Showing posts with label male supremacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label male supremacy. Show all posts

Sunday, April 29, 2018

'Incels': The Movement Behind The Toronto Attack (Meghna Chakrabarti, On Point)

The suspect in the Toronto van attack embraced a misogynist ideology. We’ll look at so-called "incels," and how the internet is inflaming toxic masculinity.
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/04/27/incels-toronto-van-attack

Saturday, September 2, 2017

What You Say Will Be Held Against You (Joshua Johnson, 1A)

A Google engineer was fired this week over a memo he wrote about what he saw as the company’s “politically correct monoculture” and questioning policies aimed at hiring more women.

He argued that women were biologically less suited for certain jobs in tech, drawing outrage over both his opinions and over his firing.

Healthy organizations thrive on different opinions and perspectives — but what is out of bounds? Who gets to decide what words cross the line and when they should cost you your job?
Interview:
http://the1a.org/shows/2017-08-09/what-you-say-will-be-held-against-you

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

As Trump Reminds Us, We Have Had the WMSVD Disease for Ages: It Is Time We Fight It Head On

A very long time ago, a Zika type virus escaped from the human laboratory. Like Zika it deforms the human brain. It assumes supremacy by human males over women and all other forms of life. Its most prominent manifestation is male monotheistic religion—the obligation that humans worship a lone male deity. No goddesses allowed.

The sickness has passed ever since from generation to generation....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-hardly-first-lets-imagine-life-him-last


Sunday, November 27, 2016

The alt-right isn’t only about white supremacy. It’s about white male supremacy

At the Republican National Convention in July, Stephen Bannon praised his former website to a reporter, declaring: “We’re the platform for the alt-right.” But on Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump told the New York Times that Bannon, his pick for chief White House strategist, isn’t part of that white supremacy movement.

“If I thought he was a racist or alt-right or any of the things, the terms we could use," Trump said, "I wouldn’t even think about hiring him.”

 The conversation came days after Richard Spencer, the man who coined the term “alt-right,” and his supporters, some employing the Nazi salute, gathered in the nation’s capital, just blocks from Trump’s future residence. The loosely organized group, launched with a blog about six years ago, aims to create a white ethno state that would outlaw minorities — and force women into domestic roles....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/25/the-alt-right-isnt-just-about-white-supremacy-its-about-white-male-supremacy/









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