If we keep repeating it, it might become true...

[missroserose]

This post, by Amanda Marcotte over at Slate's women's-issues blog, is a good post that brings up some excellent points. However, the first paragraph especially made me want to cheer aloud, and I thought it was worth repeating:

Sometimes I imagine a world where writers are forbidden for a year from starting from the premise that women are dumber, more irrational, or more emotional than men. The pages labeled "Fashion," "Style," or "Life" in newspapers would change dramatically. The trend-piece industry would quite possibly not be able to handle the shift in focus, and collapse completely. Sexism is the gasoline that fuels it.

If I were a praying woman, I might well pray for that, verbatim, every single night. As it is, I can only do my best to contribute to bringing such a world about.

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not willing to settle for just a year either.

[amanda_lodden.livejournal.com]

A year would be long enough to take down the worst of the magazines that are supporting such a viewpoint, though.