#women employment

[lisaquestions]

Stay the fuck away from trans women

everything in this post is TMRA garbage, not worth even arguing with.

People like this have no business speaking to or about us, let alone insisting that we should be in community with them. This is just tortured rationalization to treat us like garbage and reify patriarchal hierarchy by placing men in authority and power over women.

Trans women, you do not have to let toxic dipshits like this into your lives nor do you have to listen to them. They do not know what they're talking about, they only want to define our place as subordinate to them even as they move through the world as actual men. Be free of this garbage, be yourselves, don't let this shit drag you down.

people like this love to accuse us of terf rhetoric, but that entire post is literally terf rhetoric

also could someone who is not one of these unhinged woman-hating MRAs explain how people got to "white trans women are more male than other trans women" like they realize they're just trying to litigate excuses to say that shit and this isn't real analysis or theory right? Especially given how often trans women of color are ~suddenly white~ when people are mad at them?

[maddie-grove]

Honestly I hate the “girlboss” criticisms of feminism more and more each day. A lot of people have rightfully pointed out that feminists had/have very practical reasons to fight for women’s rights in the workplace, but I feel like there’s still an idea that a woman is deluded or morally suspect if she enjoys or takes pride in her work. It’s not just about the money; it’s about not being barred from fully participating in society just because you’re a woman. That is an unfair and degrading thing to do to someone, even if they have other means of financial support.

[thatfrenchacademic]

HELLO THIS IS YET AGAIN ANOTHER REMINDER TO VOTE FOR EUROPEAN ELECTIONS

"AND WHY THE F---- SHOULD I???" Edition

Because the EU has a meh to fucking excellent track record on the following topics and can do good work if you send the right people there:

Data privacy

Queer rights

Women's rights

Culture and Education

Green policies (I know, I KNOW, but still)

Consumer's rights

Food safety

And it's got a shit track records on the following that will keep on getting worse if you do NOT vote:

Immigration and asylum

Authoritarianism and democratic backslide

Fiscal policies

Lack of democratic input

Because you may not be sure if it's worthy it, but we know exactly WHO will be VERY motivated to go vote, and they are not exactly putting a green ballot in the box.

[vyeoh]

I'm rewatching all the Marvel Defenders shows on Netflix and as much as I mock the MCU now, I need non-Marvel fans to understand that I was and still am a fan of "Daredevil fighting the gentrifying assshole who bought out the police force because ACAB both as a lawyer and vigilante of the community" and "Jessica Jones fighting the man who mind controlled her into doing unspeakable things and forming a community of fellow survivors and allies while dealing with PTSD in a range of both healthy and unhealthy ways" Marvel. God I love these idiots they carried so hard

[tripleciiq90temu]

[tinynavajoreads]

*with the choice to veto at least once. I do tend to be a mood reader, so the choice needs to vibe to a point

[bookmothic-dyke]

This trans dyke bitch is now employed(mostly, I still have the do the background check)!!!!

But yeah!!!! It’s as a payed advising intern at my university, under the natural sciences department.

I beat out like a hundred applicants!

I found out from my interviewer/now boss while ordering coffee. Because I missed yesterday’s email.

I shall evolve to new levels of hot trans dyke who is kinda a girl failure but also oddly capable.

[english-history-trip]

Hey, check out the cool sword I just acquired.

A friend had helped her friend move, and she subsequently ended up with it. I was visiting and said Is that a sword and she immediately went It is your sword now, and who am I to argue.

[kuntya]

This may be a moment of weakness, but I'm starting to have more sympathy with female separatists.

"Women are people and deserve the same rights as you" didn't work. The first generation of men to see first-hand that equal rights means they won't get a wife/mommy/slave went hard right.

50% of marriages end in divorce. 70% of divorces are initiated by women. For every 2 divorced men who want to remarry, there's only 1 divorced woman who wants to remarry. 1/3 of men 18 - 24 haven't had sex in the last year.

Men are better off with you barefoot and pregnant. And they know it.

The incentives and opportunities for men to enslave women are just too strong. I don't know what to do about this.

[mswyrr]

I think the show has a good narrative set up to dodge around Disney censorship while also telling an emotionally satisfying story.

If the core thrust of the season is for Agatha, "the covenless witch," to heal the primal wound of that rejection/trauma and have a coven again, then there's already something delightfully queer about that as a journey toward growth, yeah? An all female coven is kind of inherently queer and socially stigmatized due to that.

And if, at the same time, Rio turns out to have been trying to help (in her oblique way) and she and Agatha still clearly have feelings for each other -- sexy feelings, both passionately aggro and otherwise -- then that can be the great queer subtext that plays into that resolution and allows for us to spin things off further in fanfic and fanart.

It sucks that Disney is a monopoly and that artists have to work within their boundaries in order to have a job, but I think there's the potential to play with those boundaries and still do something good with BOTH explicitly canon queer characters and queer coding/intentional subtext for the main character.

That is what I see as a very real possibility, given both the narrative so far and the limits I'm aware of from Disney. Is it my ideal? No. But we do not live in an ideal world and the artists are not working under the conditions they wish they could. It is what it is.

[mikasasrippedtoenail]

Most of the government's women empowerment schemes are just misogyny in disguise. Poor women in the name of empowerment work in trades of sewing, embroidery, cooking, farming etc. Their labour is exploited for very little pay in return.

They are not given access to esteemed universities or taught high paying skills. It's because men in power don't actually want women to flourish. They do the bare minimum and manipulate women into believing they have been given the world. Their schemes are only a vote hoarding tactic, never meant for women's actual interest.

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

It's disappointing but unsurprising that so many self-declared (radical) feminists prefer individualistic 'separatist' action (reading books by women, refusing to wear makeup, debates around male centrism) over actual, culture-changing action (wages for housework).

[kemetic-dreams]

Affirmative action began in the 1960s as a response to the civil rights movement and systemic discrimination in employment and education. The first official policy to implement affirmative action was President John F. Kennedy's Executive Order 10925, which was signed on March 6, 1961: 

Purpose The order's purpose was to affirm the government's commitment to equal opportunity and to take positive action to strengthen efforts to achieve it. 

Content The order required government contractors to: 

Treat applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin 

Take affirmative action to ensure that employees were treated equally during employment 

Who benefited most from affirmative action

European women are often considered to be the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action, which is a set of programs that aim to reduce discrimination in education, employment, and government contracting: 

Education European women have become more educated and make up a larger portion of the workforce. 

Employment European women have made significant gains in the job market, including in high-level management positions and in the professions of law and medicine. 

Hiring A survey of employers in four major cities found that firms with affirmative action policies were 15% more likely to have hired European women. 

However, some say that white men are the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action. Others say that the dismantling of affirmative action affects European women, too, and that the willingness to erase them from the story is part of the problem.

[the-sayuri-rin]

In response to President Donald Trump's executive order banning diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, the Pentagon's intelligence agency has paused special event programs and related events, including for Juneteenth, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and Pride Month, according to a memo obtained by ABC News.

Despite being on the list of the Defense Intelligence Agency's paused events and activities, the memo clarified that Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth will remain federal holidays.

The affected events, per the memo, which is dated Jan. 28, 2025, include: Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday, Black History Month, Women's History Month, Holocaust Day and Days of Remembrance, Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Pride, Juneteenth, Women's Equality Day, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month and National American Indian Heritage Month.

[clementimetodie]

Why does the right constantly believe they are not being idealistic, the world needs to conform to your beliefs for them to work too, things are not going to just turn on a dime because you think you're intellectually superior for not thinking about the impact your changes would have on other people

[yerawitchbitch]

This is the news release from the Department of Defense stopping official activities for "identity months." including

National African American/Black History Month (February)

Women’s History Month (March)

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May)

Pride Month (June)

National Hispanic Heritage Month(Sept. 15 - Oct. 15)

National Disability Employment Awareness Month (October)

National American Indian Heritage Month (November)

Guess I know what identity months I'll be making sure to celebrate. 😆

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4050331/identity-months-dead-at-dod/