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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@misogyny_online : A Response

The other day I blogged about what I see as concerted attacks on the twitter account @misogyny_online. I blogged in anger and published without pausing to reread. My choice of words was harsh but I was angry and distressed watching a group of women who were trying to help other women get caught in the middle of a political discussion that they did not understand [or even know about].@misogyny_online is not my twitter account but I do know several of the women involved and I can see how hurt and distressed they are. And, this hurts me. I don't...

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White Male Commits Sex Crime but We Should Feel Sorry For Him:

A male teacher at a Sidney high school has been arrested for filming up the skirts of several of his female students as well women at the local train station.  Yet, according to the principal of the high school where Robert Emmett taught, we are supposed to feel compassion for Emmett and his family. Not the women Emmett sexually assaulted by taking sexual photographs without permission but the man who committed the offence. We are supposed to have sympathy for the "emotional devastation" Emmett feels at being arrested for illegally filming...

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Hugo Schwyzer is not a Feminist Redux:

Last Friday, Hugo Schwyzer, the so-called feminist, had what appears to be a very public meltdown on Twitter having claimed to be leaving social media forever because of mean, nasty feminists holding him publicly accountable for the violence he has perpetrated against women. I did not write about Schwyzer because I am still not sure that he genuinely had a meltdown or if the past two weeks have been nothing more than his normal manipulative, sociopathic...

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The attacks on @misogyny_online

In the past week, I've seen attacks on @misogyny_online by both radical feminists and trans*activists. I am finding these attacks both distressing and, frankly, utterly ridiculous.I am not a member of @misogyny_online although I do know the person who started the account. I am involved with the blog I will not put up with this which does host some of the tweets submitted to @misogyny_online. I am not the person who started the blog although I am now listed as an "author" on the blog. As with @misogyny_online, the creator of...

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A Night for Lewis

[Reblogged from A Night out for Lewis]Tickets are now on sale at £20 per person and include arrival drink, buffet, disco. We have an amazing amount of raffle prizes that have been donated2 night Bed & Breakfast at DeVere New Place HotelMan Utd Shirt Signed by Rio Ferdinand (Auction)Watch By Sekonda (Auction)£30 John Lewis Vouchers by Louise Gunnfamily skate for up to 5 people by Planet Ice GosportOne Hour Donutting Session by Alpine Snowsports...

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

How anti-blackness shapes heterosexual Black men's dating preferences by Gradient Lair"Colourblind" friendships don't exist. Line in the sand moments on race remind me of this at Gradient Lair#UKBA Papers please. #Racist Van at Media Diversity UKActing White: Bounty and Coconuts at Media Diversity UKFight violence with love by RoseannastarGuilt at One Woman's ThoughtsAgnostic Atheist, But Not Interested In White Supremacist Atheism at Gradient...

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Blame the perpetrator, not the victim:

The following was originally published as a twitlonger by Everyday Victim Blaming. I'm posting because it is an important piece of writing that should not get lost in the Twitter-verse: I am another EVB volunteer, taking over from this morning's debate regarding this tweet from @mwilliamsthomas :"The story about the 12yr girl being raped in London in early hours of Sunday morning is horrific. But what was she doing out at that time?"The subsequent debate and defence of this tweet has troubled me greatly so I have asked to share may thoughts.Regarding...

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White Dude Has Tantrum As Woman Behaves Inappropriately

I was screencapping the abuse directed at Caroline Criado-perez when I came across the following conversation. It still making me giggle: the misogyny, the arrogance, the entitlement and the sheer gaul of this man [who I've never of before] telling off Criado-Perez for not behaving as he thought she should is just unbelievable. Hanrahan had a mini tantrum on twitter because Criado-Perez didn't boycott twitter on the day that Caitlin Moran decided...

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Expose: David Cameron is the Everyday Victim Blaming Project!

I know this isn't exactly shocking news. After all, Cameron has already confused his job of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with being Kronos. It's not really that far of a stretch for him to think he's also running the Everyday Victim Blaming Project. Tonight, Cameron has managed to imply that he personally convinced the Attorney General to review the sentence of convicted child sex offender Neil Wilson for being unduly lenient; that Cameron...

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A 13 year old girl is a "Sexual Predator" because she was sexually assaulted.

This is the point we have arrived at: a 13 year old child is sexually assaulted by an adult male and the judge and prosecutor both hold the child responsible for being sexually assaulted. According to Court New UK, the judge labelled the child a "sexual predator" who "egged on" her abuser. Neil Wilson, who is 41 years old, pled guilty and received a suspended sentence despite sexually assaulting a child and being found in possession of extreme pornographic images depicting both child sexual abuse and bestiality.A 41 year old man gets a suspended...

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Men Who Just Don't Get Misogyny But Think They Do

Last night, I tweeted some examples of misogynistic abuse to the new twitter account: @misogyny_online. They've been collating images of some of the abuse directed at Caroline Criado-Perez in the past two weeks. I took just 15 minutes and trawled through some of the messages Caroline received yesterday. There was the usual threats of extreme violence and abusive messages and one totally clueless man genuinely suggesting that Caroline shut down...

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