The 4-year-old’s case is a rare public look at one corner of the American legal system that explicitly uses race and gender to determine how much victims or their families should receive in compensation when they are seriously injured or killed.
As a result, white and male victims often receive larger awards than people of color and women in similar cases, according to more than two dozen lawyers and forensic economists, the experts who make the calculations. These differences largely derive from projections of how much more money individuals would have earned over their lifetimes had they not been injured – projections that take into account average earnings and employment levels by race and gender.
In one case, when a 6-year-old girl and a male fetus were killed in the same car crash, the settlement for the fetus was calculated to be up to 84 percent higher than the girl’s, according to court records.
For real, it is ACTUAL BULLSHIT to say that sex and gender are the same thing. It is misogyny. It is sexist. It is bullshit.
That male fetus was not “appraised” as having a life worth 84% more than that living, breathing, girl with experiences and memories and laughter because the fetus “identified” as a boychild. He was appraised as having more worth because he was male. Before he was fucking BORN.
Feminism is about the fact that women are not considered to be whole human beings. It is about doing the work of having our humanity represented. The reason–the ENTIRE reason–we are not considered human is because of our bodies. Our sex. We cannot fight for our freedom without recognizing the basis for our oppression.
Gender is not sex.
Sex is not a performance.Gender is a bunch of bullshit rules invented to explain why the female sex should be treated as inferior to the male sex.
This is real. It happens. Sex affects how we see ourselves and our lives. It literally affects our WORTH (monetarily speaking). Do not let gender make you unable to effect any change for women and girls.
Think and rise.
But the judicial system favors women and girls!
I’m still in fucking shock that a non-sentient fetus is considered more than a woman on such a large scale that this headline had to exist.
Tag: misogyny
This isnt a hot take but feminism which centers around periods/vaginas/boobs as Things Which Unite All Women is an untrustworthy brand of feminism
This is you
This isnt a hot take but feminism which centers around periods/vaginas/boobs as Things Which Unite All Women is an untrustworthy brand of feminism
This is you
off topic but I think the reason women (self included!!!) get so reactive around ~Lifestyle Choice~ things (feminine vs gender nonconforming, tampons vs pads, slut vs prude, motherhood vs being child-free, a million other things you’ve seen people yelling at each other about) — and assert that the other option is more acceptable/encouraged — is the very blatant fact that there IS no correct and acceptable way to be a woman, that each and every one of these things is HEAVILY stigmatized and denigrated in different ways (and the same root), that we have all encountered an entire cultures worth of people asserting that the “option” (not that any of these choices are made freely, am I right ladies?) you did is the more shameful one. it’s a trap though, cuz the same fuckin shit is on the other side. that’s misogyny babes
off topic but I think the reason women (self included!!!) get so reactive around ~Lifestyle Choice~ things (feminine vs gender nonconforming, tampons vs pads, slut vs prude, motherhood vs being child-free, a million other things you’ve seen people yelling at each other about) — and assert that the other option is more acceptable/encouraged — is the very blatant fact that there IS no correct and acceptable way to be a woman, that each and every one of these things is HEAVILY stigmatized and denigrated in different ways (and the same root), that we have all encountered an entire cultures worth of people asserting that the “option” (not that any of these choices are made freely, am I right ladies?) you did is the more shameful one. it’s a trap though, cuz the same fuckin shit is on the other side. that’s misogyny babes
A sis asked me about the Year of White Horse genocide, or femicide, so here we go:
We don’t usually bring up colors
when it comes to Chinese Zodiac because it’s a minor thing. But there are
certain colors that are more highlighted than the others, like gold, white and
black.Women born in White Horse years are said to
be smart, active, impatient and argumentative, which is considered
~unattractive~ or even ill-fated in this patriarchal society. (basically because they are not loved by men. And when is the last time men made us actually happy?????????)With this backdrop, there was major
obsession with male child, or son preference in the 80s and 90s. (btw I think
these terms are toned down way too much, because you don’t KILL a cat just
because you prefer dogs. It was pure hatred toward girls.)Son preference always existed but as soon
as fetal gender test was introduced, a femicide began.In 1990, there were 116 male births to
every 100 female. (Naturally, it’s 103 male births to every 100 female.) And in
certain regions the ratio soared to 130:100. And the sex ratio
of third child was 320:100. This means people aborted girls until they had
boys.20 years ago, they worried that boys didn’t
have enough girls to sit next to. (This was actually on the news?? BOYS
were pitied because they had to sit next to a boy??) 10 years ago, they worried
that men didn’t have enough brides to marry, and now they are wondering why the
fertility rate has dropped so much. And guess what? All these girls were killed
years ago just because they were going to born in Year of White Horse.
(I am personally a pro-choicer, but this kind of genocide is horrible. And women
were sometimes forced into abortion by their partners and family, because this patriarchal
society endlessly implied that what they had in their womb were not valuable. I
don’t think this has nothing to do with “women’s choice”. Their choices were
often interrupted and even distorted by society’s idea.)Women are well aware of this dark history
of Korea, but most men don’t realize it, because people don’t want boys to hear
such story. They want boy to be ~ambitious~ and ~happy~ and ~be boys~. Men
don’t know their own sisters were killed so that they could be born. But we do.
We hear it all the time as if we have to appreciate our parents for not killing
us. Some women live with guilt that they shouldn’t have born. Boys who were
born in the Year of White Horse? They were praised for their braveness and
confidence.What still pisses me off is that the media
and society KNOWS that hundreds of thousands of girls were killed because they
were going to be independent women. And yet they never speak about it and
pretend like this genocide never happened. And the whole society pities men for
not having enough brides. Sorry we were killed when we should have been cooking
dinner for you??Also, now that couple of decades has
passed, some men are starting to say shits like it was solely women’s choice,
because women hate other women. Okay I think we can skip this discourse and
just kill these men.
I didn’t know that this happened
A sis asked me about the Year of White Horse genocide, or femicide, so here we go:
We don’t usually bring up colors
when it comes to Chinese Zodiac because it’s a minor thing. But there are
certain colors that are more highlighted than the others, like gold, white and
black.Women born in White Horse years are said to
be smart, active, impatient and argumentative, which is considered
~unattractive~ or even ill-fated in this patriarchal society. (basically because they are not loved by men. And when is the last time men made us actually happy?????????)With this backdrop, there was major
obsession with male child, or son preference in the 80s and 90s. (btw I think
these terms are toned down way too much, because you don’t KILL a cat just
because you prefer dogs. It was pure hatred toward girls.)Son preference always existed but as soon
as fetal gender test was introduced, a femicide began.In 1990, there were 116 male births to
every 100 female. (Naturally, it’s 103 male births to every 100 female.) And in
certain regions the ratio soared to 130:100. And the sex ratio
of third child was 320:100. This means people aborted girls until they had
boys.20 years ago, they worried that boys didn’t
have enough girls to sit next to. (This was actually on the news?? BOYS
were pitied because they had to sit next to a boy??) 10 years ago, they worried
that men didn’t have enough brides to marry, and now they are wondering why the
fertility rate has dropped so much. And guess what? All these girls were killed
years ago just because they were going to born in Year of White Horse.
(I am personally a pro-choicer, but this kind of genocide is horrible. And women
were sometimes forced into abortion by their partners and family, because this patriarchal
society endlessly implied that what they had in their womb were not valuable. I
don’t think this has nothing to do with “women’s choice”. Their choices were
often interrupted and even distorted by society’s idea.)Women are well aware of this dark history
of Korea, but most men don’t realize it, because people don’t want boys to hear
such story. They want boy to be ~ambitious~ and ~happy~ and ~be boys~. Men
don’t know their own sisters were killed so that they could be born. But we do.
We hear it all the time as if we have to appreciate our parents for not killing
us. Some women live with guilt that they shouldn’t have born. Boys who were
born in the Year of White Horse? They were praised for their braveness and
confidence.What still pisses me off is that the media
and society KNOWS that hundreds of thousands of girls were killed because they
were going to be independent women. And yet they never speak about it and
pretend like this genocide never happened. And the whole society pities men for
not having enough brides. Sorry we were killed when we should have been cooking
dinner for you??Also, now that couple of decades has
passed, some men are starting to say shits like it was solely women’s choice,
because women hate other women. Okay I think we can skip this discourse and
just kill these men.
I didn’t know that this happened
Isn’t reducing women down to their genitalia inherently sexist
@partyshadow Isn’t reducing women down to gender stereotypes and immeasurable feelings inherently sexist?
Isn’t pretending that women are disconnected from their biology an insult to their intelligence?
Aren’t you tired of asking stupid questions?
@partyshadow are yall ever going to come up with some new bullshit? Is calling a library a “building” reducing it to a bunch of bricks? Or are yall just salty that pointing out that women have vaginas means any creature with a penis isn’t a woman? I think it’s the latter.
This rhetoric is insulting to women
They use it to try and embarrass women for knowing we are female and rejecting gender roles and transgenderism
The “walking vaginas” rhetoric is a sneaky to call women cunts
What does it even mean to “reduce a woman to a vagina”?? I want a formal definition.
This should be used to refer to the straight men who look at women and see a body to fuck, without any relevant humanity or wants and needs. How is that the same as highlighting a defining characteristic of a group??
A woman can have a vagina and still be a full human being, shocking I know
This is the logical conclusion of gender blind ideology. Any differences between the oppressed and the oppressor will be treated with contempt and acknowledging any differences is bigotry but only if you acknowledge the oppressed class’s innate traits. The oppressor’s bodies are not treated as an other. Male is standard. Female is marked.
In order for gender blind ideology to work you need to ‘equalise’ people by erasing anything that makes them different. To be equal you must be the same. Under this worldview femaleness is an abberation that is an affront to their understanding of equality.
The constant degradation of women and our femaleness is not just rhetoric. They really can’t imagine a whole woman without her denying her femaleness because they see women as disconnected body parts.
Acknowledging our anatomy is “reducing to genitalia” (ignoring the other undeniably female body parts we have) is seen as degrading because female anatomy is an insult to them. Being female is degrading to them. If we openly acknowledge we are female trans activists believe we are degrading ourselves. They truly believe women are inferior.
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