Nov 9, 2013

Katy Perry, Joss Whedon, and who is and isn't a feminist

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   Anyone who says "I'm not a feminist, but..." is not a feminist. Not because they don't “really” believe in equality ...
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Sep 11, 2013

On Michael Le Vell, and why arguing about rape is a waste of time

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"Anyone making any sort of claim (need not be criminal) has the burden of proof. That's Philosophy 101." So went the crushing...
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Sep 9, 2013

If you want us to care when you're killed, don't be born

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  The broadsheet Right is suddenly worried about misogyny. It's terrible ! cry the respectable pages of the Daily Telegraph. It's d...
Aug 27, 2013

Trans* murder rates - under-reported?

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  I came across this old tweet today, where the LGBT rights campaigner Peter Thatchell challenged feminist Julie Bindell to condemn the mur...
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Aug 21, 2013

The Myth of Shared Girlhood

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  The below first-hand accounts of sexual victimization of young girls are taken from a sample of 200 submissions to the Everyday Sexism Pr...
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Aug 12, 2013

The press blogger, the feminist campaigner and Jack of Kent

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SubScribe , a journalism blog, has a post up about the Mark  Neil Wilson trial case, in which the prosecutor and judge referred to the 13 y...
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Aug 10, 2013

Ignore this post if you're not on Twitter; seriously, for your own mental health

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To nobody's surprise as much as my own, I have some thoughts on the whole Graham Linehan / Sam Ambreen. I think. I kind of stayed awa...
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Jul 2, 2013

It's not the women in science who have a problem

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    Google "women in science" and you get a worrying picture. You know the kind I'm talking about - " Fewer women in top...
Jun 17, 2013

On the bystander effect and how it perversely protects victims of male violence

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   In the wake of the terrible news about Charles Saatchi seemingly assaulting his wife in public last Saturday, one of the most persiste...
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May 30, 2013

Here's some basic "reality" for ya

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In a week when a British feminist took on & defeated Facebook, Louise Mensch writes disparagingly of the supposed flaccid ineffectivene...
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May 25, 2013

Feminist theory and the blue sweater

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   In the movie "The Devil Wears Prada", which is otherwise a pretty uninspiring non-exposé of the underbelly of the fashion maga...
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Apr 10, 2013

Femen vs. Pussy Riot: Russia and the Ukraine are not in the "West"

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I've been interested in the discourse about Femen that's been going on ever since the story of Amina Tyler hit the news. One of t...
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Apr 3, 2013

Vile Product: Mick Philpott & our cosy acceptance of male violence

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The Daily Mail is doing what the Daily Mail does: taking a human tragedy & obscenely distorting it to score a cheap political point, in...
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Mar 22, 2013

Eight simple rules for not being a dick on Twitter, or: what to do when feminists are WRONG

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   1. Assume that people are competent, intelligent and are trying to do the right thing . And I don’t mean “pay lip service to that assu...
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