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#maleficentmisogyny: sp!ked compiles a free speech university rankings table

On the face of it, you might think that examining the extent to which free speech is thwarted on university campuses is a warranted and important exercise - after all, universities are the site of ide...

#patriarchiesrealign: Boys are doctors; girls are nurses

Boys are doctors; girls are nurses From Sociological Images: Our Pointlessly Gendered Products Pinterest board is funny, no doubt. When people make male and female versions of things like eggs, do...

#patriarchiesrealign: From Vaught’s Practical Character Reader

From Vaught’s Practical Character Reader, published in 1902 and revised in 1907, by Emily H. Vaught. There are some wonderful illustrations here (thesocietypages.org) from a book published by Emily H...

#patriarchiesrealign: #research: Gender bias found in reviews of scientific studies

A scientist’s gender can have a big impact on how other researchers perceive his or her work, according to a new study. Young scholars rated publications supposedly written by male scientists a...

#patriarchiesrealign: plain of feature and certainly overweight

Today in sexism: plain of feature and certainly overweight… Michael Rowe shared this on Facebook with the following comment: “I can’t help but wonder what it would look like if a male author w...

Anita Sarkeesian’s week of twitter harassment. Content warning for misogyny, gendered insults, victim blaming, incitement to suicide, sexual violence, rape and death threats.Ever since I bega...

Anita Sarkeesian’s week of twitter harassment. Content warning for misogyny, gendered insults, victim blaming, incitement to suicide, sexual violence, rape and death threats.Ever since I bega...

#vivelafeminism: The personal is political – living feminist politics by @saramsalem

Loved this piece on “living” feminism - it’s harder than it looks. Also, some good insight into Bourdieu’s criticism of de Beauvior. One of the most difficult parts of my own ...

#patriarchiesrealign: law students use course evaluations to discuss female professors’ clothing

We’ve said this before in the past, but it apparently bears repeating — constantly. Women in the legal profession are treated much differently than their male colleagues, right down to their fashion ...

#todayin: feminists doing feminism wrong: Topless girls in British tabloids are a product, not a cause, of sexism (apparently)

Surely they’re both? Well, rather, the Page 3 “institution” (yes, really, that is what Murdoch has called it) is both a product, and cause, of sexism. It exists because of sexism (pr...

#patriarchiesrealign: the secret plague of women at work: ‘manterrupting’

As a young lawyer in Arkansas, Hillary Clinton came across an advice column on how to decorate your first office. If you are a man, pepper it with pictures of your family, the male writer advised: “E...

#womenslives: “Four years ago I climbed into a stranger’s car…”

Four years ago I climbed into a stranger’s car, like I had so many times before. I began to direct him toward a crowded movie theater parking lot which provided the privacy and safety necessary to con...

#patriarchiesrealign: #research: Women, know your limits: cultural sexism in academia (Savignya, 2014)

Abstract: Despite the considerable advances of the feminist movement across Western societies, in Universities women are less likely to be promoted, or paid as much as their male colleagues, or even ...

#study: Majority of young women and men in US prefer egalitarian relationships

A national, representative survey of unmarried, childless 18-32 year olds in the US (cannot find how many took part) has found that young people would, ideally, prefer a relationship in which work and...

FEMINISTS DOING FEMINISM ALL WRONG (OR SO WE’RE TOLD)

ETA: despite the several hateful and humiliating machinations by The Sun this week, this is all still very relevant. Small victories, right? There’s nothing so controversial as a small victory for fe...

#maleficentmisogyny: on dowry deaths

One of my favourite columnists, Kalpana Sharma, produced a disturbing piece yesterday – on dowry deaths. Kalpana was appalled to read a headline, ‘One bride burnt every hour’. Not 50 years ago, but la...

#saturdaysatire: In a woman’s world, we men need Mike

Some Saturday Satire. And it’s glorious. And it’s on the Telegraph, of all places! (It’s not often I say this but read below the line this time for the folks who just do not get it.)...

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The Lady magazine 1977 rejects an advertisement for language reasons @volewriter. < p class="wordpresspost">(Orig. posted on feimineach.com)

#patriarchiesrealign: #research: sexist internet dudes refuse to believe sexism is a thing

Clue’s in the title, there. From: feministing: According to a new study, That Guy in the Comments Section is going to need a lot more than Real Scientific Evidence to convince him that sexism exists....