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#guestpost: Implications of the Trump administration changing the definition of sexual assault – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women, #guestposts / April 30, 2018Trump’s arrival at the White House did not inspire much hope for women’s rights activists, and unfortunately, his administration has not done much to change that. In one year, he has revoked the 2014...
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#guestpost: The difference between emotional and psychological abuse against women – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #quickhits / April 16, 2018In the United States alone, more than 20 people get abused by their partner every minute. In Ireland, one in five women has been abused by their partner. While most reported forms of domestic abuse ar...
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#guestpost: How common is sexual harassment on airlines? – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #misogyny, #patriarchy, #women / April 4, 2018As you board a plane, it’s not uncommon to scrutinize the size of the seats and wonder where exactly your carry-on bags are supposed to fit. But other than that, we generally feel safe nowadays, havin...
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#womenslives: #womensstories: women in blue-collar workplaces on harassment – @nytimes
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #gender, #womenslives, #womensstories, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women / January 25, 2018A woman on a repair crew was deliberately stranded on top of a 200-foot wind turbine by her male co-workers after enduring months of lewd taunts. An aerospace worker got the nickname Bird Seed because...
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#guestpost: Women who still support Trump. Why? @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #politics, #maleficentmisogyny, #equality, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women, #guestposts / January 24, 2018America's image is being cheapened by the arrogant behavior of its asinine president — that's a fact. But the damage done goes deeper than just embarrassment in foreign relations, because Donald Trump...
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#patriarchiesrealign: #research: new study finds that teen boys use “anger and threats” to coerce explicit photos from teen girls – @themarysue
By feimineach / in #feminism, #patriarchiesrealign, #womensrights, #research, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism / January 23, 2018A new study, published in the peer-reviewed Sexuality Research and Social Policy, looked at the sexting experiences of teenage girls and found that many of them sent explicit photos not because they w...
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#guestpost: India’s sexual assault problem – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womensrights, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women, #guestposts / November 23, 2017Statistics about rape are always heartbreaking, but when you look at the numbers coming out of India, it becomes downright terrifying. Did you know that rape is the 4th most common crime in the countr...
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#malevolentmisogyny: “We are warned not to generalise. We must always be specific about male violence.”
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #womensrights, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women / October 21, 2017We are warned not to generalise. We must always be specific about male violence. “Not all men”, we must say, in case someone gets upset. We must not connect the horrendous violence of war zones with a...
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#capitalismwilleatitself: what the ‘Fearless Girl’ statue and Harvey Weinstein have in common – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #capitalismwilleatitself, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism / October 20, 2017Faux-feminism, just lean-in, you do have it all, gals, there’s nothing to see here, oh just stoppit now, etc. (emphasis added, as always). Popular feminism and popular misogyny Together, these two ...
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#guestpost: the terrifying labiaplasty trend – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #sociology, #gender, #womenslives, #patriarchy, #guestposts / October 19, 2017As women, we will do just about to achieve the perfect look. Some of what we do to improve our appearance is harmless: we shave our legs, cut and color our hair, stay up with the latest fashion trends...
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#womenslives: “I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office. A bell dinged when I opened…”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / September 7, 2017I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office. A bell dinged when I opened the door, but the receptionist didn’t greet me. There was an unspoken agreement between us. If she didn’t look at m...
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#research: #maleficentmisogyny: Evidence of a toxic environment for women in economics
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #womensrights, #academia, #research, #equality, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / August 22, 2017The 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, ...
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#womenslives: “I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / August 11, 2017#womenslives: I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office. A bell dinged when I opened the door, but the receptionist didn’t greet me. There was an unspoken agreement between us. If she di...
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#feministslives: How to spot an intellectual misogynist (and what to do with one)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits / July 10, 2017(It’s like a word-for-word description of some of my days.) ••• Have you ever had somebody try to explain logically why your feminist views are misdirected? Perhaps you’ve had to watch them draw y...
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#womenslives: This “bitch” won’t shut up: Sexist attacks on outspoken women are a problem for men to fix, too
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #womenslives, #misogyny, #quickhits, #sexism / June 26, 2017When the message arrived with the photograph of my bedroom, the intent was clear: We know where you live, where you sleep at night. Be afraid. I was. I am. The message appeared in my inbox after I...
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#guestpost: advancements in the sex industry that should concern women by @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #guestposts / June 24, 2017Guestpost by Kate Harveston, Political Journalist & Blogger. Kate writes at onlyslightlybiased.com and tweets @kateharveston. It seems like there are articles in the news every other day about ch...
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#maleficentmisogyny: “alpha” women need to learn to be nice – @broadly
By feimineach / in #sociology, #maleficentmisogyny, #womensrights, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism / 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 ...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Bikini Season. Sarah Kiefer on @FemReligion
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / May 25, 2017When 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 femal...
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#maleficentmisogyny: slut shaming and the friend zone: two sides of the objectification coin – @FeminismInIndia
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / 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 it...
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#todayin: misogyny (and politics): Vulgar misogyny didn’t harm Donald Trump – it helped him
By feimineach / in #quickhits / April 6, 2017But six months on, and liberals still don’t get why the “pussy” moment was not instrumental in raising questions about Trump. In fact it had the opposite effect. It galvanised his support. It boosted ...
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