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#todayin: pictures: photographer removes phones from his images to show how...
Photographer Removes Phones From His Images To Show How Addicted We’ve Become (collective-evolution/ ericpickersgill.com): Over the past few weeks, I’ve posted a couple of articles relating to our...
View Article#todayin: sexism: research: anger bolsters men’s authority while undermining...
Herein lies evidence of everything that's wrong with gender roles (women as passive and unassertive) and norms (women as calm and agreeable) and one effect of subverting or transgressing those roles...
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#todayin: pictures: powerful photos show the crisis facing Canada’s...
Between 1980 and 2012, more than 1,100 Aboriginal women in Canada were murdered, and in 2013 there were 164 Aboriginal women who had been missing for more than 30 days. Those numbers come into...
View Article#todayin: misogyny: the threat of women with voices
madamjmo on her experiences of online abuse when she has spoken out on twitter. In particular, she discusses the threats and abuse that she has received when she speaks out on something to do with...
View Article#todayin: I did not know that: Abortion is still (sort of) illegal in...
The best thing about a (slight, it's all under control) addiction to reading all of the Internet daily is that you really do learn something new every day. OK, so the headline on The Conversation is a...
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#todayin: pictures: photographer’s project: what rapists say (TW)
"I do this project for the little girl who was molested, and then raped, by her stepfather." With those powerful words, photographer Grace Brown sums up the inspirational heart of her photography...
View Article#todayin: who would have thunk it! Gender bias in evaluations of evidence of...
I think I've leave this one to speak for itself too. Write-up (and good unpicking) from feministphilosophers: A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that men...
View Article#todayin: feminists ruining everything: Wikileaks and “the state-controlled...
This will be nothing at all to do with the lift on Assange's police protection. This is all just a feminist vendetta. Just putting that on the table now. Nothing at all to do with the removal of police...
View Article#todayin: frustration: if every contradictory argument about rape culture was...
This is perfect. And by "perfect", I mean, impossibly accurate and frustrating. And by "impossibly accurate and frustrating", I mean that it makes want to scratch my eyes out, pull all my hair out,...
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#todayin: pictures: #MyBodyMyTerms. Challenging stereotypes about sexual consent
Challenging stereotypes about sexual consent Villainesse Editor Lizzie Marvelly was tired of the public perception regarding sexual consent, revenge porn and victim-blaming, so she created the...
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#todayin: shaking my head: Man asks for £3.50 he paid for woman’s coffee back...
Seriously. This happened. No, really, it did. We (I) laugh but this is an excellent example of male entitlement and reaction to rejection. On nobaddatesjustgoodstories.tumblr via the Telegraph. You may...
View Article#todayin: seriously! See a woman reading? Leave her alone.
A few months ago, I went to meet with a colleague at his apartment. Since I wasn’t familiar with the neighborhood and I’m paranoid about being late, I budgeted extra time to find the address. It...
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#todayin: seriously! Google searches highest for International Men’s Day in...
That's the patriarchy, right there, folks. From quiteirregular: International Men’s Day took place this last week. It’s the 19th of November, a date more usually known on Twitter as “19th November,...
View Article#todayin: who would have thunk it! Study finds women denied abortions...
Findings: women who were made continue a pregnancy they did not want were less hopeful about their future (e.g. education and employment), had worse physical health, were more likely to be living in...
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#todayin: rape culture: ‘Tis the season for “don’t get raped” advice (by...
It’s that time of year again, the Christmas lights are on, the shops are heaving and we need to start watching our drinks in pubs. Police Scotland have launched their seasonal “don’t take risks”...
View Article#todayin: *smh*: It’s time to consign the word ‘feminism’ to dustbin of history
As well as a heckuvalot of roundups over the next while (probably), there will also be a lot of "reflection" pieces on the state of feminism and women's rights. Inevitably also, some of these will be...
View Article#todayin: seriously! white men don’t need defending, written by white man...
The idea that we’re being “derided” comes from a reading of the British Social Attitudes Survey, in which it seems this demographic were the most expected to be “lazy”, “drunken” and “promiscuous”....
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#todayin: dear gods! How the other 1% lives: wealth gap not the only way in...
Oxfam’s latest report, focused on an increasingly obscene wealth inequality and the stranglehold exerted by a global elite, had one central message: The era of tax havens that have made this possible...
View Article#todayin: erasure of women: the rebel virgins and desert mothers who have...
Now, here’s some good Sunday reading if ever there was any. Now, whether you buy any of Christianity or not is irrelevant here – think instead of the perspectives of those who do. I. FROM SILK ROBES TO...
View Article#todayin: misogyny: when entitlement kills – @the_warm_fruit
On Monday afternoon, less than 24 hours after these dual encounters, I learned that 29-year-old Janese Talton-Jackson, a mother of two, had been killed in Pittsburgh after declining a stranger’s...
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