Feminism
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PETA’s Sexualized Ads Don’t Work
I’m a supporter of animal rights who eats a mostly vegetarian diet (I occasionally eat fish). I support organizations like the Humane Society and the SPCA, and I would support PETA if they didn’t make a habit of lying, misrepresenting scientific data, and using images of dehumanized scantily clad and nude women to get money and attention. Consider, for instance,…
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Paying Attention
There is a fairly common trope that is directed towards people (primarily young, female, white people, often those who self-harm, attempt suicide, or have an eating disorder) who engage in unhealthy behaviors that they are only doing it for attention. You’ve heard it before. “She only hurts herself for attention, it’s no big deal,”. I’ve had this trope directed at…
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Grantland’s Apology By the Numbers
Inspiration via one of the thought-provoking piece on the matter at Aoifeschatology. If you aren’t aware of what happened this weekend, The Toast did a link round-up; check the comments for additional takes and resources. Uses of the Word “Mistake:” 15 Uses of the Word “Mistake” in Reference to Actions on the Part of Grantland Writers & Editors: 14 Uses…
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“Creep” and Other Ways to Oppress Men
Trigger warning: racist and sexist slurs A few days ago, a person named Wayne tried to post this comment on my post Mom, Don’t Read This: Rebecca, Isn’t “creep” one those dehumanising words you speak of? I laughed, forwarded it to Melanie for her Un-censorship Project, and deleted it. The next day, we received an email from the same person.…
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Global Quickies: 18/01/14
I’ve got a lot of links for you today, so sit back, relax, and find out what’s been going on in the world. UK (From Criticaldragon1177) An Afghan immigrant was granted asylum on the basis of his atheism, as he could have faced a death sentence for apostasy if he had been deported to Afghanistan. INDIA After the Supreme Court…
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The Trouble with Fake Dating Profiles
Note: For the purposes of this post, heterosexuality is the premise. Things on dating sites are different (i.e. often better) for women seeking women. Men seeking men are often subjected to the same things that women seeking men are subjected to, but I cannot speak for their experiences. I am an accomplished OkCupid counter-troll and I’m not private about it. As a result, every…
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Global Quickies: 11/01/14
TUNISIA The constitutional assembly voted in favor of article 20 of the draft constitution, which states that male and female citizens are equal under the law without discrimination. Human Rights groups argue that non-discrimination should extend to foreigners, and that it also should also prohibit discrimination of race, religion, class, etc. MALAYSIA As mentioned in a previous post, the government…
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The (Un)censorship Project
We get a lot of comments, email, and tweets that are laughable, painful, and laughably painful. Usually, we delete them, because as a vast government entity with an evil feminist ideology, censorship is, of course, our duty. But we’ve been feeling kind of bad about keeping these gems all to ourselves. Who are we to silence the sheer brilliance of…
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