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> I was interested about this too so I looked it up and was surprised at how lacking the research was.
Consider checking out Invisible Women, a great book discussing this topic in depth.
It also happens to mention that Viagra may be effective at treating period cramps.
This is pretty much exactly what Caroline Criado-Perez says in her recent book "Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men".
It's good to see that the awareness of this is spreading.
I don't know if this will help, but I just finished reading Invisible Women. It is an excellent read and it's absolutely appalling and infuriating to see all the places where women are just...not considered, and what the fallout of that is on a societal level. I don't think the word "feminism" occurs in the book, but it is very much a strong feminist statement with an absolute shitload of data to back it up.
Or just throw the whole boyfriend out, up to you.
https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071
Also worth googling is women’s second shift. It focuses on how labor isn’t divided equally in a marriage. Women take on not only more chores, but daily chores (dinner, cleaning, child care), while men tend to take weekly chores (mowing the lawn, taking out the trash). Not to mention they wind up maintaining their husband and children’s social calendar in addition to their own. Career wise, women are in danger of losing their careers and not doing well in interviews when they reveal to be engaged/married. Men get pay boosts when engaged married. Women are expected to abandon/sacrifice their careers for their family while men aren’t. The list goes on. But that book and that term second shift are a great place to start
that link's a great summary. the issue of most studies being done on young, white, male college students is a massive one that the general public, most of whom have taken a prescription, know nothing about. women are just considered 'smaller men' to their detriment. children are, too. the issue for pregnant women is even worse; they're told to go off all drugs/supplements not because we know those things are bad, but because we know nothing at all. absence of evidence is not evidence.
there's a book i consider a must-read for everyone, about how everything in the world is made for men because they're considered the default human. it's Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Crialdo-Perez. https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071
Thank you for poking at male as the default. There is a great book, Invisible Women that shows how using male as the default has affected women with regards to medical research, designing cars and homes, availability and design of safety equipment, allocation of public works money, and so much more. Women make up fully half the population, yet we are underserved.
There is a great blog, The Man Who Has it All, that examines a lot of gender-specific “norms” by flipping them on their head. “I’m not a male doctor, I’m just a doctor!” - Evan, bring gender into everything, as always.
Read this https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071 It’s free to download on libgen.is
It explains the discrimination within society where men is seen as default and superior.
The question comes down to why there is a disparity in the first place based on something so arbitrary like genital shape. Something in society was built to create an imbalance
And while it's not specifically CF, if you're open to reading about how the world is basically designed for men and we just live in it (and more reasons to remain CF), this was a very interesting read https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=677f0330-bed6-42cf-a6aa-333c74291f77
It's a book called "Invisible Women: Data bias in a world designed for men" by Caroline Criado Perez.
I listened to the audio book through my local library. Here's the Amazon link https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071
You may like this book
https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071
I havent read it, but it is meant to be good. Its about the bias against women in research.
You may also be interested to read about the post-modern turn in the social sciences, which was influenced by feminism at the time and spoke about the unacknowledged assumptions that drive the supposedly ‘objective’ quantitative model of scientific research. This was the birth of qualitative methodology in the social sciences, which has traditionally (and unfairly) been viewed as less credible and ‘unscientific’ by the mainstream quantitative paradigm. Its reputation has improved in recent years, but still it is not regarded as ‘truthful’ as scientific ‘fact’ even though it is, according to its own epistemology, more truthful, as it acknowledges and accounts for subjectivity bias.
If you are annoyed by this... And want to really feel rage... Try this
https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071#
Every facial recognition system to date has ran into the latter problem, some to extreme degrees. It is not rare by any stretch whatsoever.
The first is not rare, either.
https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071
There’s a really good book about this
https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071
Hello /u/medsauce! I have compiled a list
- An article I googled for this topic in particular here
- A book on data bias and gender here (though its also easy to find as a free ebook!)
- A youtuber who I like (but is somewhat controversial in certain spaces) here. She talks about of a lot of adjacent topics, but I would rec "Men" or "Incels"
3a. Also a big fan of Mia Mulder, Abigail Thorn, and Jessica Kellgren-Fozard. They're youtubers who look at a lot of different issues through personal experience or research. - An interesting journal article on women in engineering here. As a woman in eng this is a pet issue of mine
I've never actually taken a formal class on this, this is just some stuff I liked reading and dug up. But I really think learning about social issues and biases you might have is super important.
From a sociological perspective, institutions are at root just ideas -- "institutions are rules that connect an individual or organization to a larger social environment." So patriarchy is itself a 'tangible' institution, in the sense that we can feel its direct effects in our experience of the larger social environment. An institution is an institution whether or not it has a building or a brand attached to it.
We can certainly frame the effects of patriarchy within the specific constraints of another institution. For corporations, we can point to the fact that only 8% of women are CEOs, the pink tax, or the way lots of products are not designed for women.
In the U.S. government, our electoral system is clearly patriarchal in that elections strongly favor men over women: we've never had a woman president, only some 24% of Senators and 28% of the House of Representatives are women. The Supreme Court has always been dominated by men, of course. Government programs that are patriarchal include [Social Security[(https://www.brookings.edu/essay/how-does-gender-equality-affect-women-in-retirement/) -- women's benefits are about 80% of men's. Defense spending is heavily patriarchal: women are only 14% of active duty, there has never been a woman on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and women are disproportionately harmed by military violence. But the most telling fact about patriarchy in the U.S. government isn't the programs that exist, but the programs that don't: there is no program for paid family leave nationally; there is no program to provide for caregivers who leave the workforce to care for non-child adults; there is no national program for maternity and neonatal care; there is no national law protecting a mother's right to abortion; the United States still has not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment nor has it ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
I would read Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez. Or The Will to Change by Bell Hooks!
Great reads that offer insight to how women navigate the world and perspective of patriarchal effects upon them.
Bell Hooks also deeply mentions how the patriarchy has hurt men; emasculated them and forced them into roles they were not meant to take.
Well, going in-depth on the social implications of the disparities of how women are regarded as opposed to men....that's a little above my pay grade and also I don't know where I left my soap box.
That said, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting articles, editorials, and other analyses on the impact of overturning Roe. That women will no longer have access to safe abortions is going to to kill women - and that is not an exaggeration. So if you plan on putting your penis in someone with working ovaries, you should care about this ruling. Read up on what it will mean for women's health.
Oh here's another healthcare factoid: Did you know it is well nigh impossible for a woman under the age of 25 (sometimes 30) to be voluntarily sterilized? Doctors to this day continue to argue with 'oh you might change your mind', 'What if you meet a nice guy who wants kids?' 'What does your husband have to say? Oh not married?' Actually back in the day, a woman could not legally be sterilized without her husband's written permission.
But I promise you, if you walked into your doctor's office tomorrow and asked for a vasectomy, you'd be set right up, no questions asked about, "Oh sonny, are you really sure?'
Just an example of men having more bodily autonomy and reproductive control than women.
And that is one - just one! - aspect of our culture's systemic misogyny.
Anywho, the first thing that comes to mind is a book I read just last month. It's a data-driven overview of how our world is designed around and for men. I found it fascinating:
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
It even set off a couple of (dim) light bulbs for my back-assed misogynistic Dad. It is heavily annotated, and fact-based; this is not a screed with no discernible scientific foundation. The author touches on subjects from industrial design to urban planning to policy and political decision-making. Quite the eye-opener.
Anywho. You seem like a good egg and I think the more you explore, read, consider, and question, the stronger an ally you will be.
Human created society. Society involves working whether that be tending crops or producing shoes or doing physiotherapy. People go to school/learn and then contribute with a skill. If girls were not allowed to go to school or end up missing school due to having to sit in menstrual huts then they are unable to work.
Slavery involves not being paid so compensated for labour. People who work in society get paid for their labour. Capitalism has its own flaws like it is necessary to pay a person less than what is worth they produce but this is a flaw of sorts with the economic/political structure. Some people tried to build other forms like having socialism to build communism. Women in USSR could actually be independent and have their own property and possessions unlike in the US where getting married was the only option otherwise you can’t survive in society.
If there was social anarchism than people would be participating in a more free society. but look bud if we just shove women to the side being unable to participate in society this would be sexist and create the same problems happening in US. the whole issue with patriarchy is it is hurting everyone.
https://www.amazon.ca/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071
You should read this, it explain how science was default on male.
For example male sexuality was understood before female. for a while people thought female don’t even have a sex drive. people didn’t know what clitoris was that is the organ for pleasure. 80% of women cannot orgasm from intercourse and if you look at anatomy you will see why. yet the phallocentric view of sex prevails religions and porn and in general views on sexuality. Like women thinking they are broken from being unable to orgasm from something that can’t lead to orgasm effectively. they resort to faking then, that is a common phenomenon.
wtf dude do you now bother reading anything?there are so many resources and statistics about issues with martial rape, sexual assault, domestic violence of women. “gender based violence” exists as a term to study the disparity of impact on women from violence of intimate partners. Go to the library and read scholarly articles on these topics. go in with your skepticism until you see disproportionality in a lot of countries. In Canada there is an issue with missing and raping of indigenous women and girls. This is an example of gender based violence you can read about it. ask yourself why are women getting impacted more like this.
Did you look at the picture I sent? It is an email that is denying a woman a job due to being a woman.
Another example is women had to fight to be able to work in the military. only in 2001 all occupations were open to women in Canadian military. That is messed up to bar a human based on gender. This isn’t about choosing or not choosing. This is laws like straight up denying someone a job they want based on the shape of their genitals.
I just read Invisible Women and this quote is in there. It’s a good rage-read if you want to hate everything.
>The average man isn't sexist and likely doesn't have friends or family that are sexist in front of him.
Hate to disagree. It's more likely than not that the average man is sexist and has friends and family in front of him that are sexist. Maybe not overtly sexist, but sexism is so ingrained that no society escapes it. Women are sexist too btw.
http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hd_perspectives_gsni.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071
https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/are-men-sexist-data-male-feminism/
Frauen bekommen übrigens deutlich häufiger Nebenwirkungen (englische Quelle). Eine Ursache könnte sein, dass in der Entwicklung Medikamente fast ausschließlich mit Männern getestet werden (Buch zu dem Thema). Nachdem die meisten redditors wohl junge Männer sind, werden die Kommentare hier nicht repräsentativ für alle sein.
I just started listening to this book because it's free with audible. There is data on using man as the universal and the way gendered language affects our thinking. https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071
It's a good book so far, not perfect.. but very intriguing.
Translation; I don’t want to research just how wrong I am.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-51751915.amp
https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/news/a15652/gender-inequality-stats/
Edit; there’s literally an entire book on how the world is designed for men and how it harms women.
But yeah, men have “no privilege”
I came here to say this= everyone should read the book (a thought the 99PI podcast is great)
https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071
I went ahead and googled it for you:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47725946
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/truth-world-built-for-men-car-crashes
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/this-world-is-just-not-designed-for-women-1.4109378
Here’s a great book on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071/ref=nodl_
Hope that helps! Cheers.
AC settings are typically set by men and have a detrimental effect on women’s productivity. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/health/women-temperature-tests.html Also, most products tend to be designed either by men, or with more men in the focus groups bc women don’t have much time for those things. And yes, they really did a disservice to women with Siri and Alexa. I can’t use voice searches bc it doesn’t register my voice accurately. My seatbelt cuts into my neck. I can’t reach the touch screen without leaning forward. I slide off airplane seats because my feet don’t reach the ground and the headrest makes me tip my head forward for the whole flight. I’m not actually that tiny, shorter but not abnormally so. Tools are all a little too heavy and a little too large to wrap my hand around (like trying to hold a baseball bat by the wrong end). Me weed whacker is too heavy (and I am pretty strong). It’s hard to hold a brick with one hand because the width is just a little too wide for normal gripping muscles to engage efficiently. My kitchen counter is a couple inches too high for good leverage when cutting things. The kitchen sink faucet is set far enough back that I cannot reach the water without leaning forward. This makes my back hurt when doing dishes. Pianos are designed for men’s hands and female piano players wind up with more stress injuries on account of the sizing being wrong. Maximum profit would be actually designing products with women in mind and creating a “niche market” for the other half of humanity. Apologies for going off on this, it’s just all been on my mind since I read Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez It’s a great source for anyone who wants to know more!
The pushback from men about this is *kiss* perfect. Thank you for proving my point. https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071
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