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Today in having to state the bleeding obvious: sexist industry is sexist

Meghan Murphy below discusses a sexist industry being sexist: "in an industry based on objectification, there’s going to be objectification". Who knew! On feministcurrent: When club management tol...

A feminist take on… lad culture (two new research papers)

From genderate: ‘Lad cultures’ in higher education – two academic papers out: With my co-author Isabel Young, I have recently published two academic papers on our research into ‘lad cultures’ in high...

Today in misogny: Spending time with the “women are bitches” lot

KMA Sullivan writes about what it's like to spend time in a "women are bitches" culture. Cue dehumanising language, endless objectification, rape "jokes", and bucket-loads of entitlement. It's distres...

A feminist take on… Mad Men and Game of Thrones (and call for research participants)

Love this. Astute analysis and call for research participants. Elke Weissmann is Reader in Film and Television at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, north of Liverpool. She has published a book on Bri...

A Woman’s Room Online: an artist represents online misogyny

A Woman’s Room Online: an artist represents online misogyny From Greta Christina on freethoughtblogs.com/greta: Here’s the thing. For hundreds of millions of people, the Internet is our workplace:...

“2014 is not a good year to be a teenage girl.”

2014 is not a good year to be a teenage girl. The last of the 90’s kids are growing up and we are starting to see the effects of being raised with the Internet. For generations before us, hormonal tee...

Excerpts from a sex worker’s letter to her rapist

Letter to My Rapist, Jailed for Raping Women Who Are More Respectable Than I Am This letter is most of all impossibly generous and forgiving. It also describes, harrowingly, the disjuncture between...

Sunday feminist roundup (22nd February 2015)

Not so much else this week as I've been very busy in work and play. There are a few good pieces, though: Sweeping Campus Rape Reports Under the Rug: campus administrators messing with the figures ...

Today in misogyny: feminist writers besieged by online abuse and threats

Excerpts quoted from a piece this morning by Michelle Goldberg on the Washington Post. Emphasis added. Jessica Valenti is one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation. As a colu...

Report: Magdalene Laundries, Ireland: “Death, Institutionalisation and Duration of Stay”

@maireadenright and others tweet about a new report from the Justice for Magdalenes advocacy group. 41.3% of those who entered the laundry before 1922 and remained thereafter, died behind laundry...

Irish Women Speak Out Against Brutal Childbirth Operations

I posted this radio project yesterday - ▶ A Sisterhood of Silence: radio project on Irish women travelling to England for abortions - yesterday and found the piece below earlier. It's notable that wom...

“People disagree with Bill Maher, but they never threaten his right to speak (or live). People aren’t…”

People disagree with Bill Maher, but they never threaten his right to speak (or live). People aren’t disagreeing with Anita Sarkeesian: they’re threatening to rape and kill her. And they’re doing so n...

Handy chart for deciding if you are, or are not, a “slut” (#endslutshaming)

Handy chart for deciding if you are, or are not, a "slut". Here's a handy guide for figuring out if you're a "slut". It could be put to use also by people who habitually think of others as "sluts" ...

“I’ve been to parties run by girls, and they’re much more protective — they keep an eye on each…”

I’ve been to parties run by girls, and they’re much more protective — they keep an eye on each other,” said Amber McLeod, a George Washington junior. “At frat parties, it’s more of a hunting ground. N...