#sexism #misogyny #racism are now the rule
No women will lead a House committee for the first time in two decades after House Republicans revealed their list of committee leaders for the 119th Congress on Thursday.
The 17 standing committees, whose leaders were selected by the House Republican Steering Committee, will be dominated by white men when the new Congress is seated on Jan. 3. No people of color were selected, either.
since i'm not allowed to comment on this, i'll have to share it. i wonder, how i am supposed to know about the colors of the skins of the people involved here.
#fediverse #hubzilla #mastodon #domination #superiority
So I've just learned the other day that curating your timeline/stream according to your personal interests and/or the topic of your account/channel is utterly racist. No matter how specialised your account/channel is.
Everyone in the Fediverse is basically required to follow a substantial amount of Black users, especially Black activists. If you're on Hubzilla or (streams), you must actually follow them, i.e. you must give them full permissions to send you anything and everything unhindered and unlimited. You must not use account/channel-wide or per-contact filters on them. Even if each one of them boosts 100 posts per day, you must not filter or disallow their boosts.
Also, if you're on Friendica, Hubzilla or (streams), all of which count and list unread messages, you must not simply mark what has come in from them as read. You must read it all and be interested in it all. This includes all comments on these posts. And yes, you must re-read everything whenever it tries to catch your attention again, e.g. if someone has liked/faved or boosted/reposted/renoted/repeated it.
But even if you receive thousands of comments along with those hundreds of extra posts, you must not comment on these comments. Not unless either a comment mentions you explicitly, or you're mutually connected to whoever wrote the comment. As you wouldn't even receive that comment on Mastodon, replying to it counts as reply-guying and mansplaining on Mastodon, completely regardless of how you comment. It's highly disrespectful, and if Black people are involved, it's racist.
It doesn't matter if this has allegedly been perfectly normal, the standard and part of the culture since five and a half years before Mastodon was launched. Mastodon rules supreme over the whole Fediverse, and only Mastodon's culture has any validity anywhere in the Fediverse. Any culture that differs from Mastodon's is toxic and evil and must be abolished.
Speaking of which, let's suppose you come across one of these many threads in which Black Mastodon users talk with other Black Mastodon users and Mastodon-using allies about how the Fediverse needs to be made safer. In this case, no matter how blatantly obvious it is that all people involved in this thread have no idea of the Fediverse outside Mastodon, you are not allowed to chime in and tell them about places which are safer due to their technological design and how they work.
First of all, it'd be mansplaining and reply-guying. Second, there's a tendency for Black Mastodon users to trust the rest of the Fediverse even less than Mastodon, what with e.g. Nazi instances on Pleroma. And third, your suggestion is likely to be taken for an attempt at nudging them into moving to one specific place, essentially trying to hoard them in a ghetto and segregate them from the rest of the Fediverse. In short, there's letting them wait for the Mastodon instances they're on to improve, and there's racism.
While we're at it: Even if you're on Friendica, Hubzilla or (streams), and you hate Mastodon with a burning passion for very good reasons, you must support Black-led Mastodon instances. Otherwise you're a racist.
Lastly, while I don't have proof for it, I'm pretty sure that everything that counts as racism towards Black users may also count as
- racist towards everyone else who isn't white
- sexist towards everyone who isn't cis-male
- homophobic towards everyone who isn't heterosexual
- transphobic towards trans people
- generally queerphobic towards everyone who isn't cisgender
- ableist towards disabled people, no matter what else you do to include them
- Islamophobic towards Muslims
- anti-Semitic/anti-Judaist towards Jews
- and generally hostile and xenophobic towards all marginalised minorities anywhere in the Fediverse.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #FediverseSafety #Mansplaining #ReplyGuy #ReplyGuys #Racist #Racism #Sexist #Sexism #Homophobic #Homophobia #Transphobic #Transphobia #Queerphobic #Queerphobia #Ableist #Ableism #Islamophobic #Islamophobia #AntiSemitic #AntiSemitism #Xenophobic #Xenophobia
Despite massive sexist and racist attacks against her, she won the gold medal at Olympics.
Congratulations to her for not giving up and showing the world how strong women fight back against bigotry and hate.
PS. I don't see any of those vocal "woman-life-freedom" folk posting anything in support of her.
#Algeria #Olympics #Racism #Sexism #WomenRights #Africa #Paris2024
Kamala Harris is Trump’s worst nightmare: She’s a strong, successful Black woman (and more!)
Let’s be clear: Calling a person of color a DEI hire is what racism looks like. It springs from the white supremacist myth that people of color are inherently inferior to white people, hence, we can only achieve success and visible positions with the help of a program.
#KamalaHarris #Harris2024 #DEI #GOPRacism #Sexism #Racism #VoteHarris2024
Progressive politics, which is committed to social #justice and the preservation of our livelihood, must necessarily redistribute #wealth and restructure our #economy, which should actually be possible for the majority because it serves the majority, but the concrete actions always get in the way of the #profit interests of some very powerful actors, who have therefore been involved since the beginning of #humanity itself and with the help of their lobbyists: Liberal or right-wing parties, media corporations, social #media platforms, think tanks, #lobby associations and #astroturf movements - front against these policies and in this fight do not shy away from stirring up racist, sexist and social-darvinist resentment in order to lead voters down wrong paths that harm the general public but protect the profit interests of the few.
#democracy #vote #politics #corruption #problem #criticism #fail #future #finance #capitalism #money #quote #wisdom #knowledge #conspiracy #racism #sexism
#hamas #sexualAssault #un #unHumanRights #warAgainstWomen #rapeAsWeaponOfWar #narrativ #feminism #queerfeminism2024 #decolonisation #rapeIsResistance #antisemitism #meToo #sexism #blackSabbath #gaza #playStupidGamesWinStupidPrices #warcrimes #hamascrimes #warcrime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB98QWIWoDs
https://aus.social/@fullfathomfive/112280049214348327 fullfathomfive@aus.social - THEIR EXPERIENCE OF REJECTION IS THE ARTWORK
For the last 4 years, the Tasmanian Museum of Old and New Art has been running an installation called The Ladies Lounge. Only people who identify as ladies are allowed to enter. In the lounge, they can sit in luxury and look at famous artworks by Picasso etc, which are not available elsewhere in the museum. They are served champagne and pampered by male butlers. It was meant as a comment on exclusionary men's clubs (which still exist in Australia and elsewhere).
Some dude got upset about it and sued the gallery for entry at the anti-discrimination tribunal. The artist, Kirsha Kaechele, said she was "absolutely delighted" that the exhibit had been taken to court. “The men are experiencing Ladies Lounge, their experience of rejection is the artwork,” she said.
She then turned the tribunal hearing into part of the art as well, by having a group of women observing the hearing dress like her and mimic her every move. They did not disrupt the hearing, and at the end of proceedings they exited the tribunal to the song Simply Irresistible.
Kaechele argued in her defence the Ladies Lounge was “a response to the lived experience of women forbidden from entering certain spaces throughout history” and promoted equal opportunity.
The tribunal found against the gallery and is ordering them to allow men to enter the exhibit. MONA is removing the exhibit instead.
Fucking love this artist 😂
#MONA #art #kristenkachele #sexism #discrimination #performanceart #australia
Por Cida Falabella Publicado em 7 de março de 2024 | 10h00
#Maria #mulheres #mulher #CidaFalabella #BH #MG #feminismo #women #feminism #cultura #culture #presépio #Natal #Christmas #sexism #cristão #evangélico #evangélica #censura #estupidez #machismo
https://www.otempo.com.br/opiniao/cida-falabella/onde-esta-maria-1.3343560
No Natal do ano passado, em meio às compras de presentes para a família, entrei em uma loja e perguntei por presépios. Eu gosto de Natal, é preciso dizer. Já fui de não gostar, mas fiz as pazes com a celebração e sou das que enfeita a casa e recebe a família. “Mas por que falar de Natal em pleno março, mês das mulheres, Cida Falabella?”. Vai ouvindo.
Tinham uns presépios bem feinhos, mas eu queria levar mesmo assim e estava indecisa, demorando a decidir, até que escolhi. Fui dar aquela última olhada antes de a atendente embrulhar o presépio escolhido quando, pasmem, onde está Maria?
A moça pediu desculpas e foi buscar outros exemplares, mas não encontrou nenhum que tivesse a Mãe. Alguns traziam os três reis magos, outros não, todos tinham José, os bichos variavam de um para outro, mas nenhum tinha Maria. E eu repetia incrédula: “Mas cadê Maria, gente? A mãe que deu à luz?”.
Aquela cena mundialmente famosa jamais existiria se não fosse pelo papel dos dois protagonistas, minha gente. Não ia ter Menino, Reis Magos e tudo que aconteceu depois e mudou a história do mundo. E naquele item genérico, nem de coadjuvante colocaram a Mãe.
“Inacreditável”, eu falava mais para mim do que para a atendente, que não tinha responsabilidade sobre a ausência ilustre. As pessoas começaram a olhar. Algumas ajudaram na busca, mas Maria não estava ali mesmo. Silêncio. Eu e a atendente nos olhamos incrédulas. Eu pedi desculpas e desisti da compra: “Desculpa, moça. Sem Maria não posso levar o presépio”.
Levo Maria comigo em meu nome como a marca de um milagre. Minha mãe, Dona Cely, depois que se casou, sofreu uma queda e uma médica disse a ela que nunca poderia ter filhos. Quando ela, por força de sua vontade e das suas orações, engravidou, consagrou sua primeira filha a Nossa Senhora. Por isso, me chamo Maria Aparecida. Carregando esse nome na certidão e no coração, é esperado que perceberia a ausência da Mãe, escrito assim, na regra do sagrado.
Hoje, ao pensar no que escrever neste Dia Internacional das Mulheres, essa história me vem como metáfora do que vivem as mães e mulheres, aquelas que carregam, embalam, limpam, pranteiam… cuidam de uma forma tida como “natural”, invisibilizada e não remunerada.
“Cuidam de quê, Cida?”. “Do mundo, e de todo mundo”.
Ninguém parece ver, mas é a economia do cuidado que permite que exista produtividade e organização em todo o resto da nossa sociedade, e ela é feita por milhões de Marias – ainda o nome próprio mais comum no Brasil. Segundo dados da PNAD Contínua de 2019, as Marias dedicam, em média, 21,7 horas semanais ao trabalho doméstico e de cuidados não-remunerado, enquanto os homens dedicam 11 horas. Para as brancas, essa cifra é de 21 horas semanais e para as negras, 22,3 horas por semana. Ainda que pareça pouco, ao final de um ano, as Marias negras fazem quase 68 horas a mais de trabalho de cuidados não-remunerado, e isso as retira dos cuidados consigo mesmas, do mercado de trabalho e de diversos outros espaços, como por exemplo, a política.
Neste mês de março, para além da luta pelo direito de permanecermos vivas em um país ainda extremamente violento para mulheres, é preciso reconhecer o protagonismo das nossas Marias – e cuidar delas. Este é só o primeiro passo de uma mudança cultural complexa e urgente, que passa pela elaboração de políticas públicas que apoiem as mulheres, facilitem seu cotidiano e as permitam usufruir com igualdade de oportunidades das vidas, sem que os cuidados sejam deixados de lado. Que a justiça de cada dia nos dai hoje, Maria.
(CNN) — An Ohio woman who had sought treatment at a hospital before suffering a miscarriage and passing her nonviable fetus in her bathroom now faces a criminal charge, her attorney told CNN.
Brittany Watts, 33, of Warren, has been charged with felony abuse of a corpse, Trumbull County court records show.
“Ms. Watts suffered a tragic and dangerous miscarriage that jeopardized her own life. Rather than focusing on healing physically and emotionally, she was arrested and charged with a felony,” her attorney, Traci Timko, told CNN in an email.
“Ms. Watts’ case is pending before the Trumbull County Grand Jury. I have advised her not to speak publicly until the criminal matter has resolved.”
Though a coroner’s office report said the fetus was not viable and had died in the womb, Watts’ case highlights the extent to which prosecutors can charge a woman whose pregnancy has ended – whether by abortion or miscarriage.
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#Ohio #abortion #miscarriage #sexism #rightsAbuse #womensRights #bodilyAutonomy #medicine #health
A quotation from Ehrenreich, Barbara
We are talking about a nine-month bout of symptoms of varying severity, often including nausea, skin discolorations, extreme bloating and swelling, insomnia, narcolepsy, hair loss, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, indigestion, and irreversible weight gain, and culminating in a physiological crisis which is occasionally fatal and almost always excruciatingly painful. If men were equally at risk from this condition — if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains — then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.
Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941) American feminist, journalist, political activist
“Hers” column, New York Times (1985-02-07)
#quote #quotes #quotation #abortion #pregnancy #sexism #health #symptoms #perspective
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