Patriarchy

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• The Montreal Massacre

  
  Ten Percent — Authority: 478
  Bina @ News of the Restless remembers the massacre of  women 20 years ago by a misogynist terrorist in a great post . 14 women were killed, 10 women wounded, 4 men wounded. The date has been made into a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada . There are several men who have ...
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• Another Sad Tale ...

  
  UK Commentators — Authority: 425
  From the Sri Lankan camps where several hundred thousand Tamil civilians were interned after the defeat of the LTTE : “The Tigers killed between 20 and 30 people in the group I was with as we tried to run,” V. Sivalingam, one of the final Tamil detainees released on Tuesday, recalled. “There were four ...
  23 hours ago

• Book Review – Agent to the Stars

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 137
  Believe it or not, this is the first book by John Scalzi I have ever read. I figured I had to start somewhere since he is now one of the heavyweights of the scifi world. I have to say that Agent to the Stars had me at “We have seen The Blob  and it is us.” That line alone cracked me up and kept me going. The ...
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• Twilight Poll: Anti-Feminism or Fanciful Fiction?

  
  Mormon Matters — Authority: 496
  Because of the New Moon movie, Twilight is getting a lot of discussion in the media.  Since the author, Stephanie Meyer, is LDS, a few articles have even taken a swipe at Mormon values, expressing the opinion that the unenlightened choices of the female lead are typical for patriarchal, female-disempowering ...
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• War (on Women) Is Peace

  
  Corrente — Authority: 625
  Lately, Ive been hearing a lot of noise from lefty and womens rights organizations about the next Big Thing: The rights of Afghan women and girls. Eleanor Smeals group, Feminist.org (yes, shes one of the ones who helped with the infamous Obama Ms. Magazine cover ), has a campaign for them . NOW and The Nation ...
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• Dear SGM Defender, part 2

  
  SGM Survivors — Authority: 110
  Awhile back, I wrote a post entitled Dear SGM Defender .  In that post - which was a sort of generic response to the folks who write me to tell me that the SGM survivors who post here don’t know what they’re talking about - I offered up some thoughts as to why one individual might be having a great time in ...
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• Mandating Equality

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 137
  This is interesting: French plan to force gender equality on boardrooms | World news | The Guardian via kwout Needless to say, this is a good idea. At the same time, ideas like these (think affirmative action) are often misunderstood because they examined as if the only existing form of discrimination was ...
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• Kafkaesque Interpretation

  
  The Fiendish — Authority: 110
  Kafkaesque has become a metaphor to describe the dark reality of the complex world where the soul of man is alienated and trapped by unknown forces and fears. Franz Kafka , the literary genious who gave the world this expression, probably never expected that people would relate to the inner turmoil of the soul which ...
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• Male Dominated Democracy

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 549
  In a piece provocatively titled, Dont just swallow it , Linda Hirshman expresses frustration about the disempowered status of American women. From Hyde to Stupak -- women swallow whatever Democrats and Republicans shove down our throats, argues Hirshman. Its the tradition. Hirshman does not go far enough. ...
  5 days ago

• 13-Year-Old Girl Commits Suicide After Classmates Spread Nude Photos

  
  The Curvature — Authority: 554
  Trigger Warning for discussions of suicide, descriptions of non-consensual sexual conduct, victim-blaming and slut-shaming The Tampa Bay St. Petersburg Times has printed the truly gut-wrenching, tragic story of a 13-year-old girl named Hope Witsell , who committed suicide after a photograph of her breasts, which ...
  5 days ago

• ‘Millennial’ Misunderstandings and the Multi-Generational, Multi-Issue Movement We Call Reproductive Justice

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 157
  In her feature on the supposed generational divide in the pro-choice movement, which ran in Sunday’s New York Times , Sheryl Gay Stolberg correctly observes that abortion has hit the headlines recently in the context of health care reform and the horrendously restrictive Stupak amendment—and it’s not something ...
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• The traditional arrangement is equal in distributing the responsibilities?

  
  The Life and Times of an Indian Homemaker — Authority: 120
  H. says in a comment: “…broadly speaking one gets two things out of three: career, family and the privilege of being provided for (in other words options of not having the responsibility of bringing finances) traditionally men get career and family ; women get family and the privilege of being provided for. ...
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• Domestic Violence As A Source Of Amusement ...

  
  UK Commentators — Authority: 425
  Imagine a man who finds his wife is unfaithful and attacks her. Now imagine he attacks her with a golf club - a potentially deadly weapon. Imagine she flees the house in terror, bleeding from head injuries, drives away, but because of her injuries crashes the car just a hundred yards away, while her husband follows, ...
  1 week ago

• new treats!

  
  incense, oils and good lovin' — Authority: 110
  beloveds, allow us to draw your attention to the sidebar...new to the goodies list is hips and curves--sexy lingerie for full figured ladies.  just in time for the gift-giving season! you might also be interested in some emerging erotica at ancestral carnal rituals, queen huneys words and wares, or the delicious ...
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• Red Flags

  
  SGM Survivors — Authority: 110
  [Kris says:  I found the following list on a site called  Provender .]  Red Flags No one ever wakes up one day and says, “Hey, you know?  I think I’ll shame and abuse the flock today,” or “I think I’ll become a cult leader.”  Instead, gradual changes take place, usually involving the lure of ...
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• Boys face compulsory feminism lessons

  
  Oz Conservative — Authority: 118
  In my last post I criticised White Ribbon Day, a day when men are supposed to wear white ribbons to show their opposition to domestic violence. I criticised it on the grounds that it was being used to promote feminist patriarchy theory. Patriarchy theory claims that domestic violence is a result of men as a class ...
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• Purpose in the Struggle: A Woman’s Journey Underground and Back

  
  The End of Capitalism — Authority: 116
  Review by Dana BarnettOriginally published by Toward Freedom.Nov. 25, 2009.Reviewed: Arm the Spirit: A Woman’s Journey Underground and Back, by Diana Block. Published by AK Press, 2009.“We had gone underground in the early eighties, not a high-tide period for revolutionary activity in the US. Unlike the people ...
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• Uniting to Eliminate Violence against Women

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 651
  “Some 70 percent of women experience in their lifetime some form of physical or sexual violence from men – the majority from husbands, intimate partners or someone they know.”– Ban Ki-moon. Yesterday, in his address marking the 10 th anniversary of the International Day…
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• Giving Thanks to Inspiration – Review of “The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community”

  
  The End of Capitalism — Authority: 116
  “We stand at a critical moment in Earth’s history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life ...
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• Two Tales of The Patriarchy

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 137
  Both involve the issue of control of women’s lives in the context of patriarchal religion. First: Inside the mind of a female suicide bomber | World news | The Observer via kwout Note the very patriarchal photograph. The article itself is interesting in that it reveals a mix of religious fundamentalism ...
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