There’s some worthwhile peevulation in three posts by Jay over at Two Women Blogging. “What I didn’t say” documents a conversation between Jay and her (male) practice partner. The partner hangs his male privilege out there in the wind, thinking that he works soooo much harder than she does, simply because he sees patients for 36 hours a week while she books them for 24 hours. Sadly, it’s l’esprit d’escalier, and he didn’t get the re-education he deserved.
“You get big extra Daddy points for showing up for soccer games, but you don’t have to wash the uniforms and pack the snack bag first. Your food appears, and your laundry is washed, and your kids get from place to place, and you don’t have to do any of it. And yes, I can keep up with my paperwork. Sure, I read and write faster than most people – but I also keep my charts organized and set up systems so I can find what I need, and I learned how to use my time with patients more effectively so I can run my office hours on time, and I don’t order unnecessary tests that I then would have to review and respond to. I work damn hard to make it look as if I don’t work as hard you do”.
Next, she nails two of my pet peeves: “Lucky lady” skewers the concept of women being tremendously lucky if they have a husband who “helps”; then she moves on to “My husband won’t let me”, one which never fails to leave me with a sickly feeling in the pit of my stomach. No, I’m not blaming the individual women who find themselves confined in the prison that is a financially abusive relationship. What I am is disgusted that most people seem to find it utterly commonplace and unremarkable.
It is said that a man in China died from internet poisoning. The man dropped stone dead after playing online games for three days straight in a cybercafe.
The report said that about 100 other Web surfers “left the cafe in fear after witnessing the man’s death.”
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reckons labiaplasty and G-spot “enhancement” are reprehensible violations of a woman’s body, on account of they’re not medically indicated. However, they are just dandy with cutting a woman’s uterus open for no medical reason if she is pregnant at the time, and have decided in favour of a very gentle nudge away from routinely cutting open the vaginas of birthing women, choosing to instead recommend that obstetricians exercise their clinical judgement when deciding whether the operation is necessary. (The woman, of course, is invisible; birthing is a private matter between a baby, a doctor, and a female reproductive system.)
And Bill Maher’s a misogynist, leering little troll:
“Last week the world’s first nurse-in was held to protest the case of a woman who was breastfeeding in public and asked by an Applebee’s manager not to leave but just to cover up a little bit. Because the wait staff got tired of hearing, ‘I’ll have what that kid’s having!’ (laughter) I’m not trying to be insensitive, here. I know your baby needs to eat, but so do I and this is Applebee’s, so I’m already nauseous. (laughter) Breastfeeding a baby is an intimate act, and I don’t want to watch strangers performing intimate acts. At least not for free. (laughter) It cheapens it. [...] And by the way, there is a place where breasts and food do go together. It’s called Hooters!”
Creepy pornstitution jokes AND disparaging the rights of women and children ! Hilarious fun for rich white dudes everywhere! And doesn’t he call himself a “libertarian”, an “environmentalist”, and an “animal rights activist”? I guess civil rights are only for RWDs, environmentally friendly infant feeding choices are irrelevant if they compromise his view of breasts as purely objects for his own enjoyment, and the breastmilk substitute industry and the dairy industry are – um – not connected in any way, nohow.
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