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Glastonbury 2014: Dolly Parton has never been more real
By feimineach / in #quickhits / July 1, 2014Here’s a fantastic rebuttal to Graham Linehan’s tweets at the weekend. I have seldom been so disappointed with one individual as I was when I followed Linehan for about two weeks on twitter and realis...
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#feminismisdead: “Feminism would be a lot more popular if…”: Unpacking a misogynist fallacy
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / June 30, 2014Here’s an excellent post on fwsablog.org.uk about the ways in which feminists have to justify their beliefs, principles and actions to those who “disagree” with feminism or who find it “objectionable”...
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#research: Two thirds of women in the US have been street harassed
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / June 13, 2014I’m surprised, really, that it’s as low as 65%. That could be indication of how normalised and “acceptable” street harassment has become. From feministing:A new study commissioned by Stop Street Haras...
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#research: One third of Britons ‘admit being racially prejudiced
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / May 28, 2014One third of Britons ‘admit being racially prejudiced’So the percentage of people who admit to being “somewhat” racist hasn’t changed hugely in 30 years (but that’s a fascinating finding in itself – s...
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#research: Women use misogynistic terms on Twitter almost as often as men
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / May 18, 2014A content analysis of tweets reveals that (1) misogynistic terms are frequent on twitter and they seem to be normalised (2) such terms are as likely to be used by women as men (assuming gender is easi...
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#research: Gender language differences: women interrupted more
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / May 15, 2014Interesting methodology and findings. Emphasis added. […]Recent research, though, suggests that the most important variable is not the sex of the person doing the talking, but that of the pers...
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#research: Sexual Assault on the College Campus
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / May 14, 2014From the discussion. (I have the full paper if anyone wants it.) Scholarship on violence against women has proposed offense-specific explanations arguing that traditional criminology is insufficient ...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminists aren’t ‘man-haters’ – we just don’t like men who are sexist
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 3, 2014From time to time, I’ll respond at length to comments left on my pieces here in the column. Mostly, I’ll choose substantive and thoughtful comment to address, but this first time is different. During ...
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#feminismisdead: What you’re doing, Ms. Schlafly
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / April 25, 2014What you’re doing, Ms. Schlafly, is contributing to something very disturbing I see happening with some of the teenage girls I know. At a time in their lives when they should be free, independent, and...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Feminism is the new misogyny: On ‘Belle Knox feminism’ and the new backlash
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / April 5, 2014This just in from the backlash: everything is feminism’s fault and we are the real woman-haters. You knew that, didn’t you? That it was not men, but women — and not just women, but feminists — who we...
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#feminismisdead: Rape Culture is Very Real; We Are Not Hysterical
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / March 27, 2014Don’t read the Time article unless you are particularly strong of stomach. I think I can speak for many people when I say reading the Time article ”It’s Time to End ‘Rape Culture’ Hysteria” by Caroli...
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#research: Victim Blaming Others: Rape Myth Acceptance and the Just World Belief
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 27, 2014This is an interesting study published in the journal of Feminist Criminology recently. It’s the about the extent to which rape myths are accepted (i.e. rape is normalised and excused) if individuals ...
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#research: The bottom line is that saying there are differences in male and female brains is just not tru
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 24, 2014The bottom line is that saying there are differences in male and female brains is just not true. There is pretty compelling evidence that any differences are tiny and are the result of environment not...
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By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 12, 2014
A Very Sick Irony: Women’s Anti-Violence Demonstration in Sweden Turns Violent According to multiple left-wing Swedish news sources, the group of feminists were attacked at 1am, leaving a “Recl...
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By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 12, 2014
A Very Sick Irony: Women’s Anti-Violence Demonstration in Sweden Turns Violent According to multiple left-wing Swedish news sources, the group of feminists were attacked at 1am, leaving a “Recl...
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By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 11, 2014
Someone says feminism is dead. Again. This old chestnut. It hasn’t been right before and it’s not right now. […] The Washington Times article draws on a poll by the Economist/Yo...
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By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 11, 2014
Someone says feminism is dead. Again. This old chestnut. It hasn’t been right before and it’s not right now. […] The Washington Times article draws on a poll by the Economist/Yo...
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YES, WE DO STILL NEED INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #humanrights, #misogyny, #sexism, #thinkyblog / March 10, 2014Over on the quickhits earlier, I posted this link. It was to a piece in the Indy today, entitled, "To those who can’t see the point of International Women’s Day: you are the very reason it exists". We...
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#research: Violence against women: an EU-wide survey: main results report
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 9, 2014This FRA survey is the first of its kind on violence against women across the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU). It is based on interviews with 42,000 women across the EU, who were asked abo...
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#research: New study finds that drinking doesn’t cause sexual aggression, predators target drunk women
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 8, 2014A new study backs up what feminists have been saying for approximately ever about the relationship between drinking and rape. Namely, that alcohol–despite its impressive powers–neither magically turns...
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