Via Mona Eltahawy on Twitter - Pakistan has its “Twitterati” – “the artists, the journalists, the designers, the political analysts, the bloggers, the activists.” I follow quite a few of them myself. But guess what – there’s a penalty. Of course there is. But with fame comes the inevitable trolling. And unfortunately, if you’re in Pakistan, …
Tag Archive: Misogyny
Nov 16 2012
How to tell the diff-er-ence
There’s a difference between saying “selfish cunts” as a misogynist epithet and saying it as a joke about people who are sekrit misogynists under a veneer of respectability. I bet you knew that. Not everyone gets it though. Some people see the latter and think it’s a justification for the claim that “cunt” is not …
Oct 25 2012
Defining misogyny
Comment is Free held a little discussion of “what is misogyny?” the other day. An Australian dictionary has changed its definition of misogyny to reflect the fact that it is now used to mean ‘entrenched prejudice against women’, not just hatred of them. Six feminists tell us what the term means to them. Ok wait …
Oct 18 2012
A dictionary fight
Here’s an interesting new development. Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary has expanded its definition of “misogyny” in response to Gillard’s speech on the subject last week. The dictionary currently defines misogyny as “hatred of women”, but will now add a second definition to include “entrenched prejudice against women”, suggesting Abbott discriminated against women with his sexist views.
Oct 14 2012
Carlin isn’t the issue
No, just saying “I can use any words I want to” doesn’t deal with the problem. No, it really doesn’t. Not even if you say it really loudly, or over and over again, or really loudly over and over again. Another day, another Internet radio show, another transcript, another attempt to make the problem just …
Oct 13 2012
Creepshots
The outing of Reddit’s “Violentacrez” is all over the place. He’s one of Reddit’s most loathsome users (members? denizens? occupants? what’s the right word?), and Adrian Chen outed him on Gawker as one Michael Brutsch, who works at a Texas financial services company as a programmer. Loathsome how? His speciality is distributing images of scantily-clad …
Oct 10 2012
Everyday misogyny
It’s good to see Julia Gillard setting the leader of the opposition, Tony Abbott, straight about sexism and misogyny. It’s good to see her listing the sexist and misogynist things he’s said and done – such as standing in front of the houses of Parliament next to a sign saying “ditch the witch” and one …
Sep 28 2012
An expression of glandular-level contempt
Slime Season is here, all festive with mildew and rot and weevils. After four years of invective, four years during which the right has called President Obama a traitor, a communist, a fraud, an affirmative-action case, a terrorist-sympathizer and a tyrant, its shrillest voices have been reduced to the most primal insult of all. They …
Sep 27 2012
Facesmash
Godalmighty Soraya Chemaly’s article on misogynist shit on Facebook is horrifying and scary. Earlier this week I wrote about how the use of photography (especially without the subject’s consent) intensifies harassment, abuse and violence against women. Quicker than I could type “Feministe” this Change.org petition appeared in my inbox: “Please sign to remove 12 Year …
Sep 05 2012
Reverse trolling
The stats have been showing a lot of hits via New Matilda for the past three days, and via a comment rather than the post. New Matilda must be big. Anyway, the post is by Jane Caro, and it’s about the waves kicked up by her piece on “the wave of misogynistic remarks recently” (gosh, …
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