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Ripples Spreading in the Pond!
Ladies, keep spreading those ripples in the pond, they will spread outward and outward and outward!
I shared Abigail Shrier's book with a conservative-to-moderate friend, a stay-at-home mom in rural America (far from me). She engaged with me on email, she read the whole book, and today she wrote me and said, She has friends she wants to share the book and this information with, what are some more sources?
She's going to share the information in her church and with her mom friends; and they are going to protect their kids, protect their communities; they're going to keep an eye on their school curriculum and state policies; and protect other people's kids.
That's how it happens, ladies! One of your friends in a different circle from yours can spread it in her circle. We have to keep talking, especially about protecting kids, and it is going to work, one community at a time.
Never lose heart. One mom at a time, one neighbor at a time, one long-lost college roommate at a time, just keep sharing information!
Her and Nancy Mace are my heroes. I could only dream to speak with JK Rowling in real life.
Slightly unrelated, but it always bothers me when people say JKR must be trans (???) and that’s why she “hates” trans people and that she’s a hypocrite because she has her own preferred male name.. like yeah dumbass she is a WOMAN who had to use a MAN’S NAME to be taken seriously at the behest of her publisher.. basically proving her point that women are oppressed on the basis of even PERCEIVED sex. /rant over
I remember seeing a study proving this on art work. People were given various paintings to judge and if they saw a mans name by it they gave it a higher rating versus ones with a woman's name next to it.
When they were given the paintings to view without names, the results were a lot different and female paintings got higher ratings. I have been trying to google it but all I am coming up with is that female artists get paid less than male ones and their work goes for less at auction.
This same bias is why orchestras began holding auditions in ways that disguised the sex of the player.
Works the same for resumés
I can't remember off the top of my head either, but there's a chance it could have been something from Guerrilla Girls, or at least referenced in one of their books/info sources. I've not kept up with them for a while but I know they've always been a good resource for sexism in art.
I love them! Do you know if they’re GC? I’d be so disappointed if they’re TRA.
I'm not sure but I feel the same. Their whole idea breaks apart if they start including men as women. One of my old professors loved them and highlighted a lot of their older work before I peaked so I never thought to look at that until now honestly. Their wiki page said they had a "controversy" for being "insensitive towards trans women" in a campaign, but I can't even tell when that was or if they've since changed anything.