By “stories”, the writer here means nonfiction pieces on science.
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“Finding diverse sources, and tracking them, takes time, but not that much time. I reckon it adds 15 minutes per piece, or an hour or so of effort over a week.”
#gender
[Image: Three people wearing white lab coats talk together in a well-lit office.]
Interesting thoughts here about “windows and mirrors”: mirrors show you people like yourself and enable you to imagine yourself as a protagonist; windows show you the lives of people different from yourself and develop insight and empathy.
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It’s a lot harder to assault women or take away the rights of transgender people when you have empathized with their full humanity. Boys (and also, everyone else) must read books as windows into the lives of others.
#gender
[Image: A student wearing a backpack, walks down a car-lined street, with head down and hand on back of neck.]
An interesting perspective on the current social shifts going on in the US.
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How losing the definition and import of “consent” can lead to the “fallacy of misplaced scale,” a return to a more sexually restrictive era, and the loss of agency (especially for women):
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#sex #consent #gender #consciouslanguage
[Image: Former Oklahoma state senator Ralph Shortey.]
I found this moving. The headline is, as is so often the case, a bit hyperbolic.
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“The way we talk about [sex and abstinence] needs to change. People need to realize there is nothing that can detract from your worth.”—Elizabeth Smart
#gender #sexuality
The title sounds like it’s going to be an MRA rant, but it’s absolutely not. Plenty of food for thought in the tropes that it calls out.
Originally shared by Traci Loudin
I love this article! It’s not perfect, and it critiques some of fandom’s most sacred films/shows, but if we are to make progress, we need to acknowledge that some of our favorite movies/shows, etc. do have their weaknesses. We all have our own blind spots regarding gender roles.
I often feel like as we’re making great strides conquering sexism against women, but the ways in which the patriarchy harms men is laughed off and ignored, sometimes even by people who believe in the equality of the genders.
From my perspective, equal doesn’t just mean “A woman should be able/allowed to do anything a man can do” but also “A man should be able/allowed to do anything a woman can do.” (Applied to the entire gender spectrum, of course.) And this cultural phenomenon that many people are deeming “toxic masculinity” or machismo is what stands in the way of true equality.
#gender #genderequality #feminism #sciencefiction #fantasy #scifi #sff