Ever since I heard or read somewhere that we're all initially born female then it comes down to chance if our boobs grow or not, or something like that, I've come to terms that we're all male-female hybrids and there is no better or lesser sex.
Ever since I heard or read somewhere that we're all initially born female then it comes down to chance if our boobs grow or not, or something like that, I've come to terms that we're all male-female hybrids and there is no better or lesser sex.
Everyday Feminism is looking for writers. Paid position, for once.
Australia has laws that compel employers to "pay" a percentage (currently 9.5%, but rising) of each employee's salary into a retirement fund that the employee can't normally access until they need it in old age. It's government-enforced retirement saving, and means Australians have some of the most money saved for their retirement. This scheme is called superannuation, or just super.
There is a flaw in this scheme, however, in that it's tied to payroll earnings. Women - here as in most other places - tend to earn less over their lifetimes for several reasons: because of the gender pay gap, because they have to take time off for childbirth, because they often take paid workplace breaks to rear children, etc. So women end up retiring with much less super saved up than men do.
One Australian employer, though - ANZ Bank - has started to positively discriminate in favour of its women employees, paying them more super so that their retirement funding will end up more balance. Good on them. Check out the handful of comments at the end of the article, though.
Doubly super if you don't want to breed!
No, from what i understand we're initially asexual or sex neutral. while the sex of the fetus is determined by the xx/xy chromosome combination, the sex organs start out looking female and then later the penis/testicles develope in the xy (male) fetus. This is different from having the fetus begin as female and then become male.
my wife (who never swears) really likes the term "dicknose" (it's from an episode of it's always sunny). not sure it's quite the right thing, but it's a good catch-all. i also like using "ass-butt" (which is from supernatural) and just makes me laugh every time i hear it.
also, men are pathetic.
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Those are both mean but not specific enough. But yeah, nope, I'm not gonna use appropriative language when it's avoidable.
I'm all for there being a term to describe said dudes being described the past couple pages. There definitely needs to be one since they are a specific kind of asshole that (sadly) isn't really uncommon.
Content warning: It was easier to give in than keep running.
YEP.
Content warning for sexual harassment:I'm tired of being kind to creepy men in order to stay safe.
Don't let my long hair and liberal views fool you. I'm still a fairly isolated country boy and I'm still learning.
posted this on your FB too, but i wanted to get it in here.
http://jezebel.com/the-definition-of...ces-1725157828
Yeah, I did read it and thought it was great, but didn't really form any clear thoughts. Thanks for sharing, though. Basically, I feel like I was using fuckboy correctly but I still don't know if I should be saying it in the first place, so will avoid.
Good suggestions! But I wouldn't want to use deaf, either. That's a disability metaphor.
Desperate Dicks sounds like gay porn, to be frank. Like, one of those no-budget Czech ones.
heh
The best thing I can think of (and it's already a word) is "shitheel" but it just doesn't have the same ring to it.
My favorite GENERAL insult for people is "human garbage*" but that's just too broad.
*because it's super fucking mean and as a bonus is non-appropriative/gendered.
That post is appropriate to a conversation I was having with my sister about being in Brazil and their incredibly high standards of female beauty. I wanted to post this at first in the body image thread because it has to do with the fact that I don't shave my arm pits. My mother still thinks it's "unhygienic" for women to have unshaven armpits. I really don't know why she thinks it's ok for men but not for women. I was talking to my sister that it might cost me being able to find a boyfriend here but at this rate I really really don't care. I've already had one man love me and if that's the last boyfriend I have, then so be it. It may just take running into some international hippy types to not give a shit about my body hair...I know there's a Burning Man that happens in Brazil and getting involved with that community is giving me hope that I'll find like minded Brazilians after all. My sister thankfully is the best ever and allows me to be who I am, so if anything, I'll always have her!
Haha, so this is weird but my favorite photo of you is actually one where you have blatantly unshaved underarms. So like, do with that what you will.
It may be different not-in-the-US but realizing how little most (worthwhile) people actually care about legs/underarm hair was news to me in college, honestly.