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On sexism in the alt-lit community and a message for all us wannabe male...
Stephen Tully Dierks I find myself rereading Kiese Laymon’s essay “Kanye West is Better At His Job Than I Am at Mine (But I’m Way Better at Being a Fake-Ass Feminist)” a lot. Kiese’s a friend now, but...
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When we call bad guys good
Image credit: “Make Me a Sammich” Recently, the National Women’s Political Caucus announced that the organization would present a “Good Guy Award” to the infamous faux feminist Charles Clymer, who used...
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Lose-lose situations in which misogyny always wins and sometimes kills
Mary “Unique” Spears was shot and killed by a man after she rejected his advances. *Trigger warning* There seems to be no shortage of advice for women about how best to deal with the constant barrage...
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A virtual room of one’s own: Why GamerGate hates crowdfunding
(Image credit: 3dtotal.com) Crowdfunding is not a panacea to the economic inequities of the world; but if GamerGate is any guide, it’s certainly a devil of some sort. In the tangled thread of gendered...
View ArticleYoung woman beaten to death after intervening to defend girls from sexual...
This is heartbreaking. Thousands of German citizens are mourning a 23-year-old student who was murdered for sticking up for two teenage girls getting sexually harassed by a group of men. Silent vigils...
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“Things Have Happened in the Past Week”: On Doxing, Swatting, and 8chan
The breathless excitement with which we’ve so often been told “the internet changes everything!” has rather dulled us to truly appreciating the ways in which it actually has. Take the concept of...
View ArticleQuick Hit: BuzzFeed profiles “men’s rights” leader
Today on BuzzFeed Adam Serwer and Katie Baker published a chilling profile of Paul Elam, the founder of A Voice for Men and “men’s rights” movement figurehead. As the writers expose, Elam disguises a...
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Women’s lives? Just a joke to trolls
Ask yourself: if you could not tell what was real from what was fake, would that be a pleasant sensation? You could be forgiven for thinking it was just dandy, given the reaction of some to the news...
View ArticleThe misogyny of reality stars reveals MTV’s hypocrisy
Ed. note: This post was originally posted on the Community site. I have a soft spot for MTV. When the entertainment channel launched the Look Different campaign in the spring of 2014, I could not...
View ArticleAshley Judd on the misogynistic harassment she received for tweeting about...
This past weekend, Ashley Judd, actress, feminist, and Kentucky basketball fan, made a comment on Twitter about how her team’s opponent was “playing dirty & can kiss my team’s free throw making...
View ArticleWhy don’t men read books by women?
I made a pledge at the beginning of 2015. This year, I’m only reading books by women. I borrowed this pledge from Lilit Marcus, who did the same thing in 2013, and so far, I’ve read some stunners. (I...
View ArticleOn queered masculinity and misogyny
I started wearing ties my senior year of college. My mother bought me a slim, silver Calvin Klein tie at Nordstrom Rack when she visited me over her spring break. Though I began to dress in men’s...
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Goddess from the machine: A look at Ex Machina’s gender politics
This article contains spoilers for Ex Machina and assumes the reader has seen or spoiled the movie for themselves. “A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.” – Catharine MacKinnon If...
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Go Set a Watchman on Fire: Reddit and Ellen Pao’s Resignation
The resignation of Reddit CEO Ellen Pao is terrible news for anyone interested in making the internet less toxic. After a month-long torrent of abuse that fixated on Pao’s race and gender stemming from...
View ArticleDoctor pens anonymous essay recounting sexual misconduct in operating rooms
In an anonymous essay published in the Annals of Internal Medicine last week, a physician gives us a sickening — and potentially triggering — look behind the operating room curtain. The short but...
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Comic of the Day: Male Feminist “Allies”
This is the comic I’ve been waiting for all my life. Thanks to Victor Entrepuertas and Anonima P. for this gem, which succinctly calls out male “feminist” allies’ mansplaining, gaslighting,...
View ArticleHard at Work: “Diverse Bodies” and the Olympics
The celebration of bodies—specifically of women’s bodies—in the Olympics, has not necessarily been progressive or benign. Throughout this year’s Olympic Games, we have seen media coverage—from short...
View ArticleFrom the White House to Motels, Rape Culture is Alive and Well
A teenager girl is suing a motel, known as the “local epicenter of human trafficking,” for being complacent in allowing over 1000 men to sexual assault her and many other victims of sex trafficking....
View ArticleAfter Charlottesville, We Have To Stop Using The Terms “Alt-Left” and “Bernie...
The murder of activist Heather Heyer at the hands of domestic terrorist James Alex Fields, Jr. at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville has demonstrated the increasing emboldening of racism and...
View ArticleNYT asks, Feministing answers: Will sex robots save us from incels?
Last week, the New York Times raised my blood pressure with Ross Douthat’s op-ed titled “The Redistribution of Sex.” In it, Douthat ponders government-sponsored “sex redistribution” in order to prevent...
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