Quotes
Films, news, literature, science, city planning, economics. The stories we tell ourselves about our past, present and future. They are all marked – disfigured – by a female-shaped ‘absent presence’. This is the gender data gap.
We don’t even allow non-humans to escape our perception of the world as overwhelmingly male: when researchers in one study attempted to prompt participants to see a gender-neutral stuffed animal as female by using female pronouns, children, parents and carers still overwhelmingly referred to the animal as ‘he’. The study found that an animal must be ‘super-feminine’ before ‘even close to half of participants will refer to it as she rather than he’.
erkekler kusura bakmasın ama başka gezegene gidersek siz gelmeyin
A 2013 UN homicide survey found that 96% 9 of homicide perpetrators worldwide are male.
bu durumu hemen eşitlememiz lazım. Ben başlıyom şimdi
A thirty-year analysis of murder in Sweden found that nine out of ten murders are committed by men.
sorun kadın bedeninde değil, onu nasıl gördüğümüzde.
The female body is not the problem. The problem is the social meaning that we ascribe to that body, and a socially determined failure to account for it.