Good grief. In the light of #LaurenceFox's comments on #GBNews, #Sky#News decided to do a piece on the #GenderPayGap. They had a man and woman on to argue about it.
It came out, live on air, that he was being paid and she wasn't. Sky apologised and offered her £75, the standard fee for such an appearance. Then they offered to increase it to £200, the same as they'd paid him.
In “Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire” (2018), Cara Daggett explains why, with white men, #climate denial and #misogyny so often go together.
She makes a powerful argument that the patriarchal power structures in our society are deeply entwined with our fossil-fuel based economy.
“A Texas woman was just forced to beg for life-saving health care in court and now any doctor who provides her the care she urgently needs is being threatened with punishment including a lifetime prison sentence,” Escobar said…. “This story is shocking, it’s horrifying, and it’s heartbreaking.”
I am so sick of #Trump stalking women who threaten his power or interests. I remember him doing it to #HillaryClinton during the 2016 Presidential debates. Now he’s doing it to #LetitiaJames, reports the Washington Post. The #misogyny infuriates me.
The state of abortion rights in the U.S. unequivocally demonstrates that women are second class citizens. All the orange and tan states deny women autonomy over their own bodies, the most basic element of liberty. The federal government permits this. I’m angry and heavy-hearted. #abortion#patriarchy#misogyny
I confess I wasn't paying much attenton to the Hermoso story but men, take note: this is why women you know don't report sexual misconduct.
A WORLD CUP WINNER and one of the best athletes on the planet gets unwanted attention on live TV and the reply is still
Are Canadians paying attention yet? Three people (a professor and two students) stabbed at the @UWaterloo June 28, 2023 in a Gender Studies class. This is the #bigotry and #misogyny that far-right extremists are emboldening across North America and globally. It is dangerous.
Every time someone says "I'm not going to vote," or "I'm voting third-party," they're saying "I don't care if pregnant women are denied medical care. I don't care if they're forced to suffer, bleeding and in pain, for 19 hours. I don't care if they're forced to miscarry alone on a toilet, and then they get ARRESTED AND PROSECUTED. I don't give a shit."
They are saying that to you, and you should respond accordingly.
Following on from this week's headlines that almost one third of female surgeons suffer sexual assault at work, a male colleague offers some advice in his letter to the Times. 🤬🤬
"It was the seething, barely controlled anger of a Black woman put in a position none of her white male counterparts have had to endure, at the hands of a criminal defendant no less. White prosecutors have used the power of the law to torment Black people for centuries, but a Black woman becomes prosecutor and finds herself tormented by white criminal defendants."
“Among the Texas supreme court justices who denied Cox her abortion was John Devine, an extremist Christian conservative with a long history of anti-choice activism, including, according to his boast at a campaign event, being arrested 37 times in harassment actions outside abortion clinics.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/12/kate-cox-emergency-abortion-texas
The guy who fed Trump his bullshit about Engeron's law clerk having an affair with Chuck Schumer "received three 50-year restraining orders and two criminal convictions resulting in jail time for harassing women."
Hillary was super-generous when she said that only half of Trump's supporters belonged in that basket of deplorables.
So I'm actually so tired of my entire life (as a doctor, anyway) white cis het male capitalist designed systems ULTIMATELY -- when challenged on not covering a BAH/TSO, oophorectomy, or not providing a medication cus 《ovaries & hypothetical fetal concerns》 -- relegating actual XX chrom. humans to Breeding Cattle status.
Whether its an upstate doctor in NY or BCBS Illinois doing it, it's purely #misogyny, #bigotry, and hate wired in systemically in America.
I’m constantly struck by parallels between slaveholders trying to force people in non-slavery states to participate in maintaining slavery (e.g. Fugitive Slave Acts) and this sort of behavior. #Alabama senator #Tuberville is holding up promotions to force the military to stop covering travel for medical care that includes #abortion. Gift access at https://wapo.st/3qlP6Ln#misogyny#ReproductiveRights
“'No one disputes that Ms. Cox’s pregnancy has been extremely complicated,' the Texas Supreme Court justices wrote. 'Some difficulties in pregnancy, however, even serious ones, do not pose the heightened risks to the mother the exception encompasses.' ... Meanwhile, Cox’s condition was deteriorating, and she was in and out of the emergency room, according to her lawyers." Cox has left #Texas in order to receive abortion care. #ChristianFundamentalism#Misogynyhttps://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/11/texas-abortion-lawsuit-kate-cox/
Following hard on the heels of Police State Stage One on Friday, the Telegraph goes full Gilead.
This headline appeared on Friday, a week after someone called Sean Rayment called having female frontline soldiers "a failure in political correctness".
And yet they've been banging on about conscription for weeks.
"Stormy Daniels has reminded us of what a disgusting misogynistic creep Donald Trump is: unable to control his carnal impulses, eager to exploit his power and influence and wealth to procure sex, devoid of shame or guilt or remorse, incapable of fidelity, focused completely on his own sexual satiety, and totally fine about said sexual satiety being generated by violent means."
#Trump has a huge posse today, including #KashPatel; #GerryKassar, a #conservative party leader in NY; #BernieKerik, fmr NYPD commissioner who was imprisoned for tax fraud & false statements; #AlanDershowitz, lawyer who defended Trump during his first impeachment, & #BorisEpshteyn, legal adviser who was #indicted in AZ for attempts to keep Trump in power after the 2020 election.