Watching ‘Mad Men’ brings up a thought that’s often just lying below the surface:
Why DO we put up with men?
They’re horrible.
Update 2023: He was still abusing me, after the proposal. While my family was out gratefully distributing wedding invitations after years of shaming for my singledom, his family was pressuring him to attack me because ‘waise to hum ladkewale hain’. Men like this are monsters but the families, they are the real monster makers.
Back in 2003, I battled the science bros by being a woman. 20 years later, my gender is fighting for STEMism with stories as much as with science, tech & maths.
Take one white shirt. Pick up a paint brush and the remains of earlier painting projects. Grab an old comic book of the Amar Chitra Katha persuasion. Copy a ubiquitous picture of a woman in the lehenga-choli-chunari garb. Colour brightly. The man is a little trickier as this West-Indian costume…
I watched a French video titled ‘Oppressed Majority‘. It’s a satirical, dark take on patriarchy. It does so by reversing traditional gender roles. What would life look like if the way each sex was treated was reversed? Dear men, I understand now.* Honestly. I found myself thinking things that I’ve…
Solidarity is seen as a quality used to protect wrongdoers from consequences. Everyone is made to participate as a virtue.
Just some home truths about sex. It’s open to a wide variety of interpretations. It could be a lot of things. There are things that do not belong with sex.
When a group of people say Stop erasing us, they are saying that they exist, they are not abnormal, not deserving of less.
Somebody needs to be around to kill the cockroaches no?