BREAKING: Creator of science-related web page reportedly a woman

Might be the hive-mind programming kicking in, but I agree with you completely thenatfantastic. It’s vital to deal with the systemic economic and social pressures that make sex work a desperation alternative instead of a positive choice, and help ensure the health safety and quality of life for those who choose to do such work.

And yeah, sorry about conflating kink in the conversation; I only included it as an area where rape culture influences how we talk about the culture. It’s hard to talk about a culture of explicit consensual violence and dominance without noting that it’s soaking in a wider culture of implicit non-consentual violence and dominance. =/

@jessay

Sorry to hear about all those jerks :/ Though I kinda have to rant about them too, now that you posted a quote….

(to jerkwads): Seriously? If all women are ‘bat shit crazy’ and you’re only solution is to try to find someone young and ‘train’ her to be a crazy you can tolerate, there are not enough legos in the world for you to step on! ffs, if you don’t like women just don’t date them.

/rant

@kittehs

“I’m 35 and won’t be dating anyone over 21 again.” FTFH

That was needed.

@Valerian

God that sounds sucky 🙁 Internet hugs if you want them.

@AK

Regarding radical feminism, that’s why I just identify as a feminist plain and simple. I also agree with a lot of radical feminism, but not the various -phobias (especially transphobia…that makes me downright angry).

I feel this way too. From what I’ve seen of radical feminism, I agree with most of it besides the phobias, but then again, I haven’t seen a terribly huge amount, so I can’t know that well. blah, I’m rambling.

@freemage

Religion. Sorry to go all capital-A Atheist, here, but organized religion in the U.S. really is at the heart of much of our problems

Doesn’t come across as “capital A atheist to me”. Assuming that’s code for annoying atheist XD I couldn’t tell. I think you’re right about it being some problems, I can’t say how many. So many of the anti-choice stuff seems to have place from there. gr. Anti choice stuff makes me mad. This paragraph not constructed well. I don’t know how many other problems come from the religion influencing US though.

(Actually going to nit-pick organized religion is heart in of problems. Organized religion affecting laws, yes, just organized, no.)

Let’s say there’s 10 Districts in the state, and each state has 100 residents. (The math here scales, this keeps the numbers simple.) Overall, the state has 600 Democrats and 400 Republicans. In theory, this should yield a 6/4 balance of seats in the House. However, by carefully arranging the borders of the districts (‘barbell’ districts, where two large areas are connected by a thin strip of land, often one with no residents, such as along a railroad track, are not uncommon) so that there are, say, 90 Democrats in each of 5 Districts (total 450), and the remaining 150 Democrats are divided up fairly evenly in the other 5, the Republicans can ‘steal’ a District, turning a slightly ‘blue’ state into a solid purple one. In fact, if the Republicans can make 2 Districts with 92 Dems, and 2 with 93, then the remaining 6 Districts can be carved up so there’s 40 Dems in each–giving the Republicans a 6/4 advantage, in a state where they are the minority.

yeah I don’t know much about this but every time I hear about it it peeves me off >:/

@Argenti Aertheri

Gr that bill sucks 🙁 Sorry to preach to the choir here* but a bathroom sign isn’t really going to stop men who want to hurt women (since funny enough that’s always the situation they paint) from entering the bathroom. God. It shouldn’t even be a debate >:( bloop.

*not really sorry, but I hope you guys don’t mind 😉

Women love men that are high status, even if it is something like science. Even competitive pumpkin growers have groupies. I’m not the least bit surprised to see a woman celebrating the MEN of science.

Hey all, the last time I posted I was whiskey happy, I’m beer happy tonight so I hope I’ll be a little more coherent!
My SO is trans and also in a STEM field. She has been to many conferences in the past and apparently when the topic of women in science came up she was told to pipe down because she is not a “real woman”. This is endemic and awful. It’s not really relevant but I thought I’d share. Sorry!

@cannonball

My SO is trans and also in a STEM field. She has been to many conferences in the past and apparently when the topic of women in science came up she was told to pipe down because she is not a “real woman”. This is endemic and awful. It’s not really relevant but I thought I’d share. Sorry!

Gah. That sucks. 🙁 Internet hugs to you two if wanted.

Funny how conservatives pretend to be concerned about women getting hurt when it’s useful to them, and invariably about situations that are unlikely to actually hurt women. And by funny I mean disgusting.

Makes them rather transparent :/ I wonder what kind of mental gymnastics they use to convince themselves they’re trying to do something *besides* control women or limit trans* people’s rights, varying by whatever their garbage spewing point is.

@Buttman: Of course you wouldn’t be.
People celebrate anyone who do something worthwhile, it’s inherent in the word “Worthwhile”. So of course someone would celebrate someone doing something cool with science or pumpkins of science pumpkins.

I… like flowers? Are we just communicating tautologies now, Sir Buttman?
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The yahoo interview is actually interesting – on account of the snippet where the interviewee goes “I… I never actually hid my identity, and it was easily available at the “About” page all this time. Also, I’ve given interviews before where it was mentioned I was a girl. This is weird. Why are people being weird?” (I paraphrase)

Kind of a random blow up. I guess… you’re not really female until you have a twitter account? OH GOD, THAT’S THE SECRET! The MRA’s will try to shutdown Twitter to destroy womankind!
/tinfoil hat
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There was an interesting story I came across the other day, about casa Xochiquetzal. Apparently it’s the only shelter in the world for retired prostitutes. I don’t know if that’s correct, entirely, because the concept just boggles my mind – out of the entire world, that’s ostensibly the only shelter that offers somewhere for people of that profession to retire, with dignity? That’s insane. Literally, as in, at odds with the expectations I have of reality.

So yeah. I don’t know if we can actually have a conversation about sex work without slipping into accidental mindtoxic, but I do know the conditions need some serious, serious re-visioning.

@Kittehs’ Bleurgh. If the was any ‘historian/ psychologist’ deserving of a time out and a good hard think about what they did? Go away and grow a brain please because you are making me frown and giving me wrinkles Elizabeth.

Okay, for some reason, I’m enjoying buttman’s pumpkin post way, way too much. It just brings me a giggle every time I see it. Which means that it’s probably the most use the poor lad’s been in his entire sorry existence.

I mean, it’s not even something you could easily sexualize. Pumpkins. He should’ve at least gone for the low-hanging fruit (or would it be vegetable?) and opted for zucchinis or cucumbers. I mean, that would make sense in at least a sophomoric humor level, while tying into the whole ‘alpha males have big wangs’ thing they’ve got going.

Seriously, Buttsie, it’s time to give up–the feminist mangina is better at coming up with sexist bullshit than you are.

Cannonball: As you note, the big thing for a lot of these twits is that they want the right to define the acceptable boundaries for ‘female’. It’s all about control and dominance.

Freemage: while that bit about everyone being able to live in Texas is true on its face, it’s usually written by someone who’s never BEEN to TX. There are places in this state you could not pay me to exist on.

Natfantastic: you said what I was thinking re: radfems, plus this gem:

I feel that SPFems can sometimes tend to shy away from problematic stuff and sort of handwave it by saying it’s ‘someone’s choice’, and not taking account of the fact that a) choice doesn’t exist in a vacuum and b) not all choices are good choices or immune from criticism.

Articulates my issues with SPFs quite nicely.

Pumpkins, Das Butt? REALLY? Mr. HK is growing tomatoes out back, does that make me his groupie?

“Gr that bill sucks Sorry to preach to the choir here* but a bathroom sign isn’t really going to stop men who want to hurt women (since funny enough that’s always the situation they paint) from entering the bathroom. God. It shouldn’t even be a debate >:( bloop.”

Hell, even my pro-life conservative mother agrees that it won’t stop predators, and fuck, if you’re using a stall, what difference does it make what the genitals in the next stall over are. (That sentence should be shot for treason against grammar.)

“I just have to mention that some women work on the street despite the dangers to get away from pimps and arsehole brothel owners. That is choosing a shit circumstance in a bunch of shitty options though.”

Ah, my mistake, would referring to sex workers who work on the street as doing it because of limited shitty choices work? I was more trying to distinguish pimped sex workers from dominatrixes, who, afaik, do freely choose that line of work (fuck, potentially more freely than people working minimal wage jobs just to get by). I’m conflating the shitty choices of non-sex work with the shitty choices of sex work though, which is probably quite amiss when you consider the risks of sex work, particularly on the street, versus McD’s no insurance min. wage — oh fuck yes the latter sucks and is exploitive, but your odds of getting assaulted or killed are about a million times less.

@Cannonball – gods, I’m so glad I’m not the only one who had that reaction to her nasty nonsense. It was like she’d had an empathy bypass. I don’t recall one skerrick of sympathy, let alone empathy, in the extremely dark picture she paints of his childhood. She basically says he was abused, but treats it as if it were his fault for being the product of abuse.

I wish the edition of Heroard’s memoirs that came out in the 80s (?) was available in English, because apparently the editor has a totally different view, of those years being essentially happy and well-supported. Not that I see them that way, but more as a mixture.

It boggles the mind that Marvick (yup, definitely frown-wrinkles happening there) tried the same thing with Richelieu’s early life. I mean, hello, understandable with Louis, whose childhood has the most detailed record of any major historical figure, but the Cardinal??? That makes no. sense. at. all.

I bet she didn’t even touch on how he came to be a cat person, either.

Me either to be fair. Honestly I thought I was the only person with a vested interest and indeed frown lines about the haphazard way he was handled. Until I read this blog and the comments and well happy days!

Ha! Cat person transformation would be handled with her usual deft touch I’m sure!

Right back at you! Sorry if I bugged you or anything, just it’s not often I get to geek out!