Complementary and Disparate: Conceptualising Female and Male Genital Cutting in Northern Tanzania
Mary-Anne Victoria Decatur, PhD dissertation, U of London 2023.
Yes, I do read your dissertations!
"It is the normal, functioning cells of all foreskins that are deemed dangerous. And yet it is specifically Black male bodies that are being constructed as promiscuous sources of infection in need of medical intervention."
"Does the concept of “genital integrity”, which is one of the most potent reasons put forward for opposition to female genital mutilation, apply also to men’s genitals, even if there would be public health benefit from removing men’s foreskins en masse?’. Rather than engage with this ethical question, the consultation’s report advised policy makers and programme developers to emphasise ‘that male circumcision is very different from female genital mutilation’."
I'm feeling a little depressed, but not at all surprised by how many of the #10authors5bookseach lists featured only male authors, while I only saw one list that had only female ones. Of the remainder, most had mostly male authors with only one or two women. Sigh. On the other hand, it was nice to see quite a few male-presenting people posting lists that were fairly rich in female authors. More than you might find on a different platform. #bookstodon#gender#sexism
I had not realised that there was a gender divide in craft shopping, but think about it:
If it's a "hobby" store, it is full of model airplanes, TTRPG miniatures, and construction sets, intended to appeal to guys.
If it is a "craft" store, it is full of yarn, thread, paint, scrapbooking supplies, and jewellery-making supplies, assumed to appeal to gals. #Craft#sexism@fiberarts@fibrearts
"Rep. Katie Porter absolutely shreds Lindsey Burke, a right-wing Heritage Foundation official, who tries to say there's not enough money to invest in universal #childcare. Porter delivers a brilliant breakdown on the nationwide need for an investment in universal childcare, points out how there's plenty of money available to invest in children for future, #sexism in #Congress and so much more." https://youtu.be/d59kfp7CNCk
Love when Instagram refreshes right after I post yet again about the seething hypocrisy, #sexism, #misogyny and #transphobia of all the mainstream social media platforms and US legislation banning "female nipples" as "sexually explicit nudity" while "male nipples" aren't and LITERALLY THE FIRST POST TO SHOW is some YouTube dude I follow posting a topless "fitness update" 🙃 Fuck the #patriarchy, and if you consider yourself #progressive, please notice and speak the fuck up about the insanity of #gender based #censorship. I'm tired of feeling so alone.
Here's a photo of my p*ssy to please encourage everyone to speak out more about the blatant hypocrisy of #genderDiscrimination in how the #patriarchy categorizes the chests of "people who look female" as "seggsually ekspleeseet newdeetay" while placing no such restrictions against "people who look male."
For the last 4 years, the Tasmanian Museum of Old and New Art has been running an installation called The Ladies Lounge. Only people who identify as ladies are allowed to enter. In the lounge, they can sit in luxury and look at famous artworks by Picasso etc, which are not available elsewhere in the museum. They are served champagne and pampered by male butlers. It was meant as a comment on exclusionary men's clubs (which still exist in Australia and elsewhere).
Some dude got upset about it and sued the gallery for entry at the anti-discrimination tribunal. The artist, Kirsha Kaechele, said she was "absolutely delighted" that the exhibit had been taken to court. “The men are experiencing Ladies Lounge, their experience of rejection is the artwork,” she said.
She then turned the tribunal hearing into part of the art as well, by having a group of women observing the hearing dress like her and mimic her every move. They did not disrupt the hearing, and at the end of proceedings they exited the tribunal to the song Simply Irresistible.
Kaechele argued in her defence the Ladies Lounge was a “a response to the lived experience of women forbidden from entering certain spaces throughout history” and promoted equal opportunity.
The tribunal found against the gallery and is ordering them to allow men to enter the exhibit. MONA is removing the exhibit instead.
A third of the way into God Emperor of Dune. Now his sexism and homophobia is showing. I know there’s subtext along the way before this, but it’s really blatant in Moneo’s conversation with Idaho about why Leto keeps an all women army.
While this research was undertaken in Scandinavia, its take of male shirking of admin is all pretty familiar from my 25 years in UK universities watching my male colleagues refusing necessary administration & leaving female colleagues to pick it up.
As the researchers note, however, once such admin is external-facing, males are willing to pitch in.
Its almost like they like the reputation for contributing but not the actual work.
“It is illegal for women to go topless in most cities. Yet you can buy a magazine of a woman without her top on at any 7–11 store. So, you can sell breasts, but you can’t wear breasts, in America.” —Violet Rose
Grading an assignment for the course I'm teaching and reminded of a common thing I've seen before - most of the men are turning in like two sentences for a "project proposal" that requires 6 items, while the women are, on average, turning in 3 or 4 paragraphs of a well though-out and detailed proposal.
Like...how do sexist teachers not see plainly that many of their students who are women are just taking their work more seriously and doing better while a lot of men have been taught it's okay to phone it in? Men get favored so much in academia and people entertain the idea that women are less capable because of diversity policies, when they are working harder.
Also, this extends to almost all of my students who are BIPOC too, with them doing more than some of the white students. Like...the bigotry is so transparent in academia, blegh.