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File This Under: Seriously Messed Up
For $15, you too can “take a stand against monotonous travel” by making a joke about having a woman gagged and bound and stuffed into your suitcase. Funny! Except, it’s really, really not. :-/ h/t to...
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Comic about discussions of sexism on the internet provokes anti-feminist...
This past weekend, I was forwarded this comic about discussions of sexism on the internet. Perhaps you’ve already seen it too—apparently it’s caused quite the sensation. Now, when I read it (what’s...
View ArticleThe Service Women’s Action Network calls Dan Choi out for his misogyny
I am such a giant fan of the Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN), even writing about one of their founder’s in my book. Maricela Guzman is such a massive inspiration: Well, SWAN has just issued an...
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Tucker Max’s Planned Parenthood publicity stunt
For reasons that seem obvious, Planned Parenthood rejected 500,000 dollars from Tucker Max who was trying to donate money to them. Rest assured it was not out of the goodness of his heart, but for a...
View Article“In the good old days, men knew that women are crazy and they knew how to...
File under: we can’t make this shit up. Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson believes that the worst thing to happen in modern society is that women were given the right to vote. Additional important information...
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In defense of S.E. Cupp
Via Wikipedia S.E. Cupp is a conservative pundit and writer who I don’t agree with ever. Her politics are the opposite of mine, and her columns for the New York Daily News generally make my skin crawl...
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Speaking of rape jokes…
*Trigger warning* I appreciate all of the conversation happening around LOLZRapeGate2012. I really do. Never has there been such a potent mix of characters – somehow strange and stereotypical — thrown...
View ArticleWhy are we still talking about Chris Brown?
A more discerning adult can look at this twitterclusterfuckerfuffle to see that a) Jenny Johnson, a comedian I never heard of, baited Chris Brown and b) dull witted and unremorseful Chris Brown fired...
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Aaron Swartz on misogyny in technology
The world lost a genius when Aaron Swartz committed suicide. It also lost a sensitive soul willing to turn an eye towards the uglier side of the industry he loved. Here, excerpts of a 2007 interview...
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Tyrese, a great friend in fatphobia
When I first heard that Tyrese was making fatphobic comments in an interview, I almost chuckled. I mean… just look at the kind of laughable ignorance he has spouted from his Twitter account: But even...
View ArticleQuick hit: Rachel Hills on Julia Gillard
Friend of the site Rachel Hills has a piece in this week’s edition of the UK magazine The Stylist, about the misogyny that marked Julia Gillard’s short but eventful tenure as Prime Minister of...
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“Everybody wants to have an ally, but no one wants to stand up for anybody.”
Blogging for The Nation yesterday, I wrote about an incident involving friend of the site and co-founder of Crunk Feminist Collective, Brittney Cooper, where, as part of a public conversation about...
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Conservative media’s greatest misogynist hits of 2013: Feminism is a sexual...
This year’s greatest misogynist hits from conservative media included gems like, ”You shut up. Know your role and shut your mouth,” the timeless assertion that feminism is “turning women into...
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On deromanticizing the Civil Rights Movement with Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Lucas Johnson and Krista Tippett. And really fucked up ways to honor Reverend King. A language immersion day-care on Pine...
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Snickers’ hunger-induced street harassment
For a few years now, Snickers has run ad campaign based the slogan “You’re not you when you’re hungry,” where people in extreme states of hunger act completely out of character until they’re able to...
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Blood and Iron: The unacknowledged misogyny of the far right
This photo is famous; less well known is its context. Many of the books Nazi footsoldiers are burning here are from the library of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Research– one of the first...
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I love Outkast. I hate misogyny.
I love Outkast. Everyone should. I don’t trust people who don’t love Outkast. If you don’t love Outkast, stop reading this. You aren’t welcome here. (I’m not really kidding!) So I, like many others,...
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Australian camping company trolling with misogynistic slogans
Wicked Campervans–an Australian budget travel company/professional trolling company–is under fire for the charming slogans scrawled on their fleet of vans. The slogans, which don’t really qualify as...
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UChicago misogynists threaten sexual assault survivors and activists over...
Last year, the Department of Education opened an investigation of the University of Chicago after a complaint alleged that gender-based violence and harassment were rampant on campus, and that the...
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Yes, “Emma You Are Next” was a hoax; No, everything’s not okay
In the wake of giving a very mild speech about feminism and men’s role in it at the United Nations, Harry Potter actress Emma Watson found herself threatened by the 4chan messageboard with a release...
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