DD&L #7: Time sense, female doctors, and army medals
Amelia Earhart had a role model
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Explanations and reframes of patriarchy and its rules. Actionable strategies and tactics to drop the shackles while having fun subverting the rules through "playful rebellion". Articles drop every Friday, Sunday latest. Newsletters every Tuesday.
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7 short Dutch quips as mischievous retorts to detractors
How to refuse detractor’s shame labeling statements and defuse them all in one go
DD&L #6: AI, cars & women drivers, & teachers
It never ceases to amaze me that something can be so well-known, so well-studied, and so wrong and yet nothing changes
We're all - women and men - living in an inescapable cult that technically isn't
Technically, patriarchy isn't a cult. But there's one thing overlooked by all nay-sayers to the arguments why it awfully closely resembles one
DD&L #5: Don't be good
You don't want to be good. That'd be boring.
Laughter: it's a kind of magic!
Be delighted: obvious and not so obvious benefits: from uplifting to energizing.
DD&L #4: Absurdity
An absurd archaic patriarchal law and the absurdity of looking for and asking about what's normal.
The one question no man, ever, even thinks to ask
Yet women do with stupefying regularity
DD&L #3: Consequences, Mary Beard, labeling behavior
And: speaking up and speaking out against the nonsense patriarchy feeds women and men
Amelia Earhart: 16th female licensed aviator and so much more
Trailblazing and inspiring women #2
Eleanor Roosevelt: unparalleled, spirited, & more than "just" a First Lady
Trailblazing and inspiring women #1
DD&L #2: Femicide, Amelia, gender pay gap
And: what thoughts keep you awake at 2 am?