The mailman brings my dog a treat every day. This is what she does when she hears the truck approaching our street
Oxford Dictionary accused of sexist word examples
Oxford Dictionary is under fire after Michael Oman-Reagan, an anthropologist and Ph.D. candidate, pointed out these instances of sexist example sentences accompanying words like “rabid” and “shrill.” At first, Oxford Dictionaries responded with the above flippant tweet — but later apologized and vowed to change at least one of the words.
WOW this is so not okay
This is what we mean when we talk about invisible sexism. Each of these makes perfect sense to most people, fits perfectly with our social context and our cultural worldview. Only when they’re put together do you see the pattern all at once and go “oh…yeah that’s actually kinda fucked up, isn’t it?” Because tiny, invisible things create a cultural context which builds into an overall attitude of mocking, minimizing, and dismissiveness towards a full half of the population.
Repeat after me:
I am stronger than this challenge. And this challenge is making me even stronger.
Our reaction to a situation literally has the power to change the situation itself.
When people ask, “What do you do?”
and you can either say, “Well I’m sort of between jobs right now.”
or, “Well I was diagnosed with a few chronic illnesses which cause debilitating fatigue, extreme widespread pain, cognitive impairment, and a lot of other awful symptoms that make it impossible for me to work right now.”
And then you’re like, “………So what do you do?”
