Comments on: Conversations About the Patriarchy: Part 2

By: Flapjack

Flapjack — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:21:45 +0000

*green skinned sapce babes

By: Flapjack

Flapjack — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:20:57 +0000

More sci-fi with strong women (yay Fringe!), and less with skinned space babes.

More than one female rockstar at a time

3 action films a year that pass the Bechdel test

The right to walk down the streets at night without worrying about being raped

Decent maths teaching at girl’s schools

By: elibard

elibard — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:05:39 +0000

Full-time, high-quality, state-sponsored daycare. Since women are working more, for less pay, someone needs to take good care of the kiddos. And if it’s not entirely state-funded, it should be 100% tax deductible!

By: Tall-in-Heels

Tall-in-Heels — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:41:23 +0000

Amongst other things, paying all the stay-at-home moms for the actual value of the work they did/do.

By: Marie Anelle

Marie Anelle — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:41:22 +0000

…….just 10 minutes?!

I would insist on a salary match. The big P will have to pay me the exact same per pay cheque as my employer, just for the trouble of being a female breadwinner.

By: Ms. M

Ms. M — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:46:51 +0000

I’ve said for many years (to myself, mostly), that our government and officials need to be 100% women run equal to the time that it has been run by men. Once that time period is over, it should be 50/50.

By: annajcook

annajcook — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:49:36 +0000

I’d also like to see everyone STFU about other people’s looks/weight

I second (and third!) this…I really, really hate the amount of body/gender/looks policing I witness in the world. I hate the judgyness other people feel entitled to exercise toward other peoples’ lives.

@rodriguez request noted! I haven’t actually read “Cinderella” yet, but after listening to the interview I may need to. I don’t usually get into moral panics about consumer marketing, but she makes a compelling case for girls’ (and boys) conception of gender being truly constrained by the incessant marketing.

@annimal love love LOVE “Delusions of Gender,” along with Rebecca Jordan-Young’s “BrainStorm,” which is much more academic/dense but super worth the read if you want to know how all the research on gender difference is actually done (and what’s crap about the methods used).

By: blindirishpirate

blindirishpirate — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:47:26 +0000

Ah, ok, I concede. Sorry for generalizing on the hormonal birth control account.

By: mischiefmanager

mischiefmanager — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:23:48 +0000

Joe, me too!

NN, why baseball in particular?

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:01:51 +0000

On my hometown reunion FB site all the women are lamenting having to take Home Economics in school over Shop like us dudes, so they want free Wood Shop/Car Repair etc classes retroactively!