Rolling 'this is sexist' thread

stop that pain

http://www.thefrisky.com/2013-04-12/marvel-sells-i-need-a-hero-t-just-for-women/

Something about the tone of this article, in which two male economists criticize the arguments of a female treasury under secretary, immediately rubbed me the wrong way. One thing that kept jumping out at me was the use of "Ms. Miller." Would a male undersecretary be referred to as "Mr. ____" in this sort of article? I wasn't sure if maybe it was just because of the direct approach of this article (whereas a reporter speaking in a distant third person might just say "Miller")

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/the-treasurys-mistaken-view-on-too-big-to-fail/?ref=business

Use of titles is mandatory per NYT style guide.

Well I really dislike it in any case. It sounds vaguely condescending.

Like "Ms. Miller" doesn't make me think of a treasury undersecretary, it makes me think of a student in an econ seminar or something.

http://testdb.msmagazine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/154222_146559575391775_107530515961348_233555_2363153_n4.jpeg

Would you find it condescending if it was "Mr Miller"? Not being snarky here, just throwing it out.

xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw07CDid0JM

It's really awkward and distracting, but it's NYT house style.

I rather like it. It's old-fashioned and polite.

Like "Ms. Miller" doesn't make me think of a treasury undersecretary, it makes me think of a student in an econ seminar or something.

It makes me think of Bohemian Phapsody, just sayin..

Would you find it condescending if it was "Mr Miller"? Not being snarky here, just throwing it out.

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I would say yes, but less so.

hurting otm that use of 'ms.' is totally condescending and sexist, you can't even tell if the broad is married or not

If you go to Wikipedia's page for American Novelists, you might notice something strange: Of the first 100 authors listed, only a small handful of them are women. You could potentially blame this on the fact that there simply are more famous male authors than there are female (a-whole-nother can of worms), but the real reasoning is much more intentional. Wikipedia editors have slowly been moving female authors to a subcategory called American Women Novelists so that the original list isn't at risk of "becoming too large."

http://jezebel.com/wikipedia-is-quietly-moving-women-off-their-american-no-481069352

HOLY SHIT

loool

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_men_novelists

and yeah also what contenderizer said, wtf

wikipedia is a conspiracy of fuckheads and nobody in 2013 should be taking it seriously as a project

Judging from the treatment handed out to feminists who try to correct basic facts about themselves on talk pages, Wiki is full of MRA arseholes.

! haven't heard about that. has it been discussed here?

i wanna see these juicy wikipedia talk pages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_April_24#Category:American_women_novelists

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/no-seriously-this-guy-is-holding-a-you-deserve-rape-sign

No, We're Keeping The Night

(sorry)

grim lol

If they can't do anything about that dude and his sign (which let's be honest, if there's a code of conduct at the school I am certain that that level of aggressive speech crosses it and they are just being cowardly), one would hope his Twitter account could get him booted

calling U of A a school is excessively generous

lol

that dude would be awesome to hit against a pavement repeatedly

http://sixyearitch.com/2013/04/get-on-your-knees-for-disney-mom-bloggers/

most blogging "conferences" whether involving "mommies" or not are glorified marketing events.. Blogging is only a job for like .00001% of people who do it. That photo is o_O but I'm not really sympathetic to complaints about wanting to be taken more seriously as a blogger.

xxp Why, in the third picture of that charming gent I can see the top of his boxers and some bare midriff. What does a man deserve for such shameless public flesh- and underwear-baring? Also his mind is showing and it's not so appealing.

I mean, the tone of the WSJ piece looks a little insulting too. But let's face it, that's what these conferences really are for most attendees -- a vacation. It's like going to SXSW as an amateur musician -- it's related to your craft, but it's mostly just a good time.

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 17h
26,000 unreported sexual assults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?

oh dear lord

Rolling 'this is trump' thread

Playing the trump card ^

'To trump' is a British euphemism for farting.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2013/05/justices_fume_over_mn_supreme.shtml

can someone read this and let me know wtf is even happening here

it seems like the majority opinion is "stfu district court and do yr fukkin job" and the minority opinion is "omg women, I am so sorry the majority is too chickenshit to make a decision on your case"

yeah, i see. "lol".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p019qtxp

rolling "fuck you john humphreys" thread

This was stunning. Have not heard use of word 'feminisation' so often within 5 minutes. Gf was spitting mad, it was terrible, and Humphreys mainly to blame. Do we have a 'Is Today worse than it used to be?' thread? Because it seems to be.

Laurie Penny could've been a bit less rambling, she might not have been talked over so much. But at least she gets in a decent fairly snappy final point re: feminism not just being about liberating women.

She was really good on 10 O'Clock Live last night and was pretty much recycling what was said there.

I've been told that Humphrys is incredibly rude to female underlings and those young women who might need something professional from him, but who are not colleagues.

I'm not sure if this is the correct thread, but this article about a man trying to break his ogling habit struck me as deeply weird.

it's being discussed on the marc loi facebook feminist thread

which thread is that?

it's the marc loi facebook feminist thread