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#maleficentmisogyny: What people who talk about “legitimate rape” really mean
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / August 29, 2012These days it’s getting harder and harder for those who want to deny rape. Gone are the good ol’ days when rape within marriage was legal. Or when we thought that all rapes were conducted by men jumpi...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Society has allowed rapists to define what resistance is…
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / August 21, 2012This quote seems particularly relevant at the moment with Todd Akin’s statements about “legitimate rape”, and Assange’s rape apologists (e.g. George Galloway) claiming that Assange’s actions probably ...
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#maleficentmisogyny: ‘Purity Balls’ Get Attention, but Might Not Be All They Claim
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / August 8, 2012In 1998, in Colorado Springs, Randy Wilson threw the first “purity ball,” a formal dinner and dance at which he and other fathers signed pledges to protect the virginity of their unmarried daughte...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Sluts are not “proper women” because a “proper woman” is not supposed to be a sexual being
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / October 31, 2010“Sluts are not “proper women” because a “proper woman” is not supposed to be a sexual being; she’s supposed to be prim, proper, and repressed, and have sex because it is her duty. In the Victorian era...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Sluts are not “proper women” because a “proper woman” is not supposed to be a sexual being
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / October 31, 2010“Sluts are not “proper women” because a “proper woman” is not supposed to be a sexual being; she’s supposed to be prim, proper, and repressed, and have sex because it is her duty. In the Victorian era...
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#maleficentmisogyny: The women-hating rage of the Republican right
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / October 28, 2010The women-hating rage of the Republican rightI’m blogging all of this because it’s an excellent piece that you need to read in its entirety. (Be afraid America; be very afraid.) As soon as I saw the ...
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#maleficentmisogyny: The women-hating rage of the Republican right
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / October 28, 2010The women-hating rage of the Republican rightI’m blogging all of this because it’s an excellent piece that you need to read in its entirety. (Be afraid America; be very afraid.) As soon as I saw the ...
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#maleficentmisogyny: #research: New Study Finds Women and Girls Underrepresented and Oversexualized in Media
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / May 29, 2010New Study Finds Women and Girls Underrepresented and Oversexualized in Media loliesmith: The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has recently issued a report of the results of studies conducted ...
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#maleficentmisogyny: #research: Abusive Men Overestimate the Rate at Which Other Men Abuse: TheCurvature
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / March 30, 2010Abusive Men Overestimate the Rate at Which Other Men Abuse: The Curvature A new study has been released on the views held by men who have been known to commit intimate partner violence (IPV). While t...
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#maleficentmisogyny: #research: Women should be hit for wearing sexy clothing in public, one in seven believe
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #research, #quickhits / March 2, 2010Women should be hit for wearing sexy clothing in public, one in seven believeOne in seven people believe it is acceptable in some circumstances for a man to hit his wife or girlfriend if she is dresse...
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