Common Sense Time.
So Congressional GOP members want to extend Mississippi’s asinine personhood amendment to the whole country. Caperton wrote about the Mississippi bill, and detailed many of the ridiculous ways it will interfere with basic rights — one of the goals of the bill is to outlaw many forms of birth control, and it will undoubtedly be [...]
...read moreThe Back of the Bus
Didn’t an iconic figure in the American civil rights movement already take this one on? In many ways, the B110 bus that connects South Williamsburg and Borough Park seems like any other bus. It has a route number and blue bus stop signs like any other city bus, and it’s open to the public. But [...]
...read moreSteven Greenstreet proves he’s definitely not a misogynist by making rape jokes.
Steven Greenstreet is the dude behind the Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street tumblr and video. That video has gotten a lot of attention — a lot of women and some dudes have been like “well this is fucked up,” and then some other dudes have been like “I don’t see what the big deal [...]
...read moreAnother day, another man kills his ex-wife, MRAs cheer
A man in California shot and killed his ex-wife and seven other people last week. The two were involved in a bitter custody dispute over their son. The story is incredibly sad, but men’s rights activists (“MRAs,” going forward) have again taken it as a lesson in the evils of both women and a legal [...]
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Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street
So, Steven Greenstreet, who describes himself as a “documentary filmmaker, video producer, 7D owner, comic book reader, sci fi nerd, atheistic troublemaker, and social media mercenary” but who I think is better characterized as a “creepy voyeur who is basically a more mainstream version of that guy who hid in a port-a-potty at a yoga [...]
...read moreDerby Names
Feministe friend Tricia sends on this article about the disgusting, often misogynist, names that have become common in derby culture. The creativity is laudable, I suppose, insofar as it’s ever laudable to come up with 10,000 different ways to equate sex with violence and abuse. “Pat McCrotch” and “Clitty Clitty Bang Bang”? Sure, ok. Juvenile, [...]
...read moreThe deficient single woman
Chally is a former Feministe staffer. She writes at Zero at the Bone. I’m really quite troubled by the centring of romantic/sexual relationships at the expense of all other ways of organising lives. Right now, I’m going to explore this in terms of single women being seen as deficient. I’ve seen so many divorced and [...]
...read moreDirty Girl Ministries
The title of the ministry — and the tagline “Dirty Girls Come Clean” — makes it sound like this could be a pretty fun church. Sadly no! The No Stones recovery group is part of an organization called Dirty Girls Ministries that Renaud launched in 2009 after suffering from her own self-described pornography addiction. She [...]
...read moreA rant about street harassment
To the guy who nearly knocked me down with his bike as I crossed the street in the pouring rain, yelling, “nice legs baby”: Fuck you. You ran over my foot, asshole. You are the reason I almost didn’t wear shorts on that walk. I love walking in the rain. Probably because vancouver is under [...]
...read more…and after you’ve stopped with the bathing suit pictures, maybe stop having breasts.
The following may be triggering for some, as it concerns the physical abuse of young girls. I can’t even. What the fuck. I’m working on the afore-mentioned “white Jewish lady” post (more accurately: I appeared on Russian TV yesterday to discuss Israel/Palestine but am having a hard time embedding the video) but in the meantime, [...]
...read moreThe Man Who Hated Women
Shocker: Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik is a racist and a misogynist, and his shooting rampage was inspired by his hatred of women, Muslims, and brown people. He uses a lot of the same tropes as Men’s Rights activists. He was encouraged by anti-Islam bloggers in the United States who routinely warn of the “Islamicization” [...]
...read moreThere Are No Perfect Accusers.
The big story in the news today is the release on Dominique Strauss-Kahn as the sexual assault case against him teeters. The New York Times features a breathtakingly victim-blamey article about the accuser’s credibility, detailing the ways in which she is not a perfect human being: The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on [...]
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