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#vivelafeminism: Feminism makes the world safer and richer: New U.N. report confirms
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / November 9, 2015profeminist: “When it comes to war, one of the groups most negatively impacted is often ignored: women. Studies have long shown that women bear enormous burdens in violent conflicts. A new exhaustiv...
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#vivelafeminism: Today’s young women have betrayed feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / November 5, 2015Kate appeared at the Queen’s birthday parade, big with baby, smiling, blooming. She, who wore an ice- cream pink outfit, is a perfect icon of today’s womanhood – rich and canny, compliant in public, n...
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#saturdaysatire: Man Joining Feminist Movement Has No Ulterior Motive
By feimineach / in #feminism, #saturdaysatire / October 31, 2015A Dublin based student reportedly has no ulterior motive in joining his college’s feminist movement. WWN understands that Fergal Richards, a student at Trinity College Dublin, joined one of the colle...
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#vivelafeminism: feminist consciousness
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / October 27, 2015This is the very best blog post about feminism that I’ve read in a, well, a long time. Sara Ahmed on feministkilljoys.com discusses becoming feminist, developing that feminist consciousness and ...
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#todayin: feminists ruining everything: Wikileaks and “the state-controlled scourge of modern feminism”
By feimineach / in #quickhits / October 21, 2015This will be nothing at all to do with the lift on Assange’s police protection. This is all just a feminist vendetta. Just putting that on the table now. Nothing at all to do with the removal of...
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#womenslives: The History of Female Anger
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / October 16, 2015Women’s anger is a powerful force; coded as a dangerous and destabilizing, it wreaks havoc on blissful homes and placid communities. Stereotypes about female anger ubiquitous: the shrill wife, the cra...
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#vivelafeminism: The seven priorities for young feminists today
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / October 9, 2015All relevant and current. From theguardian: I first learned about the suffragettes in a history lesson, aged 10, and initially I couldn’t really grasp their significance. A few years later, I was com...
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#vivelafeminism: Why are we so afraid of the f-word?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / October 2, 2015So how do we change the perception that “feminism is scary”? The answer is that we shouldn’t have to. Instead of teaching women to shy away from feminism we should be empowering women to speak up. Ed...
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#todayin: history: The overlooked history of #womenagainstfeminism
By feimineach / in #quickhits / October 1, 2015I agree with not one word that they (women who are against feminism) say, and nor do I particularly feel that I/ we are obliged to defend their right to say it, but their history is interesting noneth...
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#vivelafeminism: If feminist icons lose their way the movement continues without them
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / September 22, 2015On feminism and “old” vs. “new” activism. Bottom line: young women are not apathetic or frivolous any more than older women are redundant, but there does seem to be a case for more listening and learn...
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#todayin: fighting back: Charlotte Proudman: don’t let the abuse scare you: we can confront the sexists
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / September 17, 2015This morning I opened my email account to find another death threat. The sender said they knew where I live and work. They said they would be waiting. Within two months they would cut off my head and ...
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#maleficentmisogyny: “feminazi”: the go-to term for trolls out to silence women
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / September 16, 2015“Feminazi”: “a feminist to whom the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur” (Limbaugh). Yeah, that’s plausible. See also: This just in! I...
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#womenslives: “We cannot expect poor women feeding their families on food stamps…”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / September 14, 2015We cannot expect poor women feeding their families on food stamps to have the same priorities as female lawyers hoping to become partners in law firms. We cannot expect working-class women concerned w...
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#feminismisdead: This just in! I think I’m a “feminazi” *
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / September 11, 2015Treat it like a Cosmo quiz where if you agree with, say, six or more of the statements out of the 10, then you can conclude that you, too, are a “feminazi”.* (Shame on you!) I scored 10/1...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: New project sheds light on Pakistan’s lesser known feminist history
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / July 17, 2015It had been there for decades — a red, blue and white flag unfurling in the wind, an unwanted blot in the sky for many who walked under it. And then, in the blink of an eye, it was gone, removed by a...
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#womensstories: ““Girls’ behavioral reaction to sexual abuse and trauma is criminalized…”
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / July 16, 2015“Girls’ behavioral reaction to sexual abuse and trauma is criminalized, reinforcing the sexual abuse to prison pipeline…. The most common crimes for which girls are arrested — including running away, ...
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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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#womensstories: Girls’ stories: the sexual abuse to prison pipeline
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / July 13, 2015From the report: Sasha was raped as a high school student. When news of the rape was circulated in social media, she was ridiculed by her classmates, making it impossible for her to feel safe at scho...
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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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#womenslives #feminism #misogyny #sexism
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / July 8, 2015#womenslives #feminism #misogyny #sexism
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