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#guestpost: The difference between emotional and psychological abuse against women – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #quickhits / April 16, 2018In the United States alone, more than 20 people get abused by their partner every minute. In Ireland, one in five women has been abused by their partner. While most reported forms of domestic abuse ar...
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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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#guestpost: Discussions we should be having in the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #guestposts / February 21, 2018A Michigan Court has now stacked several full lifetimes atop the prison sentence of Larry Nassar. This is a man who, in November 2017, pleaded guilty to three incidences of “criminal sexual conduct” p...
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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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#patriarchiesrealign: #research: new study finds that teen boys use “anger and threats” to coerce explicit photos from teen girls – @themarysue
By feimineach / in #feminism, #patriarchiesrealign, #womensrights, #research, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism / January 23, 2018A new study, published in the peer-reviewed Sexuality Research and Social Policy, looked at the sexting experiences of teenage girls and found that many of them sent explicit photos not because they w...
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#guestpost: Domestic abuse’s ties to homelessness is a serious women’s issue – @kateharveston #xisafeministissue
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #xisafeministissue, #guestposts / December 28, 2017Imagine for a moment that the only option you have to escape daily violence is life on the streets. That's the reality millions of women across America face every day. In fact, 50% of all homeless wo...
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#malevolentmisogyny: “We are warned not to generalise. We must always be specific about male violence.”
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #womensrights, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women / October 21, 2017We are warned not to generalise. We must always be specific about male violence. “Not all men”, we must say, in case someone gets upset. We must not connect the horrendous violence of war zones with a...
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#capitalismwilleatitself: what the ‘Fearless Girl’ statue and Harvey Weinstein have in common – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #capitalismwilleatitself, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism / October 20, 2017Faux-feminism, just lean-in, you do have it all, gals, there’s nothing to see here, oh just stoppit now, etc. (emphasis added, as always). Popular feminism and popular misogyny Together, these two ...
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#guestpost: Football and dangerous masculinity stereotypes, by @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #guestposts / October 5, 2017Guestpost by Kate Harveston, Political Journalist & Blogger. Kate writes at onlyslightlybiased.com and tweets @kateharveston. -- Does football encourage dangerous masculinity stereotypes? Fall i...
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#womenslives: #research: “When Men Murder Women” – @MSMagazine
By feimineach / in #quickhits / September 27, 2017Toxic masculinity dictates that men dominate and control women in ways that often involve violence. This virulent form of social control constructs manhood and masculinity as inextricably tied to sh...
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#womenslives: Silent suffering: when domestic violence and immigration status intersect – @thefworduk
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / September 25, 2017Ms Ilesanmi was in the UK on a joint visa with her husband, but fled her home with her small daughter because of the abuse she suffered there. She says she was beaten and forced to have an abortion b...
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#womenslives: “I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office. A bell dinged when I opened…”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / September 7, 2017I 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 m...
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#womenslives: “I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / August 11, 2017#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 di...
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#womenslives: Women on the Run – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #quickhits / July 4, 2017“Women on the run” is how the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees describes the population of Central American mothers (and children) at the U.S. / Mexico border. In a recently issued report, UNHCR ...
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#womenslives: This “bitch” won’t shut up: Sexist attacks on outspoken women are a problem for men to fix, too
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #womenslives, #misogyny, #quickhits, #sexism / June 26, 2017When 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...
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#womenslives: Will I be next? South Africa women ask – BBC News
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / May 22, 2017Caption: Karabo Mokoena’s killing is being seen as symbolic of the wider violence faced by women in South Africa Gender violence in South Africa1 in 5 women are assaulted by their partnerMore...
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#womenslives: “Why i’m done trying to get you to help fight rape culture” – @wearyourvoice
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / April 19, 2017Sometimes it feels as if no matter how many times we write our stories, no matter how many statistics we show you, you don’t really care.(Content warning: discussion of sexual assault/rape) I’m not...
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#picturethis: Overcoming anger through street art:
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #quickhits / March 29, 2017An artist known as ‘Miss Me’ has used artful vandalism to reclaim female power — and in the process, her own life. Before it happened, Miss Me had been living a “normal life,” she says. Everything ...
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#womenslives: No sleep for Congolese mothers trying to save their girls from rape
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / December 7, 2016The 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...
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#womenslives: “I am a young woman who is told to walk the long way home…”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / November 29, 2016I am a young woman who is told to walk the long way home in order to avoid dark streets or alleys. I am a young woman who once mentioned the need for consent to be taught in schools, and was told t...
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