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Glastonbury 2014: Dolly Parton has never been more real
By feimineach / in #quickhits / July 1, 2014Here’s a fantastic rebuttal to Graham Linehan’s tweets at the weekend. I have seldom been so disappointed with one individual as I was when I followed Linehan for about two weeks on twitter and realis...
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#feminismisdead: “Feminism would be a lot more popular if…”: Unpacking a misogynist fallacy
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / June 30, 2014Here’s an excellent post on fwsablog.org.uk about the ways in which feminists have to justify their beliefs, principles and actions to those who “disagree” with feminism or who find it “objectionable”...
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#research: Two thirds of women in the US have been street harassed
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / June 13, 2014I’m surprised, really, that it’s as low as 65%. That could be indication of how normalised and “acceptable” street harassment has become. From feministing:A new study commissioned by Stop Street Haras...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminists aren’t ‘man-haters’ – we just don’t like men who are sexist
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 3, 2014From time to time, I’ll respond at length to comments left on my pieces here in the column. Mostly, I’ll choose substantive and thoughtful comment to address, but this first time is different. During ...
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#feminismisdead: What you’re doing, Ms. Schlafly
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / April 25, 2014What you’re doing, Ms. Schlafly, is contributing to something very disturbing I see happening with some of the teenage girls I know. At a time in their lives when they should be free, independent, and...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Feminism is the new misogyny: On ‘Belle Knox feminism’ and the new backlash
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / April 5, 2014This just in from the backlash: everything is feminism’s fault and we are the real woman-haters. You knew that, didn’t you? That it was not men, but women — and not just women, but feminists — who we...
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#feminismisdead: Rape Culture is Very Real; We Are Not Hysterical
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / March 27, 2014Don’t read the Time article unless you are particularly strong of stomach. I think I can speak for many people when I say reading the Time article ”It’s Time to End ‘Rape Culture’ Hysteria” by Caroli...
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#research: Victim Blaming Others: Rape Myth Acceptance and the Just World Belief
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 27, 2014This is an interesting study published in the journal of Feminist Criminology recently. It’s the about the extent to which rape myths are accepted (i.e. rape is normalised and excused) if individuals ...
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By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 12, 2014
A Very Sick Irony: Women’s Anti-Violence Demonstration in Sweden Turns Violent According to multiple left-wing Swedish news sources, the group of feminists were attacked at 1am, leaving a “Recl...
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By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 12, 2014
A Very Sick Irony: Women’s Anti-Violence Demonstration in Sweden Turns Violent According to multiple left-wing Swedish news sources, the group of feminists were attacked at 1am, leaving a “Recl...
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By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 11, 2014
Someone says feminism is dead. Again. This old chestnut. It hasn’t been right before and it’s not right now. […] The Washington Times article draws on a poll by the Economist/Yo...
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By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 11, 2014
Someone says feminism is dead. Again. This old chestnut. It hasn’t been right before and it’s not right now. […] The Washington Times article draws on a poll by the Economist/Yo...
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YES, WE DO STILL NEED INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #humanrights, #misogyny, #sexism, #thinkyblog / March 10, 2014Over on the quickhits earlier, I posted this link. It was to a piece in the Indy today, entitled, "To those who can’t see the point of International Women’s Day: you are the very reason it exists". We...
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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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