theme: #maleficentmisogyny (feimineach)

#research: #maleficentmisogyny: Evidence of a toxic environment for women in economics

August 22, 2017

The 30 words most uniquely associated with discussions of women make for uncomfortable reading. In order, that list is: hotter, lesbian, bb (internet speak for “baby”), sexism, tits, anal, marrying, feminazi, slut, hot, vagina, boobs, pregnant, pregnancy, cute, marry, levy, gorgeous, horny, crush, beautiful, secretary, dump, shopping, date, nonprofit, intentions, sexy, dated and prostitute. The parallel list of words associated […]

#maleficentmisogyny: women as incubators: How US law dehumanizes pregnant women -@broadly

June 1, 2017

Today, many American women find themselves the subject of intense surveillance during pregnancy. Even as pregnant women happily anticipate the birth of a healthy child, families, friends, health care providers, and government officials often scrutinize their actions for behavior that could potentially risk the health of the developing fetus. Increasingly, widely held beliefs about how the “good” pregnant woman should […]

#maleficentmisogyny: “alpha” women need to learn to be nice – @broadly

May 27, 2017

“That’s what men like: women who are easy to love,” writes Suzanne Venker, a family and marriage author, intent on teaching “alpha” women how to embrace their femininity and stop scaring off men, who are “alpha by nature,” supposedly due to testosterone. She defines nice as “being soft, gentle, and kind.” In a filmed segment, Venker told her hosts at […]

#maleficentmisogyny: Bikini Season. Sarah Kiefer on @FemReligion

May 25, 2017

When I was about thirteen I went to a conference with the rest of the girls in youth group. It was a “modesty conference” geared at teaching young women the “biblical” truth of their role as a female and how that translates into how one dresses. We were taught that we are responsible for the relationship between our brothers in […]

#maleficentmisogyny: slut shaming and the friend zone: two sides of the objectification coin – @FeminismInIndia

April 7, 2017

#maleficentmisogyny: slut shaming and the friend zone: two sides of the objectification coin – @FeminismInIndia Side 1: Slut Shaming Slut shaming only needs the smallest of excuses to manifest itself. “When I was about 14, I shifted to a new school, and being small in figure, my kurta was tight-fitting as well. A girl came up to me and told me to […]

#maleficentmisogyny: ‘Feminism is cancer’ and promotes hate, say priviledged men

October 3, 2016

(We shouldn’t even acknowledge, I know, I know. But in this case I am going to disagree with the adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity. Name, shame, and ridicule, for we must.) A recent movement called “Feminism is Cancer” has unfortunately gained some popularity among mostly young, white people. They claim that third-wave feminism, a.k.a. radical […]

#maleficentmisogyny: How ‘hysteria’ has been used to degrade and control women – @ConversationUK

July 19, 2016

By Paula Michaels, Monash University: […] hysteria’s long, dark past as a medical diagnosis casts a shadow over our modern colloquial use. With a genealogy that can be traced back 4000 years to ancient Egypt, hysteria can arguably be understood as Western civilisation’s first conceptualisation of mental illness.Ancient physicians attributed erratic female behaviour to spontaneous movement of the womb, with […]

#maleficentmisogyny: pornography is violence against women

May 28, 2016

It is crucial to understand pornography as a form of violence against women. Overwhelmingly, content is produced and consumed by men, with strikingly consistent themes. The content categories of two of the most popular tube sites — XHamster and Pornhub — reveal a dismal pattern of endless scenarios of male dominance and female subordination, categorized by specific acts, female body […]

#maleficentmisogyny: When asked, “How do you …

April 20, 2016

I reblogged a piece about this report before but it’s a worth a reboot because it’s horrific. When asked, “How do you know a guy likes you?,” an 8th grade girl replied: “He still wants to talk to you after you [give him oral sex].” A male high school student said to a girl: “If you [give me oral sex] […]

#maleficentmisogyny: The women in porn are almost always presented as passive to the male gaze

April 11, 2016

The women in porn are almost always presented as passive to the male gaze, unyielding, with no complication of a personality, no danger to the male ego of possibly hearing the word “no,” existing only for the pleasure of men’s eyes. The women in advertising are often cut up into body parts—just a midriff, just a pair of legs—or turned […]

#research: #maleficentmisogyny: sex in pornography

March 30, 2016

I was 12. I thought Kate and I were simply too naive to aspire to the heights of sexual maturity to which the boys had risen.Their wisdom seemed self-evident – they did, after all, studiously compare notes on the hottest porn star on RedTube, and congratulate one another on the previous night’s masturbation.It only occurred to me recently, at the […]

#maleficentmisogyny: sex in pornography

March 30, 2016

#maleficentmisogyny: “Male violence against women is always justified as retaliation” @feministcurrent

February 10, 2016

#maleficentmisogyny: “Male violence against women is always justified as retaliation” @feministcurrent She cheated, y’all. Before you start making any judgment calls, let’s take a moment to remember that she cheated! That seems to be the reaction of many people to the video of a man forcing a woman, who he just assaulted, to parade the streets in broad daylight wearing […]

#maleficentmisogyny: On Monday afternoon, less than 24 hours after these dual encounters…

February 4, 2016

On Monday afternoon, less than 24 hours after these dual encounters, I learned that 29-year-old Janese Talton-Jackson, a mother of two, had been killed in Pittsburgh after declining a stranger’s advances. According to the police report, a man named Charles McKinney approached Jackson at a bar on a Friday night. He expressed some interest in her, she rebuffed him and […]

#maleficentmisogyny: on their back: Tyson Fury, sex and violence (from @jembloomfield)

December 9, 2015

Here’s a post from Jem Bloomfield on Tyson Fury’s recent comments. You’ve all heard them: the devil and abortion, homosexuality and pedophilia (and the crossovers therein, apparently), and a woman’s place on her back, in the kitchen, and wherever else he thinks she should be. Fury’s certainly vile and make no mistake but Bloomfield argues that his misogynistic and homophobic […]

#maleficentmisogyny: Gamergate: The Greatest Trick The Devil Ever Pulled

December 5, 2015

Since their origin point, GG’s have gone after women both generally and specifically, targeting prominent women in the games industry, from games journalist Jenn Frank to tech writer Kathy Sierra, constantly changing and adding targets and shifting their marks, although they do like to return to their favorites, such as Quinn, Sarkeesian, and developer Brianna Wu.This is where it began, […]

#maleficentmisogyny: School asks girls to wear tights for ‘safeguarding’

November 19, 2015

Yesterday it emerged that a school in Hartlepool has sent letters home to parents that asked girls to wear tights to ‘protect their modesty’ and make sure they are ‘properly safeguarded on their way to and from school’. St Hild’s school specified they should be opaque tights, no less than 40 denier, and expressed concern over the length of some […]

#maleficentmisogyny: Why Revenge Porn Works

September 29, 2015

But for women today it couldn’t be more different. We don’t get taken seriously in the corporate world if we’re deemed to feminine or sexy; we have to avoid being the dumb blonde. Wearing a short skirt reduces us to being labelled as bimbos or sluts- targets for pick up artists and slut shamers. Never mind criticising military strategy in […]

#maleficentmisogyny: “feminazi”: the go-to term for trolls out to silence women

September 16, 2015

“Feminazi”: “a feminist to whom the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur” (Limbaugh). Yeah, that’s plausible. See also: This just in! I think I’m a “feminazi” * There is nothing new about the term “feminazi”; there is something very new in what it can do. It originated in the 90s, with the […]

#maleficentmisogyny: the taming of the shrew

September 11, 2015

Plasticdollheads on Charlotte Proudman, everyday sexism, and online misogyny: Charlotte Proudman, a barrister and Ph.D researcher, received an inappropriate comment on professional networking website LinkedIn. Whilst most people use sites such as LinkedIn or Research Gate to connect regarding work, a married 57 year old man Carter-Silk decided to use it to comment on 27 year old Charlotte’s looks. Yes […]

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