Interview: "The US Is Certainly Not the Greatest Democracy on Earth"
Legal expert Elie Mystal on how "US laws are designed to be ‘racist, sexist, and anti-democratic’ and how Trump is weaponizing them.
"The US Constitution was written nearly 240 years ago, laying the foundations for an independent, successful, democratic country. But, like most of the nation’s laws, it was written by and for wealthy white men."
Interview: "The US Is Certainly Not the Greatest Democracy on Earth"
Legal expert Elie Mystal on how "US laws are designed to be ‘racist, sexist, and anti-democratic’ and how Trump is weaponizing them.
"The US Constitution was written nearly 240 years ago, laying the foundations for an independent, successful, democratic country. But, like most of the nation’s laws, it was written by and for wealthy white men."
Am reading #TheBeautifulAndDamned, F Scott Fitzgerald. I'm only part-way thru it, just beginning Book Two this morn. My early pleasure at FSF's clever language has been marred many times by my shock at his overtly misogynistic prolly, sexist defo, tones. Women are constantly "stupid", "dull", "fat", "breeders", otherwise objects of lust & for conquest, but never as respectful equals.
There's been many earlier times i was tempted to toot quotes illustrating my preceding critique, but this morning i found a new low.
The man had had the hardest blow of his life. He knew at last what he wanted, but in finding it out it seemed that he had put it forever beyond his grasp. He reached home in misery, dropped into an armchair without even removing his overcoat, and sat there for over an hour, his mind racing the paths of fruitless and wretched self-absorption. She had sent him away! That was the reiterated burden of his despair. Instead of seizing the girl and holding her by sheer strength until she became passive to his desire, instead of beating down her will by the force of his own, he had walked, defeated and powerless, from her door, with the corners of his mouth drooping and what force there might have been in his grief and rage hidden behind the manner of a whipped schoolboy. At one minute she had liked him tremendously—ah, she had nearly loved him. In the next he had become a thing of indifference to her, an insolent and efficiently humiliated man.
He had no great self-reproach—some, of course, but there were other things dominant in him now, far more urgent. He was not so much in love with Gloria as mad for her. Unless he could have her near him again, kiss her, hold her close and acquiescent, he wanted nothing more from life. By her three minutes of utter unwavering indifference the girl had lifted herself from a high but somehow casual position in his mind, to be instead his complete preoccupation. However much his wild thoughts varied between a passionate desire for her kisses and an equally passionate craving to hurt and mar her, the residue of his mind craved in finer fashion to possess the triumphant soul that had shone through those three minutes. She was beautiful—but especially she was without mercy. He must own that strength that could send him away.
This was written in 1922. Today we have epidemics of entitled dickswingers believing women are their property do do with as they wish, including rape, beat, murder. It seems that popular culture has been normalising this for far longer than i'd realised.
Repugnant.
Now wondering if i should finish this book, & indeed whether to read the other FSF's on my tablet.
Worst of all, how can i continue to hold Gatsby in such high regard?
#FScottFitzgerald #FsckRWNJs #FsckThePatriarchy #FsckMisogynists #FsckSexists 
#Feminism #WomensRights #WomensRepresentation #misogyny #sexism #DomesticViolence #DieDickswingersDie #WomanNeedsManLikeFishNeedsBicycle #MaleViolence #WomensSafety
"because female-looking nipples are sexually explicit nudity but male-looking nipples aren't!"
"says who?"
".... Men!"
*gestures "there you go"*
"wElL aCtUaLlY, the ones who complain about women going topless in public are other women!"
1. This is not true. Look at the genders of most of the repliers on any social media post about #freeTheNipple
2. Even if it was, the presence of internalized #misogyny does not disprove #patriarchy.
3. Even if women were the ones to complain the loudest about other women going topless in public, men are the ones deciding on the legislation and censorship policies that categorize "female nipples" as "sexually explicit nudity" but not "male nipples".
T'would be such a shame if he were to slip over in the shower, & fatally fracture his skull... as many times as it takes.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed/114240946361213341
#FsckRWNJs #FsckThePatriarchy #FsckMisogynists #FsckSexists
#Feminism #WomensRights #WomensRepresentation #misogyny #sexism #DomesticViolence #DieDickswingersDie #WomanNeedsManLikeFishNeedsBicycle #MaleViolence #WomensSafety
"Tätermachung vs Objektivierung – Die ausgebliebene Emanzipation des Mannes"
Ein philosophischer Artikel über Vorurteile zwischen den Geschlechtern. Darin beschreibe ich die Folgen typischer Verhalten, die Benzin ins Feuer des Patriarchats kippen. Und wie man dem entgehen kann.
https://blog.dominik-dammer.de/tatermachung-vs-objektivierung-die-emanzipation-des-mannes
"DISORDER. ENTITLEMENT. IMPUNITY. Not even top-shelf authoritarians -need #Musk’s satellites to tell their head from their colon.
Can’t even implement their own #tariffs w/o panic/chaos
-freaks out Fraidy Cat CEOs -Can’t securely coord a bombing campaign even though tech-broligarchs on their side -freaking out everyone who wonders what they can be trusted with if not w TS war plans.
Beneath: bluster, #racism, #sexism & #nationalism -not good at much of anything."
#USPol
https://the.ink/p/trumps-dei
This is not new behaviour.
IIRC, in 2022, they manipulated the candidature qualifications to exclude Naomi Wu, as it looked like she would win a seat on the board.
Edit: My apologies for the mistake. Different org, but same behaviour patterns. It was the OSHWA that blocked Naomi Wu.
Florida House passes bill to repeal "Free Kill" law
As a single childfree person, I'm abundantly familiar with the attitudes this law came from.
"The law shielded medical providers from accountability in cases of deadly malpractice involving unmarried without dependents."
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/florida-house-passes-bill-to-repeal-free-kill-law #Childfree #Sexism #Natalism #Healthcare
I just watched this gem https://iview.abc.net.au/show/made-in-dagenham & absolutely loved it. I knew nothing of this massive watershed moment til now, but expect that women 5 or 10+ years older than i might remember it from their younger days. Anyway, IMO this dramatisation / recreation of it is fabulous, & was accompanied by copious gasps from me at the breathtaking #patriarchy, #MaleEntitlement, #sexism & #misogyny, then whoops & roarrrrrrs at each brilliant thing the women achieved. Sensational. 
"Anarchists are quick to recognize that #racism, #sexism, and #homophobia will not simply go away upon the #collapse of #capitalism and they must be fought here and now. These same #anarchists, however, are often unwilling to apply this logic to #speciesism. If we want total #freedom, we must cultivate new relationships in our everyday lives. This means fighting #oppression on every line, including the line of species. Refusing to do so is not coherent with #anarchist and #autonomist practices."
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/biting-back-a-radical-response-to-non-vegan-anarchists
"the whole "MAHA mom" phenomenon is deeply sexist...
Despite all the talk about "toxins," there is not a whiff of... fighting against the #Trump admn's plans to dump increasing amounts of very real #pollution into the #environment. Instead, #women are told to focus their energies on the domestic sphere... giving up hopes of having a #career or even much of a life outside of the home"
- @AmandaMarcotte
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/26/the-misogynist-agenda-of-maha-moms/
White supremacy and misogyny are tightly intertwined. This article be the ADL from 2018 explains it well.
#whiteSupremacy #misogyny #sexism #antiDEI #DEI
“When Women are the Enemy: The Intersection of Misogyny and White Supremacy”
https://www.adl.org/resources/report/when-women-are-enemy-intersection-misogyny-and-white-supremacy
PS: Yes I know ADL is a pro-Israel political lobby, and yes, I know they very weirdly excused Elon’s Nazi salute. But this article is pretty good.
Violence and sexist harassment against female MPs ‘rife across Asia-Pacific’
Report reveals scale of abuse faced by women in politics from countries such as Australia, India and Micronesia
𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗴𝗴𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗶𝗲𝗸𝗼 𝗞𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗸𝗮𝗺𝗶 -
Kawakami's unusually-plotted novel is still a provocative exploration of women struggling through the expectations of body politics in Japan, though their questions are universal.
Watching https://iview.abc.net.au/video/ZW4321A002S00, being S2 E2 of #DarbyAndJoan. Within first few minutes i was slackjawed in disbelief at some unexpected #sexism. Greta Scacchi's character Joan Kirkhope, retired senior nurse of 30 years, has taken [with Bryan Brown's Jack Darby] a road crash victim to the local regional hospital, after stabilising her & thus saving her life after coming across the crash scene. In said hospital, local doctor reacts to her obvious medical proficiency with the surprised question "Are you a Nurse?"
Not "Are you a Doctor?", or even "Are you a Doctor or Nurse?", but simply the traditional sexist stereotype. Ofc we viewers do know she's a retired senior nurse, but that's not the point... he doesn't. Why would the scriptwriters do that? Is that an indication of the target viewing demographic for this series, or even the ABC overall... geriatrics of 90+ who grew up in that sexist world?
Ffs 
We had a customer in who insisted he had to talk to the owner about the issues with his bike.
So when my boss came back from his break, I told him and he got really annoyed. The customer came back a little later, and told my boss the issues. My boss got really annoyed and said couldn't the customer tell me that himself? And he mentioned an incident with his previous mechanic in the old place. The customer insisted on making the boss come up for a second opinion because he didn't trust the (female) mechanic's quote. So my boss told him the exact same thing the mechanic told him, and added a tenner to the quote for wasting his time! 
So now I know my boss has hired at least two female mechanics before me (one of them was the lady with us at the bike show. I do wish my boss would tell me how he knows a person when he introduces them!).
You know, I've experienced general bullying, racial abuse and religious abuse, but the only time I've experienced overt #sexism is in my current industry.
In my previous job, I'd frequently be ignored by male customers who would walk past me and look for a man. Once, both I and a female colleague asked a customer if he needed help, he blanked up both, went to a male colleague and was promptly told, "ask one of the two ladies there."
Once I had a customer completely ignore me, then actually walk into the back room. I ran after him and told him he can't just walk into staff areas. He said he needed help. I said I asked you twice if you need help, I could have helped you. When he did eventually get the male member of staff he so desired, he decided to shout at him as well. "Why are you asking be what's wrong with my bike! You're paid to do it! Why don't you tell me!"
I bet when he goes to the doctor, he just sits there refusing to tell the doctor what's wrong.
Later I told one of my homies and he gave him a lecture, and when I said" yes, actually I'm a technician and I could help you if you didn't ignore me", he basically talked over me. I told him, "You're literally ignoring me when I'm talking to you!" He didn't learn. I think women are just invisible to him.
Once I was helping a male customer choose accessories as he was planning on starting to cycle to work. There was another male customer looking towards us. He then asked the CUSTOMER if he can help him. I said, he isn't staff. The second customer ignored me and again asked my customer for help. When the customer said he doesn't work there and that I'm the staff member, he walked off to the till to my male colleague.
Once I was actually building a bike, and a lady came up to the till area asking if someone can help her choose a bike. The supervisor was busy doing admin stuff on the till, so I got up and said I can help. The lady then said, I mean I need someone who knows about bikes.
I WAS LITERALLY BUILDING A BIKE FFS.
Instead I said, yes I know about bikes and went on to show her our range and help her choose the best bike for her. At the end, she's like, you really know a lot about bikes... but of course you do, you work here!
I'm used to men patronising me, but it was a bit weird getting sexism from a female customer. She was fine at the end though. So at least I got a teachable moment out of that.
There was an interview in the trade magazine where a female mechanic had a customer who expressed surprise at seeing a female mechanic. And she thought, he was going to say something about how it's a pleasant surprise or something, instead he said she should do the repair for free since she's a woman.
