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Hawa Akther Jui, the Bangladeshi woman whose husband (allegedly) chopped off her fingers with a meat cleaver because she was getting an education…is doing better than she was right after her fingers were chopped off. Ms Akther, 21, had lost all hopes of writing again after her fingers were cut off, allegedly by her husband [...]
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Throws like a girl, too
May 4th, 2012 
Ophelia Benson Same old same old same old same old. Woman says things that people disagree with; people call her a slut a whore a bitch a cunt. Louise Mensch is currently making news because she’s been the target of misogyny. After she journeyed to every TV studio in London to voice her ill-advised support for Rupert [...]
You gonna believe Mona Eltahawy or the grand mufti?
April 24th, 2012 Ophelia Benson Nahed Eltantawy responds to Mona Eltahawy’s article on woman-hating in the Middle East. She hates it. I felt deeply offended and insulted by Mona Eltahawy’s latest article in Foreign Policy, titled Why Do They Hate Us? I follow Eltahawy’s columns quite regularly and I accept many of her arguments, even if I do not [...]
Poke the hatred in its eye
April 23rd, 2012 Ophelia Benson Mona Eltahawy pulls no punches in her Foreign Policy article on the hatred of women in the Middle East. She’s pissed, man. I could find you a host of crackpots sounding off on Woman the Insatiable Temptress, but I’m staying mainstream with Qaradawi, who commands a huge audience on and off the satellite channels. Although he [...]
Jim Jefferies
April 15th, 2012 Ophelia Benson A month ago Rorschach posted a Jim Jefferies video in anticipation (not eager anticipation, but rather the opposite) of his appearance at the Global Atheist Convention. So far I’ve managed to watch only three minutes, because it’s a very unpleasant experience. Apparently what makes him so supremely funny is his loathing of women. Nice work, [...]
Words
March 30th, 2012 Ophelia Benson I’m reading Jon Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven. The core facts: a Mormon man [Dan Lafferty] converted to radical polygamist female-subservientist fundamentalist Mormonism and converted his five brothers. The oldest brother [Ron Lafferty] was divorced by his wife as a result. The wife [Brenda] of the youngest [Allen] resisted all of them. Ron and Dan killed her and the pair’s [...]
I get email
March 20th, 2012 Ophelia Benson I got one today from someone who has commented here a few times as nmcc or NMcC, and who commented yesterday to tell me how wrong I am about the word “cunt” and to say “Sarah Palin is a cunt.” I deleted that comment and put him – his email address showed he’s a Nigel [...]
A triumph for the Texas Taliban
March 15th, 2012 Ophelia Benson So there’s this couple in Texas looking forward to their second baby, a brother for their 2-year-old daughter. Yet now my doctor was looking grim and, with chair pulled close, was speaking of alarming things. “I’m worried about your baby’s head shape,” she said. “I want you to see a specialist—now.” My husband looked angry, [...]
Not “a safe space” for women
January 26th, 2012 Ophelia Benson How dare women be in Tahrir Square? Especially filthy foreign women? According to Heather, an Arab-American living in the Egyptian capital, she and her Swedish and Spanish roommates took to Tahrir as thousands were converging there to mark one-year since the ousting of former President Hosni Mubarak. “They started fighting over who was going to [...]
Misogyny? What misogyny?
January 11th, 2012 Ophelia Benson Reading Greta’s most recent post about…about friends and allies and misogyny and how to deal with it and talk about it. You know: what we’ve been talking about for months and months and months now. One thing that happened in the comments is that Justicar showed up to discuss the issues in a calm, reasoned, civil [...]
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