Tag Archives: sexism
Me you may call Sir
If he may be she and she may be they me you may call Sir as in knight bachelor as in knight errant as in courageous and questing unfettered undaunted not for me spinster that pitiable title assigned unmarried women its sad connotations its shriveled possibility not like bachelor nothing like knight no if he […]
Unelectable
My heart goes out and my hat is off to Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose immense intelligence, courage and experience were not enough to overcome the general ugliness and particular misogyny that now openly characterize these United States. We Americans live in a country that saw fit to grant the most ignorant black men — former slaves […]
Essential equipment
Running beneath the pro-Sanders/anti-Clinton rhetoric is a deep, mean river of unacknowledged sexism. We Americans — perhaps even the majority of women, apparently afflicted with internalized misogyny — will find a reason to choose a good man over a better woman. Still.
Those clumsy females
I have been out and about on my bike recently, tooling along the many pleasant and well-maintained trails that traverse these parts. Nice. During these outings, however, I have been struck by signs warning of potential dangers, usually flooding at low underpasses. They invariably include two specific visual elements: 1. water, and 2. a woman who has […]
Meditatio Ephemera 
Those clumsy females
I have been out and about on my bike recently, tooling along the many pleasant and well-maintained trails that traverse these parts. Nice. During these outings, however, I have been struck by signs warning of potential dangers, usually flooding at low underpasses. They invariably include two specific visual elements: 1. water, and 2. a woman […]