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#maleficentmisogyny: sp!ked compiles a free speech university rankings table
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / February 2, 2015On 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...
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#maleficentmisogyny: on dowry deaths
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / January 19, 2015One 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...
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#maleficentmisogyny: sexual assault in online gaming
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / January 16, 2015From Bitch Magazine (digital edition). Hope they don’t mind me posting it like this. It’s a good read. (Click on the image for an image that you can enlarge by clicking again.) < p ...
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#maleficentmisogyny: On how feminism supposedly destroys femininity (according to Paulo Coelho)
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / January 15, 2015This old chestnut (that feminism has encouraged women to be “unfeminine”, whatever that is) does the rounds every so often. What it means is that the complainant believes that (1) women are no longer ...
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#maleficentmisogyny: study finds a third of college men would rape if they could get away with it
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / January 13, 2015I put this in the round-up on Sunday but I thought it deserved an airing of its own. A study of 73* US college men has found that nearly one-third of them would rape if (1) they thought they could get...
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#maleficentmisogyny: advertising: domestic violence sells
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / January 12, 2015The long and troubling history of using violence against women to sell products. #godblesscapitalism On Nursing Clio: The media’s sexual objectification of women has come under increasing scrutiny, ...
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#maleficentmisogyny: one in four young female internet users
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / October 25, 2014Timely. All graphs from Pew Research. Click for larger.We’ve been talking about online harassment a lot in the past few weeks and now a timely new study from the Pew Research Center offers some hard d...
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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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#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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#maleficentmisogyny: Why is being openly feminist in the boardroom seen as ‘damaging’?
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / November 10, 2013Far from the first time I’ve heard this. Feminism is as unpopular in the boardroom as it is elsewhere. Presumably it’s to do with the status quo that many would prefer unchallenged. On the...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Where do all the angry white men come from?
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / November 9, 2013“When one looks at the horrific abuse meted out to feminist campaigners such as Caroline Criado-Perez, it is hard to see it as anything but aggrieved entitlement. […] The common feature, he argues, is...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Feminism is the one F-word that makes eyes widen in polite company
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / March 16, 2013“Whatever you choose to call it, practical equal rights for women will always be a terrifying prospect for those worried about the loss of male privilege. It’s no wonder that “feminism” is still stere...
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#maleficentmisogyny: The Misogynist Elephant: Why Women Are Reluctant to Label Themselves‘Experts’
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / November 11, 2012By Jane Thomas. The under-representation of women in news reporting has come into the spotlight once again this week, courtesy of a series of high profile debates and discussions about women’s issues...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Feminism is Dead, Long Live Femininity (blah, blah, I like the statusquo, blah, blah)
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / November 4, 2012Blah, blah, blah, privileged white woman says she doesn’t need feminism and that it’s kinda aggressive and scary and that we should all, just, be cool with each other, blah, blah, blah. I don’t want ...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Sexism in the skeptic community: I spoke out, then came the rape threats
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / November 2, 2012It wasn’t until I started talking about feminism to skeptics that I realized I didn’t have a safe space.When I first got involved with the skeptics, I thought I had found my people—a community that en...
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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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#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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#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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