The day before my birthday! No, wait, that’s not it: It’s International Women’s Day! Celebrate by noticing something women do!
You could read a book, or give your daughter a book. I just discovered this awesome list of feminist books for young readers, and I’ve only read one of them: if I still had a young daughter at home, I’d buy them all and we could read them together, but nope, she’s growed up and moved away and left me all alone at home.
That’s not a tear, it’s just eyestrain.
I suppose I could give the cat a nice fancy catfood dinner tonight — she’s female.
I made my wife an omelet this morning, does that count?
Women get one day. Blacks get the shortest month of the year. White men get the rest of the time. Guess who’s going to complain about how unfair it all is.
I know! I know this one! It’s the people – the ordinary, normal real people – who just want everybody to be treated the same and support egalitarianism-not-that-nasty-feminazi-feminism-stuff and who don’t see colour!
… did I win?
You win, opposablethumbs. One internet should be heading to you via the tubes.
Emma Watson does a live conversation as part of the HeForShe campaign, happening live:
here
PZ:
It does. I love it when Mister makes an omelet for me, which he does fairly often.
cross-posting:
These 17 Women Changed The Face Of Physics
Rosalind Flanklin is well known as having been denied the Nobel.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell: for discovering Pulsars, of which she documented in her PhD treatise, her Graduate Supervisor was awarded the Nobel. ;-(
dianne:
White men. Complaining about the fact that they don’t get a month or day specifically designated as theirs, instead of just being theirs implicitly.
twas brillig (stevem) #6:
Well, you learn summat new every day. I never knew that about
HedlyHedy Lamarr.I always end up wondering why Caroline Herschel seldom appears on those lists.
dianne @ # 1: Women get one day.
And this year, they get the one day with just 23 hours.
re @7:
White men. Complaining about the fact that they don’t get a month or day specifically designated as theirs,
Mild sauce there. I always assumed (see what I do there? ass.u.me.) white men would be angry for getting their days, “STOLEN, by these other peoples and girls. Why do these people get to take one of my days (or an ENTIRE month)???”
But that’s just me bein too angry at all the injustice outs theres.
Following my #4: I think this was cool: Chivalry should be consensual.
With an added explanation that both sides should feel good about it, with no one feeling forced.
I’ll celebrate by writing up a funding proposal that, if it goes through, will allow me to hire my first employee, a programmer. She happens to be a woman. Then I’ll think up ways to start paying the rest of my team, who are mostly technically-minded women.
My husband and I are going to see the play, Little Women (definitely less than a feminist play, but the heroine is very independent). Local citizens in the local newspaper were complaining because it was all about women. (They didn’t complain when the same theatre did Oliver!, which is all about boys). The theatre director made a lousy answer, said that he had to select his plays based on what sort of talent they had available at the time. Said nothing to indicate that women matter, too.
Keeping at it:
Answer to the question whether she would be as passionate about feminism if she were a man: She would, not because she has a mother or a sister but because it’s right.
So glad to hear someone not doing the “do it for the women in your life” routine.
When I read this, it struck me that you also have two sons (though not at home either), but you only thought of reading the feminist books with your daughter.
Here’s to longing for a time when women’s day will be completely unnecessary, but we know how unlikely that is in the foreseeable future. How sad.
Me? For IWD I’m taking a family friend for a bicycle ride around our fair city, a friend who finally left her drunken husband and is making a new life for herself with her eldest daughter back in the city she grew up in. Trying to build her self confidence in her abilities and steering her towards social groups where women are valued equally as people.
I’ll celebrate it by doing some outreach to eligible members of this community and anyone they might know who would be interested in exploring the world of Free and Open Software via development or other ways:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy
Greg @ 16
Which points of inequality do you feel won’t be overcome in the foreseeable future?
Happy Birthday, PZ.
Happy birthday.
Hm… I have read seven of them and enjoyed them all greatly. Looks like I have six more to track down.
To women!
*raises bong in salute*
@twas brillig (stevem)
As the link you provide notes, Rosalind Franklin was not denied the Nobel, nor was she overlooked out of unfairness – when the nobel (To Crick, Watson and Wilkins) was granted in 1962, she was already dead.
This is not to say that she was treated fairly by these three men…
Pierce @#9: It has 24 hours in the civilised world, where DST doesn’t start until after spring begins.
Also, don’t forget the convenient reply to the inevitable idiot question is the 19th of November.
Husbands have no problem divorcing their wives if they get sick: study http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/husbands-have-no-problem-divorcing-their-wives-if-they-get-sick-study/
Aaaand…
Saudis block Margot Wallström (Sweden’s foreign minister) at Arab League: report http://www.thelocal.se/
Fuck the fucking fuckers.
Although it should be noted birgerjohansson that the study didn’t specify who initiated the divorces. There was a mention towards the end that some might have been initiated by the wives if their husbands turned out to be really crap at being supportive/care-givers when the wife got sick.
Neither of those particularly good showing by the guys though, especially when the reverse situation doesn’t lead to more divorce.