Author: Goldpanner

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ritchandfamous:

Men like Ted Cruz think trans women are men, and they can’t imagine themselves – as a man – walking into a women’s restroom without trying to sexually assault a woman.  Their opinions are a reflection of themselves and how they see women.

“Now, I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE,” Huckabee said. “I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.’”

Republican politicians are literally revealing themselves as sexual predators and somehow the hatred gets misdirected from violent men to women. Of course. 

Since the 1970s, the number of first-time mothers over the age of 35 has risen fivefold. This trend toward delayed childbearing means more would-be-mothers are struggling with infertility and miscarriage.

While this doesn’t surprise me, what does is how readily this has been blamed on the rise of feminism. The thinking here is that modern women are so busy leaning into their feminism-forged careers that they don’t want to start trying for kids until their mid-to-late 30s. They made the mistake of “wanting it all.”

Yet, among the women I know in this age group who have fertility issues, or simply missed the window to have children, none of them have what such critics consider “real” careers. Almost all of them were either dumped in their early 30s, or couldn’t find the right guy, or were toiling in the sorts of overeducated, debt-burdened underemployment that put their household income way below the threshold where they could responsibly raise a child. In other words, they weren’t waiting to “have it all” – they were waiting to have enough.

The rise of precarious employment, the evisceration of unions, degree inflation, and an inflamed housing market have all limited my generation’s access to the milestones of regular adulthood. It’s economics, not feminism, that has most altered our patterns of courtship and family-building, consigning us to the extended adolescence of baby-boomer legend.

I think about this all the time. I imagine a lot of us do. (via kelsium)

“In other words, they weren’t waiting to “have it all” – they were waiting to have enough.”

(via girlwithalessonplan)

I didn’t really understand ableism for a long time, but then one day a very dear friend explained things to me in a way that really illuminated things, in a real “oh shit, I get it now” moment. What she told me was, everyone has limits. Everyone can only travel so far, or do so much before becoming exhausted, or lift/push/pull so much before reaching their limit. And things are already made with accessibility in mind. They are just made with only the limits of the “average” person in mind.

t4millennial:

Like, if stairsteps were each six feet tall, no one would climb them. If doors were 500lbs heavy, or only 2 feet tall, no one would go through them. If daily workdays were 20 hours long, no one would be able to work them. If conversations had to be held in iambic pentameter, no one would find talking so easy. If text was all 2pt size, no one would easily read. Etc, etc, etc. But society adjusts all these things to meet limits. They just forget to account for everyone, and that is ableism.

That’s actually a great way of explaining it, I’m probably going to steal that