It was hard to read through these, I find it genuinely upsetting and way too close to home.
It was hard to read through these, I find it genuinely upsetting and way too close to home. There were a couple of things that caught my eye, though.
Don McPherson's statements that "... we don't raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women, and ""What's the worst insult you heard as a boy?" The answer: "You throw like a girl!""
And Penn Jillete's whole piece about his daughter. Personally, if he named his daughter Moxie, he's already doing something more insightful than average. I don't think it's her job to "fix" anything, but yeah, she could become the greatest magician in the world. Period.
I get asked a bunch, "Is your son into magic?" He couldn't care less. I have never been asked, "Is your daughter into magic?"
My daughter, Moxie, is into magic and is working her way through Teller's favorite book, "The Royal Road to Card Magic." Her little hands do a good clean false shuffle. Mox got her favorite Valentine's attention by showing him a card trick (already more success with magic than I ever had). Backstage, one of the magicians who had "Fooled Us" (on our Penn & Teller show of that name) told her she could become "the greatest woman magician in the world."
Lack of women in magic is not in the top million most important feminist issues, but magic is my field and Mox is in my family. Magic is still a boy's club, and most magic patter is just formalized mansplaining. Mox can fix all that. Mox might become the greatest magician in the world.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/11/opinions/gender-and-power-opinion-roundup/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/11/opinions/gender-and-power-opinion-roundup/index.html
Don McPherson's statements that "... we don't raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women, and ""What's the worst insult you heard as a boy?" The answer: "You throw like a girl!""
And Penn Jillete's whole piece about his daughter. Personally, if he named his daughter Moxie, he's already doing something more insightful than average. I don't think it's her job to "fix" anything, but yeah, she could become the greatest magician in the world. Period.
I get asked a bunch, "Is your son into magic?" He couldn't care less. I have never been asked, "Is your daughter into magic?"
My daughter, Moxie, is into magic and is working her way through Teller's favorite book, "The Royal Road to Card Magic." Her little hands do a good clean false shuffle. Mox got her favorite Valentine's attention by showing him a card trick (already more success with magic than I ever had). Backstage, one of the magicians who had "Fooled Us" (on our Penn & Teller show of that name) told her she could become "the greatest woman magician in the world."
Lack of women in magic is not in the top million most important feminist issues, but magic is my field and Mox is in my family. Magic is still a boy's club, and most magic patter is just formalized mansplaining. Mox can fix all that. Mox might become the greatest magician in the world.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/11/opinions/gender-and-power-opinion-roundup/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/11/opinions/gender-and-power-opinion-roundup/index.html
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