Category Archives: op-ed

Feminism Friday: Open Thread on gender dominance issues in sexuality, slurs and raunch culture

July 28, 2007 · by · in allies, clarifying-concepts, Feminism Friday, gender, Sexuality & Health, writings

Where do you point a male feminist ally (whose alliance up until now has been based on largely unexamined egalitarian impulses, but who hasn’t read any theory) to find good introductory analysis of gendered dominance in sexual behaviours, and how attitudes towards and about sexual behaviours play back into gender relations more widely? Some of […]

Feminism Friday: SotBO (Statements of the bleedin’ obvious)

June 23, 2007 · by · in clarifying-concepts, Feminism Friday, FWW, spot the strawfeminist

Rational people often assume that some opinions and judgements are so obviously part of their worldview that they really don’t need to be said. Unfortunately, some maliciously disruptive people take delight in assuming that if something has not been clearly stated then they are safe in assuming the worst of others, even when such assumptions […]

Feminism Friday Round-Up

June 22, 2007 · by · in Family & Work, Feminism Friday, reproductive justice, Sexuality & Health, Solidarity & Sisterhood, violence

As usual, not all of these posts have actually been tagged as Feminism Friday articles by their authors, but if a post appears to fit into the category I include it. Please add any other online articles you think fit the bill from the last few weeks in comments. Amanda Marcotte is out of the […]

Feminism Friday: Occasionally Conversations with my Man Are Instructive

June 14, 2007 · by · in clarifying-concepts, Feminism Friday, man-hating, op-ed

This is a republication of a post originally published at the author’s blog that I had linked to in the FAQs. That blog is no longer a general readership blog, but the author has given permission to repost this article here. Author: Ilyka Damen He came home from the store this afternoon and asked, “So, […]

Friday Feminism: Blogging while Feminist – a 3-comment rule?

May 25, 2007 · by · in Feminism Friday, netiquette

I was reading something over at Pharyngula today where PZ Myers was alerting his commentors to brace for an influx of creationist debaters following a particular story getting picked up by both Digg and Reddit, and he reminded them of his 3-comment rule for dealing with newbie debating opponents. Don’t attack without mercy until they’ve […]

New material

May 24, 2007 · by · in announcements, Feminism Friday, recommendations

I’ve updated the Resources page, moving the various Links to their own subpage and adding a separate subpage for Books. There’s also a new subpage under The FAQs page called Not the FAQs: Feminism Friday, trying to spread the word.

Feminism Friday: Rape Jokes Aren’t Funny

May 19, 2007 · by · in clarifying-concepts, Feminism Friday, no-sense-of-humour, victimhood, violence

Late, I know, and not much from me: I’m just pointing you at these three posts below from Melissa McEwan at Shakesville. Trauma-Trigger Alert: Melissa describes her own rape in harrowing detail in order to point out how rape is not funny, and although the discussion threads start out thoughtful and interesting, they end up […]

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