Lit Lover

Monday, April 30, 2018

Trixie.

http://callthemidwife.wikia.com/wiki/Beatrix_Franklin

Why did I not understand that is a pet name for Beatrix???

Body talk

From an earlier mood...
The woman was wronged and she was not sorry. She was not sorry. She was angry. She got what was coming to her. So much pain. So much blood. Beatrice. The source still seeks healing. Ending a marriage for excellent reasons. Coming back for excellent reasons.

Fun stuff

Behold Tom,

http://callthemidwife.wikia.com/wiki/Tom_Hereward

(Ugh, too many spoilers)

The closest I have encountered to a fictional flawed human character with I imagine a wonderful likeness to Bill S.

Ha ha.

This is interesting.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/28/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-feminism-racism-sexism-gender-metoo

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Many happy returns

Saturday, April 28, 2018

A few reasons why

I think my friend should come back.
1) She asked me for advice and then ran away, which is not fair
2) We had similar interests
3) I was going to e-mail her about her book and be very complimentary

Moonrise over the mountain

There was more

Where the quiet was eerie

Bye, Eton Rabbit Hole

PLEASE GO OUTSIDE.

"Eton College, the school that boasts of educating more British prime ministers than any other, has revealed a gender pay gap among its staff well above the national average – but below some of its rivals, including Westminster School."
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/mar/30/eton-reveals-gender-pay-gap-figures-well-above-national-average

GOUT

"Eton is no ordinary school; it’s a golden ticket into the specialized class."
~ http://highexistence.com/wonder-terror-propaganda-modern-governments-misuse-media-manipulate-bewildered-herd/

GO OUT

"'wholly unnecessary' massages." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/06/former-eton-sports-teacher-massaged-pupils-virtually-naked-body/

NOW YOU ARE GETTING IT ALL MIXED UP.

GO OUTSIDE.

Good bad kitties

Not Your Fishy

When she says...

"Your ovaries, normally the size of a walnut, can grow to be the size of a cantalope...for me personally, I gained 8% of my body weight in 5 days..." (3:40-3:50)

~ A journey through infertility -- over terror's edge ~ Camille Preston

It sounds like she's inflicting PCOS on herself!

Ow. My body hurts.

:-[

Sorry if this is insensitive, and I'm not always sure if I believe it because cancer sounds so awful, but here it is again:

"A client of mine who had survived cancer herself said surviving cancer was nothing compared to navigating infertility. She said people just don't get it. They say the stupidest things." (9:05-9:15).

~ A journey through infertility -- over terror's edge ~ Camille Preston

Meet it near or far

I want to be more happy for the rest of the day, but I still wonder if these are extreme events that highlight smaller things imposed by society, such as a rigidity in assigned gender roles which leads to one sex dehumanizing the other, resulting in harmful effects on all people. The Toronto attack and Elliot Rodgers spree harmed both men and women...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-for-women-misogyny-is-a-daily-reality/

+

https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a20060379/involuntary-celibates-want-you-to-think-theyre-victims-theyre-anything-but/

I need to look at other things now.

Simultaneously shocking and reasonable

Some people, including women who have deeply internalized patriarchal values, might be upset to hear him say this....

https://www.thecut.com/2018/04/terry-crews-women-of-the-world-summit-cult-of-masculinity.html

I think he is just trying to be honest about what our culture has done because he wants it to get better.

Re-listening while doing dishes

It’s About Time We Valued Being Fertile ~ Emma Cannon

I don't know...if this one has a transcript?

I was looking...

https://www.scoop.it/t/pcos-or-polycystic-syndrome/p/4076535777/2017/03/16/it-s-about-time-we-valued-being-fertile-emma-cannon-tedxcoventgardenwomen

One way...another way...

"One way of looking at it is we have these patriarchal social structures, bastions of male privilege where a dominant man might feel entitled to (and often receive) feminine care and attention from women." - Kate Manne

~ https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/5/16705284/metoo-weinstein-misogyny-trump-sexism

~~~~~

"So, sexism is the ideology that supports patriarchal social relations, but misogyny enforces it when there’s a threat of that system going away."
- Kate Manne

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/5/16705284/metoo-weinstein-misogyny-trump-sexism

~~~~~

Maybe some of the golf buddies aren't absolutely misogynistic, but more like just sexist.

This needs a very good song

(Looking for one...)

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/grant-reviewers-biased-against-female-scientists-study-finds

Maybe...

Pissed Jeans - The Bar Is Low

Bob and I were tremendous friends once

Then Bobbie reincarnated as a woman and got so ANGRY.
Bob, why are you like that.
Because you and Sandra treat me differently now.
Bobbie, read this. It might help.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/transgender-people-treat-man-woman-differently-lgbt-gender-images-perception-a7681866.html

Religious reasons perhaps

How many times in your life have you granted a higher level of status/importance to a man that you would not have if that person had just happened to have been born in a woman's body.

It was probably accidental.