"Many of these projects speak to the absurdity of a social-media world where hypersexualized images of female bodies abound and are totally acceptable as long as they’re being used to advertise products to a hetero male audience. But nonsexualized depictions of the female body fulfilling a natural function like breastfeeding or menstruating, or going through the tremendous transformation of a mastectomy? Photos flagged for removal. Accounts suspended. A woman’s lived experience deemed taboo. "
"It’s no secret that the community guidelines of social networking sites Facebook and Instagram have been generating serious blowback lately. In numerous instances, the sites’ obscenity guidelines have led to photos of women breastfeeding, revealing mastectomy scars, or showing small amounts of menstrual blood being flagged as offensive."
"The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights is now investigating 106 colleges and universities due to concerns about whether the schools violated Title IX in their handling of sexual violence cases."
The Hunting Ground: Documentarian Kirby Dick, who previous explored the widespread sexual assaults occurring in the American military in his movie The Invisible War, looks at the same topic on college campuses in Hunting Ground. He talks with experts who detail how statistics regarding sexual assaults at universities have been manipulated, and profiles people who have devoted their lives to holding institutions responsible for covering up the criminal actions of students at their schools.
"These men are are raised in single parent homes by women so maybe women need more positive male role models around their sons when they are boys. It's simplistic to pretend that this violent act was caused by not wanting to hear No. Sociopathic and psychopathic behavior has nothing to do with some saying no."
"I know there will be people — men and women — who’ll hear about this murder. And will immediately think “Well, she must have said something disrespectful” or “She didn’t have to embarrass him by saying no. Just give him a fake number” or “How was she dressed?” or “What was she even doing out that late in Homewood?” As if this — men responding to disinterest with violence — wasn’t epidemic. As if any of this was her fault. And as if “What could she have done to prevent this?” matters at all, and “What can and should men do to stop men from doing this?” — which, ultimately, is the only relevant question here — doesn’t."
" In one of his HBO specials, Louis CK jokes that a woman agreeing to go on a date with a man is literally insane. Because, he continues, we (men) are the number one threat to women’s lives. (Man’s biggest threat? Heart disease.) But the continued existence of our species depends on men approaching women, and women eventually saying “Yes, I will agree to meet you somewhere of your choosing while alone and at night. Even though, statistically, you’re my number one threat.” Which, he also jokes, is like a man having to date nothing but half-bears/half-lions and hoping that nothing bad will happen."
"As I write this, my two-month-old daughter is 10 feet away in one of her bassinets, fussing. I’ve had to pause from writing twice in the last half hour to check on her. To see if she’s making noise because she’s hungry or cold or hot or wet. But, as I suspected, it’s none of the above. She just wants to be played with, and she’s fussing because she’s bored. So I oblige, stopping every 15 minutes or so to pick her up and make faces at her. While doing this a moment ago, I noticed that she takes up much more space in her bassinet than she did even a month ago. She will, eventually, outgrow it completely. And then she will learn to walk. And then, years from now, she will leave the house on her own. She will have friends. She will learn to drive. She will go out. And there will be men who she is not interested in who will be interested in her. Some might catcall from cars and corners. Some might grab her arm or her waist at the bar. Some might buy her a drink. Some might approach her on the street.
Some of these advances will be ignored or unacknowledged. Some met with kind but deliberate body language to convey her lack of interest. And some will even be met with actual words; her actually saying some form of “I’m not interested” out of her actual mouth. But, while she can control how she responds to the approach and how she communicates her lack of interest, she can not control the response to her response. She will have no idea if the guy she says no to will cuss her out. Or spit in her face. (Which happened to my wife before.) Or follow her five blocks to her apartment. (Which has happened to a friend before.) Or follow her outside the bar, ask again, get rejected again, and kill her."
"According to the police report, Janese was at Cliff’s Bar, located in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood. As the bar neared closing, she was approached by Charles Anthony McKinney, who apparently was interested in her. The interest wasn’t reciprocated, and she left. McKinney followed her outside, was rebuffed again, and then shot her in the chest. She was declared dead at the scene. She was 29."
"When there are urgent housekeeping chores, do these first so that your mind is free to enjoy your sewing. When you sew, make yourself as attractive as possible. Put on a clean dress. Keep a little bag of French chalk near your sewing machine to dust your fingers at intervals. Have your hair in order, powder and lipstick put on. If you are constantly fearful that a visitor might drop in or your husband will come home, and you will not look neatly put together, you will not enjoy your sewing." Singer manual 1949.
"That's right: The same instructor, with all the same comments, all the same interactions with the class, received higher ratings if he was called Paul than if she was called Paula."
"A new study argues that student evaluations are systematically biased against women — so much so, in fact, that they're better mirrors of gender bias than of what they are supposed to be measuring: teaching quality."
"Many sexual assault victims don't say anything during their assault because they're in shock or don't want to further provoke their perpetrators or don't feel like they have a choice."
"Forcing the teenage girl to get on her knees so that a male principal could use a ruler to measure the distance from her hemline to the ground."
"Amanda Durbin, 17, a senior at Edmonson County High School, went to class on Monday in a nearly-knee-length dress that is a regular part of her wardrobe - and a dress that her mother Alexandria insists is 'appropriate for you to go to church in'.
Yet when she arrived at school in the dress, which she had paired with opaque black tights, she was told she would have to prove that her dress was long enough to be deemed 'appropriate'."
A woman on all fours. She has a thong on, nothing else. Her butt is facing the camera. She has two large googlie eyes, one on each buttock. The gif shows her moving to make the eyes roll.
Whenever another nerd says to me: "Wanna play this rpg? It's about x."
My immediate response usually is: "There's an apocalypse world hack for that."
“When a woman is raped, when a woman is abused, the first thing other women ask is what did you do? Why were you there? What were you wearing?"
Picture of a woman with a low cut top holding two bottles of Jack Daniels. There picture is cut off at her neck and goes to her hips. The text reads: "Her boobs are too big and that's too much whiskey said no one ever."
"On Monday, the Supreme Court forbade North Dakota from enforcing a “fetal heart beat law” which would ban abortions if a heartbeat is detected, even as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, according to the Associated Press."
A linguist tweeted at the OED about "rabid feminist" and how maybe they should change that. OED tweeted back: "Btw, 'rabid' isn't always a negative, and our example sentences come from real-world use and aren't definitions."
"“shrill” – defined as “the rising shrill of women’s voices”– and “psyche” – for which the example sentence is, “I will never really fathom the female psyche”. “Grating”, defined as “sounding harsh and unpleasant”, was illustrated with the phrase “her high, grating voice”, while the adjective “nagging” used the example phrase “a nagging wife”." All from OED.
"It started when anthropologist Michael Oman-Reagan noted that when illustrating the term “rabid”—“having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support of or belief in something”—the OED used “rabid feminist.” Nice, nice."
A reminder that while you may love his work, Michael Fassbender beat a woman.
"The general unwillingness to acknowledge or believe Leto’s victims and our continued celebration of the man are symptoms of our rape culture. Woody Allen continues to win Oscars despite having raped his own daughter; Roman Polanski is back to movie-making after fleeing justice in the face of a statutory rape conviction; Bill Murray and Sean Penn both abused their ex-wives. How many people you know are aware that John Lennon regularly beat women? Talent, male genitalia, and white skin should not be get-out-of-jail-free cards for abuse. This is a friendly reminder that some of our best-loved celebrities are among the worst offenders in a system that uses violence and intimidation to maintain women’s position as second-class citizens."
"Stories of his flirting with the inappropriately aged and choking non-consenting women abound. Why do we continue to give this man our attention and our praise when not only is he creepy, but there are many women for whom the sight of his face is a trigger for their worst memories?"
"The most-quoted groupie story, found in this now-famous Tumblr post, is too explicit to quote at length, but the gist is what the victim wrote at the end: “I felt as though I was being raped and not even a “play rape”. In his mind, it seemed like he thought he was fucking raping me. It was very odd.” The victim explains that he would not stop when she said he was hurting her and that at one point she even attempted to stop him by biting him."
Pick up artistry.
An ad for an article on 10 things men find attractive.
"You should have been born a man," they told her when she was good with computers and technology.
A 13 year old girl was harassed by a group of 20 somethings on her way to the shop. They yelled "nice rack" amongst other things at her.
A girl talks about how a man whistled at her and then asked her which school she was going to. When she ignored him, he yelled "oy! Slut!"
The Everyday Sexism Project has published its 30,000th post and exists to catalogue instances of sexism experienced by women on a day to day basis.
Media uses the rape of teen girls by a Muslim man to further the Islamophobia.
A 33-year-old man in Canada, Walid Mustafa Chalhoub, has been convicted of 24 charges of sexual assault and extortion against ten teenaged girls in Montreal.
According to Mashable the costume provoked almost everyone, especially Fisher herself. As she writes in her autobiographical stage show Wishful Drinking, she told George Lucas that she thought her attire seemed a little too revealing. “I told George, ‘You have the rights to my face, you do not have the rights to my ‘lagoon of mystery!'”
"Everyone over a certain age in 1983, and many millions born later, cannot help but remember that bikini — the metal one worn by Carrie Fisher as a captive of Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi, the one unfortunately named the “Slave Leia” costume."
"I figure if this kind of photo is going to be out in the world it should at least be an image that makes me happy (and be one that was taken with my consent. And with a filter :)smile emoticon" Anne Hathaway speaks on her pregnancy photo.
For example, women still pay more than men for the same health insurance policies; for example, the New York Times found that in Chicago, a 30-year-old woman will dish out 31 percent more than a dude for the same Blue Cross Blue Shield policy. And this is the norm, as 90 percent of the best-selling health care plans adopt the same inequality
A man calls a breastfeeding mother, whom sits in her car to breastfeed, disgusting as he walks by.
My friend is going for her wedding dress fitting in a couple of weeks. She mentioned to the seamstress that she hadn't planned on wearing a bra. The seamstress replied, "Oh, no, a lady always wears a bra!" She is now, begrudgingly, buying a bra.
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