As You Wish (Posts tagged sexism)

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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wannabeanimator

“According to Cotugno, CalArts subtly encourages men in story and women in design. Her classes were generally gender-balanced, yet it was “primarily guys who would get known for being great storytellers,” she said over Skype. Female students would be rewarded for color or graphic choices, which Cotugno termed “the pretty part.” “Many women would start out thinking they wanted to storyboard and decide against it, saying, “I can’t really articulate why but I just don’t feel good about it.’”

sketchinthoughts

Important.

Source: wannabeanimator
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thelof9
quasi-normalcy

No, I’m serious, if women all got together and went into electrical engineering or automotive repair en masse, then ten years later people would be talking about how it was a “soft field” and it would pay proportionately less than other fields.

Likewise, if men moved en masse to bedeck themselves in sparkles and make-up, then suddenly you’d get a bunch of editorials talking about how classy they look.

None of these things are inherently masculine or feminine; none of these things inherently elevate you or drag you down. But whatever women are seen to do is automatically seen as being inherently more frivolous than anything men do. And shaming women for not pigeonholing themselves into a narrow range of acceptable “masculine” behaviours is just going to result in the goalposts getting moved once again.

huntokar

This is literally what happened to basically every field women have entered. The opposite happens when men enter. Computers used to be a “woman thing” until the guys who did it got really mad about how badly their job was viewed and realized they could fix it by forcing out women.

meariver

Also happened/ is happening with the fields of biology and psychology….

quasi-normalcy

I honestly wonder how much of the backlash against public education in the last generation has been due to teaching becoming a woman-dominated profession.

warpedellipsis

Fashion used to be a men’s thing. Then women got involved in the late 17/1800’s, so men went the other way because it came to be seen as “frivolous” and “anti-intellectual” to care about how you looked. Add in the homophobia that arose around that time, bam, staid bland dress. Ditto leggings/tights, that are now called attention-whoring when on men they were required to show you cared about your figure and had the money to pay for such a fitted item. 

People want to say misogyny doesn’t exist, that male privilege doesn’t exist. Look beyond “living memory” and you’ll find that’s what drives the “inexplicable reversals” society seems to make on many things. Hell, just look beyond your own society, and you’ll find out that what’s considered “for men” elsewhere is held in high esteem while here it’s scoffed at purely because it’s “for women”: 

  • Skinny jeans are the height of masculinity in several east Asian societies, rather than being seen as “gay” in the USA because of their association with femininity. 
  • Medical fields in Russia are valued like kindergarten teachers are here, because it’s women who are the doctors instead of men.
  • Love and romance are highly valued in eastern countries, because men are interested in it too—of course they would be, surely you want to share your life with someone? Here, it’s strictly a women’s subject.
darksnowfalling

The field of anthropology as a whole illustrates this.

Significantly higher proportions of females compared to males are currently entering the fields of archaeology and biological anthropology, and as this occurs, the prestige, funding, acceptance as valid kinds of science, etc, are fading quickly.

This has already occurred with linguistic anthropology and cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropology in particular went VERY quickly from being seen as a manly, scientific discipline (e.g., Franz Boas, Bronisław Malinowski) to being seen as a touchy-feely female thing.

brainsforbabyjesus

What I get from this is that we should equally distribute ourselves among all fields until we’ve ruined absolutely everything.

Source: quasi-normalcy
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thegingerhalf

Feminists…

antibullshitffem

are not for equality. Why? well because they’ve already achieved it. They are for dominance.

fandomsandfeminism

Not a single state in the country has gender parity in it’s federal representation.  Not a single state has 50% or more women in congress.

As of right now, only 20 of the 100 US Senators are women. Only 84 of the 435 members of the House are women.

We have never had a woman or a non-binary person as president. We would need to elect a woman as president every election for the next 176 years (assuming that none of them ever got reelected) before we reach gender parity in the Oval Office.

In 2010 the median income of Full time Year Round workers was $42,800 for men, compared to $34,700 for women. The reasons for this are varied, and when you factor in race, disability, trans identity, and sexual orientation the numbers can become even more startling.

Women need an additional degree in order to make as much as men with a lower degree over the course of a lifetime.A woman would need a doctoral degree, for instance, to earn the same as a man with a bachelor’s degree, and a man with a high school education would earn approximately the same amount as a woman with a bachelor’s degree.

There are more CEO’s named JOHN than there are WOMEN according to a recent survey. 

And all of this only takes into account AMERICAN women. When you look at issues that effect women GLOBALLY, things become even more starling. 

57 million children worldwide, including 31 million girls, are out of school and two thirds of illiterate adults are women. In developing countries, adolescent girls are more likely to drop-out of secondary school than boys, particularly in rural areas. - See more

Each year, 15 million girls are married before the age of 18. 

Women represent 40% of the world’s labor force but hold just 1% of the world’s wealth.

I can go on, if you want. But ya know, I’m only interested in dominance. CLEARLY we’re already SOOOOOO equal. 

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seriouslyamerica

“Men get judged about their appearance too!”

That must be rough! Do they also get judged as incompetent at work if they don’t wear makeup?

Do they get paid less than their more conventionally attractive (though identically or less qualified) counterparts?

Are they more likely to be found guilty by a jury because they don’t conform to beauty standards?

Hint: No, nah, nope.

Superficial standards of attractiveness are harmful to everyone, but they hurt women and those who don’t conform to gender norms more.

Source: seriouslyamerica
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fatallyfeminist

why do men want to be gynecologists? why? why. gynecology is for females and should be practiced solely by women imo 

eyesofsomeonenew

I don’t think a fuckboy is gonna go through years of college education with the mindset of “I’m doing this so I can put metal and cotton swabs in vaginas”…. (more)

fatallyfeminist

lets talk about the arkansas gyno, paul becton jr. who took nude pictures of his female patients 

lets talk about dr. john black (gyno) who sprayed a chemical found in drain cleaner into his female patients’ genitalia

or dr. robert hadden, a gyno who performed unwilling oral sex on his patients and staff member

or dr. bruce sylvester smith, the gyno who raped (at least) one patient and sexually harassed many others.  

and while we’re at it, lets talk about male gyno, dr. john marshall who tricked, drugged, and raped his patient. 

or dr. paul kelly, an indiana ob-gyn who sexually abused his patients and over-prescribed dangerous drugs. 

and dr. kevin pezeshki, who abused several patients and the list goes on and on

so actually tons of male doctors abuse their patients, and the cases of female doctors abusing their patients is almost non-existent. so thanks for your comment, but next time, try doing a bit of research. 

landmerbabe

let’s talk about my patient yesterday who complained that every male ultrasound tech that has performed a vaginal ultrasound on her pushed the probe way too far and clearly had no concept of vaginal comfort during penetrative procedures

let’s talk about how not once have i hurt any of my patients during vaginal ultrasounds, and if they have issues with penetration such as vulvodynia or a history of endometriosis, i take a long, slow time to do the ultrasound and check in frequently, and will attempt to do an abdominal ultrasound instead if warranted

let’s talk about how it is most certainly because i am a woman and therefore i understand my female patients and their comfort levels much more than any dude could.

pizza-trashh

^^^ all of this.
Not to mention the one time I had a male doctor do my exam, he took one look at my sexual history and immediately refused to do any more tests or exams because he was “positive” I was just had a bunch of STIs. He didn’t listen once to me telling him that I didn’t think that was right and I wanted to be sure. Three days later I’m getting rolled into emergency surgery because my ovary had ruptured and had become infected.
Yeah, gynos should always be female.

fierce-goddess

I have a friend who went to a male gynecologist and it was her first time going and as he was examining her she told him he was hurting her and he responded with “well it’s not supposed to feel good.” So she had to suffer through the exam in pain and was pretty much traumatized after. So yeah, I don’t think I’d want to go to a man.

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lindsayetumbls
jennytrout:
“ itsdeepforhappypeople:
“ laughterkey:
“ jenawithonen:
“ Men are fucking disgusting, part 2485726364784483762367472636474
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What the ACTUAL fuck?
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do…men understand that you cant just….buy birth control…in the store………….like...
jenawithonen

Men are fucking disgusting, part 2485726364784483762367472636474

laughterkey

What the ACTUAL fuck?

itsdeepforhappypeople

do…men understand that you cant just….buy birth control…in the store………….like condoms?????? you…cant really shop around…for birth control?????

jennytrout

Or that you don’t take a pill or a shot or an implant just when you’re about to have sex. Jesus, this country is a cesspit of proud ignorance.

Source: blondegirl-pinkbike
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Man caves. What exactly are you hiding from?

fat-ass-turns-to-flab

My Renaissance lit professor brought up a good point about “man caves” last semester and the whole concept of men having a special designated space to escape. And it’s really interesting, cause he called it out as what it is. It’s an appropriation of victimhood by men made to believe that marriage and family are these things weighing down on their happiness. And it’s so true. Cause like… Do yall hear the way some men talk about marriage or even domestic situations with women in general. Married men like to put off that they are somehow miserable with wives and families when actual studies show that married men in society fare better than married women. Depression rates are higher in married women than in married men. And married men make more money & get more promotions than single men. On the flip side married women & women who have children are likely to not get promoted or make as much money as their single and/or childless counter parts. And I guess the reason for that is because corporate America knows that family dynamics have not changed on the grand scale and that women still mostly, even with a partner, do most of the child rearing and domestic duties.

So, again, my question for the man cavers: What exactly are you hiding from?

pussy-and-pizzza-x

Wow….just wow smh

tothedirigible

I love this.

cimness

This is seriously understating the case. Being married increases male happiness and LIFE EXPECTANCY and does the reverse to women.

Women aren’t just more depressed than men: marriage MAKES women more stressed and less successful and shortens their life expectancy. Marriage MAKES men LESS stressed and MORE successful and INCREASES their life expectancy.

TBH, the man is probably hiding from the infamous “second shift” - all the unpaid labor women do and the responsibilities they’ve been conditioned from birth to take on while men have been conditioned to aspire to eternal childhood.

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doki-deku

Anonymous asked:

Do you ever think you'll stop drawing fanart? No offense it just seems like the kind of thing you're supposed to grow out of. I'm just curious what your plans/goals are since it isn't exactly an art form that people take seriously.

answered:

Ah, fanart. Also known as the art that girls make.

Sad, immature girls no one takes seriously. Girls who are taught that it’s shameful to be excited or passionate about anything, that it’s pathetic to gush about what attracts them, that it’s wrong to be a geek, that they should feel embarrassed about having a crush, that they’re not allowed to gaze or stare or wish or desire. Girls who need to grow out of it.

That’s the art you mean, right?

Because in my experience, when grown men make it, nobody calls it fanart. They just call it art. And everyone takes it very seriously.

linzeestyle

It’s interesting though — the culture of shame surrounding adult women and fandom. Even within fandom it’s heavily internalized: unsurprisingly, mind, given that fandom is largely comprised by young girls and, unfortunately, our culture runs on ensuring young girls internalize *all* messages no matter how toxic. But here’s another way of thinking about it.

Sports is a fandom. It requires zealous attention to “seasons,” knowledge of details considered obscure to those not involved in that fandom, unbelievable amounts of merchandise, and even “fanfic” in the form of fantasy teams. But this is a masculine-coded fandom. And as such, it’s encouraged - built into our economy! Have you *seen* Dish network’s “ultimate fan” advertisements, which literally base selling of a product around the normalization of all consuming (male) obsession? Or the very existence of sports bars, built around the link between fans and community enjoyment and analysis. Sport fandom is so ingrained in our culture that major events are treated like holidays (my gym closes for the Super Bowl) — and can you imagine being laughed at for admitting you didn’t know the difference between Supernatural and The X Files the way you might if you admit you don’t know the rules of football vs baseball, or basketball?

“Fandom” is not childish but we live in a culture that commodified women’s time in such away that their hobbies have to be “frivolous,” because “mature” women’s interests are supposed to be marriage, family, and overall care taking: things that allow others to continue their own special interests, while leaving women without a space of their own.

So think about what you’re actually saying when you call someone “too old” for fandom. Because you’re suggesting they are “too old” for a consuming hobby, and I challenge you to answer — what do you think they should be doing instead?

talesfromthemek

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euclase

Here you go, anon.

ikkleosu

I think more women should be open and proud of their fanning activities, be they art, writing, meta whatever. Be open and proud. Sure some people will mock and give you a  rough time, but FUCK THEM. The more open and proud you are, the more accepted it will be and the less women in future will feel the need to be hiding their writing from their husbands., or parents, or friends. I am a fan artist and I am proud.

euclase

I completely agree! I’ve noticed that some people, particular in response to these kinds of posts, will say things like, “I don’t like to call it fanart because to me it’s all art.” Or they’re reluctant to make the distinction. And that kind of misses the point.

Because the “fan” on the front of that, along with all of its connotations, positive and negative, is what makes me proud to make it and share it. When you say, “It’s all art,” you’re erasing the part that matters. Fanart is indeed the art that girls make, and it should be taken seriously.

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