That is, when you say you are an X, people therefore expect you to be a certain gender...

Nurse vs. male nurse
Prostitute vs. male prostitute
Janitor vs maid/housekeeper

What am I missing? I'm sure there are many more.

Do women tend to think that men are smarter than they are?
Surprisingly, [both] men and women perceive men being smarter across generations. Both sexes believe that their fathers are smarter than their mothers and grandfathers are more intelligent than their grandmothers.

What about the kids?If there are children, [both] men and women think their ( Read more... )

I neglected to give the link that made ME think about Twilight differently...I am not insightful enough to come up with this stuff on my own, that's for sure!

http://tigerbeatdown.com/?p=579

I hadn't thought I'd end up defending Twilight. It's crappy and anti-feminist. Still true, that's blindingly obvious. But I'm pissed off that a woman writes something for women and it becomes POPULAR with women....and that's made out to be the worst thing EVAH ( Read more... )

Aight, so guys who think you're "good" and "enlightened" and "don't hate women"?

Don't start calling them ugly and so forth as soon as you get mad at them.  Actually maybe you should, then we know you're really a misogynist fuckwad.

Hey you know what sucks?  Being alone in a new province, in a hospital, for a surgery you didn't see coming!  I didn't even get flowers.  My dad didn't even tell me he loves me.

I guess that's what happens when you don't want to make people worry about you, you pretend things are more ok than they are (then it turns out they don't worry anyway, so ( Read more... )

This girl has the best boyfriend who makes her very very happy.  "you are exactly what i want in life" he says.  I'm one lucky woman ( Read more... )

I don't know what to do about harassment in my own home.  Anything seems like it would just make it worse.

This is one of those things in life I just don't get.  "I'm not a feminist."  "Don't you think there should be gender equality?"  "Well yeah, but I'm not a feminist."

Yes.  You are.

This is the same thing that happens to a lot of people with the term "atheist".  The connotations of an atheist (to some sections of society, or even a lot of society, ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about  this entry that ( Read more... )