A few interesting articles
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raincitygirlA few interesting articles:
Most critiques of Twitter take aim at its enabling of cyberbullying and disinformation. This article points out that Twitter, as a company, is also doing a TERRIBLE job of providing value to its investors. It's not just degrading the public discourse, it's a badly run company from a capitalist point of view.
Which is an argument I have never seen before.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/capitalist-case-for-overhauling-twitter.html
A fascinating look at why British media, both on the right and the left, is increasingly transphobic. Well-sourced, with lots of links.
https://xtramagazine.com/power/transphobia-britain-terf-uk-media-193828
This one isn't so much an article as a call to arms, by Laurie Penny, a British genderqueer feminist who's living in a society where mainstream feminism and the mainstream leftwing media are often hostile to people who don't fit the gender binary.
https://pennyred.medium.com/terf-wars-why-transphobia-has-no-place-in-feminism-60d3156ad06e
This is an older article, but sadly, nothing seems to have changed since it was published. Specific to Canada, I was stunned to discover that most extended health plans (including my own) routinely don't cover birth control, or only cover certain birth control methods, in a very arbitrary way. I thought of that as a US problem, but it seems to be worse here, in many ways.
It's also "penny wise, pound foolish" by Canadian insurance companies. My sister is covered by the same extended health plan I am, and I hadn't realized until I asked her last week that it doesn't cover IUDs. She had to pay out of pocket for an IUD after she had her younger child. They'll cover oral contraceptives, which are much more expensive than IUDs on a month by month basis, less reliable at preventing pregnancy, and have many more physical side effects than IUDs. I am ASTONISHED!
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/188/14/1001
Most critiques of Twitter take aim at its enabling of cyberbullying and disinformation. This article points out that Twitter, as a company, is also doing a TERRIBLE job of providing value to its investors. It's not just degrading the public discourse, it's a badly run company from a capitalist point of view.
Which is an argument I have never seen before.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/capitalist-case-for-overhauling-twitter.html
A fascinating look at why British media, both on the right and the left, is increasingly transphobic. Well-sourced, with lots of links.
https://xtramagazine.com/power/transphobia-britain-terf-uk-media-193828
This one isn't so much an article as a call to arms, by Laurie Penny, a British genderqueer feminist who's living in a society where mainstream feminism and the mainstream leftwing media are often hostile to people who don't fit the gender binary.
https://pennyred.medium.com/terf-wars-why-transphobia-has-no-place-in-feminism-60d3156ad06e
This is an older article, but sadly, nothing seems to have changed since it was published. Specific to Canada, I was stunned to discover that most extended health plans (including my own) routinely don't cover birth control, or only cover certain birth control methods, in a very arbitrary way. I thought of that as a US problem, but it seems to be worse here, in many ways.
It's also "penny wise, pound foolish" by Canadian insurance companies. My sister is covered by the same extended health plan I am, and I hadn't realized until I asked her last week that it doesn't cover IUDs. She had to pay out of pocket for an IUD after she had her younger child. They'll cover oral contraceptives, which are much more expensive than IUDs on a month by month basis, less reliable at preventing pregnancy, and have many more physical side effects than IUDs. I am ASTONISHED!
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/188/14/1001
