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#vivelafeminism: It’s time we stopped assuring people that feminism isn’t a threat
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / July 15, 2015Finn Mackay made the following speech at Feminism in London 2013 and moved our Editorial Assistant to tears. It was originally published by Open Democracy and is reprinted here under a Creative Common...
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#vivelafeminism: The oversimplification of feminism, and how it’s destroying us
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / July 9, 2015Some very good points, well made here. By frothydragon on aroomofourown. 2011. Sat in Gatwick airport, I found myself reading a quote from Caitlin Moran’s How To Be A Woman, in which Moran described ...
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#vivelafeminism: Orange is the New Black is fast becoming a feminist classic
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / June 11, 2015Orange is the New Black is about to return for a third season. If you haven’t watched it yet, it’s time to sit up and take note: the Netflix programme looks set to become a classic of feminist televis...
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#vivelafeminism: Lads’ mags, sexual violence and the need for feminist intervention
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / June 4, 2015On lads’ mags, consent, post-feminist “empowerment” (“post-feminist” should really be in scare quotes too), and the mainstreaming of sexual violence against women and gir...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminists don’t care if you like hot pink, eat salads or shave your crotch
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 24, 2015Women around the world will be treated to such an extraordinary feat of feminism in 2016 that they’ll scarcely know what to do with it. No, I’m not talking about the first female president of the Unit...
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#vivelafeminism: On ‘corporate feminism’ and the appropriation of the women’s movement
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 14, 2015On Monday, Lisa Wade wrote, for Sociological Images, that Playboy (you know, the multi-million dollar porn empire) has been shopping around for writers who can bring some feminist cred to the magazine...
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#vivelafeminism: No, feminism is not about choice
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 3, 2015Feminism is back in fashion. As the push to claim the “f-word” has intensified, public figures, corporations and much of the mainstream media have propelled a largely unchallenging version of feminism...
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#vivelafeminism: feminism isn’t perfect, but it sure beats #womenagainstfeminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 24, 2015As most feminists know, the Women Against Feminism blog has blown up over the past couple of days. Hundreds of women have taken to social media to discuss why they are against the feminist movement, m...
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#vivelafeminism: feminism isn’t perfect, but it sure beats #womenagainstfeminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 24, 2015As most feminists know, the Women Against Feminism blog has blown up over the past couple of days. Hundreds of women have taken to social media to discuss why they are against the feminist movement, m...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism’s ugly internal clash: Why its future is not up to white women
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 17, 2015Earlier this week, I received an email from a reader who wondered what my work might look like if I “included the feminist perspective.” Since black feminism infuses and shapes all of my politics, I l...
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#vivelafeminism: If you want to write about feminism online, be ready to take on the haters
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 6, 2015My years of campaigning against the Sun’s Page 3 have given me a whole armoury of retorts to fire back at the delightful randoms who take time out of their busy days to cal me a ‘minger’. Ah, the int...
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#vivelafeminism: why feminists aren’t obligated to support right-wing women
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 6, 2015Angry cries of “where are the feminists?” resound every timea powerful woman offends women on the left. Never is this veiled accusation of hypocrisy more triumphantly leveled than during election seas...
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#vivelafeminism: time misses the point: feminism isn’t about being palatable to men by @sianfergs
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 1, 2015I’ve been reading many articles that deal with the idea of rebranding feminism as of late, but one which especially amused me was this article in TIME, entitled ‘Ironic Misandry: Why Feminists Pretend...
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#vivelafeminism: time misses the point: feminism isn’t about being palatable to men by @sianfergs
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 1, 2015I’ve been reading many articles that deal with the idea of rebranding feminism as of late, but one which especially amused me was this article in TIME, entitled ‘Ironic Misandry: Why Feminists Pretend...
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#vivelafeminism: The divide isn’t between ‘sex negative’ and ‘sex positive’ feminists — it’s between liberal and radical feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 27, 2015The divides are more accurately described as existing between liberal feminist and radical feminist ideology. Liberal feminism is takes an individualistic perspective on women’s liberation. So the pr...
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#vivelafeminism: Steinem: Our Revolution Has Just Begun
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 25, 2015If I had to pick a couple of myths about the women’s movement that are most wrong, I think two might be tied for worst place. One is that this movement—also known as women’s liberation, feminism, woma...
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#vivelafeminism: Subject to Debate: spreading feminism far and wide
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 25, 2015“Subject to Debate” is an email discussion between The Nation columnist Katha Pollitt and former executive editor Betsy Reed, now editor in chief of the Intercept, as they reflect on the state of con...
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#vivelafeminism: The biggest threat to feminism? It’s not just the patriarchy, it’s “choice feminism”
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 24, 2015[…] There are more insidious and less obvious threats. These dangers hide in plain sight, and come partly in the form of a version of feminism known as “choice feminism”. This term is used to r...
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#vivelafeminism: Gloria Steinem explains feminism’s benefits for men
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 20, 2015Love. This. Woman. I mean, no one wants feminism to become all about men (because, well, we have everything else for that) but it would help to chip away at the pervasive (and misogynistic) falsehood...
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#vivelafeminism: It’s 2050 and feminism has finally won
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 11, 2015It’s 2050 and feminism has finally won. Women make up more than 80% of serial killers and serial killer-related entertainment shows. Everyone agrees that Harper Lee wrote In Cold Blood under Tru...
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