, and told my boss the issues. My boss got really annoyed and said couldn't the customer tell me that himself? And he mentioned an incident with his previous mechanic in the old place. The customer insisted on making the boss come up for a second opinion because he didn't trust the (female) mechanic's quote. So my boss told him the exact same thing the mechanic told him, and added a tenner to the quote for wasting his time! 😆

So now I know my boss has hired at least two female mechanics before me (one of them was the lady with us at the bike show. I do wish my boss would tell me how he knows a person when he introduces them!).

You know, I've experienced general bullying, racial abuse and religious abuse, but the only time I've experienced overt #sexism is in my current industry.

In my previous job, I'd frequently be ignored by male customers who would walk past me and look for a man. Once, both I and a female colleague asked a customer if he needed help, he blanked up both, went to a male colleague and was promptly told, "ask one of the two ladies there."

Once I had a customer completely ignore me, then actually walk into the back room. I ran after him and told him he can't just walk into staff areas. He said he needed help. I said I asked you twice if you need help, I could have helped you. When he did eventually get the male member of staff he so desired, he decided to shout at him as well. "Why are you asking be what's wrong with my bike! You're paid to do it! Why don't you tell me!"

I bet when he goes to the doctor, he just sits there refusing to tell the doctor what's wrong.

Later I told one of my homies and he gave him a lecture, and when I said" yes, actually I'm a technician and I could help you if you didn't ignore me", he basically talked over me. I told him, "You're literally ignoring me when I'm talking to you!" He didn't learn. I think women are just invisible to him.

Once I was helping a male customer choose accessories as he was planning on starting to cycle to work. There was another male customer looking towards us. He then asked the CUSTOMER if he can help him. I said, he isn't staff. The second customer ignored me and again asked my customer for help. When the customer said he doesn't work there and that I'm the staff member, he walked off to the till to my male colleague.

Once I was actually building a bike, and a lady came up to the till area asking if someone can help her choose a bike. The supervisor was busy doing admin stuff on the till, so I got up and said I can help. The lady then said, I mean I need someone who knows about bikes.

I WAS LITERALLY BUILDING A BIKE FFS.

Instead I said, yes I know about bikes and went on to show her our range and help her choose the best bike for her. At the end, she's like, you really know a lot about bikes... but of course you do, you work here!

I'm used to men patronising me, but it was a bit weird getting sexism from a female customer. She was fine at the end though. So at least I got a teachable moment out of that.

There was an interview in the trade magazine where a female mechanic had a customer who expressed surprise at seeing a female mechanic. And she thought, he was going to say something about how it's a pleasant surprise or something, instead he said she should do the repair for free since she's a woman.

#bikemekanik#bikerepair#bikeindustry
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Søren Sandager Sørensen

In 1803, Johan Werfel published a grammar of Danish that was supposedly "for women". It was also both "practical and theoretical".

I digitized the book for the @internetarchive and wrote something about the book for #Lingoblog [In Danish]. I'll try to summarize the most interesting points here! I was curious about what it meant that it was "for women" (besides a general interest in reading old grammar books) 🧵

lingoblog.dk/en-sexistisk-gram
#linguistics #grammar #sexism #women

Bogforside: Theoretisk og practisk Dansk Grammatik for Fruentimmer.
Lingoblog · En sexistisk grammatik? Dansk grammatik "for kvinder" anno 1803 | LingoblogI 1803 blev bogen Theoretisk og practisk Dansk Grammatik for Fruentimmer udgivet, skrevet af Johan Werfel. Jeg er usikker på hvordan jeg er endt med at have
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 22, 1972: U.S. Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. It failed. And to this day, women earn 84% of what men do. One of the exceptions is public education, where teachers’ unions have fought and won the right to collectively bargain salaries based on years of experience, not gender. The first ERA was introduced to Congress in 1923. The 1972 had wide bipartisan support, including by presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter, and seemed destined to pass. However, Phyllis Schlafly mobilized conservative women against the amendment, arguing that it would disadvantage housewives, make them eligible for the draft and cause divorcees to lose custody of their children. This killed the ERA in the 1970s. From 2017-2020, several states have ratified the ERA. However, it is uncertain whether these ratifications are legal, since they occurred after the deadlines. Schlafly went on to become a major player in the anti-abortion and anti-feminist and anti-LGBTQ rights movements.

Map of the U.S., showing which states have and have not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment.
#workingclass#LaborHistory#feminist
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RonSupportsYou

"NASA has dropped its longstanding public commitment to land the first woman and person of color on the moon, in response to Donald Trump’s directives to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices at federal agencies":
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m #politics #racism #sexism

The Guardian · Nasa drops plan to land first woman and first person of color on the moonBy Richard Luscombe
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okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin

@InkySchwartz
I'm like, Generation Jones, but Boomers aren't my enemy. We are fighting the same fight that has been going on for well over 60 years. It's the fight against #WhiteSupremacy. It's the fight against #Racism, #Sexism, and #Misogynoir. The fight against generational wealth nazi oligarchs like the Koch brothers.
Dismantling democracy is their last gasp, because they know a minority White country will not bend to their will, and that day is coming soon.
Nothing to do with generations.

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Draft: Date: 21/03/2025
Location: Lorrainebad, Bern

The Slogan: Macht aus dem Staat Gurkensalat (in its orginal Swiss German version: Machet usem Staat Gurkesalat) [Turn the state into cucumber salad] from the 80ies is transformed into a feminist message: Macht aus dem Patriarchat Gurkensalat [Turn the patriarchy into cucumber salad].

Patriarchy is still one of the fundamental structural problems in our societies. It remains the breeding ground for sexist thinking and the blueprint for power from the top down. We have not managed to smash it, yet already we see this massive anti-feminist backlash from without – and within like from the tiktoked hipsterification of tradwifes or TERFs or many other forms of "enemy feminisms" > Sophie Lewis newest book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2440-enemy-feminisms

Photo description: A wooden wall with some grafiti on the left with a pathway next to the river on the right is a feminist collage pasted that reads: MACHT AUS DEM PATRIARCHAT GURKENSALAT [translates to: Turn the patriarchy into cucumber salad]


#Feminist #FeministStrike #Femicide #Feminicide #Feminizid #PatriarchyKills #Collage #FeministCollage #CollagesFeministes #Bern #Switzerland #Féminicide #MeToo #GreveFeministe #Sexism #WomanLifeFreedom #Revolution #NiUnaMenos
A wooden wall with some grafiti on the left with a pathway next to the river on the right is a feminist collage pasted that reads: MACHT AUS DEM PATRIARCHAT GURKENSALAT [translates to: Turn the patriarchy into cucumber salad]
#niunamenos
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Nonilex

#Trans people, #women, people of color [#POC] are being erased

Across #Trump’s federal government, agencies have been busy scrubbing photographic and written references about women, people of color & members of the #LGBTQ+ community from their websites.

#law #USpol #RepresentationMatters #discrimation #bigotry #hate #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism #misogyny
npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-53175

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Nonilex

“I think that that would be within the President’s constitutional authority under the removal power…there would be separate questions about whether that would violate other provisions of the #Constitution,” McArthur said.

Judge Justin Walker, a #Trump appointee on the panel, swooped in to try to salvage the moment, saying to the #DOJ atty that he didn’t think “you would have to go there,”pointing to the protections of the #14thAmendment.

#law#discrimination#sexism
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Nonilex

The startling admission came in response to a federal judge’s hypothetical.

“Could the President decide that he wasn’t going to appoint or allow to remain in office any female heads of agencies or any heads over 40 years old?” Judge Karen Henderson, a Reagan appointee on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, asked Dpty Asst AG Eric McArthur Tues in proceedings over the fired board members of two #independent agencies.

#law#discrimination#sexism
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Nonilex

WTAF????

The #Trump #DOJ asserted in court Tuesday that, under their theories, the President’s removal power is so all-encompassing that he could fire all #female agency heads, as well as those over 40 years old.

#law #discrimination #sexism #ageism #MaleSupremacy
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doj

TPM - Talking Points Memo · DOJ Asserts Trump Hypothetically Has Power To Purge All Female Agency Heads, Or Those Over 40By Kate Riga
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Jonathan Emmesedi

🧵 3/3

"Philosophy in a New Key" was published in 1942, so today's readers, as well as wincing at her some of her discussion of "primitive" peoples, may also be aware that more than one revolution has since taken place in the philosophy of language and that university presses and learned journals have printed countless pages on the topics in linguistics, psychology, and anthropology on which Langer touches.

Nevertheless, I believe her thinking about aesthetics and symbolism in general is of enduring interest. I very much want to read a later book she wrote devoted to aesthetics, her 1953 'Feeling and Form".

"Philosophy in a New Key" is also of interest from a historical point of view. The book's original publishers, Harvard University Press, were surprised by its popularity; appearing as a Mentor paperback, it went on to sell more than half a million copies. I would guess that popularity is explained by both the postwar expansion of higher education and a public thirst for meaning and value beyond science and technology in a world haunted by memories of the Depression, world war, and extermination camps, and now living with the threat of an atom bomb apocalypse.

In spite - or perhaps because of - this popularity, Langer did not get a full time long term faculty position for years, despite her excellent academic pedigree (Radcliffe/Harvard - Ph.D supervised by A. N. Whitehead), teaching at Columbia, and scholarly productivity. As well as just plain jealousy and suspicions of dilettantism, part of the explanation perhaps lies in the marginal position that aesthetics occupied in US philosophy departments blinded by Quine's dictum that "Philosophy of science is philosophy enough".

Yet one must also suspect that both individual prejudice and institutional discrimination against Langer as a woman kept her trapped in part time and temporary positions. All this would have added to suspicion of aesthetics and talk of feeling as "girly".

I'm glad to see renewed interest in Langer, and I will be reading and think more by her and about her to make sense of kpop and much else besides.

monoskop.org/images/6/6c/Lange

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