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#research: Every single decent man I know is hugely offended by the idea
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 22, 2014Every single decent man I know is hugely offended by the idea that he doesn’t have enough self-control over his sexual urges and genitalia to avoid seriously traumatizing another human being. The idea...
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#feminismisdead: The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / February 7, 2014The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft...
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#feminismisdead: The idea that women might not place pleasing men at the centre of our politics
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / January 25, 2014The idea that women might not place pleasing men at the centre of our politics, consciously or unconsciously, makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Sometimes it makes them angry. I am regularly asked w...
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#study: Viewing An Ultrasound Does Not Dissuade Women From Abortion
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 13, 2014Important to know this in continued fight against the war on women. On RHrealitycheck:With various states passing mandatory ultrasounds and crisis pregnancy centers focusing more of their efforts on g...
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#vivelafeminism: How Can We Help Men? By Helping Women
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / January 13, 2014Feminism, there. Not just for the wimmin. From the NYTimes: THIS week Maria Shriver brings together a star-studded cast of celebrities, from Hillary Rodham Clinton to Beyoncé, to call attention to th...
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#vivelafeminism: Camden schoolgirls on frontline of fight against sexism call for feminism to be part of curriculum
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / January 11, 2014Year 12 pupil Phoebe Hamilton-Jones, leader of South Hampstead High School’s Fem Soc, with her reason why society needs feminism (@ImogenGBlake)[/caption]Link: Hampstead and Highgate Express.
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#vivelafeminism: Why having a woman’s body under patriarchy is a job in itself
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / January 11, 2014Excellent (and damned funny) column by Frances Ryan in the New Statesman. I like my feminist critique tongue-in-cheek when I can get it.Why having a woman’s body under patriarchy is a job in itself: ...
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#research: Why should we focus on women in STEM?
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 11, 2014“It starts at A-levels, with fewer girls doing a-level in STEM subjects despite out performing boys at GCSE level. Fewer still continue to study STEM subjects at undergraduate level, and fewer at post...
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#research: Be Wary of Studies That Claim Men and Women’s Brains Are Wired Differently
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 8, 2014A heads-up, just in case any of you were still inclined to take these studies at face value. On newrepublic: The Wall Street Journal reported this week on a spate of controversial new studies suggest...
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#research: White Americans Believe They Experience More Racism Than African Americans
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 7, 2014I shall let these findings speak for themselves but I think that the first thing that the respondents need to do is a crash-course on the nature of -ism and -obia and the power dynamics therein and th...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Conservative media’s greatest misogynist hits of 2013: Feminism is asexual perversion that causes statutory rape and more
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / January 4, 2014Some of these are actually hilarious. Others are terrifying. This year’s greatest misogynist hits from conservative media included gems like, ”You shut up. Know your role and shut your mouth,” the ti...
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#research: Men are stuck in gender roles
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 31, 2013See, what a lot of people don’t realise (or want to realise) is that feminism is about improving life for women and men. It’s not about subjugating men. But, see, until traditional gender roles (which...
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"AFFLUENZA" AND THE CHILDREN OF THE OTHER 99%
By feimineach / in #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #humanrights, #thinkyblog / December 15, 2013In case any of you, like me, couldn't believe their eyes when they first read this, it is actually all true. Affluenza (the notion that the rich can be forgiven for being feckless and irresponsible be...
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#feminismisdead: I am ten years old. I am riding a banana seat bike through the alleys
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / December 15, 2013I am ten years old. I am riding a banana seat bike through the alleys. I am allowed to go as far as 31st Street, and then I have to turn back. Words cannot describe how much I love this bike. It is tu...
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#womenslives: “A man in a car pulls up. He opens the window. He asks my name. I have been well-trained.”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / December 15, 2013This post (part-quoted below) is fantastic. Read all of it. I’ve been a frequent recipient of the, “Yes, yes, feminism, fine, but can you just keep it to yourself?” request. No. I am ten years old. I...
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#research: Teachers’ concerns at child sexualisation
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 9, 2013An indisputable trend now, I would say:New research has revealed that many teachers are becoming increasingly concerned about the sexualisation of children, with a growing number of their pupils displ...
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#research: New study shows surprising trends on how people are lured into sex trafficking
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 29, 2013From alternet:Human trafficking is a serious problem in the United States that is complex and frequently misunderstood. The sensationalist trafficking narrative commonly depicted in the media and by a...
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#research: Children learn sexism at school – so that’s where we should begin to fight it
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 29, 2013On theguardian: High-profile cases in Rochdale and recent reports into gangs suggest that the sort of girls who are harrassed and abused are weak and friendless, girls whose chaotic homes lives leave...
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#research: Victims of sexual coercion are often blind to the crime
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 28, 2013From commentisfree: We have known for some time that the number of convictions for rape and sexual assault are only the tip of the iceberg. Now, thanks to a survey of more than 15,000 women and men a...
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RADIO 4, VICTIM-BLAMING AND RAPE MYTHS
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #academia, #research, #misogyny, #sexism, #thinkyblog / November 26, 2013I am determined to blog properly more often and here is as good a place to start as any. A report – It's Wrong But You Get Used To It – on sexual violence and attitudes to sex has been compiled by the...
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