#1 Information for Women, Including Women’s Health Issues, from iVillageInformation for women, including women’s health issues, beauty tips, fitness tips and parenting advice. (ok still bleah)

#2 Women MathematiciansOn-going project by students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, United States

#3 Women’s biographies: Distinguished Women of Past and PresentThis site has biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways. There are writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, …

#4 Internet Women’s History SourcebookPresents online documents and secondary discussions which reflect the various ways of looking at the history of women within broadly defined historical …

#5 National Organization for WomenInformation on women’s issues for women’s activists.

and then

Women’s Health - Health - The New York Times
The National Women’s Health Information Center — 1-800-994-9662
WWWomen.com! Search Directory for Women Online!
WomenWatch: UN Information and Resources on Gender Equality and …
Woman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What I think? Twisty fixed it by blogging about it. YAY!

Wrong. In patriarchy, the bottom line is not money, it is men.

Granted, European women’s sports results (hmm, is that women aping patriarchy?) and a (European again) business article (women accommodating themselves to patriarchal capitalism) doesn’t begin to offset the direction announced by the Google Ads, but I’m curious as to why nobody has commented on them here.

Obtw - I agree, Buenos Aires Café is a glorious place.

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Well, it’s artificially inflated if you ignore the power of control over children. Who determines who has what children when also can obtain a lot of power. If it weren’t the case, patriarchy probably wouldn’t have come to be.

Follow the money, right?

“Of course, none of this will ever happen; humans will have extinctified themselves long before they own up to the truth.”

Ever the optimist, I might slightly contradict:

We may eventually get our heads out of our collective asses and arrange our heirarchy along some useful lines, but it will likely require a major upheaval.

We need all the Dubyas and BinLadens to do each other in. If we can somehow manage to survive the fallout, we can rearrange the pieces in the dirt. Toss out patriarchy and find a new way.

Unless we revert to hunter-gatherer status (and I’m not sayin we should), there will likely be some sort of heirarchy, though. Wouldn’t you agree that survival sorta depends on it?

Oh, and to the earlier point, the selling of search terms does freak me out. Having been a marketing comm mgr and actually purchasing terms from a search engine, I can speak to how desperate that particular exercise really is. The corrollary to the buying of the search term is to measure the ’success’ in terms of ‘click-through’ rates, which are considered successful in the most slivery of percentages. Boggles the mind.

While I agree most differences are artificial and exaggerated (google Bev Evans to learn about the myth of superior, upper body strength in men for instance), I don’t see us evolving out of our baby-making equipment. It would be beyond peachy, however, if our attitudes about this equipment matured since this is what has kept women subordinate lo these thousands of years.

I damn despair that a woman’s capacity to create a human body and risk death because of the size of that human cranium is still so discounted as to be compared in any way with an animal’s (cow, bitch, chick). I damn despair that ever since the boys figured out they had some part in procreation, albeit small, very small, they have used their penis as a toy and a weapon.

I know the bleeding thing every month is considered a drag but I suspect that is caused by being taught it is dirty, disgusting and diseased rather that celebrating that blood. These negative attitudes towards our bodies work swell in teaching us to hate ourselves.

But, how that self-hatred sells product. Do we really need all the crap sold in stores that devote an entire eisle to feminine hygiene? I’ve managed to live without visiting that aisle, deciding not to make my bodily functions a profit center for The Man.

And sales are brisk. From porn to making the literal selling of women and girls the third biggest money maker in the world, right after arms and drugs.

YPMV (your plumbing may vary)