Where are the feminists today?
Last night, PBS aired the documentary MAKERS, a truncated history of the women’s movement. It’s streaming here, and is worth a watch — it’s powerful, inspiring and sometimes enraging. It serves as a good reminder of the debt of gratitude that we owe our feminist foremothers. At the end, though, there’s the question of where feminists are today — and there’s nothing about feminism online. I address that issue in the Guardian:
...read moreWhy are women scared to call themselves feminists?
At Salon, Mary Elizabeth Williams takes on Katy Perry, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Melissa Leo, Katherine Fenton, and all the women who aren’t feminists–they just believe in everything feminism espouses and benefit from the accomplishments of feminism and feminists throughout history.
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I also kick men in the shins when they try to hold the door for me
Yesterday, I did a HuffPost Live segment on paying and dating — specifically, if you’re on a mixed-gender date, who should pick up the check? Back in the day paying was a dude’s responsibility, but now it’s less clear. So I got to be the crabby feminist talking about who I think should pay, and how to negotiate date payment. And as a response, my mug ended up on the homepage of AOL (awesome) with a caption that could have just as easily read, “Jill Filipovic, leader of the online castrati” (less awesome). You can watch the whole video here, but a basic summary of my points (and a bit of expansion on some of them):
...read moreHaving It All: Not a “Women’s Issue”
Yes yes yes to everything here.
...read moreThe problem isn’t that women are trying to do too much, it’s that men aren’t doing nearly enough.
A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that women—even those with full-time jobs—still do the bulk of housework and childcare. On an average day, 48 percent of women and 19 percent of men did housework. Married women with children who work full time spend 51 minutes a day on housework while married men with children spend just 14 minutes a day.
All hail the matriarchy, and a note to the dudebros
That men are more likely to drop out of school, more likely to be incarcerated, and more likely to be portrayed as a buffoon in a commercial for oven cleaner is actually a “neglected form of sexism” perpetrated by “partisan feminists,” says David Benatar, head of philosophy at Cape Town University and author of The Second Sexism
...read moreWhere Dark Tourism Meets Global Feminism
This is a guest post by Jessica Mack.
If you haven’t heard it before, you probably already know the concept. Dark tourism is what happens when former places of tragedy and horror become memorialized, then patronized by droves of tourists. Like Ground Zero in New York City, or Nelson Mandela’s prison cell on Robben Island. It’s where dark memories, human curiosity, and capitalism mix.
How do I define feminism for myself and my future kids? (Reader question #98)
This question is from a woman who was raised in a very traditional environment and who is now trying to learn about feminism before she gets married and becomes a parent. She’s looking for recommendations for reading (websites, books) that can help her define feminism for herself. I’ve been saving it to guest-post over here, [...]
...read moreSlutwalks and the Future of Feminism
Jessica Valenti has a great piece up at the Washington Post about sexual assault, feminism and how Slutwalks are doing their part to counter victim-blaming. But what Valenti finds most exciting about the Slutwalks — and what I do, too — isn’t the content as much as the grassroots activism and the offensive (as in [...]
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Review: Feminism for Real
This is a guest post by Allison McCarthy. Allison is a regular blogger for Ms. and Girl with Pen. Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism edited by Jessica Yee (Canadian Centre for Public Policy) If you’ve ever been burned out by Women’s Studies classes, confused by the feminist blogosphere’s intellectually elitist [...]
...read moreThank you, Jessica
Jessica Valenti announced today that she’s leaving Feministing. She writes: I started Feministing almost seven years ago (wow) to provide a space for younger feminists who didn’t have a platform. I was a 25 year-old who found it profoundly unfair that an elite few in the feminist movement had their voices listened to, and that [...]
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