Pussy Riot:

The Pussy Riot "trial" of Nadezhda, Maria and Ekaterina started yesterday. It was the farce everyone expected it to be; with no real defence allowed. We all know they weren't arrested for hooliganism but because of their [feminist] challenges to the Russian government. Their protests are brilliant; and far more feminist than the Ukrainian Femen has managed:Amnesty International have now declared Nadezhda, Maria and Ekaterina prisoners of conscience,...

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Harrod's "Degenders": In the Stupidest Way Possible.

I'm not actually sure why the Guardian ran this piece since its basically an unpaid advertisement for Harrods. And, even then, it's not a very good advertisement; after all it's not really degendering to 'theme' rooms whilst still dressing employees in pink and blue. Apparently, staff can "choose" to wear the colour of the opposite sex because the colours were only "chosen" because they are "pretty". But, they are cut "differently" which, I assume,...

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Top Ten Feminist Friendly Movies All Kids Should See

The Huffington Post's Puff-Piece du Jour is the Top Ten Movies Kids Should See Before They're 10. Some of them are pretty good movies but most are the usual misogynistic twaddle; 4 of which are by Disney. Now, Disney makes some great films but most of them are documentaries about animals made over 30 years ago and are not available on DVD. 10. Up: I haven't seen this so can't really comment but, let's face it, the two main characters have penises....

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@BBCSuffolk : Misogyny or Hack? They Still Need to Work on Their Apologies

So, @BBCSuffolk has found themselves tweeting this little gem: "The Weirder Rihanna's tattoos get the less I blame Chris Brown". Now, I just assumed that they have some misogynistic nincompoop in their employ. After all, there isn't exactly a world shortage of misogynistic nincompoops and the BBC does have a tendency to hire them. I give you Niall Ferguson as a prime example. So, when the tweet hit and the Feminist smackdown ensued; I just retweeted. Because, misogyny is endemic and the BBC is hardly immune. But, turns out that @BBCSuffolk could...

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Misogynistic Advertising Walk of Shame: @BittyLabs "Reclaim Your Wife" Awfulness

It's a company that sells baby bottles by telling men that women's breast belong to men. Because, God forbid, a woman use her breasts to feed her child. You know, like every other freaking mammal does. Nope, even in the first few precious months [or years!] women are expected to remain nothing more than fucktoys for their husbands. It's the one time in your life that you should feel proud and beautiful about your body which gestated a child for 40...

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New Rules for Trans Police Officers: Once Again Excluding Vulnerable Women

This article came up on my Facebook feed via a Feminist campaigner. Effectively, any police officer in possession of a gender recognition certificate [the legal document which changes the gender of the person on the birth certificate] can carry out an intimate body search on a person of the same gender; regardless of whether or not the officer has transitioned. The person being searched will have no choice in who they are searched by.I happen to think this is one situation where there is a very obvious and simple compromise that could be made to...

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A Bunch of Men Got Together to Pretend that Domestic Violence Rates are Falling

And, guess what, they were lying through the teeth. Or, are complete nincompoops with no understanding of statistics which seems a bit far-fetched considering their various academic credentials. Now, when I read Alan Travis's article in the Guardian, I did think the whole thing smelled fishy. I haven't actually read the Office for National Statistics report but the idea that domestic violence is decreasing would be laughable if it weren't so dangerous. I had planned to read the report myself to discover just how wrong the Guardian report is but,...

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Sensationalising Male Violence for Entertainment

I've been debating writing this blogpost because I genuinely believe that the men who commit these crimes want the publicity and that that publicity is the last thing we should be giving them; as Helen Lewis points out in this article in the New Statesman. I dislike how the names of these violent men become part of the cultural landscape whilst their victims names are erased; only to be mourned by close family. At the same time, I find the media intrusion into the families of the victims to be utterly horrifying. I'm not entirely sure how we can...

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Why Am I Not Surprised? Further Evidence of Sexism in the Olympics

According to the Guardian, both Japan and Australia have gone with old-school sexism and sent some of their male teams in Business class whilst the women flew economy. Japan sent its women's football team in economy despite them being considered a better team internationally [I know nothing about sport in general so I couldn't comment]. Australia did the same with it's basketball teams. I'd like to say I'm shocked but that would be a lie. This is same level of sexist nincompoopery that women athletes have to put up with all the time. They are paid...

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Family Annnihilators: Victim Blaming at its Most Offensive [TRIGGER WARNING]

I was saddened to hear of yet another family devastated by the murder of 3 innocent children. I am firmly of the opinion that in these cases the families deserve the right to privacy. I'm not sure quite how to articulate my criticisms of how these cases are portrayed in the media without participating in the same media frenzy around the family. The family deserves privacy and the right to grieve without the BBC writing ridiculous articles like this one. As a feminist, I find the police and media language around this case, and others of a similar...

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The Lorax: Interesting Environmental Message Served With a Side of Sexism

I took small to see The Muppet Movie; an experience which was ruined by the inclusion of the utterly misogynistic Aquafresh Nurdle World ad. And, then we saw an add for the new Dr. Seuss film The Lorax. It looks brilliant fun; a film about being yourself, questioning authority and respecting/ caring for the environment. That would be brilliant fun right up until the point where there was a lurvely 'joke' about gender and violence.It was the same...

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#TeamBreezy: Or, How to Spot Sexist Bucketheads on Twitter

Twitter seems to be running a competition this past week entitled: Spot the Best Misogynist. The competition has been fierce with Chris Brown and Ched Evans' "fans" fighting to negate their "heroes" convictions for violence against women as a "blip". One of "Team Breezy's" [that is Chris Brown to those of us who don't like to give misogynists fun names] supporters claims that they are: @LadyDiana1984 #TeamBreezy is a crazy, goofy, loveable fanbase that loves their crazy, goofy, loveable leader @chrisbrown. :-DYep. That lovely man who severely...

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Misogynistic Advertising Walk of Shame: The Continuing Nincompoopery of PETA [TRIGGER WARNING]

I've always thought that PETA were a bunch of misogynistic nincompoops too stupid to understand that a person can care about the abuse and torture of animals without objectifying and torturing the bodies of women. This image of Pamela Anderson exemplifies everything that is wrong with them; and it's not even the most misogynistic image they've ever come up with: Every time I see a new PETA advertisement, I think they can't possibly be anymore misogynistic...

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Free Speech: The Right to be a Jackass?

Free speech is a fallacious construct which is designed to keep the masses in denial of their lack of power.It doesn't actually exist. It never has, but, if it did, it wouldn't be the right to be a jackass.There is no guarantee to free speech in the UK. There never has been. People who insist we do have free speech are confused or watch way too much American television. The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America is technically...

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Misogynistic Advertising Walk of Shame: Domino's Pizza Now Served with a Rape Joke

Rape jokes are never funny; unless you're a rapist. Rape jokes simply continue to perpetuate our rape culture. It doesn't matter if you aren't a rapist. If you laugh at a rape joke, you are telling a rapist that rape is okay. That rape is funny and totally normal. Like pornography, and to seriously badly paraphrase a famous feminist quote, laughing at rape jokes is the theory and rape is the practise. This blog is precisely why rape jokes are harmful...

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Petition against Cuts to Housing Benefit for under 25s

Yeah, I'm late to the party on this one. I've been thinking about how to write my response without getting personal but I'm not sure there is a way to discuss cutting housing benefits for people under 25 without getting into the specific examples of those who will be royally fucked over by this policy. For the sake of full disclosure here, I'm one of those feckless teenagers who got pregnant and had to be supported by the state. I had literally only moved out to got to uni and then had to move back in with my mother because I was having...

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Misogynistic Advertising Walk of Shame: Aquafresh's Stupid Fecking Nurdle World

I took Small [aka my youngest child] to see Stockholm Syndrome: The Movie [aka Disney's Beauty and the Beast] the other day. It was pissing with rain. We have run out of soft plays, swimming pools and museums to visit with the several thousand other families struggling to entertain small children during school holidays when it hasn't stopped raining. In what feels like forever. So, I'm making excuses for taking her to see a Disney Princess film....

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Pimp my Whatever is Vile Misogynistic Twaddle

I can not express just how much I hate this expression. I genuinely can not believe that people blither on about "Pimp my ride" and don't get just how offensive it is. The origins of the term "pimp" are obvious. It originates in patriarchal-capitalist discourse. The term refers to the prostituting and sexual abuse of women's bodies. Pimps make money from the rape and abuse of vulnerable women. I don't buy into this theory that we can reclaim the...

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Liz Jones: The Quintessential Handmaiden?

I don't buy the Daily Fail for the usual reasons of it being utter hypocritical, misogynistic, racist, homophobic, and disablist twaddle. Just seeing Liz Jones' name makes me twitch. I consistently dislike what she writes as it is inevitably pro-patriarchal handmaideny nincompoopery. Problem is, I don't think Jones is the quintessential handmaiden. I think she's a very unhappy and angry woman who is [ab]used by the editors of the Daily Fail. She is a caricature of "woman" and, as such, is an object of mockery. We are supposed to hate Jones and...

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Why I'm Not Scared for the Future of Feminism:

If a 13 year old can go on Youtube and say this:then, the future of Feminism is pretty brilliant. I only wish I had her confidence at ...

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Dale Spender on Being a Feminist

Another great quote that came via Facebo...

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It Doesn't Make You a Special Fucking Snowflake:

This came from Being Feminist on Facebook. I just love this quote:&nb...

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Mike Tyson: Convicted Rapist but Still a Hero. Apparently.

UPDATE: TYSON'S INVITATION HAS BEEN CANCELEDPETITION Yeah, I get that Mike Tyson is rich and famous and rich and famous people aren't supposed to be rapists. Or, something equally stupid: see Ched Evan's fans for the actual stupidity test required to believe this. Whatever rape apologists want to claim, Mike Tyson is a convicted rapist and we should not be celebrating his achievements. I've signed the petition but, now, more than ever, we need to stop supporting and canonising celebrities who perpetrate Violence Against Women. There is no...

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