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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “patriarchy”

 

• [quote] Why You Shouldn’t Tell That Random Girl On The Street That She’s Hot

  
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  Précis: you think it’s a compliment, we think it’s threatening, intrusive, demeaning, humiliating, and enforcing of everything that’s wrong with patriarchal culture – that our bodies are not our own. “ Here’s the thing. Men in our culture have been socialized to believe that their opinions on ...
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• [image] Brave’s Merida Gets a Disney Make-Over

  
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  Click on the image for larger. In 2006, The Walt Disney Company bought the computer-animated feature film powerhouse Pixar.  This makes the lead of their most recent movie, Brave (2012), not just a princess, but a Disney Princess. Merida is having a royal coronation at the Magic Kingdom this morning . For her ...
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• [link] In response to Sun’s request for a naked photoshoot

  
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  Disgraceful (though, I dare say, common) request; excellent response. “ My immediate reaction was to fetch a tea towel to cover her bare chest, lest a stranger should ogle at her body in the style of that same repulsive man in the street. Screencap of email (click for much larger). Dear Matthew, I ...
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• [link] This thing about male victims of domestic violence

  
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  “ It is quite possible to believe that no woman, child, or man deserves to be a victim of sexual or domestic violence (or indeed of any other type of violence) whist maintaining a feminist agenda to end women’s oppression. This article was originally published on Karen Ingala Smith’s blog and is ...
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• [link] This is not the “persecution of old men”. This is the prosecution of rapists, and we should applaud it

  
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  You’ve all heard by now, haven’t you, about the barrister who called for the age of consent to be lowered to 13 so that poor old men would not be persecuted for having sex with young girls. (My god, it sounds like a sick joke.) In other words: legalising sex with a girl who is so young that she is unlikely to ...
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• [link] “What do you think about his choice?”: uncovering the men who visit prostitutes

  
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  This link (the Invisible Men Project) makes for some really upsetting reading. The Newstateman’s piece (also linked) mentions that research on, and discussion of, sex work has often been criticised for omitting the voices of the workers themselves. The Invisible Men Project does nothing to redress that imbalance. ...
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• WOMEN, SEXISM & SOCIETY: From Sirens to Sluts, Angels to She-Devils...

  
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  “The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: "Its a girl.” -Shirley Chisholm “SEX game gone wrong,” “sex game gone awry,” “sex-mad flatmate,” “sex-crazed killer.” That’s from just the first three minutes of the ABC News special on Amanda ...
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• Skirts Day

  
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  Sometimes I think my boyfriend out-feminists me. Readers, lend me your eyes and your opinion on this. Spring is coming and is in some places already here. Spring means more bare limbs and less clothes. Spring — in the Netherlands — means Skirts Day. Skirts Day is a term coined by a Dutch author who once wrote ...
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• [quote] Female ‘Purity’ Is Bullshit

  
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  “ A catcall is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The purity myth is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The fetishization of female purity in a world where catcalls are an acceptable form of communication telegraphs one thing very clearly: “Women, stop sexualizing ...
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• [image] Donald Trump thinks rape is just about the presence of a woman…

  
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  THIS is rape culture. On Cheezburger twitter. Tagged: criminology , feminism , gender politics , misogyny , patriarchy , rape , rape culture , sexism , sociology , womens rights
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• Now Delaware, Followed by Minnesota? Commentary by Minnesota Catholic Law Professor on His Changed Mind

  
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  As Delaware permits marriage equality on the heels of Rhode Island and Minnesota prepares to vote, Im struck by Charles J. Reids testimony about how his mind has changed on this subject. Reid is a Catholic professor of law at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota. As he notes, he has ...
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• [link] Is ‘lad culture’ causing a surge in student feminist societies?

  
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  I’ve not noticed this at all on the campus on which I teach but, ear to the ground  as I am, that doesn’t mean it’s not going on. With reports of slutshaming websites and pimp and hoe student nights littering the media, you might think that now is a hopeless time for feminism at universities. Lad culture ...
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• sad.. shocked.. angry.. FURIOUS feminists

  
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  Rebecca Eisenberg More from Rebecca » We’re not angry because we’re feminists. We’re feminists because we are sick and tired and so very frustrated that we have to repeatedly defend our desire for equal rights. Listen to this speech by Jessica Valenti and just try to get a little bit angry too. At 1:56 find ...
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• [link] Elizabeth Smart: Abstinence Education Teaches Rape Victims They’re Worthless, Dirty, And Filthy

  
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  Elizabeth Smart became a household name after she was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City, UT at the age of 14 and held in captivity for nine months. She was forced into a polygamous marriage, tethered to a metal cable, and raped daily until she was rescued from her captors nine months later. Smart was ...
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• Daily Blend: 05/06/13

  
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  Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski I’m too bored/lazy/busy reading/excited about tomorrow /tired from “work” to blog much, so here’re some links. US Air Force officer [pictured] in charge of responding to sexual assaults arrested for drunken sexual assault , underlines the US Military’s generally appalling ...
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• [round-up] Monday feminist round-up (6th May 2013)

  
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  - Tesco sells chemistry sets for boys (glosswatch) (only, that is) and, when criticised, fails to see anything wrong with their it (twitter). It’s standing behind its excuse of market research. Nothing unusual about that. - Niall Ferguson, a Harvard historian, has issued an unqualified apology ...
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• [link] The correlation between confidence, intelligence and promiscuity (apparently)

  
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  I linked to the piece below for another reason recently but I read something quickly that I wanted to come back to. It was this. The piece was about lad culture on our campuses and part of the piece discussed the so called “nice guys” who ostensibly object to this ladism. I was intrigued by what one of these ...
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• This Week in Misogyny: F*&# the Patriarchy

  
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  Another week, another batch of misogynistic, patriarchal BS. Let’s go smash some things, shall we? [ Trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply. ] During a show last Friday, a female fan in the front row reportedly gave an unsolicited blow job to rapper Danny Brown. Internet commentary is predictably ...
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• [link] A ‘very real tragedy’ behind a human rights case (Ireland)

  
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  For the first time yesterday, the Irish woman who brought the ‘D versus Ireland’ case spoke out publicly about the “very real tragedy” that led her to take a case to the European Court of Human Rights. In Jan 2002, she was 39, the mother of two boys aged 10 and 12, and delightedly expecting twins. But, at 14 ...
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• [research] Glass ceiling remains in place for female academics

  
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  Click [rest] below for larger. As a grocer’s daughter who rose to become Britain’s first female prime minister, she stands as an example to our daughters that there is no glass ceiling that can’t be shattered.” Barack Obama’s eloquent tribute to the late Baroness Thatcher may have struck a hopeful note, but ...
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