Decoder ring: “shrill“, “opportunistic“, and “because cankles” are also sexist.
Women dislike Trump at what appears to be an unprecedented level for a national politician.
Source: Women Hate Donald Trump Even More Than Men Hate Hillary Clinton
gender
“…women exist primarily in terms of their relationships to the men…”
The Shut-In Economy
That’s the other side of this, the gender one. The errands being served up by the on-demand economy — cooking, cleaning, laundry, groceries, runs to the post office — all were all once, and in many places still are, the jobs of stay-at-home mothers. Even now, when women outnumber men in the formal workplace, they continue to bear the brunt of that invisible domestic work, often for many, many hours a week. So women — those who can afford it, at least — have the most to win from passing that load on to somebody else.
via The Shut-In Economy.
American women are finally as unhealthy as any American man
The U.S. ranks at number six for “economic participation and opportunity” and ties for the top slot with many other countries for educational attainment, but it falls at 33 for “health and survival” and 60 for political empowerment. The country made a slight gain in women’s representation in Congress this year and there were also small gains in women’s labor force participation rate and the gender wage gap. The report notes, “The United States has fully closed its gender gap in education and health.”
World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report: 2013
the End of kindness
Easily one of the best articles I have ever read on the subject of harassment and abuse online.
Twitter threats are just one example of online harassment. In July The Washington Post published a story about men who post phony ads to make it appear as if their ex-wives or girlfriends are soliciting sex. One man, Michael Johnson II of Hyattsville, Maryland, published an ad titled “Rape Me and My Daughters” and included his ex-wife’s home address. More than 50 men showed up to the victim’s house.
“Ultimately, all these actions would be treating the symptoms and not the cause,” Criado-Perez told the audience. “Social media doesn’t cause misogyny; the police can’t cure it. What we really need to do is sit down as a society and take a long hard look at ourselves, in order to answer the question: “Why are we producing so many people who just seem to hate women?”
— Greg Sandoval for The Verge
https://alpha.app.net/jezebel/post/10660578
My favorite quote FTFA:
I get that some teens have dads who are real dicks about the fact that their daughters start to look an awful lot like the grown women they don’t respect.
Erin Gloria Ryan is killing it, today
Microsoft’s Xbox One Reputation System
This is fantastic news — I hope Sony is working on something similar. I recently noted that I wished online gaming had a way to sift assbags into a smaller sandbox and this story has made me optimistic.
“WE’LL… KEEP A SEAT FOR THE BAD APPLES IN THEIR OWN SPECIAL PLACE.”
Thank you Jennifer Hale, for Ms. Shepard
Mass Effect: The Need For Strong Female Characters – Up at Noon
On the IGN show Up at Noon, Greg Miller sits down with Jennifer Hale to talk about the Mass Effect series, one of many games she has been a voice actor on; and discusses the necessity of having more strong female characters and leads in video games.
I have never played through the Mass Effect series as a male Commander Shepard, partially out of reluctance to be a one-dimensional head-cracking meathead but primarily because Ms. Shepard is just a better character to play.
This video is most predictably a honeypot for raging mouth-breathers like the ones I’ve written about previously, featuring such gems as:
So feminists have apparently ruined Sci-Fi Fantasy for pasty misogynists everywhere, and the final refuge of the armchair lady-haters is under siege by the horrifying spectacle of women being portrayed as equally capable as men. I am admittedly curious if Theodisc is the kind of fella that needs to reinforce his masculinity every day before he can ride his big wheel on down to the local Game Stop to impress his peers with exciting tales of homophobia conducted entirely on Xbox Live, but not enough to want any contact with someone that may be still contagious with Category Five Stupid. A quick trip to other comments this person has made indicates that it’s a really important crusade he’s on, another practitioner of the proud Internet Warrior Tradition.
If it ruins gaming to have more female characters and to put a much-deserved end the sweaty sausage fest of vidya games, I don’t see any problem with that — You’ll always have Leisure Suit Larry.