#sexism

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Women have only been recognised as farmers in Australia for 30 years.

""Women's work on farms was not counted because we weren't considered farmers," said Ms Johnson, a fifth-generation farmer from Victoria's north east.

On farm documents, women were referred to as "non-productive" silent partners, according to fellow rebel Anna Lottkowitz, who was the Victorian agriculture department's first female beef officer."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2024-09-23/australian-women-in-agriculture-30-year-anniversary/104375566

About sex segregation in sports...

[Note: here "women" and "men" can be read as "cis women" and "cis men," but usually when I talk about women and men I mean all of them, cis, trans, nonbinary, and more.]

Despite what some people say, sex segregation in sports is NOT for the protection of women's health. Women are not that fragile.

Sex segregation in sports is for the protection of men's egos, which are that fragile.

We don't know women's true capabilities at the current moment. We are barely beginning to emerge from a long period of enforced ignorance about women's capacity for strength and athletic achievement. Example number one million or so:

For decades, the idea that “lighter is faster,” was the reigning mythology passed on by most track coaches when it came to conditioning, especially to endurance athletes. Coaches would encourage young female runners, who often have higher body …

Cry biggots, cry...


Despite massive sexist and racist attacks against her, she won the gold medal at Olympics.

Congratulations to her for not giving up and showing the world how strong women fight back against bigotry and hate.

PS. I don't see any of those vocal "woman-life-freedom" folk posting anything in support of her.

VP nom Sen has a history of making disparaging remarks toward people w/o children, a CNN KFile review of his comments shows, including off his infamous remarks in a series of emails that called Democratic leaders “” who “don’t have a direct stake in this country.”


https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/30/politics/kfile-jd-vance-history-disparaging-people-without-kids/index.html