Smile, Boys! It Would Make The World So Much Prettier For Us Women!
Category: Gratuitous Sexism
Here are the top reasons why men ask tell order women to smile, in no particular order.
Posted by Zuska at 10:29 AM • 138 Comments •
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Zuska is the kick-ass alter-ego of Suzanne E Franks. When not dispensing Zuska's wisdom, Suzanne can often be found gardening, reading, or having one of her thrice-weekly migraines.
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The place where I come from...is a small town. Coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains
You will be wanting to read my excellent essay, 'Suzy the Computer' vs. 'Dr. Sexy': What's a Geek Girl to Do When She Wants to Get Laid? in She's Such a Geek! Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff.
If you have not yet figured out why you shoud not be using terms like "hard science" and "soft skills", then you absolutely need to read Telling Stories About Engineering: Group Dynamics and Resistance to Diversity in NWSA Journal v. 16 No. 1, 2004 (Re)Gendering Science Fields.
You should also read They Blinded Me With Science: Misuse and Misunderstanding of Biological Theory, an excellent critique of Thornhill and Palmer's nonsense about rape as an evolutionary strategy. You can find it in Burack and Josephson's must-read tome, Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives.
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You Femsplainers Just See Sexism Everywhere
Category: Gratuitous Sexism
You are not supposed to notice sexist behavior, and everything in our society is carefully designed to help you understand and accept it as natural and just the way things are and evolution and the battle of the sexes and God's will and girls like pink and boys love trucks and men are better at spatial hoo-hah and women are so verbal and boys will be boys and act like a lady and don't be a slut and men can't help themselves and blah blah blah.
Posted by Zuska at 9:05 AM • 168 Comments •
The Thread That Keeps On Giving...
Category: Ludicrous Language
That mansplainer thread just won't quit - it is the gift that keeps on giving. Well, if you can call continuing recitations of the endless ways women are constantly mansplained by the d00dly mainsplainers of the world a "gift". Along...
Posted by Zuska at 4:54 PM • 23 Comments •
"The Myth of Black Disingenuity": Exploring the Intersection of African American History and the History of Technology
Category: Gendering Technology
To deconstruct this myth...we must look at how white Americans have constructed the "Yankee ingenuity" myth whereby technological expertise is intimately intertwined with American democratic ideals, masculine identity, and whiteness.
Posted by Zuska at 3:01 PM • 11 Comments •
Maternal Sentimentality and "The Box"
Category: Isn't It Ironic?
While this convoluted script riddled with plot holes begs you to suspend disbelief in quantities you didn't even know you possessed, even the crazy writers knew that nobody was going to buy a climactic scene in which Daddy begs Mommy to shoot him for the sake of the kid.
Posted by Zuska at 10:09 PM • 12 Comments •
Cooking: A Primitive Protection Racket
Category: Gendering Technology
Cooking is a "primitive protection racket" in which men agree to protect women's food supply in return for being fed so they can just hang out and do manly shit. A Harvard professor says so on Bloggingheads.tv!
Posted by Zuska at 12:37 PM • 20 Comments •
Zuska's Outreach Project For D00dly D00ds
Category: Announcements
I'm thinking that maybe we need to spend a little more time talking to/with/for the d00dly d00ds.
Posted by Zuska at 11:59 AM • 14 Comments •
What Should a 20-year-old Proto-Feminist Guy Be Reading?
Category: Manly Men
I'm not suggesting we baby them and spoon feed them every bit of information they need to have. Just sayin', I didn't come to my gloriously enlightened feminist state all on my own.
Posted by Zuska at 2:22 PM • 71 Comments •
D00ds - Step AWAY From Your Caves!
Category: Announcements
Every manly man of means these days has gotta have a man-cave, right? Every man gotta be a caveman, right? Wrong. D00ds, step away from your caves! You must read The Caveman Mystique, and if you cannot, as a self-respecting...
Posted by Zuska at 8:49 PM • 4 Comments •
Women and Their Sexy Hawt Bodies: Reprise
Category: Burns My Shorts
So, to recap: A couple of women are having a conversation, and the topic turns to tit-ogling. "No one should be staring at my tits in the workplace," they all agree. "That makes me uncomfortable, creates a hostile work environment,...
Posted by Zuska at 9:25 AM • 83 Comments •
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