Originally posted on Caroline Criado-Perez:
TW for victim-blaming, sexism and racism – many direct quotations included. Don’t feed the trolls If you react in any way other than with silence to people threatening you, you deserve the threats. It is really very simple. Shut up and be a good girl. Don’t be silent If someone…
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Bikinis vs. one-pieces: the debate over swimsuits is not actually about swimsuits
Originally posted on Fit and Feminist:
When swimsuit designer Jessica Rey’s video “The Evolution of the Swimsuit” went viral earlier this year, I didn’t pay it much mind, particularly when I learned she tried to make a connection between bikinis and the objectification of women. I would have happily gone on paying her no mind…
Comments on “Eyes Under The Glass Floor”
Comments on “Eyes Under The Glass Floor” My sister is one of the few women I know who actively looks out for the women and men who work for her domestically. She is always encouraging them to do better, to get out if they could or wanted to. We need more people like her and … Continue reading
Taking Statutory Rape Seriously
Imagine the following rape statute: “If a person over the age of twenty-one years has sexual contact constituting oral-genital or genital-genital contact with a minor under the age or fourteen years, such person shall be guilty of a Class A felony and shall be imprisoned for life without the possibility of parole.” If the legislature…
India’s #Football Champs: The Real ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ #Girls!
Originally posted on THE 50 MILLION MISSING CAMPAIGN BLOG ON INDIA'S FEMALE GENDERCIDE:
uly 13, 2013, as most of India slept, eighteen girls from Jharkhand were ecstatically screaming ‘Vande Mataram’ as they lifted the trophy for being placed third in the prestigious Gasteiz Cup in Spain! Representing the Yuwa India under-14 all-girls’ team, this was…
UPDATE: “Is it still rape if you kill her first?” – Pub Quiz question from Radio bar, Glasgow.
Originally posted on What's left of the Left?:
In response to this http://whatsleftoftheleft.com/2013/07/30/is-it-still-rape-if-you-kill-her-first-pub-quiz-question-from-radio-bar-glasgow/ and the comments people have been leaving on the Radio-Nude bar Facebook page and Twitter, below is a statement from G1 group I have recently received and my response. Thank you everyone for your support on this. Dear Matthew, In reference to…
“Is it still rape if you kill her first?” – Pub Quiz question from Radio bar, Glasgow
Originally posted on What's left of the Left?:
Please circulate/re-blog/tell others/tweet etc. Last night myself and four others went to a bar called Radio in Ashton Lane, Glasgow for the pub quiz. It was a horrific experience. The quiz comprised sexist, misogynistic, and homophobic comments and questions, and most frightening of all, encouragement…
Guest Blogger Starling: Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced
“When you approach me in public, you are Schrödinger’s Rapist. You may or may not be a man who would commit rape. I won’t know for sure unless you start sexually assaulting me. I can’t see inside your head, and I don’t know your intentions. If you expect me to trust you—to accept you at … Continue reading
Prey/Pray- or- another one for the ‘almost rape’ aka ‘life as a woman’ files..
Originally posted on Feminist Conversations on Caribbean Life:
Guest post by Sherlina Nageer of Red Thread, Guyana This is how it happensThis is how it happens8:30pmA woman is walking home aloneNevermind what she’s wearingThere is no one else on the roadSome streetlights, but not the whole wayA car rolls up slowly behind herYoung man at…
Is it A Crime to Menstruate? | THE 50 MILLION MISSING CAMPAIGN BLOG ON INDIA’S FEMALE GENDERCIDE
Is it A Crime to Menstruate? | THE 50 MILLION MISSING CAMPAIGN BLOG ON INDIA’S FEMALE GENDERCIDE.
