I genuinely don't get why this is so difficult for people to understand but, apparently, there seems to be a huge swathe of people who are still confused by this issue. This weeks victim-blaming fucknugget is Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.Now, I haven't actually bothered to watch the episode in question but the constant commercials are really starting to piss me off. Yeah, I get that Law & Order: Special Victims Unit are pretending that it isn't about Chris Brown's violent assault of Rihanna. Clearly, they are working under the...
Monday, 29 April 2013
Sunday, 28 April 2013
It's another week so, obviously, we have yet another article in the media explaining how feminists are doing it ALL WRONG. This week's rather unpleasant and spiteful article is by Sophie Wilkinson in the Guardian. Ostensibly this article is about the return of feminist magazine Spare Rib under the leadership of journalist Charlotte Raven. I say ostensibly because Wilkinson has used Spare Rib to take a swipe at pretty much any feminist who isn't...
Eating Disorders, Me and Feminism at ZedCat Dormant at Rebecca MottBroken Doll at Rebecca MottLinks on Privilege, Intersectionality and Twitter at FeimineachInterracial Relationships for a post-race my future, my ass at Life and Lima BeansThe Most Deranged Sorority Girl Email You Will Ever Read at FemimineachA Human being Human in Public Gets Hated For It at Exiled StardustBuilding Bridges by Anne LawrenceOn Sex as Affection and Validation by GoddessDeevaA...
Saturday, 27 April 2013
This blogpost is cross-posted from Sisterhood is Powerful and is written by Ruby Fruit who is one of the organisers of RadFem2013. I don't think it matters what you're individual stance on radical feminism is, surely all women should be extremely worried that MREs are causing such extreme harassment that they can get a venue to cancel a feminist event. If the MREs are dictating policy, are any feminist events safe? And, frankly, if you're one of the "feminists" who thinks that the MRE harassment of radfems is a "good" thing, you need to reexamine...
Friday, 26 April 2013
Everyone's got an opinion on Andrea Dworkin and it's frequently one based in myth. I love Dworkin's writing. I don't always agree with her (and she's sometime historically inaccurate) but she was an utterly brilliant polemicist. Her gift was amazing. She was a truly brilliant woman.I've collated some quotes from the text here and here but the full text is available on the online Andrea Dworkin library. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount',...
Karen Boyle's Everyday Pornography is an inter-disciplinary collection of 13 essays which are situated within the anti-pornography movement. Its focus is on the pornification of mainstream culture but also on the mainstream of pornography; that is to say the heterosexual male audience and the materials created specifically that audience. This is the praxis of the "everyday" of pornography and this is what makes Boyle's book so powerful: it destroys...
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Ceri Fuller is just another family annihilator. Ceri Fuller murdered his children. Ceri Fuller murder Samuel, Rebecca and Charlotte. Ceri Fuller murdered his children because he was a violent, abusive man. This is the only reason Ceri Fuller murdered his children. Contrary to the Guardian's foray into misogynistic victim-blaming, Ruth Fuller is not responsible for the murder of her children. Samuel, Rebecca and Charlotte were murdered by their father because a violent, abusive man. Samuel was killed by one knife wound to his neck....
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
When I first wrote that I was going to RadFem2013 two months ago I did so with trepidation and fear because I knew what the reaction would be from that core group of white, middle class ciswomen who claim to be feminists. And, I was right. Their deliberate attempts to besmirch my reputation and harass me are not making me reconsider attending RadFem2013. Frankly, the abusive behaviour, harassment and general nincompoopery I have experienced...
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Ostensibly, ITV were planning on interviewing Natasha Massey, partner of the convicted rapist Ched Evans, about their new website claiming Evans' innocence and offering a reward for "new information" in the case. Now, the Free Ched Evans website is all sparkly and exciting but I fail to see how it does not constitute harassment of the woman raped by Evans. Considering Evans' supporters have been convicted and fined for illegally posting the name of the victim on twitter, it's not a big stretch to consider the website harassment. Apparently, she...
Monday, 22 April 2013
Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry, edited by Melinda Tankard Reist and Abigail Bray, is a collection of articles from radical feminists, activists, and academics who all believe that pornography is not about "pleasure, self-empowerment and freedom of choice"; rather that pornography represents the systemic subjugation of women as a sex class. Therefore pornography is not about sex, it is a form of violence...
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Trashing: The Dark Side of Sisterhood by JoreenBody Shopping at Trouble and StrifeAn open letter to the girl who oinked at me at Feminist CupcakesHow to fail at online feminist debate at GlosswatchHow to be an ally at The Negress: Black Feminist Thought Meets American CultureSport and Feminism Collide ... This time in Rugby at It's Just Not FeminineChild Killers at Karen Ingala SmithBeing Kind at One Dames ThoughtsYou're not Being Noble. You're Exercising...
Friday, 19 April 2013
Sunday’s TV guide: 66 males and 18 females are named.Reblogged from TricialoOn Sunday after a morning lie-in I wandered downstairs, grabbed a cuppa and idly flicked through the channels on my TV. On every screen I flicked through, out of around 20 ‘favourites, there were only male faces, not one single woman or girl’s face showed up. It was all men talking to men, men talking about men, male actors acting out male dominated drama; there was Eddie,...
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
I don't know Helen Lewis. I can count on one hand the number of times I've tweeted. Yet, for the second time in as many weeks, I find myself once again defending Helen online. I don't agree with everything Helen says, but frankly, I don't agree with myself 100% of the time. It would be utterly bizarre to agree with a complete stranger that well. For all I know Helen could be a secret fan of Justin Beiber: worthy of ridicule most definitely....
Monday, 15 April 2013
Written by Thorny Rose via Elaine Charkowski on Facebook. It's an incredibly powerful piece on male violence.I posted a similar post somewhere else and I was actually banned for talking about this. But honestly I don't really care if I am banned from a million of groups even though I really loved that one... The truth must be faced and the word about it must be spread. We have reached the point when we no longer have time to negotiate....
Sunday, 14 April 2013
What Kind of African Doesn't Speak Any African Languages? Me. at Spectra Speaks A Little Thing You Didn't Know About Me at One Woman's Thoughts Oldest Depiction of Female Form Shows that Modern Archaeologists are PornSick Misogynists at Reclusive Leftist Kindness in a Cruel World at Caroline Wilde Big Enough to Absorb the Pain at Adios Barbie You Don't have to be Pretty at Dressaday Tom Matlack: A Victim of Feminism at Feminist Current The Beauty...
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