I recently discussed on Hathor how birth control pills are the only solid treatment for many cases of PCOS in which a woman is not trying to get pregnant. A commenter shared it on Facebook and got the following response from a male med student reading her Facebook: “Annie, that has to be the most [...]
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In life, there are three reasons why things go well for us: privilege, random good fortune, and/or that we worked to make something happen. I recently encountered a really good example of all three at work when my DSL internet connection went down for two days. I know several people who have no internet connection [...]
Ever wondered what it’s like to be a woman in a sexist culture? Or maybe you think sexism is all over now and why don’t we women stop our whining already? Check this out. A reader at Feministe wrote in, asking for advice because a co-worker sexually “harassed” (actually this qualifies as assault) her after [...]
When I was a teenage girl who wasn’t shy about pointing out the advantages I didn’t have, I was surrounded by teenage boys who weren’t shy about telling me, “Stop whining and just do something about it.” I took their advice. I studied the people who had the social standing I wanted, which in my [...]
Over on Hathor, I wrote an article called If anything makes women hate men, it’s not feminism: it’s patriarchy. In a nutshell, I argued that patriarchy puts out a lot of ugly messages about what cheating, abusive assholes men are in hopes of convincing women to put up with crap from men. Women who refuse [...]
