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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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#vivelefeminism: prayer and protest: Mormon women join the Trump resistance.
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #religion, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / September 26, 2017Mullins Glenn has inadvertently become the face of an unprecedented political movement among Mormon women. It started the week after Trump’s inauguration, when she and a group of writer friends were...
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#guestpost: My journey with and guide to intersectional feminism, by @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #women, #guestposts / September 20, 2017The topic of intersectional feminism has been in the news a lot lately, especially with the controversy surrounding the Women’s March earlier this year. Intersectional feminism directly contrasts the ...
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#guestpost: Debunking the myths: the #paygap is very real, by @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #guestposts / August 21, 2017People should earn what they deserve. It's a simple concept. It seems fair that if a white male makes a certain amount doing a given job, their counterpart with the same job and level of qualificati...
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“Some people ask, ‘Why the word feminist?”
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #quickhits / August 5, 2017Some people ask, ‘Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?’ Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in ...
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“The problem lies in what this neoliberal feminism skims over…”
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #gender, #capitalismwilleatitself, #patriarchy, #quickhits / August 5, 2017The problem lies in what this neoliberal feminism skims over, and the behaviours it promotes as a result of these omissions. It focuses on equality before the law, with both Women Who Work and Lean In...
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#guestpost: Four fem-power bands that are #smashingpatriarchy by @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #equality, #patriarchy, #women, #guestposts / July 31, 2017Guestpost by Kate Harveston, Political Journalist & Blogger. Kate writes at onlyslightlybiased.com and tweets @kateharveston. The music scene these days is bursting with awesome fem-power bands y...
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#guestpost: “Liking” gender stereotypical norms and disablism on Facebook
By feimineach / in #sociology, #gender, #guestposts / July 27, 2017During the summer I have seen several videos and posts online that have caught my attention. Social media can a great way to study people and what a person or several people ”like” on social medias su...
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#guestpost: advancements in the sex industry that should concern women by @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #guestposts / June 24, 2017Guestpost 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 ch...
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#capitalismwilleatitself: Defanged and sprinkled with glitter, what does modern feminism offer girls today? – @feministcurrent
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #capitalismwilleatitself, #quickhits / June 2, 2017Today’s girls still grow up surrounded by male contempt. The pornification of mainstream culture, of popular music and videos, and the constant scrutiny of social media sees their sexual objectifica...
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#feminismisdead: These are the actual divides among feminists -@msafropolitan
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #feminismisdead, #quickhits / June 2, 2017[T]he audience’s comments largely revealed the gimmick that western feminism is rapidly becoming. The audience was diverse, with a slight leaning toward young women in their late 20s or so. There wa...
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#xisafeministissue: net neutrality is a feminist issue
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #xisafeministissue, #quickhits / May 30, 2017Wondering what net neutrality is? Simply put, net neutrality bars Internet service providers (ISPs) from discriminating against web content and platforms technically and financially on the basis of ...
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#feminismisdead: The challenge for western feminism in the 21st century – @msafropolitan
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #feminismisdead, #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #quickhits / May 29, 2017Feminism in the west is failing. For one, the west has seen the smallest changes in closing the leadership gender gap. Latin America has fared best in this matter, but also voters in sub-Saharan Afr...
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#maleficentmisogyny: “alpha” women need to learn to be nice – @broadly
By feimineach / in #sociology, #maleficentmisogyny, #womensrights, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism / 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 ...
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#patriarchiesrealign: what does it mean when we call women girls?
By feimineach / in #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #equality, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / May 26, 2017Tackling the “girl” trend has become a bit of a trend in itself, but often these pieces elide a meaningful distinction between two kinds of “girl” book: those whose plots revolve around actual, unde...
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#guestpost: Heteronormativity and the family
By feimineach / in #sociology, #equality, #gender, #guestposts / May 24, 2017By Elin Weiss A while back I visited a friend who recently had a baby. During the visit we ended up talking a lot about expectations on mothers and fathers. The coupled that I visited, a man and a wo...
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#capitalismwilleatitself: Woke models: how activism became fashion’s latest must-have
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #gender, #capitalismwilleatitself, #patriarchy, #quickhits / May 18, 2017You can tell a lot about an era by its fashion models. In the 60s, the spirit of the youthquake was personified by the wide-eyed, Bambi-limbed Twiggy. In the early 90s, nothing said “sod the recessi...
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#vivelafeminism: @BitchMedia: An alternative 100 days
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #humanrights, #patriarchy / May 6, 2017We're living dystopia but by gods, we got game. From bitch email dispatch: Brown Girls appeared onscreen. [OpenTV] The newly-announced Poetry Coalition gathered to defend the value of poetr...
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#capitalismwilleatitself: many of the self-styled ‘feminist’ corporate CEOs aren’t as empowering as they think they are @alternet
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #capitalismwilleatitself / April 14, 2017The Thinx debacle demonstrates that “feminist hypocrisy is the new trend in startup narratives”. While there is certainly some truth to this, it’s important to point out that the hypocrisy isn’t that ...
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#todayin: fighting back: from pink collars to pink hats: working-class feminism and the resistance
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #quickhits / April 5, 2017Tightly gripping a “Firefighters for Women’s Rights and Equality” banner at the Women’s March on Washington, a group of women who had once made history as New York City’s first female firefigh...
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