Stacy alerted me to a good (feminist) analysis of the Onion tweet. First of all, she says, Quvenzhané Wallis is terrific, no question. But you know what? All of the women at the Oscars last night are awesome. Just to have survived to that level in an industry that, at best, ignores women, and, at worst, …
Tag Archive: Misogyny
Feb 26 2013
We are told we are respected, and yet
Feminism is resurging, says Ellie Mae O’Hagan at Comment is Free. It’s resurging because there is still so god damn much sexist shit going on. In that sense it would be nice if feminism could drop dead because it’s no longer needed. O’Hagan recently read The Feminine Mystique for the first time. To my mind, …
Feb 13 2013
Global pushback
Laurie Penny went to Dublin to report on women fighting to legalize abortion in Ireland, then she went to Cairo to report on women fighting sexual harassment in Tahrir Square. In both places, women told her they were sick of feeling ashamed. From India to Ireland to Egypt, women are on the streets, on the …
Feb 12 2013
No one to control them
When in doubt, harass women. Shahira Amin has an article at Index on Censorship about the harassment of women in Tahrir Square. Egyptian Salafi preacher Ahmed Mahmoud Abdulla — known as Abou Islam — recently made remarks justifying sexual violence against female protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, claiming that women who join protests are asking …
Feb 09 2013
Enormous splash damage
On the rest of Christian Munthe’s post on internet harassment in Sweden and in general. The behaviour of the “net haters”, as the established term has come to be, is often equivalent or very close to criminal harassment, libel or threat. However, existing laws are obviously not constructed for a situation where these sort of …
Feb 04 2013
What they don’t get
What it’s like to be Rebecca. She got a message this morning with a link. The link was to a pornographic MS Paint drawing someone made of me and posted to a Rule 34 porn site under the username “rand0mathe1st.” The image depicts me bound and gagged, covered in semen, with a dildo up my …
Feb 04 2013
The timing of everything was carefully executed
What it’s like to be a woman in The Industry. What industry? It almost doesn’t matter, does it. This one is the tech industry. This week – someone decided to upload fake porn pictures of me to the internet – when I say fake I don’t mean my head stuck on someone’s body, but lookalikes …
Jan 30 2013
And with one bound she was free
More harassment. More complications. More failure to disclose. More clumsy attempts at setups. More provocation followed by noisy media blitz to express outrage at the response to the provocation. The A-news people, who do that podcast I was invited to do, posted a podcast on Monday, the day I was invited. Lee Moore, the guy who …
Jan 28 2013
Asking for brickbats
Laurie Penny says that internet misogyny should end. “There’s nothing wrong with [her] a couple of hours of cunt kicking, garrotting and burying in a shallow grave wouldn’t sort out.” Like many women who have public profiles online, I’m used to messages of this sort – the violent rape and murder fantasies, the threats to …
Jan 27 2013
What we need is a filter
Cath Elliott writes about What it’s like to be a victim of Don’t Start Me Off’s internet hate mob. Note from Helen Lewis, who republished the post on her New Statesman blog: Note from Helen: Cath Elliott’s Blog, An Occupational Hazard, was one of the pieces which inspired me to collect together the experiences of …
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