Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer
emily-shafer.bsky.social
Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer
@emily-shafer.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology at Portland State University
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Inspector: “oh the crickets probably ate any mold that was here.”

You know what, sir? I cannot deal walk this. I have workplaces to go ruin. This is too much.
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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If you haven't already cancelled your subscription for all of the other nonsense they've published, this seems like a good reason to do so. Be sure to tell them why too:
This guy (who not incidentally looks like a thumb)! Just "asking questions"! Because "Interesting Times" with the NYT imprimatur!
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Not breaking news: women can be sexist too.

A consistent finding of the last, oh, 40 years of experimental sociology is that female subjects -- inc employers and, one suspects, NYT op-ed writers -- are as likely to believe negative stereotypes about and discriminate against women as male subjects.
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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"Repeal the 19th" was literally trending on X yesterday.
November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Posted this elsewhere: Patriarchy ruins the workplace every day. No universal healthcare nor reproductive care, no affordable childcare, no paid time off for pregnancy, maternity leave nor family support, because the template for ‘employee’ is a male, unattached worker paid as little as possible.
I'm too tired for this sh*t.
November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The NYT changed the title, but we all know they absolutely meant it as originally titled.
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
My latest in JMF! Elizabeth McClintock and I find that men in the NLSY79 receive a larger fatherhood bonus and, if married, work longer hours after the birth of a first born daughter (vs son).

Sex of Child, the Fatherhood Bonus, and Fathers' Work Hours - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective This research note examines whether the fatherhood bonus—the earnings increase that men, on average, experience after the birth of a child—varies by sex of child, a largely overlooked dime...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM