Tag: misogyny

After I spoke up on #MeToo, my work offers dried up: Chinmayi

rapeculturerealities:

A storm broke out after singer Chinmayi accused poet-lyricist Vairamuthu of sexual harassment in the wave of #MeToo that swept through South India. While some in the industry did speak in support of her, she faced a lot of trolling and abuse for making the charge. Life has pretty much changed, for her after #MeToo, she tells The Hindu in a frank, exclusive interview.

How exactly has life changed for you after #MeToo?

Before #Metoo, I used to sing three songs a day. After an album as successful as 96 (movie), in which I had dubbed for the lead actor as well, I should usually get work for the next one month. But, after my involvement in the #MeToo movement, there has been a silence. In a month, I used to do 10-15 songs, out of which 5 songs would be in Tamil. This has dried up as well. And then, the dubbing union terminates me. I realised it is not a coincidence. Recently, I had signed on to dub for two movies, which were subsequently cancelled.

Why were you terminated from the primary membership of South Indian Cine, Television Artistes and Dubbing Artistes Union?

The office-bearers of the dubbing union say that they have debarred me for not paying the subscription fee — but in February 2016, I had paid a subscription fee of ₹5,000. In 2016, my name was there in the list of members.

They have put in my name, along with 96 others, for not paying the subscription fee. According to the union bylaw, the membership automatically lapses and a new card has to be bought. Since I had dubbed for 96, Irumbu Thirai and two other recently launched films, it clearly means that I was a member

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After I spoke up on #MeToo, my work offers dried up: Chinmayi

cocainesocialist:

conservatives: leftists can’t win on economics so resort to ~cultural marxism~ wherein they instead try to win a culture war
also conservatives: feminism is the reason you’re unsatisfied in life and gender neutral bathrooms are why your boss deserves to live off your labour 

unicornempire:

elencaorange:

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This is some truth laid down right here boy.

Also we’re at the point where most people who are having children are Millennials and yet conservatives still treat us like we’re still college freshmen. They claim to love mothers and families but they treat nearly all mothers as too naive and sheltered to make our own decisions much less those of children and that’s honestly very fucked up.

ayeforscotland:

JK Rowling, writing under the name Robert Galbraith, has named a character in one of her new books after a misogynist that she regularly interacts with on twitter.

Brian Spanner is a British nationalist who has a fairly solid track-record when it comes to abusing women online.

JK Rowling gleefully interacts with the account and as previously alleged to being the owner of the account.

The sad story of a writer struggling to remain relevant trying to trolling her audience. Genuinely pathetic stuff.

benperor-ren:

marysuewhipple:

marysuewhipple:

I’m perfectly capable of enjoying the idea of “person A, a hero, ‘saves’ person b, a villain, with the power of love” in a fictional context, and all the different ways it can play out, while also recognizing that it’s a bad idea to try to save someone from themselves if they’re dangerous in real life. I’m an adult and I understand the difference. My enjoyment if hero/villain ships in fiction does not inform my real life relationship choices. On the contrary, they allow a safe outlet me to explore and live out these ideas without suffering negative consequences in my real life.

This continued insistence by self-described feminists that I actually don’t know the difference, and am potentially endangering myself by consuming fiction featuring that trope, is not helpful. It’s not progressive or radical. It’s not liberating or empowering. It’s not “smashing the patriarchy.”

On the contrary, it’s nothing but a rehash of old misogynistic stand-bys: that women can’t be trusted to understand their own thoughts and emotions, that they have to be told what they feel and think and why, that women are blinded by innate naivety and compassion, or by sexual desire, that women need a guiding hand to protect them from their own bad judgment.

The fact that it’s women applying this to other women this time around. does not magically make it okay, does not make it less condescending, less patronizing, less violating. Women have been enforcing misogynistic social norms for other women for ages; this is nothing new. It’s no different than when my female Sunday school teachers told me that my body is inherently a temptation to sin, and I must take counter-measures to prevent others from falling from grace by covering it at the expense of my own comfort. It’s no different than when they told me that women who aren’t virgins are equivalent to chewed up gum or licked cupcakes. Sexism doesn’t stop being sexism because it’s enforced laterally.

It’s funny that these people keep implying that women who enjoy this fictional trope have a savior complex. From where I’m sitting, we aren’t the ones trying to save people who don’t need or want to be saved.

Honestly I think we need a name for this kind of condescending “it’s for their own good” themarysue-style fauxminism and I’m formally submitting “helicopter feminism” as that name.

Helicopter feminism lmao

A Japanese Medical University Lowered Female Students’ Scores Because It Didn’t Want Too Many Women Doctors

buzzfeed:

According to Japanese media, Tokyo Medical University has allegedly been systematically decreasing the scores of female applicants since 2011, after the number of successful female applicants jumped to 40 percent in 2010.

An unnamed university official told the Yomiuri Shimbun that the university believed accepting more male students would help solve the university hospital’s doctor shortage because female doctors would inevitably drop out of the workforce after they get married and give birth to children.

The source also said that women doctors are “more unwanted” in the surgical department, where working hours are irregular and emergency operations occur.

The source added that it was commonly accepted in the surgical department that “it takes three women to serve as one man.”

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A Japanese Medical University Lowered Female Students’ Scores Because It Didn’t Want Too Many Women Doctors

A Major Bank Slipped Up And Showed Why Women Rarely File Sex Discrimination Cases

rapeculturerealities:

Of all the tactics companies use to silence women who speak up about sexual harassment, the way corporate lawyers question victims in depositions may be the most brutal.

In these taped confrontations, defense lawyers interrogate people on every aspect of their sexual histories, medical records and traumas from childhood.

Rarely do the depositions in civil cases get broad public attention. But this week, the Sydney Morning Herald obtained a transcript from a deposition that revealed exactly how lawyers for a major Australian bank, ANZ, grilled a former female employee.

Enilolobo Malika Oyo, a black woman who worked as a vice president in investment banking at ANZ’s New York office in 2013 and 2014, sued the bank in federal court in 2016 for sexual and racial discrimination — claims ANZ disputes. Oyo is seeking a multimillion-dollar payout.

Oyo had asked the Sydney Morning Herald not to publish her name, but after details of her lawsuit and deposition became news, she decided to go public. Her lawyers sent a statement to HuffPost on Monday night in which she shared her thoughts.

“One of the reasons I brought this lawsuit was to make sure that ANZ knows that it is not OK to treat the victims of discrimination like they are the ones who should be ashamed,” she said. “I know I have nothing to be sorry for.”

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A Major Bank Slipped Up And Showed Why Women Rarely File Sex Discrimination Cases