I love this. It is ridiculously OTT but it's a Mooncup Smackdown. Who doesn't love a mooncup smackdo...
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Normal 0 0 1 35 185 University of Edinburgh 4 1 249 10.2006 0 0 0 The East London Feminists and the London Feminist Network have organised a protest against the Polanski Retrospective at the BFI Southbank.This is their press release: Roman Polanski pleaded guilty to the charge of drugging and raping a thirteen year old girl in 1977 but then skipped the country to avoid sentencing. He has not served any time in custody...
Monday, 28 January 2013
I have borrowed this idea from Stavvers as I've been enjoying her round-up of blogs she's found interesting. These are blogs I've found interesting, thought-provoking and inspiring. Not all are new and I don't necessarily agree with all but they have challenged me which I think is an important part of being a feminist. Should we reclaim feminism? The Sick and Twisted Joke Which is Contemporary Feminism from the Liberation...
Saturday, 26 January 2013
(Image taken from here)Tanya Gold has written a very good critique of Joanna Lumley's recent foray into misogynistic, victim-blaming. Unfortunately, at the very last minute, Gold herself makes a statement which, at best, undermines part of her point. For those that missed the twitter storm earlier this week, this is Lumley's advice on how not to get raped:‘I promise you it is better to look after yourself properly, which means behave properly, be...
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
I am pro-choice because I am pro-woman. I believe that male violence is the root of women's oppression. I believe that women can never be free of male violence without complete reproductive freedom. Complete reproductive freedom requires:Free access to healthcareFree access to contraceptionFree 24 hour access to childcareFree access to educationFree access to abortion on demand Complete reproductive freedom requires a welfare state so that women...
Monday, 21 January 2013
I have to confess that I did like the original series of Criminal Minds before it got repetitive with one too many long and goofy story-arcs. This new series starring Forest Whittaker is appalling. I've only seen one episode with the most tedious dialogue which involved stating-the-bleeding-obvious whilst pontificating. It's obviously written by a Committee of Mansplainers.The episode I saw was called "The Girl in the Blue Mask". It is the story...
This interview with Virginia Heath, writer and director of the film My Dangerous Loverboy, is cross-posted with permission from Ruth Jacobs. Further interviews in Ruth Jacobs' series for Human Trafficking Awareness Month 2013 can be read here: In the Booth with Ruth - Virginia Heath, Anti-Human Trafficking Advocate and Filmmaker Ruth Jacobs, author of the Soul Destruction series of novels and charity campaigner for sexually exploited and...
Saturday, 19 January 2013
So, not only has a junior high science teacher in California been fired for appearing in a pornographic movie, a three-judge commission upheld her firing. She was fired because the internet means the porn films she starred in will *always* be available to students.This is the point were I have to make my bias clear: I am anti-porn. I do not think it's possible to create pornography which is unharmful in a culture which constructs...
Friday, 18 January 2013
You read that right: convicted rapist Mike Tyson has a guest appearance coming up on the American TV drama whose main subject matter is sexual violence and the criminal justice system. Granted, they already have Ice-T who is fairly problematic from a feminist perspective, well, really the whole concept of the show is problematic insofar as the use of VAW as entertainment helps to normalise it, but, come on, hiring Mike Tyson?The hiring of convicted...
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Because, honestly, it was a gigantic pile of nincompoopery. It is safe to say that I am not a very big fan of Steve Biddulph to begin with. His normalisation of gendered stereotypes in order to sell books just pisses me off. There is very little scientific evidence to support the nonsense that boys and girls are somehow inherently different; just lots of people claiming they "observed" gendered behaviour. This ignores the very real evidence...
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
(This blog has been rewritten to reflect the comments raised below)Edward Furlong has been arrested for domestic violence for the third time in as many months and has pled not guilty to the battery charge. He already had an outstanding warrant for his arrest stemming from a previous incident of domestic violence. The Daily Mail have, once again, surpassed themselves with the coverage and suggested that the"actor's colourful personal...
Monday, 14 January 2013
Yep. That's an image of Femen taken yesterday at their protest in the Vatican in support of gay rights. Because the best way to interact with a homophobic and misogynist patriarchal institution is to have young women bare their breasts and shout. Who precisely were Femen addressing with this protest? This is my fundamental problem with their form of "protest". I'm not sure who they are actually targeting. Or, what they are targeting....
I watched exactly ten minutes of Hilary Devey's Women on Top. The premise is interesting: a successful British business woman who didn't understand the gendered barriers to women's equality within capitalism traveled to Norway to investigate their practise of quotas of women's participation in employment. I stopped watching after they said women in Norway "embrace their feminine side" with 1 years maternity pay. Because women in business must...
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