Tag: Sexism

Free Download Dangerous Jokes: How Racism and Sexism Weaponize Humor
English | ASIN: B0D45W5MZR | 2024 | 7 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 228 MB
Author: Claire Horisk
Narrator: Rachel Perry
People often get away with belittling others if they frame their speech as jokes-speech that would be condemned if stated seriously. "It’s just a joke," they say. But what is different or special about joking? And if jokes about lawyers and politicians are morally acceptable, then what is wrong with joking about race or gender? Furthermore, if we may joke about a politician’s shirts, may we joke about his weight? People who are targeted by demeaning jokes feel their impact but may not be able to pinpoint where the harm lies. Dangerous Jokes develops a novel, well-researched, and compelling argument that lays bare the power of demeaning jokes in ordinary conversations. Claire Horisk draws on her expertise in philosophy of language and on evidence from sociology, law, and cognitive science to explain how the element of humor-so often used as a defense-makes jokes more potent than regular speech in communicating prejudice and reinforcing social hierarchies. She addresses the morality of telling, being amused by, and laughing at, derogatory jokes, and she gives a new account of listening that addresses the morality of listening to demeaning speech. She leaves us with no illusions about whether "it’s just a joke" is an excuse for demeaning humor.

Free Download The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C47KLG8W | 2024 | 8 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 245 MB
Author: Sabrina Strings
Narrator: Janice Lynn Sykes
From Playboy to Jay-Z, the racial origins of toxic masculinity and its impact on women, especially Black and "insufficiently white" women . More men than ever are refusing loving partnerships and commitment, and instead seeking out "situationships." When these men deign to articulate what they are looking for in a steady partner, they’ll often rely on superficial norms of attractiveness rooted in whiteness and anti-Blackness. Connecting the past to the present, sociologist Sabrina Strings argues that following the Civil Rights movement and the integration of women during the Second Wave Feminist movement, men aimed to hold on to their power by withholding love and commitment, a basic tenet of white supremacy and male domination, that served to manipulate all women. From pornography to hip hop, women-especially Black and "insufficiently white" women-were presented as gold diggers, props for masturbation, and side-pieces. Using historical research, personal stories, and critical analysis, Strings argues that the result is fuccboism, the latest incarnation of toxic masculinity. This work shows that men are not innately "toxic." Nor do they hate love, commitment, or sex. Instead, men across race have been working a new code to effectively deny loving partnerships to women who are not pliant, slim, and white as a new mode of male domination.

Free Download Laura Bates, "Everyday Sexism: The Project that Inspired a Worldwide Movement"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1250100186 | EPUB | pages: 416 | 1.0 mb
The Everyday Sexism Project was founded by writer and activist Laura Bates in April 2012. It began life as a website where people could share their experiences of daily, normalized sexism, from street harassment to workplace discrimination to sexual assault and rape.