Gender links
Mar. 24th, 2016 03:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyI'm furious at The Australian for sneering that "gender fluidity" is an "ideological construct" and not the lived experience of real people. Good on Lateline for interviewing some of those imaginary gender-fluid kids.
The problem with sex education for LGBTI women (ABC, 8 March 2016): the vast majority are missing out on relevant sex ed.
Girl fights: Are Aussie women becoming more violent? (ABC, 18 March 2016) SPOILER: no.
Anti-slavery workers say government is failing sex trafficking victims (The Drum, 1 March 2016): trafficked women who won't or can't assist with prosecutions miss out on support.
Recently I clashed on FB with someone who thought that helping refugees should come second to helping Australian women facing domestic violence. But, with nearly $3 billion budgeted to offshore detention, where could the Federal government possibly find the $127 million needed to fix the shortage in anti-DV funding? Perhaps they somehow will, since the PM has declared domestic violence a "national priority", despite stripping federal public servants of DV leave.
Domestic violence perpetrators learn they are not the victim in unique Perth rehabilitation program (7:30, 25 February 2016): Specifically, they get kicked out of the house (and into therapy) instead of getting to stay there while their victim flees.
Sexual assault: Victim-blaming attitudes common among young people, research finds (PM, 22 February 2016)
A matter of life and death (ABC, 8 March 2016: "This week a report was tabled to Queensland Parliament on a bill that seeks to make non-lethal strangulation in domestic violence situations a crime." I was puzzled by this at first, but clicked through the links in the text to learn that strangulation is (a) extremely dangerous in its own right, with possible serious effects occurring long after the assault, and (b) a frequent "warning sign" of impending homicide in a domestic violence situation. So it needs its own specific law.
Anne-Marie Slaughter: Why women need a men's revolution (ABC 4 March 2016): I'm in two minds about this. "We need to be able to look at a man who has a career, who has a set of goals, but who also says my family is going to come first and see him as a strong confident man who's willing to break gender stereotypes." Sure. But "We've liberated women essentially to be men, to do the work that men have traditionally done, and in the process we've devalued the work that women traditionally did; the work of care, the work of nurturing." I don't think was feminism that dictated that housework should be unpaid and pink collar work should be underpaid.
The problem with sex education for LGBTI women (ABC, 8 March 2016): the vast majority are missing out on relevant sex ed.
Girl fights: Are Aussie women becoming more violent? (ABC, 18 March 2016) SPOILER: no.
Anti-slavery workers say government is failing sex trafficking victims (The Drum, 1 March 2016): trafficked women who won't or can't assist with prosecutions miss out on support.
Recently I clashed on FB with someone who thought that helping refugees should come second to helping Australian women facing domestic violence. But, with nearly $3 billion budgeted to offshore detention, where could the Federal government possibly find the $127 million needed to fix the shortage in anti-DV funding? Perhaps they somehow will, since the PM has declared domestic violence a "national priority", despite stripping federal public servants of DV leave.
Domestic violence perpetrators learn they are not the victim in unique Perth rehabilitation program (7:30, 25 February 2016): Specifically, they get kicked out of the house (and into therapy) instead of getting to stay there while their victim flees.
Sexual assault: Victim-blaming attitudes common among young people, research finds (PM, 22 February 2016)
A matter of life and death (ABC, 8 March 2016: "This week a report was tabled to Queensland Parliament on a bill that seeks to make non-lethal strangulation in domestic violence situations a crime." I was puzzled by this at first, but clicked through the links in the text to learn that strangulation is (a) extremely dangerous in its own right, with possible serious effects occurring long after the assault, and (b) a frequent "warning sign" of impending homicide in a domestic violence situation. So it needs its own specific law.
Anne-Marie Slaughter: Why women need a men's revolution (ABC 4 March 2016): I'm in two minds about this. "We need to be able to look at a man who has a career, who has a set of goals, but who also says my family is going to come first and see him as a strong confident man who's willing to break gender stereotypes." Sure. But "We've liberated women essentially to be men, to do the work that men have traditionally done, and in the process we've devalued the work that women traditionally did; the work of care, the work of nurturing." I don't think was feminism that dictated that housework should be unpaid and pink collar work should be underpaid.
