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Sexism fatigue

‎”I am tired of being called a shrieking harridan for pointing out inequalities so tangible and blatant that they are regularly codified into law. [...] I am tired of being asked to “cite sources” proving that sexism is real (that RAPE is real, even!), because there is no way to concisely cite decades and decades [...]

Wise Words of an Old Man

The late ayatollah Fadlallah was not only a feminist, he was a revolutionary as well:

What makes it especially interesting to me is that he links adult behavior (submitting to the strong) to the way people are raised - father is right and the rest has to shut up. As a teacher that’s my perpetual conundrum: [...]

The Joy of Books

Last year, some crazy people made this:

Now, they’re back with this:

Isn’t it awesome?

Not the Revolution…

… but Photographs of Your Junk (will be publicized!).

Trust

Sometime back in 2001 or 2002, I went to visit a friend who was working at a hospital near Kisumu, in the western part of Kenya. I hadn’t told him when I was coming, though, so when I arrived he had just left for a long weekend at the beach and since I had no [...]

Black doll, white doll - not just an experiment

In the 1950s, in a racially segregated US, psychologist Kenneth Clark performed an experiment with black kids. He wanted to measure the impact of racism on their self-image. They had to choose between a black doll and a white doll. Now, 50 years later, someone repeated the experiment.
The video below (in English) is of that [...]

So it has come to this

I’m getting older (oh yes!), and with getting older comes realizing I am a lot more like my parents than I thought I was. I say ‘uh huh’ during conversations, exactly like my mother does when she’s listening to someone, and I catch myself making remarks about my husband’s after-shave exactly like my father does [...]

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