Brilliant Margaret Atwood memoir review

Yes, because extreme cases like that of the Wests is the only deviant behaviour women have to worry about.

I’m out. You’re like a clockwork monkey, banging the same old drum in the same old rhythm, regardless of the tune that’s playing, Howse.

I might as well go to an underpass and argue with the graffiti.

Oh dear, I’m a phrase emphasiser. I assure you it’s not AI.

Presentation is in my view extremely culture-dependent. I’m amazed that anyone considers the act of wearing a skirt anything but culturally defined. Being in a culture which now insists wanting to wear a skirt is an actual sign of being a woman does make me understand more about the history of fashion, but it is CRAZY that modern humans are back to linking an item of clothing to something called womanhood which is supposed to be biologically linked. Paging Queen Victoria.

Lol, If only I could write like AI….😂

What's with the AI obsession with GC's I wonder? Another avenue to express their penchant for conspiratorialism?

This is a couple of years old but address most of the safety lies about prostitution https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/21/selling-sex-is-highly-dangerous-treating-it-like-a-regular-job-only-makes-it-worse

By this el bizarro logic we all need to pathologically obsess over Fred & Rose West being our neighbours…..🤪

Safer in the short term?

What about long term? The restriction it places on women post the prostitution? Absolute horseshit.

Ask your AI to stop emphasising key phrases. It's a dead giveaway.

Stable characteristics that describe a person's patterns of thought, feeling, and behaviour aren't remotely controversial in psychology. That you equate psychology with horoscopes only betrays scientific illiteracy.

No, which is why creepy men in dresses want to get into women’s loos, prisons, fitting rooms and changing rooms.

Walking around in a frock in public just isn’t enough…

It is.

You might be better looking at horoscopes, lots of variables there.

on her facebook page Atwood posted that she was in Chicago. She says and I quote “I don’t have a pic of me in the Harry Potter store however”
Whatever could she mean.
The woman who wrote the Handmaids Tale. Unbelievable.

'personality trait inclinations'?

Like Myers-Briggs you mean?

At least that gives us 16 boxes.

"We don't distinguish sex, even in social situations, by how suggestible someone is, how 'kind' they feel they have to be, or in fact any personality traits."

Presentation is downstream from personality inclinations so we do in a sense rely on personality traits.

Except we don't walk around naked in public in modern times…

The difference being whether there is an advantage in terms of harm reduction in doing so? Oversimplification isn't the win you think it is.

Unless those risk prevention measures inconvenience men.

Presentation is downstream from personality trait inclinations.

The feminist view I grew up with that made most sense to me was that it was extremely difficult to know how much of women’s lives were influenced by their sex as opposed to their nurture, gender and culture, because of the overwhelming forces of the latter. Not that there was no influence of sex at all. And that external or internal judgment that a woman was ‘unsexed’ by being an outlier in terms of characteristics, sexuality or behaviour was misogyny designed to control, not that there wasn’t a more likely average of behaviour that was sex-influenced. And of course that women forcing gendered controls on other women was a feature noted in all oppressed groups, not a big or unique to women as a group. Women who arrange FGM (or in the past, foot binding) for their daughters are doing it a lot of the time because it is the route to marriage in their culture, which in many economies equals a route out of starvation or total dependency on/drudgery for your brothers if you have any, plus the route to some choice and value in the marriage market, not because they are due to their sex controlling bitches - I don’t think Stock allows for that. Read the early chapters of Wild Swans for that, and imagine having to crush your own small daughter’s feet for months on end because the alternative could be destitution, or indeed prostitution and an early death. Mixed in with this is the consequent priority given to ‘honour’ ie women’s visible chastity and ‘virtue’ having economic value, and an incredibly toxic mix of violence and control which women do indeed participate in. Read Pride and Prejuduce and Sense and Sensibility for the sanitised version of all that, if you look between the lines.

Love it!

We don't distinguish sex, even in social situations, by how suggestible someone is, how 'kind' they feel they have to be, or in fact any personality traits.

The reason a disconnect between sex and expected behaviour (whatever that may be in a given society) is possible to even notice is precisely because those two things are separately observable.

Gametal and chromosomal tests aren’t necessary to determine sex, because nature has handily provided a big old cock and balls.

Yes, like burglary and domestic violence, let’s just make them all legal.

'Gendered' behaviour is a form of full-body fancy dress.

Sex differences exist. Gender is fantasy.