Lolita's Fist

Charlotte Alter writes "As soon as the world perceived them as male. They gained professional respect, but lost intimacy. They exuded authority, but caused fear. From courtrooms to playgrounds to prisons to train stations, at work and at home, with friends and alone, trans men reiterated how fundamentally different it is to experience the world as a man." Source:  https://time.com/transgender-men-sexism/

Delicious feminist analysis by Megan Garber. " I never bothered to question why it was Harry who met Sally, and not the other way around. I never wondered why it was Harry who changed so drastically over the course of the film, while Sally's primary evolution involved her hairstyle. I never paid much attention to all the hints the movie drops that Sally, from almost the beginning of her friendship with Harry, has been waiting for him to decide that, when it comes to her, he wants  the sex part to get in the way ." Source:  https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/07/when-harry-met-sally-and-the-high-maintenance-woman/594382/

Bechdel-passed Collide (2016) because one women tells another that she is going to die if she doesn't get a kidney transplant. This sets in motion death and mayhem, car chases and shootouts, and multiple civilian deaths in a cocaine sale effort to save the woman's life. Her voice is then used to justify the whole lot. The women are literally used as plot device to set the film in motion and then used to manipulate morality. #Fuckit

I am (famous, hehe) for saying if you moved your left eyelash for activism, it's activism and no one should walk behind you and say, "But what about the child refugees in Bosnia", "But what about the deforestation of the Amazon". Activists must be encouraged and supported. No discussion.  For those of us who are ready to tackle the next step, we see the interrelatedness. Like when you understand racism, you understand genderism. Just because we know one word, it opens up the interrelatedness of words and language is learned. The language of straws is linked to the language of the Pacific gyre.  People from one country only learn a few words and get by in another. And they are an integral part of the community, of the social ecology. Similarly, straw refusers play a small but integral part in our world.       ...      Thursday's Cat Media        Tanya Pretorius   |...