Topic: Feminism

Seven Reasons Women Love Game Of Thrones

Seven Reasons Women Love Game Of Thrones

There is a horrendously trollsome article up on internet man cave Thrillist right now detailing all the reasons why girls hate HBO’s award winning fantasy program Game Of Thrones. According to the ostensibly female writer, women hate Game Of Thrones because it’s got incest on it, it’s too complicated for our lady brains to follow, it is nerdy, it is full of naked women, and you have to watch men get their extremities cut off. Oh dear. More »

Electronic Wizardress Grimes Writes Amazing Treatise On Sexism In The Music World

Electronic Wizardress Grimes Writes Amazing Treatise On Sexism In The Music World

Grimes is pretty much the best. Through a combination of technical wizardry, obsessive perfectionism, vocal prowess, and pop sensibility, she makes music that feels like having your dancing muscles lovingly prodded by Korean computer ghosts from the nineties. She’s also an accomplished artist and jewelry designer with a great sense of style. But in case you needed another reason to love her, she’s also an outspoken feminist who is not afraid to call out the indie music world for sexism, despite the fact that it has granted her a livelihood. More »

A Critically Ill Woman Could Go To Jail For Getting A Lifesaving Abortion

A Critically Ill Woman Could Go To Jail For Getting A Lifesaving Abortion

According to Amnesty International, a critically ill woman in El Salvador could go to jail if she gets an abortion to save her life. The woman, known as Beatriz, is experiencing health problems stemming from the pregnancy related to her kidney disease and lupus. Despite the fact that the hospital treating her requested legal permission from the government for Beatriz to abort months ago (she is now four and a half months pregnant) none has been granted. More »

Why Are Women Afraid To Call Themselves Feminists?

Why Are Women Afraid To Call Themselves Feminists?

I’ve always considered myself a feminist. It surprises me that lately I seem to be in a minority.

We heard a while ago about how Beyonce considers herself a “modern day feminist” (she said we needed a new word for it) and Taylor Swift really doesn’t even want you to suggest she’s a feminist. When I was making a list of celebrities who do identify as feminists it… kind of took a while.  More »

What Is The Worst Thing You Can Say To A Woman?

What Is The Worst Thing You Can Say To A Woman?

I can think of a lot of “worst things you can say to a woman.” Mostly, telling them to smile. Every woman hates that. However, I haven’t considered this as a seriously as The Daily Mail who has a list of the worst things you can possibly say to a woman. They report:

Asking a woman ‘when’s the baby due?’ when she is not actually pregnant has been voted the worst thing a man can say to a lady – according to a new poll. More »

Why Feminism Must Be About More Than Careerism, ‘Leaning In,’ And The Glass Ceiling

Why Feminism Must Be About More Than Careerism, 'Leaning In,' And The Glass Ceiling

There’s been a lot of discussion as of late about Sheryl Sandberg‘s bourgeois and somewhat apolitical version of feminism, Lean In. It seems like everywhere I look, the feminist discourse has been taken over by discussions of the ways in which women hold themselves back at work, how we need more women at the top, why Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer won’t call herself a feminist, etc. As a feminist with some serious socialist leanings, I am mildly annoyed by this, but I’m also kind of happy, because it gives me a chance to discuss how and why feminism must go beyond talking about how the most privileged women should be allowed to self-actualize at the highest levels possible, to the issues that concern that vast majority of the female workforce. More »

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