#androcentricism

Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become essential text on Black women's lives.

Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women’s lives and contains work by many of feminism’s foremost thinkers. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new…

I had a chat with my boyfriend the other day about how little things like stick figures can reflect how society sees people, such as in this article; http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/03/02/stick-figures-and-stick-figures-who-parent/

The Feminine Mystique is such masculine bullshit

I find it strange when men say things like “Women are complicated. They are difficult to understand.” I am a woman, a rational one. And I know I am no more or less complex than an average human being. Some things about the way I live my life are different from the way men live theirs. This is because while I inhabit the same planet, there are restrictions, offences and dangers posed to me, that…

Why is it that the gender-gap in pay exists? Why is it that the vast majority of poor are single-female heads of households

And why is it that most people think- erroneously- that females have a biologically-based “maternal instinct”? And why is it that parents allow boys to roam further from them during playtime than they allow girls? 

Why is it  that even though females compose 52% of the American population they comprise only approximately 17-18% of our Congress as of the 2000 election? And why was it that when the first large group of females entered Congress in record numbers during the early 1990s, they found no bathrooms for females in the parts of our Capital building designated for Congressional members?  Could it be that our social institution of politics assumed women would always be constrained from entering politics at that level? And why did many of these same women on their first day in Congress have the experience  of being mistaken for secretaries by security guards who refused to allow them to use the private elevators which lead to Congressional Chambers that are designated as members-only elevators? 

Why is it that even today most  female Little League baseball and softball teams in the U.S.A. are forced to play on city and county playing fields which are poorly maintained while boys have access to the best fields?

Why did reporters question the first female astronaut as to why she chose that particular hairstyle, when at the same time they asked the male astronauts questions about their skills and professional abilities?  Why is it that one dares not call an adult male a “boy;” whereas it is considered appropriate by many to call an adult female a “girl”?  Why is it that a male member of Hillary Clinton's audience felt free enough to yell out the insult "Iron my shirts!" to her when she ran for President in 2008?