While I agree with much of this, I find the fact that it's signed "bitchwhocodes" remarkably hypocritical. If gender is so irrelevant, why put it up front in such an aggressive way?
I think the choice of that particular moniker has more to do with the fact that women are rarely both liked and respected in any professional field. Competent women are viewed as cold; warm women are viewed as incompetent. For a woman to be competent, she must be a bitch.
This is obviously not the best state of affairs, but it is the way reality is.
I guess I was mistaken.
Your comment reads a lot like a tone argument. That type of discourse is derailing and generally unproductive. :)
Yes, I agree 100% with what the creator wrote. I am really, really sick with women earning less then men, having to fight harder, having to endure sexiest jokes and inappropriate comments.
I really despise inequality.
So, that said, I now have a problem. What ever I could no say, to discuss this issue and the site, might come about as as some kind of relativization.
Because, I got sidelined by the twitter-handle. Whatever I had read to this point got covered in some judgmental-icing. My first emotion was sadness, that such an great site, such great words had been used for satire, as this was my first guess to what the handle meant.
Sad, I know. Wrong, I know. But this was my first reaction.
While my username might give away the fact that I'm speaking from a position of "male privilege" (and that is a choice I made without having to consider that it was male privilege, which is itself a symptom of my male privilege), I don't think it's helpful for someone to use their username to signal an aggressive viewpoint, at the same time as urging a more moderate approach (honey-badger comment aside).