January 2011
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We’ve Come A Long Way, Baby.
agelez:
“We’ve Come A Long Way, Baby. The second wave is probably the most well-known time period of feminist history. Or at least the most talked about. (Bra burning! Hairy legs! Lesbians!) It’s also the most misrepresented, in my opinion. When people think about 1970s feminism, they think Gloria Steinem and burning bras. Steinem was real, bra-burning was not. The mainstream, popularized...
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“‘People would randomly scream “slut”. One boy told me that he had a fantasy that...”
– The Equality Illusion, Kat Banyard (via petitefeministe)
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“Violence against women embodies many of feminism’s central concerns,...”
– The Equality Illusion, Kat Banyard (via petitefeministe)
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“Despite the fact that sexual harassment is shown to have a more damaging impact...”
– The Equality Illusion, Kat Banyard (via petitefeministe)
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Tory MP Dominic Raab hits out at 'obnoxious...
petitefeministe:
Tory MP Dominic Raab hits out at ‘obnoxious bigotry’ of feminists
Someone actually tweeted me the link to the original article yesterday (thanks Ruth!) and I never got round to posting it. The extent of this guy’s privilege denying is absolutely incredible…
A Tory MP has hit out at “obnoxious bigotry” by feminists and insisted men are...
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“With every night that goes by you begin to feel less and less like a human...”
– ‘Lucy’ (lap dancer), The Equality Illusion, Kat Banyard (via petitefeministe)
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Don't Let The Right Wing Redefine Rape →
beyondtolerance:
Congressional Republicans have introduced a bill that would allow women using government money to receive an abortion only in the event of forcible rape. This is bullshit, and we should fight this on all fronts, including Twitter.
The new bill would deny abortion coverage for women who were not forcibly raped, including victims of statutory rape and date rape. You know, that...
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“I agree that kissing should be reserved until marriage and this is how my wife...”
– Comment at the Virgin Lips site.
Try not to barf, pls. See what I mean that we can no longer distinguish The Onion from serious statements?
(via redlightpolitics)
Oh. Sweet. Lord.
(via moreapologies)
I personally know people who saved their first kiss for their wedding day. The fetishization of...
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Thank a feminist if you agree to any of the... →
aheartfullofnapalm:
Women should have the right to vote.
Women should have access to contraceptives.
Women should have the right to work outside the home.
Women should receive equal pay for equal work.
Women should have the right to refuse sex, even with their husbands.
Women should be able to receive a higher education.
Women should have access to safe, legal abortion.
Women should be...
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“I agree that kissing should be reserved until marriage and this is how my wife...”
– Comment at the Virgin Lips site.
Try not to barf, pls. See what I mean that we can no longer distinguish The Onion from serious statements?
(via redlightpolitics)
Oh. Sweet. Lord.
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The Progressive Heroine: Abortion Rights in... →
theprogressiveheroine:
Abortion Rights in Jeopardy as Roe v. Wade Reaches 38th Anniversary
Statement from NOW President Terry O’Neill
January 21, 2011
Tomorrow is the 38th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision recognizing a woman’s constitutional right to legal abortion care. As we honor this milestone, we thank those whose courage and determination ...
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#DearJohn: For When Boehner Decides Your Rape Just...
sanitywatchers:
Well, hey there! What a beautiful Saturday afternoon it is! The sun is shining, the air is clear, the slush on the sidewalk is a sparkling shade of Pollution Beige, and OH LORD NO WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS:
Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law.
For years, federal laws restricting the...
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Think women have achieved equality? Think again.
padaviya:
Think women have achieved equality? Think again.
sheresists:
We Can’t Be Equal While: Gender Roles
Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”,...
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British Girls Undergo Horror of Genital Mutilation... →
jaraconnell:
Like any 12-year-old, Jamelia was excited at the prospect of a plane journey and a long summer holiday in the sun. An avid reader, she had filled her suitcases with books and was reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban when her mother came for her. “She said, ‘You know it’s going to be today?’ I didn’t know exactly what it would entail but...
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Ireland recognises foreign gay marriage and [some]... →
mssswitch:
Gay couples living in Ireland who have married or had a civil partnership abroad will be recognised as civil partners from today.
The change is part of Ireland’s new civil partnership laws, which give gay couples almost all the rights of marriage.
However, couples who wed in countries where gay marriage is legal will find their unions downgraded to civil partnerships.
And some...
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Women of Egypt: Images of Protest →
indianajosh:
A friend of mine on Facebook, spurred by recent questions as to the role of women in the protest movement in Egypt, recently began to compile a collection of photographs of women involved in the pro-democratic (Reuters needs to correct their “anti-government” wording) protest movement. It’s a really great album, and she continues to add to it as new images of women involved in the...
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“If Sarah Palin were black, her daughter’s out of wedlock, “baby daddy drama”...”
– If Sarah Palin Were Black (via azspot)
Just goes to show how far Palin’s whiteness can take her. Zero intellect, two high school drop-outs, an unwed teen mother, a quitter of the one major job she had. Master of hateful coded language targeting opponents as not “real Americans”. Belongs to a church...
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“What is hipster racism?
Hipster racism involves making derogatory comments...”
– Hipster Racism
A good, clear post about no matter how you package it, racist shit is still racist. You think you sound cool and informed? Nope, still sound like an idiot. Owning up to what we say (this goes for me, too) is the only way to stop racism, not being ironic about it.
(via eyre)
This....
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One Year Later, Sexual Violence Remains an... →
thecurvature:
Many women in Haiti — those who are currently among the most marginalized and vulnerable across the board — are living multiple horrors at once. On top of the trauma of the earthquake itself and the many deaths and injuries it caused, on top of the trauma of homelessness or near-homelessness and fear for one’s ongoing ability to access food and water, on top of an epidemic of...
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The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape →
Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law.
For years, federal laws restricting the use of government funds to pay for abortions have included exemptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. (Another exemption covers pregnancies that could endanger the life of the woman.) But the “No Taxpayer...
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Women, men, and children victimized by another... →
doctorswithoutborders:
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided specialized care to 53 women, men, and children who were raped in a series of incidents that occurred between January 19 and 21 in South Kivu Province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Most of the rape survivors MSF treated yesterday said they were ambushed on January 19 around the...
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A woman is raped by five men. She is sentenced to... →
A 23-year-old unmarried woman was awarded one-year prison term and 100 lashes for committing adultery and trying to abort the resultant fetus. The District Court in Jeddah pronounced the verdict on Saturday after the girl confessed that she had a forced sexual intercourse with a man who had offered her a ride. The man, the girl confessed, took her to a rest house, east of Jeddah, where he...
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Rape Suspect Cross-Examines Accuser, Then Asks For... →
Having already been subjected to the trauma of being questioned directly in open court by the man she has accused of raping her, this woman must now give her testimony again, for the lawyer that Harris has finally decided he wants with extraordinarily convenient timing.
The article notes that the judge, who it seems has advocated for the accuser as best he can throughout the trial, is...
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Haiti: sexual violence against women increasing →
international-love-song:
Amnesty International Press release 6 January 2011
Women and girls living in Haiti’s makeshift camps face an increasing risk of rape and sexual violence, Amnesty International said in a new report released today.
One year after the earthquake which killed 230,000 people and injured 300,000, more than one million people still live in appalling conditions in tent...
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“For young women to dress provocatively - and we have all seen it on Britain’s...”
– David Russell, Loule, Portugal - letters page of the Sunday Times. Let’s just go over this again - teenage girls cannot provoke anyone into raping them. The only person who bears ANY responsibility for the rape is the rapist(s). It worries me that this person is real life. (via...
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Orthodox church slammed after blaming women for... →
A church call for a national dress code has provoked a furious response after a senior cleric claimed wearing a miniskirt could provoke a rapist.
In an argument which Western feminists thought had been resolved decades ago, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, head of the Orthodox Church’s Synodal Department for Church and Society, suggested that a drunk woman in a miniskirt had no right to be...
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House Proud: The troubling rise of stay-at-home... →
alwaysdirtyowl:
“Daughters aren’t to be independent. They’re not to act outside the scope
of their father. As long as they’re under the authority of their fathers, fathers have the ability to nullify or not the oaths and the vows. Daughters can’t just go out
independently and say, ‘I’m going to marry whoever I want.’ No. The father has
the ability to say, ‘No, I’m sorry, that has to be...
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“…as long as we refer to our sex organ as the “birth canal” we will remain baby...”
– Betty Dodson
http://dodsonandross.com/blogs/betty-dodson/2010/07/it-vulva-or-vagina
(via iwillnotshavemyvagina)
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Horrifying Sexual Harassment Bathroom Cleaner... →
kittencoaster:
Cleaning products company Method has apologized for its controversial “Shiny Suds” video, which depicted fratboy-like chemical bubbles harassing a bathing woman, and has pulled the video from all “controlled sources.” We’ve still got it, though, plus a statement from Method.
The video was part of a campaign the natural cleaning products company ...
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Children of rape: Latest legacy of Haiti quake →
A year after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, women in Haiti’s still-teeming tent cities face yet another threat: sexual violence. With little protection from community or law enforcement, many have been violently raped, only to become pregnant with their attackers’ children.
A community organizer and a local midwife confirmed his worries: Many of the women were pregnant as a result of rape....
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Land and Dobson Blame Feminism For the Fact That... →
hellocarrot:
James Dobson recently appeared on Richard Land’s radio program to discuss his latest book “Bringing Up Girls” during which he warned that if parents don’t pay close attention to their children, the culture will drag them off to Hell while the two men lamented that their amazing daughters cannot find any good men to marry, and it is all feminism’s...
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“Sociologist Allan Johnson notes that a society is patriarchal to the extent that...”
– Ezzell, Matthew B. (2009). “Pornography, lad mags, video games, and boys: Reviving the canary in the cultural coal mine.” In Olfman, S. (Ed), The sexualization of childhood (pp. 7-32). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. (via iwillnotshavemyvagina)
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“As a feminist, I know my freedom is limited as long as whores are stigmatized...”
– Gail Pheterson, A Vindication of the Rights of Whores, 1989.
If you can get a hold of this book, I highly suggest you do so and read it. Listen to the voices of women who have been in the industry.
(via malefeministandthenakedsamba)
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Wolf-whistling: not flattered →
sequinedk:
According to an MSN story, women secretly love street harassment. Fiona H Halliday is exasperated.
Signing into MSN to read my email the other day, an annoying window popped up telling me what rubbish I could read on MSN. Doubtless these articles are mostly always nonsense, but I was shamefully intrigued by ‘Secrets girls don’t want guys to know’. I have no idea what I was...
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Silvio Berlusconi investigated in teenage... →
redlightpolitics:
via The Guardian, Silvio Berlusconi investigated in teenage prostitution case:
Silvio Berlusconi has been formally placed under investigation on suspicion of paying for sex with a 17-year old girl, according to a statement issued today by prosecutors in Milan.
He was further accused of…
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Abortion rights, in peril in New Jersey →
sanssoin:
The mask is off now. Gov. Chris Christie is no longer posing as a moderate voice on abortion rights, as he did during his 2009 campaign. He is now championing the anti-abortion cause, saying it is time to restrict those rights.
“This is an issue whose time has come,” he told an anti-abortion rally Monday at the Statehouse.
As a younger politician, Christie favored abortion rights,...
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Study finds no rise in post-abortion mental issues →
As if deciding how to handle an unplanned pregnancy wasn’t stressful enough, several studies in recent years have suggested that young women who have an abortion may be at increased risk of mental health problems afterward.
Those concerns are unfounded, according to a new study conducted in Denmark and published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. In fact, the study...
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Pro-lifers pretended to be child sex traffickers... →
ladysugatitshoecakes:
Yesterday [Tuesday 25th] anti-choice operative Jill Stanek stated on her website and indicated to RH Reality Check through Twitter that Lila Rose and Live Action Films were responsible. Rose has not claimed responsibility, but has stated that “The story that speaks loudest will be in the evidence,” … “I can’t comment until we release the visual evidence.” In...
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“If feminism is a movement to end sexist oppression, and depriving females of...”
– Feminism is for Everybody, bell hooks
Are you listening, Sarah Palin?
(via petitefeministe)
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Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to...
derpraptor:
From Kate Harding.
Gentlemen. Thank you for reading.
Let me start out by assuring you that I understand you are a good sort of person. You are kind to children and animals. You respect the elderly. You donate to charity. You tell jokes without laughing at your own punchlines. You respect women. You like women. In fact, you would really like to have a mutually respectful...
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The Afghan government is trying to whitewash the... →
Wardak plays down Taliban attacks on women and girls because he has become a leading government proponent of the need for reconciliation with the Taliban. It suits his agenda to whitewash continuing Taliban crimes. And, like many Afghan politicians, he prefers the conspiracy claims – that the Taliban are an entirely Pakistani creation, rather than confronting the messy reality of a home-grown...
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The top 10 news events for women in 2010
padaviya:
The top 10 news events for women in 2010 (via Girl Brain)
I’m not even going to PRETEND this list is exhaustive, impartial or definitive, it’s just stories that either a)would obviously have an impact on women’s lives (and obviously made an impact in the world’s media) or simply caught my eye. But what do you think? Add your own in the comments!
1. UN Women, the United Nations...