jessica

[jackie 🐝 @tzukima]

we now live in the chinese surveillance state that we were fearmongered about for a decade, but without any of the benefits of modern chinese society

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

This is called occupational devaluation or, in sociology, the pollution theory of gender segregation. It has been found and corroborated again and again. Basically, the more women do something, the more men devalue it, exciting the career or activity because participation is perceived as low status and feminine.

Rather than women being "responsible" for chosing low paying jobs, the jobs and tasks become lower paid as soon as a sufficient amount of women do them. Sociologists liken these fields to being "polluted" in the eyes of many status conscious men, who then exit or never enter the occupation.

You probably all know about real world examples like programming, veterinary medicine, and HR, administrative work, and college in general, but there is one example from history that is far more telling, and I haven't seen very many people talk about it.

In England after the Black Death, wages were quite high for laborers, due to labor shortages, and women enjoyed pay parity with men in many sectors. The nobility did not like that. So in 1388, during the reign of Richard II, the Statute of Cambridge was enacted to set explicit wage ceilings per job title and gender.

For example, a male shepard could make 10 shillings a year, but a female one could only make 6, and she was not allowed to become head shepard, by law.

Subsequent renewals of the law institutionalized a gender wage gap, forcing women into long-term, fixed contracts capped at artificially depressed, lower rates. Commentators at the time even remarked that they didn't see women shoveling dirt, for example, any slower than men, but the gap was justified on the greed of laborers and maintenance of the feudal order.

This gap persisted and became mythologized as evidence that, all along, women's labor was just inherently less valuable. In subsequent periods of England, women were even forbidden from working outside of the home entirely, and raises in men's wages in response to unrest (literally "breadwinner" comes from the concept that they were to win the bread of the entire family) were justified by the amount of unpaid purely domestic labor women did to assist him in the family's chosen profession.

Everything you think you know about the gender pay gap is a lie. The gap is often manufactured, and then justified by those who forget the origins of it. It then persists by social engineering, and the invisible sexist biases of people who flee "women's work" or chose to pay it less, and instead blamed entirely on the choices of women.

[subhash @slyezil]

Really cool

[ؘ @lesbosformedia]

meeting new people high as fuck

[💕 @janicesghost]

Not necessarily about this story, but please say to your doctors, “I want you to chart that you advised me to relax and refused to explore a medical explanation for my pain.”

[Methodios☦︎♰♱✠ꖅ⁜ꒌ𐤕‎ن⳩⳨⳥𖥞𐕣ⅹτ‎Ϯ‎ᛏᛉ‎𝄑‎♁⚜︎☘︎‎⌘֎𓋹 @Methodios007]

Shortly after my stroke (3 years ago), I temporarily lost my internal monologue. I just reacted, and didn’t even “think”.

[benson boone @clearherhead]

why are hundreds of men celebrating this woman’s death

[c 🫗 @mightbechidi]

Its funny but this is not a joke

[Oswald Wokeley @AtomicTendie]

Effects of misandry: hurt feelings

Effects of misogyny: rape, torture, murder, honour killings, acid thrown on your face plus having retards on Twitter use your disfigured face for engagement after the fact

[akdeniz kizi @carmenwinchestr]

erkek olanını da yapın yorulmayan hemen bosalmauan kaslı 190 esnek olan yapın sonra bir şey demicez

[Lamone @LamoneDaSleeze]

When I say please excuse the mess when my house is spotless

[Glamorizing Tech👩🏾‍💻💓 @princessxap]

People weren’t this weird…
Kids weren’t this slow…
Men did more than sit on apps all day…

[Mariana Oliveira @marioliveirain]

Às vezes os caras reclamam de tantas leis criadas para mulheres ou que "mulheres estão radicais demais”. Mas como não se radicalizar quando existe isso aqui? Vocês pegam alguns homens que recebem denúncias falsas de mulheres, fazem um escândalo e querem criar uma lei só para criminalizar isso. Imagina se lessem todos os dias notícias como essa? Se fosse o contrário, já existiria um milhão de penas exclusivas e restrições a todas as mulheres para proteger homens.

[aru @pologt3435]

My therapist said cutting people off isn’t healthy
Lowkey she’s next

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[໊ @xoeeie]

Aaand this is why I don't trust the sudden onset of the idea that "college is a scam". It's not a coincidence that higher education has started losing its value in society's eyes now that women outperform men. Funny how education becomes "a scam" the moment women start using it to outcompete men.

[Liza @Li33aaa]

I told my male doctor the pain during sex had gotten so bad I was avoiding intimacy. He told me to “relax more” and that most women just need to “get out of their heads.” I asked if he’d ever told a male patient with erectile dysfunction to just relax and stop overthinking. He looked at his chart. I got a new doctor the next week. Turns out I had a condition that required actual treatment.