She gives a king
Unnnnnnnnnnnhhhhhhhhhhhhh That’s a long exasperated sigh of disgust and irritation. At what? At a prominent journalist, a woman, squeeing and jumping up and down because Kate Futurequeen had a boy. I’m...
View ArticleWhen you’re ready to be put in your place
Criado-Perez wrote a piece for the New Statesman on the rape-threats campaign. On Wednesday the 24 July, the Bank of England made the historic announcement that, in response to over 35,000 people...
View ArticleA deafening silence from Twitter
The Independent reports that Twitter is facing a major backlash for not responding to abuse. I am pleased to hear that – Twitter has been crappy about dealing with one kind of abuse I get there, and...
View ArticleA professional glass blower might remark
Let’s go back in time a couple of months, to early June, to June 4th to be precise, when the story about Colin McGinn broke. What story, and who? The story that McGinn is leaving the University of...
View ArticleHeat/kitchen
Emma Barnett gets lots of sexist abuse online, and she got a couple of sexist online abusers to call in to her weekly radio program to explain why sexist abuse is a good thing. First troll up was Peter...
View ArticleA string of subtle but demeaning comments
The journalist Olivia Messer was pleased to return to her home state of Texas to write about the legislature. She quickly realized there was a down side. Within weeks, I’d already heard a few...
View ArticleWhen Anil met Pax
You remember how that went, right? Anil Dash tweeted Wow, didn’t realize @businessinsider had hired such an asshole in @paxdickinson. Getting memcache to build made him an expert on misogyny! Pax...
View ArticleJust being bros
What’s all this feminism nonsense? Didn’t we figure out a long time ago that that’s just politically correct bullshit? Janet Kornblum is there. So when I heard about this whole bro-haha this weekend...
View ArticleSuch men are dangerous
More on David Gilmour. Gilmour seems to think enough of himself to believe that he’s somehow unique in his approach to teaching literature. The only female writer whose work he teaches is Virginia...
View ArticleThis is just what happens to women online
Laura Bates takes a look at online sexism. (Cue a rumble of outraged outrage in response.) The internet is a fertile breeding ground for misogyny – you only have to look at the murky bottom waters of...
View ArticleHearing from women, hearing from men
First, take a look at this: a write-up of a panel of women at the National Association of Science Writers meeting on November 2, talking about sexual harassment and women in science writing. Read it....
View ArticleIf only
Now read PZ on the silences, the neglect, the moving on to more important matters. I would like to have read more about “Hearing from Women”, but not only could the writer not be troubled to include...
View ArticleThe bus from hell
Meanwhile, also at UK universities, there’s laddish “banter”… This week, a video of the men’s hockey team at the University of Stirling appeared on YouTube, showing the male students on a packed bus,...
View ArticleDecades after we decided as a society
Even the Telegraph has a blog post about the heroic adventures in schooling women of Elan Gale. Look, joking aside, and God knows Elan is a risible clown who deserves all the pointing-and-laughing one...
View ArticleMaybe some day a Sally Potatohead
From last spring, an item about Disney and 1938. It shows a letter sent to a woman who had applied or asked about applying for a job as an animator at Disney Studios. The letter is signed by Mary...
View ArticleIt’s all about the hits
Says a guy at pubshare, and he ought to know. He starts with a picture of a not-hot woman saying women are not for decoration, while hot women laugh at her. Geddit? Feminists ugly, hot women not...
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Gender segregation by Hasbro
They cannot be serious. Via the Facebook page Destroy the Joint: It’s Monopoly for Gurrulz. Of all the icons in the universe that could be produced for “girls only”, perhaps the last one you’d think of...
View ArticleUbiquitous? Actually, no.
PZ has a post on The Cunt Question (that’s where I saw Maki Naro’s tweet, and there are more there). The defenses are hilarious, irrational, and indignant. It’s incredibly common to see people protest...
View ArticleIn private emails to football pals
Richard Scudamore, the head of the Premier League, supports women’s football, good on him, but – he talks the drearily familiar way about them when he lets his hair down. Premier League chief Richard...
View ArticleGreat gams on the new Secretary for Hotness
Cameron does Cabinet reshuffle. Cameron increases the number of women in the Cabinet. News media report on reshuffle and increase in number of women. What’s the next sentence? You know this one....
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