tag: misogyny (feimineach)

#womenslives: “I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office”

August 11, 2017 Leave a comment

#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 didn’t look at me, she wouldn’t have to acknowledge that she knew what I was doing – that I would be checking out in two hours […]

#feministslives: How to spot an intellectual misogynist (and what to do with one)

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 you a graph, or even a pie chart, delineating why feminism should be replaced with the word “humanism”. Maybe you’ve tried to contribute to a conversation about […]

#womenslives: This “bitch” won’t shut up: Sexist attacks on outspoken women are a problem for men to fix, too

June 26, 2017

When 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 had published an essay on Salon sharply criticizing Sen. Bernie Sanders. The essay went viral and I received an onslaught of hate, […]

#guestpost: advancements in the sex industry that should concern women by @kateharveston

June 24, 2017

Guestpost 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 changes and advances in technology — and they’re happening across industries, even in the sex industry. The sex industry has almost exclusively been dominated by the desires of men, and women seeking the same were often […]

#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 […]

#todayin: misogyny (and politics): Vulgar misogyny didn’t harm Donald Trump – it helped him

April 6, 2017

But 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 his campaign. It played well to the base, as they like to say. Just as, in the face of all the current investigations, the men-only White […]

#picturethis: women are not buying what “The Donald” is selling (BBC).

March 31, 2017

#picturethis: women are not buying what “The Donald” is selling (BBC).

#womenslives: “I freakin’ marched for you! You won’t get down on this?!”

March 12, 2017

“I freakin’ marched for you! You won’t get down on this?!” (via bust.com) (Though I don’t get the friend bit at the end, if I’m honest.) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

#research: In 2012, UK activist Laura Bates set up the Everyday Sexism Project

February 8, 2017

In 2012, UK activist Laura Bates set up the Everyday Sexism Project to raise awareness of the banality of sexist practices facing girls and women, from schools and streets to universities and workplaces. Beginning with a website on which women were invited to post their experiences, this has become a viral international movement (Bates 2014). 2012 also saw a wave […]

#womenslives: Online harassment, young women (and the academy)

February 7, 2017

Online harassment, young women (and the academy) – @socimagination The Pew study found the distribution of these experiences to be structured by gender and age. Young adults (18-29) as a whole are more likely to experience either category of harassment but young women (18-24) are overwhelmingly the targets of the more extreme behaviours. But the gendering of these experiences, shouldn’t […]

#todayin: religion: feminists should be graceful (and they’re not, apparently)

February 6, 2017

First up: The graceful feminism of Mary Tyler Moore (National Catholic Register) The show’s character, Mary Richards, was a 30-year old career woman at a Minneapolis TV news station. She hoped for marriage but wasn’t going to stop living in the meantime. Moore conducted herself gracefully and firmly, never resorting to anger or insults, but not afraid to speak up. […]

#womenslives: “Most women can think of many occasions on which they were told…”

December 30, 2016

#womenslives: Most women can think of many occasions on which they were told that what was hurting them was not. I remember a gynecologist with thick and senseless hands, who expanded the speculum angrily and shot a meteor of pain to the base of my spine; the fontanelles in my skull seemed to separate and pain poured in like ice. […]

#feminismisdead: Trump’s top woman advisor – Kellyanne Conway – and her tireless anti-woman advocacy – @seemstween @broadly

December 28, 2016

Conway has always gleefully inhabited this position. Katie Baker, a Republican strategist who worked on Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, once said of Conway, “She has created a niche where candidates can check a box and say, well, they’ve got a woman advising them.” Indeed, before Conway became Trump’s righthand woman, she made a business out of helping Republican candidates—like Mike […]

#womenslives: No sleep for Congolese mothers trying to save their girls from rape

December 7, 2016

The mothers of Kavumu hardly sleep. But on rainy nights, they don’t even try. The rain pounds on their tin roofs so noisily that they worry they won’t hear rapists breaking in to steal their daughters. So they sit up all night, just watching their front doors. Since 2013, 49 young children, one only 18 months old, have been abducted […]

#feminismisdead: Trump’s moniker, “Crooked Hillary”, was a masterstroke

December 5, 2016

Trump’s moniker, “Crooked Hillary”, was a masterstroke. Snappy yet vague (and thus irrefutable), it gained instant traction. But it was hardly original. In portraying his opponent as untrustworthy, corrupt, and unfit for public office, Trump was reworking a theme common in the anti-feminist rhetoric of the post-war period. Writer Philip Wylie’s 1942 best-selling polemic, Generation of Vipers, excoriated American women […]

#guestpost: #research: why are feminists so unattractive?

November 8, 2016

This is a #guestpost by Elin Weiss. Elin has a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies. Her interests include feminism, gender stereotypes, the sexualization of women and the portrayal of women and men in media. More of her work can be found at the fwsablog, thefword, and metapshychology. *** Why feminists are so unattractive The critical, and more often than not, demeaning […]

#todayin: fighting back: Epic battle between feminism and deep-seated misogyny in South Korea

November 6, 2016

#todayin: fighting back: Epic battle between feminism and deep-seated misogyny in South Korea Megalia’s online activism was a bold step in a country where women continue to face discrimination at home, in the workplace, and on the streets. Yet as more women push against deep-set conservative attitudes in Korea, the backlash has been vicious. Young Korean men, who no longer […]

#research: ambivalent, hostile and benevolent sexism – @jessesingal/ @NYMag

October 28, 2016

(Lots of interesting research and theorising here about the gender order, ambivalent, hostile and benevolent* sexism, and misogyny. I suggest you read it all – it’s not long. *The most insidious of the three, perhaps, in terms of maintaining the gender order and women’s oppression.) Excerpts from nymag (captions, emphasis added): Recent election polling shows that women prefer Hillary Clinton […]

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