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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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#womenslives: Mexico City’s metro’s ‘penis seat’
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / March 31, 2017When a new style of seat suddenly appeared on Mexico City’s metro system, it was labelled as inappropriate, uncomfortable, humiliating and embarrassing. It was supposed to be. The seat, moul...
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#womenslives: “If a woman has developed a coping strategy for street harassment, it means she needs one” – @Scott_Hadley
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / September 18, 2016I say I don’t see it, I didn’t see it, not until recently.I was driving through the city one hot Summer night and heard, clear, loud, and shouted across the grey road:“Leave me alone, you f*cking paed...
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#research: A study found that more than half of working women in the UK
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 11, 2016this-is-life-actually: A study found that more than half of working women in the UK have been sexually harassed on the jobResearchers from the Trades Union Congress and the Everyday Sexism Project ...
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#womenslives: “I’ve never seen a poster giving tips to stop me being potentially run over by a motorist” – @FeministIre
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / July 4, 2016The dark, lurking horror of parenting girls (and what we’re teaching them about their bodies). @FeministIre (emphasis added, as always):So, with this in mind what are we teaching girls about that? Are...
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#womensstories: “Then, a month ago, she wrote and asked me what to do…”
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #academia, #womensstories, #quickhits / March 6, 2016Then, a month ago, she wrote and asked me what to do. She forwarded an email she had received from a senior colleague that opened, “Can I share something deeply personal with you?” Within the email,...
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#womenstories: creeps on a train (from lililascala)
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / December 7, 2015I stepped on to the train and assumed my usual corner seat, the one right at the front with a little table. Within a minute or so, five chaps of a rather burly description with shaved heads and assort...
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#womensstoires: He sexually harassed my 13-year-old daughter – right in front of me
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / November 23, 2015My 13-year-old daughter and I went to see Jane Eyre at the National Theatre on the South Bank, a few weeks ago. It was a clear night and we walked across the bridge to catch the tube, talking about th...
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#womensstories: An Untitled Poem, by Anonymous Young Woman
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / September 30, 2015When I was six years old, I gave my first blowjob.“It’s a game”, said He. “Don’t you want to play?”It was too big, and I threw up on him.He said I’d do better...
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#todayin: you couldn’t make it up: BBC’s Sarah Teale harassed during report about harassment
By feimineach / in #quickhits / September 28, 2015today in you couldn’t make it up: ▶ BBC’s Sarah Teale harassed during report about harassmentVideo on link: BBC News
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#maleficentmisogyny: the awful truth behind the sexual harassment of women gamers
By feimineach / in #feminism, #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / March 16, 2015“You can see it getting progressively worse and worse. […] I’m not a gamer, so when he sent that to me I was just shocked — like a lot of people would be. I wanted other people like me, who are not ga...
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#maleficentmisogyny: one in four young female internet users
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / October 25, 2014Timely. All graphs from Pew Research. Click for larger.We’ve been talking about online harassment a lot in the past few weeks and now a timely new study from the Pew Research Center offers some hard d...
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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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#vivelafeminism: International Feminism: Battling Street Harassment
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / February 25, 2013Wir haben uns so an sexuelle Übergriffe jeglicher Art im Alltag gewöhnt, dass wir manchmal vergessen, uns dagegen zu wehre “We have become so accustomed to sexual assault of any kind in everyday life ...
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