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#feminismisdead: Women don’t need guys anymore — this is progress? (Or whatever he’s on about.)
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / September 16, 2012You’re going to have to help me out here, readers, because I can’t make any sense out of this piece. I’ve read it twice and I still don’t what Rosin’s book is about, if t...
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#vivelafeminism: Who needs feminism (another take)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / September 11, 2012Another take on the “who needs feminism” idea.In an effort to open dialog on the subject of feminism and its importance, the students attending the Women in the Public Sphere course at Duk...
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#vivelafeminism: Rape, abortion and the fight for women’s rights in Turkey
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / September 10, 2012In Turkey, outside big cities, social life concentrates on coffee houses, that is, if you are a man. This week, the customers of a coffee house in a village in the Mediterranean region saw a young wom...
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#vivelafeminism: I need feminism because…
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / September 7, 2012[TRIGGER WARNING][via whoneedsfeminism] I need feminism because I lost ALL of my “friends” for being a lying whore after I was raped by my ex-boyfriend (assisted by one of my “good friends”).
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#maleficentmisogyny: Abortion Saves Women’s Lives – Anti-Choice really is Anti-Woman
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / September 2, 2012This is a snippet from the Raw Story. Go there and read the full article about how the republican party of the US want to happily join impoverished nations in destroying female autonomy. The fetus-fet...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Why everything Brendan O’Neill said about rape is wrong and offensive
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / September 1, 2012Brendan O'Neill saying something offensive about women and women’s issues isn’t surprising nowadays. I think it’s how he gets his jollies. But, BoJo-esque calamaity-making or not, hi...
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#research: Exposure to harsh parenting and pornography as explanations for males’sexual coercion and females’ sexual victimization
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 31, 2012On ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Abstract:Sexual violence against women is a major concern to researchers and policy makers, as well as to the general public. This study uses a sample of more than 2,000 college s...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Rape: Just another “method of conception
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / August 29, 2012“In response to a question about the “legitimate rape”/ Akin debacle, Paul Ryan says that life is life and the “method of conception” — in context, remember, rape — that doesn’t change that. Wh...
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#maleficentmisogyny: What people who talk about “legitimate rape” really mean
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / August 29, 2012These days it’s getting harder and harder for those who want to deny rape. Gone are the good ol’ days when rape within marriage was legal. Or when we thought that all rapes were conducted by men jumpi...
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#research: Chivalry on Sinking Ships Only a Myth, Researchers Find
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 25, 2012Perhaps MRAs who use this for their “women always have it easy and catch all the breaks” bit might rethink now. “Women and children first” was never the social norm on sinking ships, nor was the self...
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#vivelafeminism: Can men be feminists?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / August 24, 2012I’ve explored this issue, briefly, before. I’m not sure why the New Statesman piece has a picture of Galloway. Irony, I suppose. (By the by, the first comment on the New Statesman piece, from one Plai...
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#academia: Women in academe harassed by students
By feimineach / in #academia, #quickhits / August 22, 2012Good grief. I have never been subject to this sort of abuse, thank the gods, but I have heard of some similar experiences.[Via Feminist Philosophers] A philosopher is seeking discussion of the follow...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Society has allowed rapists to define what resistance is…
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / August 21, 2012This quote seems particularly relevant at the moment with Todd Akin’s statements about “legitimate rape”, and Assange’s rape apologists (e.g. George Galloway) claiming that Assange’s actions probably ...
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#research: Robots are stereotyped by gender too
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 19, 2012There you are. Robots are victims of the damn patriarchy too. People apply gender stereotyping to robots, according to research published in Germany.In the Journal of Applied Social Psychology (and a...
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#vivelafeminism: Why body hair is on the frontline of feminist action
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / August 17, 2012If I wasn’t as horribly entrehched in the patriarchial mores that this article describes (you will wax and shave and pluck and scrape until every single hair is vanquished), I’d be up for ...
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#research: Myths about single mothers: What bloggers and pundits are getting wrong about them
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 17, 2012The recent New York Times article connecting growing income inequality to single motherhood has set the blogosphere humming, but some of the commentary, marred by partial or second-hand reading of the...
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#vivelafeminism: Is feminism in Russia a mortal sin?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / August 16, 2012“They’re just stupid girls who wanted to gain popularity. Young punk bands can’t be that political, they can’t be that patriotic. If they had had a certain degree of intelligence, they would never hav...
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#vivelafeminism: The male feminist: a contemporary player in the fight for women’s liberation
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / August 16, 2012Here’s a piece about male feminists. Male feminists are not something I have a particular opinion about, provided that they are true allies to the movemement, but several of the comments on the ...
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#vivelafeminism: Is ‘cupcake feminism’ all empty calories?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / August 13, 2012I’ve discussed “cupcake feminism” with a few people people now. I don’t have as big an issue with people adopting the label “feminist”, and “doing feminisms&r...
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#patriarchiesrealign: For Women at the Olympics, the Spotlight Can Be Harsh
By feimineach / in #feminism, #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / August 10, 2012The American sprinter Lolo Jones may have been speaking for a number of female Olympic athletes on the “Today” show Wednesday morning when she tearfully deplored criticism she had received in American...
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