Category Archives: Feminism Friday

Feminism Friday: two posts from Jill at Feministe on rape myths vs statistics

February 29, 2008 · by · in Feminism Friday, Solidarity & Sisterhood, violence

Both of these were written in response to an op-ed in the LA Times by Heather MacDonald. Post 1: It’s Only A Myth If You Believe That Those Sluts Were Asking For It This op/ed is one of the most ridiculous I’ve read in a long, long time (and that’s pretty impressive). Heather MacDonald argues […]

Feminism Friday Open Thread: Misogyny in Political Activism

February 8, 2008 · by · in feminism, Feminism Friday, gender, gender gap, Solidarity & Sisterhood

There’s been some fantastic blogging about this recently regarding the candidacy of Hillary Clinton for the Presidency of the USA. Shakesville especially has been clarifying people’s thoughts this week: Melissa: Damned if you do… Melissa: Stealth Vote Salon (a roundup of other’s responses to the post above) Kate: I Am Not Ashamed A lot of […]

Feminism Friday: Addressing claims of “female privilege” – The Military

February 1, 2008 · by · in Feminism Friday, FWW, masculinity, privilege, spot the strawfeminist

Chances are, whether or not you identify as feminist, if you’ve read much about women’s issues you’ll have heard of the Male Privilege Checklist. You also may have heard of at least one of the various Female Privilege Checklists that were made in response. I’m not here to rebut either of those lists word for […]

Feminism Friday: When women who advocate for women’s rights reject the label “feminist”

January 26, 2008 · by · in classism, discrimination, Feminism Friday, feminisms, privilege, race & racism, Solidarity & Sisterhood, womanism

2nd May 2008: This post has been updated in light of the recent flare-ups in the rounds of discussion about how mainstream feminism remains inadequate in engaging with matters of race. See footnote. There are many critics who view “feminism” (and the progressive movement generally) as focussing too much on the West, and too much […]

Feminism Friday: that “why are Western feminists such cowards about atrocities in other countries?” lie

December 7, 2007 · by · in clarifying-concepts, Feminism Friday, op-ed, oppression, spot the strawfeminist

Shorter Pamela Bone: feminists are such cowardly hypocrites for being against FGM and rape in war whenever any culture does it instead of just specially castigating Islamic societies where such brutalities occur. I posted over at Hoyden About Town a few days ago with more background to Bone’s article about how she bravely spoiled a […]

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 […]

← Older posts Newer posts →
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 2,241 other followers