Why do strange men think they’re allowed to touch me?
One morning last week I was in line at Starbucks, preparing for the long work day ahead. As I stood in line, a man walked through the café, heading for the seating area in the back. He stopped when he...
View ArticleQueer couple forced to leave Raleigh NC shopping center after kiss
Via Pam’s House Blend In addition to the ridiculousness of this, I had to blog it because a) I grew up half an hour from this spot and have been there many times and b) the folks involved are big...
View ArticleOn Being a Chef, a Woman, and the Need for Safe Spaces
Every once in a while I come across an article on the internet about female chefs. A quick Google search for ‘female chef’ pulls up sparse results, usually a year or more between each entry. If you...
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Herman Cain responds to accusations of inappropriate behavior by not...
According to Politico, Herman Cain engaged in sexually suggestive behavior towards at least two female employees during his time at the National Restaurant Association. Suspiciously, the women signed...
View Article#MenCallMeThings reveals what’s inside everyone’s Anti-Feminist Mailbag
As I mentioned this past weekend, recently there’s been some renewed discussion about online misogyny. On both sides of the pond, women bloggers have been speaking out about the sexist abuse they...
View ArticleKatie Roiphe Downplays Sexual Harrassment in the NY Times
Shorter Katie Roiphe in this weekend’s New York Times? Sexual harassment = NBD. The casually titled article “In Favor of Dirty Jokes and Risqué Remarks” could almost be mistaken for an etiquette...
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NYT fail: “Men invented the internet”
Grace Murray Hopper: American computer scientist and U.S. Navy officer, one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer and developed the first compiler for a computer programming...
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Friday Feminist Fuck You: Hunter Moore
This is Hunter Moore. When he was broke and sitting on his parents’ couch in Sacramento, he founded the now-defunct site Is Anyone Up so he and his buddies could “post pictures of girls we were fucking...
View ArticleDamsels in Distress: First installment of “Tropes vs Women in Video Games”
Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency has posted the first installment of her “Tropes vs Women in Video Games” project. In this video, she explores the role, history, and forms of the damsel in...
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Weekly Feminist GIF
WHEN A WOMAN CALLS OUT SEXISM DURING A TECH CONFERENCE AND RECEIVES VIOLENT THREATS AND IS FIRED FROM HER JOB.
View ArticleThe UnSlut Project
“It gets better” for LGBTQ youth, but also for young women bullied and called “slut.” The recent suicides of Rehtaeh Parsons, Amanda Todd, Felicia Garcia, and others demonstrate the tragic hopelessness...
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Two thirds of US college students have been harassed on campus
That’s according to a survey of college students and school administrators commissioned by the anti-street harassment group Hollaback! Here are some more facts from the study… 46% of students said...
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On texting, boundaries, and consent
The panties seen ’round the world A few months ago, I received a Kickstarter perk for being a contributor to FORCE’s fundraising campaign. As someone deeply passionate about feminist, anti-sexual...
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Out From Privacy’s Penumbra: What the “Peeping Mike” Case Tells Us About...
In her peerless analysis of privacy’s social construction, feminist legal theorist Catharine MacKinnon pointedly observed in Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws that, “The realm in which women’s everyday life...
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Misogynistic gun extremists are harassing women speaking out for gun reforms
Open Carry Texas holds a “mad minute” demonstration, in which they shoot this female mannequin. Mother Jones has an important and disturbing piece about how gun extremists are harassing women speaking...
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Photo of the Day: Restaurant’s awesome response to customer’s demand that...
Recently, a customer at the Atomic Grill in Morgantown, West Virginia complained on UrbanSpoon that the restaurant’s servers should “show more skin.” Because, obviously, as everyone knows, when you go...
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Releasing a creepy, stalkerish video is not how you “get her back”
Last night, Zerlina tweeted the most important hashtag of the year to date: #stoprobinthicke2014. Robin Thicke’s very public heartbreak and estrangement from his high school sweetheart and wife of 11...
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New Favorite Tumblr: I Believe You, It’s Not Your Fault
I Believe You | It’s Not Your Fault is a space for older folks to offer support to young people dealing with the bullshit of rape culture alone. The site was started by Lindy West after a woman writer...
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Media manages to make Senator Gillibrand’s teachable moment about sexism all...
The media never ceases to amaze me. Its victim-blaming knows no bounds. Whether its Ray Rice’s then-fiancé who got herself attacked by not taking the stairs, or female celebrities responsible for...
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Are we listening to Syrian women?
In the ongoing crisis in Syria, we’ve rarely heard from mainstream media sources about how Syrian women have been experiencing this violence, and the ways that gender-based violence is impacting their...
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