You keep using Humanism. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I have written this rant a thousand times. My children can recite it word for word. Heck, given the power of speech, I bet the first words out the cat's mouth would be: For the love of catnip, stop squawking about humanism.Nothing annoys me more than people disavowing the political theory of feminism because they want to be "humanists". Honestly, does no one google anymore? Humanism has an actual political definition which is predicated on the notion...

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Silent Sunday Round-Up: Inspiring and Rage Inducing Blogs Written by Women

What do I blame myself for by Barbara CarregonnenLanguage Check: Gaslighting by PseudoDeviantHow to be the perfect victim: A How-To Guide for Good Girls at Week WomanCampaign4consent at Jelly and LilipopThe Myth of Shared Girlhood by Not a Zero Sum GameFeminism with Fizz at Trouble and StrifePicking Sides at One Woman's ThoughtsMy Breasts and Page 3 at One Woman's ThoughtsWhite domination, challenge and the feminist movement: #solidarityisforwhitewomen...

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This is a hate crime:

I know some mansplainers' going to come along and tell me I'm over-reacting and I'm too stupid to understand the law on this issue. I've been blocking dudes all day who think sharing images of a 17 year old, who is legally too young to consent to an image of her engaged in fellatio, is a 'slut' who deserves all the abuse directed at her.I'm sure they will agree with the Crown Attorney of Ontario that sending death threats to an autistic child is...

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#slanegirl and why this isn't about female sexual desire

The #slanegirl hashtag refers to photographs of a teenage girl performing oral sex on at least two men in the audience of the Eminem concert at Slane Castle in Ireland. I do not know the exact details since it's hard to shift through the rumours, of which there are many, and I do not want to accidentally come across the images. I do believe that photographing anyone without their consent is wrong: I don't care if this is a child skipping in puddles, a celebrity picking their nose or Prince Harry naked. Taking photos without consent and then distributing...

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Marks & Spencer's uses Womanism to Sell Knickers: Or, why Google is your friend

Here's a hint to all those folks working in advertising: before you launch a new campaign, you should probably google just to make sure that new word you're "inventing" doesn't already mean something else. It's really not that hard: go to www.google.com and type in the word. Then hit search. This simple piece of information prevents all kinds of embarrassing booboos: say, for instance, using the term "womanism" to describe your company.You could...

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Proud to be an Extremist Feminist Activist

I had completely forgotten I wrote this response to a dreadful piece in the Huffington Post on the "Modern Face of Feminism". I wrote the rant in my joural whilst on the train to the best feminist weekend I've ever had [soon to be published as RadFem Couch Surfing]! It's a month late but I'm still so cranky at it so I'm publishing it anyways: This is the delightful conclusion to a rather dire attempt to start a debate on what it means to be...

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Silent Sunday Round-Up: Inspiring and Rage Inducing Blogs witten by women

This little Mummy went to market at One Woman's ThoughtsAriel Castro is not misunderstood by Allison Boydell at Everyday Victim BlamingOn Hugo Schwyzer, White Supremacist Mainstream Feminism and Its Abuse of Women of Colour at Gradient LairThe end is nigh and the proof lies in breast cancer awareness campaigns at Feminist CurrentFeminist, Ally or Cunt: which one are you? at GoddessDeevaIs Masculinity to blame for men who murder their children...

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