VELOCIPEDE SCHOOL!

WE BEG LEAVE TO INFORM THE citizens of Santa Cruz that we have opened a VELOCIPEDE SCHOOL in the Hall of R. K. Whidden, which is open day and night. Instructions given, and VELOCIPEDES hired, either to be used in the Hall or on the streets. The Hall is surrounded with seats, and ladies are invited as spectators.

Any number of Velocipeds, either for man or child, always on hand.

H. F. Lawrence & Co.

— Santa Cruz Sentinel 1869/4/24

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/16/women-and-minorities-fired-nih-board-science/

https://youtube.com/shorts/G_y5BVHzch0

How bad was it in the 70s and 80s for women?

Well, this was a "comedy" in 1984, for a start.

Oh, and women couldn't have bank accounts until 1974 without a man cosigning.

This is the world people like Trump and MAGAts miss and want to go back to.

Okay, since this came up let me reiterate what the point of the #ManOrBear debate was.

When a lot of women said that they preferred the bear, men should _not_ interpret this as an "attack" on them personally, or men in general.

Instead, it simply reflects the fact that women have to evaluate their personal safety in entirely different ways than men. Random male strangers are, statistically speaking, far more dangerous to women than random female strangers are to men. Yes, most men are perfectly safe, but there are enough exceptions that women cannot pretend that they are not out there.

In other words, women have different life experiences than men when it comes to personal safety. (Well, duh!)

And the _sensible_ thing for us men would be to accept that having life experiences that differ from our own does not make them invalid.

Instead of, you know, treating statements about these experiences as "sexism against men" or a personal attack ("I am owed the benefit of the doubt, and how dare they suggest otherwise!").

If you get upset about this, then you should direct your ire against the men who cause these safety issues in the first place, instead of the women who have to deal with them.

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#feminism #sexism
https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/114347592227174929

Devin Duke: "It's crazy how Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez going to space for ten minutes is supposed to inspire women, but the women who already worked at NASA are getting fired and having their bios removed from NASA's website."
#politics #womensrights #Trump #sexism #purges #censorship

Today in Labor History April 12, 1963: Mexican journalist and human rights activist, Lydia Cacho, was born on this day. She has reported extensively on violence and sexual abuse against women in Mexico. In 2006, she reported on the hundreds of female homicides in Ciudad Juárez. That same year, a tape emerged of a conversation between businessman Kamel Nacif Borge and the governor of Puebla, in which they conspired to have her beaten and raped for her reporting.

Vice Pres. JD Vance wanted to visit Greenland, but he was unwelcome there except at the military base that the United States operates in Greenland. While at the base Vance discovered that its Commander, Col. Susan Meyers, is a woman. She has now been fired, just as Trump's staff has fired several female Generals.
#military #DEI #Trump #sexism #politics

Covid is no worse than the flu?

I know, I have now led dozens of posts over the past few years with this sarcastic question. But now, with the pandemic officially declared over by the politicians and the majority of the public behaving as though Covid19 is no longer a threat, it seems particularly apropos in light of the reasons for declaring the pandemic over: to get people back to work and back to consuming. Yet, as the data from this study show, Long Covid has had an enormous negative impact on the income and quality of life for millions of Americans, particularly the poor and working class, and particularly for African Americans and women.

*Nearly 1 in 7 working-age adults in the U.S. had experienced Long Covid by the end of 2023
*Socially disadvantaged adults were 152% more likely to suffer from Long Covid
*Groups with higher risk for Long Covid include being Black, LGBTQ, Hispanic, Female, or low income
*In 2022, people with Long Covid lost $211 billion in wages
*In 2023, people with Long Covid lost $218 billion in wages

One reason for the disproportionate effect of Long Covid on marginalized communities, particularly BIPOC and poor people, is that these groups suffer disproportionately from chronically elevated levels of the stress hormone, Cortisol, due to the stress caused by racism, sexism, homophobia, and poverty. Elevated Cortisol levels are also associated with increased risk of heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes, as well as impaired immune function.

For a really good documentary on the Social Determinants of Health and the relationship between racism and poverty on stress/cortisol levels and negative health outcomes, please see the Unnatural Causes video series

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/studies-1-7-us-working-age-adults-report-long-covid-heaviest-burden-poor

Troll alert

@renebeitler

This person posts racist, sexist, homophobic & violent comments.

I've reported them.

#uspol #auspol #ukpol #cdnpoli #europol #trollalert #racism #sexism #homophobia .

For those of you interested in the gender pay gap (which I'm assuming is most of you/us), here is the data for the countries of the EU.

For comparison in the UK (expressed differently) the GPG is around 13% which, would make it in these terms around 87% of male pay (the UK figure is the median pay rate for both genders).

To say this is a problem that still requires work would be an understatement

#sexism #inequality
#economics

Just thinking of how easily I've been paid less, laid off, bullied, etc because people didn't like an outspoken disabled woman...

Yet folks tolerate or even promote the malignant failsons running the country right now.

Stop the failsons early - stop bullying marginalized people and instead draw the line with privileged fucking fascists early in their development. #USpol #Ableism #Sexism #Capitalism

Q. is there a growing epidemic of misogyny among school children?

research commissioned by the BBC suggests incidents of misogynic behaviour & expression(s) are increasing.... this would suggest not only are young females lives already being impacted by sexism, we are storing up more trouble when these children got older.

The impact of the mano-sphere seems to be growing & its not really clear how best to tackle its corrosive influence on society!

#school #sexism
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yr0zw65lro

Thanks to #Trumpolini, Woke Woman is back in the kitchen where she belongs! #sexism #USFascism #satire #cartoons #AIart

"U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the only woman on NATO's military committee, was fired over the weekend by the Trump administration. . . .Chatfield is the third top female officer to be fired since Trump took office." abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory... #misogyny #sexism #WomanHatred #resist

Trump administration fires sen...

WTF³? "When your boyfriend says you can go to Magic Men but just don't go on stage." Institutionalized #sexism is strong with this one! Boyfriends don't own their girlfriends, husbands don't own their wives. Not even if wives have to accept being referred to as "Mrs. [husband's 1st and last name]."

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zak743kdvwwvdjtiki4cnajs/post/3lil6xm3sm22l

The village #drunkard is so #insecure and #fragile that he is #threatened by a #woman more #qualified than him. #pathetic! All the #corruptGOP members of #Congress who voted to confirm this #lowlife, #fie on you. May your lives be the most #miserable that can be.

#incompetent #government #USPolitics #CorruptAdministration #CorruptToTheCore #opposeGOP #TraitorMAGA #TraitorGOP #felon #misogyny #sexism

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-fires-senior-navy-235545675.html

US admiral at #NATO fired, latest ouster in #Trump #military #purge

Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield is one of at least nine senior military leaders — & the 4th woman — removed since Trump’s return to Washington.

#MaleSupremacy #sexism #misogyny #DEI #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/07/shoshana-chatfield-nato-trump-dei/

I am reading a peer-reviewed article that describes a study that featured 5 drivers; 4 male, 1 female. It includes the following analysis:

"It shows that male is more impulsive and daring in operating their vehicles by 22% than a female who is more hesitant and less daring, which is consistent with the physiological nature of women."

Do I reject all further findings or?