Category Archives: Social Justice

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 […]

Happy Halloween

October 31, 2007 · by · in no-sense-of-humour, objectification, oppression, sexism, sleazebags

Scare us all! Open thread for creepy stories and revoltingly sexist costume links (because strangely, we don’t see superheroes in costumes like this, at this time of year or any other). Alternatively, if you’re doing something kickarse for Halloween or Samhain, link here to your posts about it.

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 […]

Reading roundup

September 30, 2007 · by · in feminism, gender, privilege, recommendations, reproductive justice, Solidarity & Sisterhood, violence

The 45th Carnival of Feminists went up last week at Feminist Philosophers. Lots of good reading there, and below are links to some more great feminist reading that I’ve found in my feedreader this last week. I can’t read all the blogs out there, so obviously I miss great stuff. If you’ve read something insightful, […]

FAQ: Isn’t the existence of the term “sex-positive feminism” effectively an admission that many feminists are anti-sex?

July 15, 2007 · by · in FAQ, gender, introductory, objectification, oppression, Sexuality & Health, violence

If only it actually were that simple. Sex-positive’s opposite is not sex-negative. The terms sex-positive, sex-pos etc came about as a movement in opposition to the feminist anti-pornography activists of the late 1970s/early 1980s. Let’s spell it out: Pornography does not equal all sexual behaviour.. Prostitution does not equal all sexual behaviour. Consensual sex play […]

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “The Solitude of Self (1892)”

June 21, 2007 · by · in feminism, First-Wave, self-sovereignty, writings

Also known as “Self-Sovereignty“. This speech, was in Stanton’s own judgement “the best thing I have ever written” and in the judgement of Susan B. Anthony “the strongest and most unanswerable argument and appeal ever made . . . for the full freedom and franchise of women”. It’s already fairly widely available on the internet, […]

Frequently Whimpered Whines: The Nice Guys™ theme song

June 14, 2007 · by · in clarifying-concepts, FWW, masculinity, objectification, privilege, sexism

From the FF101 Jargon File (edited to add, for the benefit of those who can’t/won’t find the time to click on a link, with the full text of the “Nice Guys™” entry, added text in italics) : “Nice Guys™” – The “™” marks the difference between men who are genuinely nice people and men who […]

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