January 2011
166 posts
“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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Why sexism is no laughing matter, despite what the... →
This is not the institutionalised chauvinism of the 60s and 70s, where women were paid less than men, barred from certain professions and objectified by the mainstream media. Notable progress has been made in all these areas with the passing of major pieces of legislation – the Equal Pay Act, the Sex Discrimination Act – and with the agitation of the feminist movement to challenge previously...
Top Ugandan Activist Murdered After Newspaper... →
LGBT activist David Kato was found murdered this week after a local paper published his photograph and called for his hanging. In a country where being with your partner is a crime, Kato was one of the few strong voices standing up for civil rights.
Tipped by PRIDEinUtah reader Peter W
I don’t know whether to cry or scream. A group of American extremist Christians visited Uganda over the...
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The Cuntmentality: street harassment →
thecuntmentality:
I know I’m a little late on this, but here are just some thoughts:
Note: I’m going to say “women” in this writing but I want to make it clear that I realize that women aren’t the only victims of harassment/sexual assault/etcetera.
Street harassment/catcalling is way, way more serious…
Hollaback! Eastern Connecticut: No, women do not... →
hollabackct:
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…
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World Report 2011: Cuba →
Cuba remains the only country in Latin America that represses virtually all forms of political dissent. In 2010 the government continued to enforce political conformity using criminal prosecutions, beatings, harassment, denial of employment, and travel restrictions.
Since inheriting control of the government from his brother Fidel Castro in 2006, Raul Castro has kept Cuba’s repressive...
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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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Sega Toylet Games →
Sega has announced that it’s testing consoles called “Toylets” in urinals around Tokyo. The novel hardware asks the user to strategically vary the strength and location of his urine stream to play a series of games.
Each urinal is installed with a pressure sensor. An LCD screen is mounted on the wall above, letting the gamer select from and play four different minigames.
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“The...
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“Men are traditionally given pretty much all the credit for making babies. We...”
– Amanda Marcotte (via thecranium)
This is a great way of explaining that, no, life does not begin the minute your parents have sex — it begins after your mother nurtures and grows you over the course of a pregnancy.
(via stfuconservatives)
Wow, there’s even more inherent sexism in anti-choicers...
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La Petite Féministe Anglaise: Victory! Etsy... →
petitefeministe:
Email from Change.org:
Victory! After two months of campaigning, your voice was heard — along with that of 17,000 other Change.org members. Etsy, the online marketplace, has removed offensive greeting cards that mocked rape survivors, parents of kids with Down syndrome, and breast cancer…
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Women silenced in culture of rape →
In Yemen, men wield total power in government and society. In a 2009 report, Amnesty International argued that Yemeni women faced widespread discrimination. The report addressed restrictions placed on women’s movements, domestic violence, forced and early marriage - including the case of a girl married at the age of 8, honour killings and laws relating to zina (immoral behaviour) in which,...
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Citing Potential Harm to Men's "Sensitive Spots,"... →
feministfilm:
Mahmoud Hanfy Mahmoud, head of the complaints department at the Association for Human rights and Social Justice, has demanded in an official complaint to the attorney general that the Egyptian film entitled “678,” which addresses the issue of sexual harassment, be banned.
Hanfy claims that the film, which is currently showing in Egyptian cinemas, incites female victims of sexual...