"NOS PETITES ENTREVUES," Le Petit Journal. August 1, 1943. Page 17. ---- Etes-vous en faveur que les femmes remplacent les hommes à bord des trams, des autobus et des chemins de fer? --- Qu'en pensez-vous ?

Henri-Paul Després, 315, rue Savignac. Je crois que l'idée a un certain bon sens. Puisqu'il manque des hommes, il faut bien les remplacer. Or on ne peut les remplacer que par des femmes, puisqu'on ne peut pas prendre des enfants. Il faudra donc faire l'essai, si l'on ne veut pas interrompre les services de transport. Reste à savoir si on pourra nous assurer le même service, car, à part quelques cas, ce n'est pas dans les cordes de la femme de faire ce genre de travail. Pour le moment, je ne me prononce pas. Cela peut réussir.

M. P.-E. Picard, Etats-Unis. "Si la chose se présentait en temps normal, je serais complètement opposé à l'emploi femmes dans des ce genre de travail. Mais nous sommes en guerre et par la force des choses la femme doit prendre certaines situations qui jusque là étaient réservées de permettre aux hommes, afin ces derniers de travailler à des besognes plus essentielles exigées par l'effort de guerre du pays".

John Sullivan, 1700, St-Timothée. Puisque les événements nous forcent à essayer bien des choses nouvelles dans presque tous les domaines, il n'y a pas de raisons pour que l'on ne substitue pas les femmes aux hommes sur les trams, les autobus et même les trains. Mais je ne crois pas que ce soit tout à fait la place du sexe faible. Il semble bien, toutefois, que ce sera une distraction pour les voyageurs et un apprentissage assez curieux pour le role futur qu'elles auront à remplir au sein d'une famille".

Wilfrid Jean, 10794. Lajeunesse. Nous en verrons de toutes les couleurs dans cette guerre. On en est maintenant arrivé à faire travailler les femmes comme les hommes. Mais comme les femmes ont souvent beaucoup plus d'entregent et d'am- bition, il y a un certain bon sens à les utiliser partout où on le peut. Il y aura une période de mise au point. On entendra quelques récriminations, puis les gens s'habitueront à la nouveauté, qui aura probablement son bon côté. Il n'est pas impossible que, pour faire mentir le dicton, les femmes arrivent à faire partir et arriver leurs voitures à l'heure.

Jean Ethier, 1053, Sanguinet. Au cours des 78 ans de mon existence, je n'ai jamais vu pareille chose. Il me semble que nos jeunes filles seront déplacées, au volant des autobus et derrière le moteur des trams. Pourtant je pense qu'elles pourront rendre des services, si elle sont appelées à remplacer les hommes dans ce domaine, car les femmes qui veulent travailler travaillent bien.

guy who so desperately tries to find god. who wants to have faith in a higher authority to guide him out of the hole he's in. from the weight of guilt from simply existing, as the person he is. but every time he thinks he's answered his higher calling it turns out he's made the Morally Incorrect choice and his path to goodness and holiness was the road to the devil all along

Even when I'm really invested in the topic and enjoy the writing style, reading books about the history of Natives in the US really is just a miserable and draining experience. It's just a constant flood of hate and violence and cruelty.

You mean there's men out there who truly think they have authority over women and are the superior gender unironically and not at all in the kinky, consensual way?

Cringe.

The last sentence brings me so much vindictive joy, FINALLY SOMEONE ADRESSES THAT PARTICULAR ISSUE IN THE STORY AT LONG LAST

Sylvia Plath wrote "Lady Lazarus" in 1962, during a creative burst of energy in the months before her death by suicide in 1963. The dark poem provides insight into a suicidal mind, a glimpse at the horror of being a woman in a patriarchal world, and a critique of society's twisted fascination with suffering." Lady Lazarus is told from the perspective of a woman in a male-dominated society, and the speaker repeatedly blames her suffering on the men whom she sees as oppressing her. The poem suggests that the men mentioned are the ones—whether loved ones or doctors—who keep bringing the speaker back to life, suggesting how little autonomy women can ever hope to have in a patriarchal world. 

eleanor learning that mr scott spent his life funding and aiding a settlement of escaped slaves including his wife and daughter and reacting with "i hate how men keep on using me for their own benefit" . certified white woman moment

you’re writing in the fantasy genre, you can do literally anything you want and create whatever kind of world you can dream of, and you write another fucking patriarchy!!!

The rationale for male authority rested not only on biblical grounds but also on nature or natural law, on the generally accepted natural superiority of men. For nothing could be more self-evident than that the patriarchal conception of marriage, in which the husband was unequivocally the boss, was natural, resting as it did on the unchallenged superiority of males.

Actually, nature, if not deity, is subversive. Power, or the ability to coerce or to veto, is widely distributed in both sexes, among women as well as among men. And whatever the theoretical or conceptual picture may have been, the actual, day-by-day relationships between husbands and wives have been determined by the men and women themselves. All that the institutional machinery could do was to confer authority; it could not create personal power, for such power cannot be conferred, and women can generate it as well as men, a matter examined in greater detail in chapter 7. Thus, keeping women in their place has been a universal problem, in spite of the fact that almost without exception institutional patterns give men positions of superiority over them.

If the sexes were, in fact, categorically distinct, with no overlapping, so that no man was inferior to any woman or any woman superior to any man, or vice versa, marriage would have been a great deal simpler. But there is no such sharp cleavage between the sexes except with respect to the presence or absence of certain organs. With all the other characteristics of each sex, there is greater or less overlapping, some men being more "feminine" than the average woman and some women more "masculine" than the average man. The structure of families and societies reflects the positions assigned to men and women. The bottom stratum includes children, slaves, servants, and outcasts of all kinds, males as well as females. As one ascends the structural hierarchy, the proportion of males increases, so that at the apex there are only males.

When societies fall back on the lazy expedient—as all societies everywhere have done—of allocating the rewards and punishments of life on the basis of sex, they are bound to create a host of anomalies, square pegs in round holes, societal misfits. Roles have been allocated on the basis of sex which did not fit a sizable number of both sexes—women, for example, who chafed at subordinate status and men who could not master superordinate status. The history of the relations of the sexes is replete with examples of such misfits. Unless a modus vivendi is arrived at, unhappy marriages are the result.

There is, though, a difference between the exercise of power by husbands and by wives. When women exert power, they are not rewarded; they may even be punished. They are "deviant." Turk and Bell note that "wives who ... have the greater influence in decision making may experience guilt over this fact." They must therefore dissemble to maintain the illusion, even to themselves, that they are subservient. They tend to feel less powerful than they are because they ought to be.

When men exert power, on the other hand, they are rewarded; it is the natural expression of authority. They feel no guilt about it. The prestige of authority goes to the husband whether or not he is actually the one who exercises it. It is not often even noticed when the wife does so. She sees to it that it is not.

-Jessie Bernard, The Future of Marriage

"SCRUTTON TO STAND TRIAL," Kingston Daily Standard. September 9, 1913. Page 2. --- Implicated in the Recent Hold-Up ---- The Evidence of Mar, Found Guilty on Similar Charge, Was Against - Him--Young Girl Given Month. ---- John Scrutton, the young man who was arrested some time ago on a charge of being connected with the theft of a watch from John Gibson in May last on Swift's wharf, was before Magistrate Farrell in police court this morning and was committed for trial.

The hold-up on the wharf will be remembered as two young men are already serving sentences in the Central for complicity in it. One of them at his trial implicated Scrutton, who had fled from the city, and was only arrested a short time ago. Scrutton will come before Judge Price for trial.

A young woman, who has been under police surveillance for about year, on account of her conduct on the street, was landed in the cells last night, and appeared before the court this morning. P. C. Mullinger gave evidence, stating that she had frequently been seen on the streets late at night in the company of a number of men. He saw her on Ontario street about one o'clock this morning with a white man and an Indian, and arrested her.

In sentencing her to one month in jail, Magistrate Farrell said that he wished he could commit several others who had been in her company and if he had evidence enough would do so.

im thinking about tehanu again

once in a while I get to thinking about that stupid fucking fanfiction where some fucked up tragic codependent Situation was going on in the background and then I explode and my sister has to collect the pieces of my viscera from the living room. it took me thirty minutes to cook one cup of rice I was hyperventilating

Proud Author of a New Work

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I hid this story for months and finally had the courage to post it. ⊙⁠﹏⁠⊙  [I’m so glad you did!  And everyone who reads and loves it is going to thank you, too.  Good for you:  I hope it’s rewarding for you!]

It revolves Wei Wuxian leaving right after classes, and from there I'll fit canon in a new way, mostly WWX-friendly. WWX is powerful (crooked path fam) and confident and we hint around about Sect Leader WWX! And Wangxian is, of course, endgame.

Everyone should always mind the tags but it should be cool with everyone, there's nothing really explicit.

the sea meets the moon-blanched land

by rkivees (G, 8k, wangxian, WIP)

Summary: “I'm sorry, Lan Zhan.”

“This is in no way Wei Ying's fault.” He shook his head, eyes focused on Wei Wuxian's face when he said it.

“I could've helped you earlier.”

“You were worried about the ones who could not protect themselves.” His voice was deep and sober, “Like the promise we made 10 years ago.”

or, wei wuxian leaves lotus pier right after their classes in cloud recesses and that's when he finds himself

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(Please REBLOG as a signal boost for this hard-working author if you like – or think others might like – this story.)

it's the first day i've finally felt well enough to have my dark shadows viewing brandy god bless

whatever ak talks about it doesnot talk about misogyny LMAOAOA this is girl yaoi world they dont care about that it doesn’t exist and they churn out 15 year old joan of arcs at the speed of light

seeing a post that was made after seeing another post and having the second post remind me of another, completely unrelated third post.... yeah.