About

DarkSexism was created to explore the unspoken, unconscious and normative sexist dynamics that impact consensual relations between women and men.

A note about the blog’s name:   Inspiration comes from the world of astrophysics where terms like Dark Matter and Dark Energy are placeholders used to name powerful, invisible forces found throughout the universe but about which we know very little.  We only know they exist because we can measure their effects.  The dynamics of sexism work in a similar way.  Because it’s so hard to see what’s been normalized over millennia, we know sexism exists mostly by its effects on women’s lives.

The author, Gay Walch, is a playwright, TV writer, screenwriter and producer.