honestly why does Mr. Darcy, a man from the late 1700s and early 1800s, understand that an independent female is an awesome thing more than people from 2017? also he respects her decision to reject him?
Inexplicably annoyed by men writing about knitting!
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The tags on this are extraordinary:
girlfriend: *does a completely harmless craft that she enjoys, creating something while she watches tv*
boyfriend: âwhat is this anti-feminist spinster shit, iâm so alienatedâ
this is literally why I feel like I have to apologize for sewing
âsweetly oblivious old ladiesâ Hon I 100% guarantee to you that those old ladies are aware of you, your bloodline, your daily habits and your breakfast order and gossip about how rude you are as soon as you leave.
âIf you want to eavesdrop on someone, knit or sew or some sort of womanly craft. Men will act as though you are deaf and blind even when shown evidence otherwise.â – Trickstersâ Choice.
I sourced this one a while back and I was really glad I did. Itâs from the book Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, an anthology in which âtwenty-seven writers tell stories about how knitting healed, challenged, or helped them to grow.â The passage in question, from a story by Andre Dubus III, describes the writerâs state of mind after going through some problems with his family and having a fight with his girlfriend. Part of his difficulty is that their class disparity has recently come to the fore (his family is working-class, she was born into wealth; the âbusyworkâ line seems a little more pointed), but mostly itâs that he feels disconnected from his roots and craves the easy connection to the past that his girlfriendâs art represents. Look at the way that even this out-of-context passage is written: his apparent contempt barely disguises his envy of her ease and skill, âher fingers working the needles and yarn without having to peek.â The entire arc is about how, finding himself compelled by her craft despite himself, he asks her to teach him to knit so that he can make a Christmas present for his aunt, and, in the process, comes to realize that there is more to knitting than the shallow ideas he read into it before he really understood it.
Itâs sad that a man who wrote honestly about the impact that a âwomanly artâ had on his life got skewered (no pun intended) on the Internet because of this contextually necessary lead-up passage in which he outlines the negative stereotypes that stood in his way and pokes fun at his own immaturity.
This post is starting to go around without the context, and, while what they are saying is generally good, itâs important to know that the authorâs intent was to provide the context of the ridiculous stigma he overcame.
Our attending walked into the room wearing her white coat, name badge on, and introduced herself as the doctor. The patient continued to refer to her as nurse the entire time we were there, and when we left, asked when the âreal doctorâ was coming. This same attending had to stop wearing her (very conservative, knee-length) dresses/skirts because male patients would comment on her legs or try to touch them. An ophthalmologist friend was telling me that she wonât do slit-lamp exams with the door shut anymore because male patients have (more than once) groped her.
Racism is still a big problem, too. I have another friend who, just yesterday, was told by a patient something along the lines of âitâs a good thing you arenât a doctor (he is) because your people are coming here and taking up all the doctor jobs.â And that was definitely one of the milder things Iâve heard patients say about race. Theyâre usually screaming slurs.
Iâve introduced myself as a doctor, discussed treatment options, and when I left, I heard the patient complain that she hadnât seen a doctor at all.
this is it⌠the worst text a guy has ever sent me in my entire 2 decades of lifeâŚ. I surpassed the 5 stages of grief when I read it and astral projected straight to hell
Cate Blanchett, Kristen Stewart, Marion Cotillard, Patty Jenkins and Ava DuVernay are among the 82 women who will walk up the main stairs of Cannes Film Festivalâs Palais on Saturday as part of a push for gender equality in the film industry.
The event will take place ahead of the gala premiere for Eva Hussonâs âGirls of the Sun,â a drama about a Kurdish female battalion which one of the three woman-directed films competing at Cannes Film Festival.
The march is being organized by a new movement called 5050Ă2020, which calls for more gender equality and diversity in the French film industry.
There will be 82 women as a symbol for the 82 female-directed films that have played at Cannesâs official competition, compared with 1645 films directed by men,â said the 5050Ă2020 org.
this tweet goes from surreal to hilarious when you realize that she was the CEO of Reddit
Casual reminder that while she was CEO at Reddit she created a salary negotiation policy that evened the playing field for women employed by Reddit.
Not-at-all-casual-reminder that she left Reddit in 2015 after being forced to resign because Reddit lost its collective shit at her when the site banned 5 subreddits for harassment; not-at-fucking-all casual reminder that Ellen Pao was the CEO of Reddit when it banned revenge porn after The Fappening.
One of the subreddits that was banned that led to her resignation was r/fatpeople hate. The others were transphobic and racist.
In her time at Reddit Pao did more than the site had ever before done to fight harassment from its user base and for that someone started a subreddit calling for her firing and trying to make nazi and ISIS imagery come up in searches associated with her name.
If *anyone* in the tech industry knows what the blackpill subculture is like and how vile and toxic groups spawned in subreddits can be itâs Ellen Pao.
This isnât someone whoâs oblivious to the fact that her former company is a source of the problem, this is someone who is speaking from personal experience with online harassment campaigns orchestrated by people who want the freedom to post celebrity nudes who were *enraged* that she made it harder for them to do so.
(also basically the rest of her twitter is about #metoo, the need for labor regulation and worker protections, and salary transparency so maybe go check her out)
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