Feminism
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The Silencing of Men
Women in Secularism 2 is underway this weekend, with dozens of badass female leaders scheduled to take the stage. Things got off to an interesting start yesterday with the opening lecture, given by Ron Lindsay, the CEO of the Center for Inquiry. You can read the text of his talk in full here. To summarize, Lindsay spends a good deal…
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How to Stop Patronizing Your Fat Friend: Fatphobia Edition
Trigger Warning for Body Image Issues and Eating Disorders Ah, fat — that charged, overloaded, connotation-carrying word. There is a lot I could say about the word, but for the sake of my point, let us fast-forward past the debates over fat-shaming, Health at Every Size, thin privilege, BMI, and so on. Let us make even more haste as we…
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The Fetish For Dialogue
Today on Twitter, Jeff Sharlet (author of great books like The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power ) let loose with some choice words for those who believe that most if not all disagreements can be resolved through dialogue: https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/333930842571296769 https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/333931454104993793 https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/333931784251256832 https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/333932191123906561 https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/333932545332887554 https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/333934914640703489 https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/333935373178781697 https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/333941315333136385 https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/333941465891880961 https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/333942692683866113 https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/333943173913133056 Can I get an a-fucking-men? Sharlet’s…
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The Stunning Difference Between Treatment of Men & Women on Reddit
Reddit user Pyyio posted a brilliant illustration of the difference between the way Redditors treat men and women. This is something that seems obvious to those of us who have been on the site for a long time and have seen the ridiculously fallacious graphic that gets posted to any woman who dares include her face in a photo (see…
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Everything Sucks, but Not How You Think
Dave McClure might not be a familiar name in the skeptic community, but he’s pretty well known in tech. A self-described “late bloomer,” he’s a guy who held various software industry jobs before founding the popular accelerator 500 Startups. He blogs and speaks at conferences and the like, typically with eyeball-peelingly bad slides and some foul language to boot. And…
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AI: Ending Rape
My friend Louise recently came across a Twitter page (and website hawking a book) dedicated to ENDING RAPE! Actually ending it. Declaring itself the best resource anywhere in the world. And how does ENDING RAPE suggest we end rape? BY NEVER COMING INTO CONTACT WITH MEN. Ever. Anywhere. Unless we already know them. BUT DON’T GET TO KNOW THEM BECAUSE…
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Violence and Silence. The TED Talk That Might Make Every Man a Feminist.
Here is a talk by Jackson Katz, Ph.D at TEDxFIDIWoman that has been quickly making the rounds. Because it’s great. It’s being called, “the TED talk that might make every man a feminist” and I agree. I highly encourage you to set the (only) 19 minutes aside to listen to what this man has to say about gender violence, sexism…
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What Feminism Definitely Doesn’t Look Like
I once wrote about what I call fauxminism, poking fun at “empowered” women who do little to nothing for (or even who actually hinder) other women’s choices and freedom. That’s one thing. This is another thing, entirely. Recently, I had the distinct displeasure of overhearing two men laugh it up over domestic abuse. As it really wasn’t my conversation and…
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