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This week’s news cycle dominated by earth-shattering revelation that Hillary Clinton is made of flesh and blood – @ESTBLSHMNT

This week’s news cycle was dominated by the apparently earth-shattering revelation that Hillary Clinton is made of flesh and blood. That’s right: Her immune system sometimes gets overtaxed, and stan...

“The act of trusting women shouldn’t be a radical act” @JessicaValenti

The notion that women are fundamentally untrustworthy snakes through almost every area of our lives. Managers distrust women who ask for flextime; women who show anger are less trusted than their male...

Toxic, bullying troll culture has made much of the internet dangerous; just perfect for Trump’s political rise – @alternet

A 2014 Pew Research Center study found that “73 percent of [U.S.-based] adult Internet users have seen someone be harassed in some way online and 40 percent have personally experienced it.” While that...

“Rape is also used as a device to motivate male heroes” – Ellen Vanstone

How has rape become such a common trope of television drama?: It’s used as a back story (usually with graphic flashbacks) for characters such as Elizabeth Jennings in The Americans, raped by her Sovie...

“I appreciate the world of mating is hard but please, for the love of humanity, learn this: just…”

“I appreciate the world of mating is hard but please, for the love of humanity, learn this: just because you want, doesn’t mean you can have. Women are not commodities to be hunted and won, and if you...

Advertising and women: “teases”, “pieces of meat” and “conquered” – @ConversationUK

By Lauren Gurrieri, Helen Cherrier, Jan Brace-Govan, The Conversation Advertisers, challenged with cutting through a cluttered marketing environment, sometimes aim to shock. Unfortunately while t...

Every 10 seconds, someone on Twitter calls a woman a ‘slut’ or ‘whore’

Every 10 seconds, someone on Twitter calls a woman a ‘slut’ or ‘whore’: Here is a bit of news that should surprise no one: Despite myriad incremental efforts to make the Internet more woman-friendly, ...

“Men who purchase sex are open about belief that entitlement to sex takes precedence over wellbeing of women they buy” – @caitlin_roper

"Men who purchase sex are open about belief that entitlement to sex takes precedence over wellbeing of women they buy" - @caitlin_roper: The “Comparing Sex Buyers” study reveals that men who pay to se...

#womenslives: ‘“Bro talk” produces a force field of disrespect and exclusion’ –  @SamPolk

#womenslives: '“Bro talk” produces a force field of disrespect and exclusion' - @SamPolk: For my entire life, I’ve heard men talk about women. On baseball fields, in wrestling locker rooms, at frat pa...

“Listen: The only direction anybody should be giving to someone who wants to talk to a woman wearing…”

So, so, so much has been (rightly) written about that now infamous blog post which was advising men on how to talk to women wearing headphones (God in heaven). Here's one example: “Listen: The only d...

#todayin: fighting back: questioning rape in China – @tingguowrites (@5050oD)

On power, privilege, structure, patriarchy, rape acceptance, and the fightback, in China. @tingguowrites on opendemocracy: “All victims have something to be despised” vs the crime of rape On 27 Jun...

She’s “the manliest woman I have ever seen”: gender and the Olympics – @ConversationUK

From The Conversation: Why are Olympic athletes copping so much abuse? It all comes down to gender This widespread sexism at the Olympics shows us that women and men who do not conform to expectation...

“We need to call it what it is: Female Reproductive Mutilation” – @glosswitch

We need to call the rise of binding, puberty blocking, mastectomy, testosterone prescriptions and hysterectomy for girls and young women what it is: Female Reproductive Mutilation. Just as with FGM, i...

#womenslives: he thinks you’re a hoe anyway! the -1 vs. +1 woman’s value theory – @thefeministwire

By the by, this is a really great series of posts (feministwire) where women talk about their lives, stories, experiences, and feminisms. Look for emerging feminisms on feministwire. This one: He Thi...

The triumph of the pornographers – @feministcurrent

(Huge, HUGE content note.) And the woman enduring two penises shoved up her anus? This is not an exaggeration or “focusing on the worst,” as feminists are often accused of doing. “Double-anal” is now...

#guestpost: Catching whores and sluts: sexism and fishing

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 m...

#feministslives: rape threats against five-year-old daughter

CHRIST ON A BIKE. From rawstory: Prominent feminist writer and columnist said she is being forced to abandon social media after receiving rape and death threats against her 5-year-old daughter. O...

#womensstories: puberty ruined me – @thefeministwire

Sexual education was severely lacking at my grade school, because the students were only allowed to know sex is on a biological level, and how bodies grew when they went through puberty. We weren’t in...

The difference between sex and sexism in advertising – @ConversationUK

From @ConversationUK: Linda Brennan, RMIT University; Colin Jevons, Monash University, and Glen Donnar, RMIT University [...] Sex and sexism, however, are different things. One is fun and most people...

“Porn significantly associated with attitudes conducive to sexual aggression, acts of sexual aggression”

Since 2011, there have been at least 24 studies that have revealed porn negatively impacts the brain — which may actually be physically altered by pornography. Further, an analysis of 22 studies from ...