tag: twitter (feimineach)

#womensstories: On #YesAllWomen, One Year Later

By feimineach / in #feminism, #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / May 28, 2015

On the night of May 25, 2014, I curled up in bed and waited to die.My Twitter mentions were bursting with reasons why I should. I was a man-hater. I was a rabid feminist. I was capitalizing on a trage...

#research: Women use misogynistic terms on Twitter almost as often as men

By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / May 18, 2014

A content analysis of tweets reveals that (1) misogynistic terms are frequent on twitter and they seem to be normalised (2) such terms are as likely to be used by women as men (assuming gender is easi...

ON PRIVILEGE, INTERSECTIONALITY AND TWITTER

By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #thinkyblog / April 21, 2013

I haven't commented upon the recent, several, controversies on twitter and the blogosphere that have been about privilege (the idea that some of us are better off than others because of our social, ec...