Category Archives: FAQ

Feminism Friday: Humour as a tool for shaming and silencing

November 9, 2007 · by · in clarifying-concepts, Feminism Friday, no-sense-of-humour, objectification, privilege, sexism

Last week’s Feminism Friday post was on why Rape Jokes Just Aren’t Funny, based on a series from Melissa McEwan of Shakesville, and at the crosspost on Hoyden About Town Bernice made a telling comment. Humour – the final frontier of colonialisation. You really now you’ve co-opted someone into the frame of dominance from which […]

Feminism Friday: More on how Rape Jokes Just Aren’t Funny

November 2, 2007 · by · in clarifying-concepts, Feminism Friday, no-sense-of-humour, violence

Obviously, a lot of women feel uncomfortable about rape jokes because rape is an ever-present background threat to daily life for us, not just a bit of regrettable “bad sex”. Melissa McEwan at Shakesville has written quite a lot about how rape jokes bolster rape culture, and posted an excellent essay on the subject of […]

FAQ: What is “internalized sexism”?

October 20, 2007 · by · in clarifying-concepts, FAQ, sexism

Short definition: Internalized sexism is the involuntary internalization by women of the sexist messages that are present in their societies and culture. It also the way in which women reinforce sexism by utilizing and relaying sexist messages that they’ve internalized.

FAQ: What is “sexism”?

October 19, 2007 · by · in clarifying-concepts, FAQ, introductory, sexism

Short definition: Sexism is both discrimination based on gender and the attitudes, stereotypes, and the cultural elements that promote this discrimination. Given the historical and continued imbalance of power, where men as a class are privileged over women as a class (see male privilege), an important, but often overlooked, part of the term is that […]

FAQ: What’s wrong with saying that things happen to men, too?

October 18, 2007 · by · in clarifying-concepts, FAQ, FWW, masculinity, netiquette, privilege

Short answer: Nothing in and of itself. The problem occurs when conversations about women can’t happen on unmoderated blogs without someone showing up and saying, “but [x] happens to men, too!” (also known as a “Patriarchy Hurts Men, Too” or PHMT argument, or a “What About The Mens?” or WATM argument). When this happens, it […]

FAQ: What roles should men play in feminism?

October 18, 2007 · by · in allies, FAQ

Just as there’s no easy answer to the question of whether or not a man should call himself a “feminist” or go by a different term, there’s no easy answer for what role men should play in feminism. Below are a collection of different thoughts and perspectives of what men can do to be good […]

FAQ Updates

October 18, 2007 · by · in FAQ, FF101-admin

As you might notice in the “Recent Comments” section of the sidebar to the right, there’s an awful lot of comments coming from someone called “FAQ”.  That’s actually tekanji going to town on FAQ updates, adding more quotes and links and summaries, which are generating trackbacks to the other FAQs that they link to etc […]

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