An unpleasant man, who is the Executive Director of The Sydney Institute, a conservative think tank, talks some drearily familiar unpleasant crap about Jane Caro and sexist epithets and destroying the joint. Who would have thought that a throwaway piece of old fashioned Australian slang could, within a few days, become a matter of international …
Tag Archive: Sexism
Sep 03 2012
Whose spit, which venom?
I wasn’t going to say anything about this (because it’s too goofy), but other people are, so I will after all, because it’s there – the Comment is Free piece on Atheism+. First, before we even get to the article – there’s the subhead, and the url. The subhead says A new movement, Atheism+, has prompted …
Sep 02 2012
Destroying the joint
Jane Caro is feeling sympathetic toward men. It must be embarrassing “to see your normally rather pleasant and decorative gender being represented by such a pack of loudmouthed fools.” Men like Todd Akin for instance. Or the Anglicans. In what they clearly regarded as a great leap forward into the 15th century, the Sydney Anglicans triumphantly …
Aug 29 2012
Police the borders
The Everyday Sexism Project keeps track of that very thing. If you follow it on Twitter you see a lot of items that people send in. One today was the children’s magazine rack at Tesco. Picture by @sconesgone
Aug 22 2012
She wrote it three times and deleted it twice
Laurie Penny, motivated by the Assange-Akin confluence of the past few days, has written a long, wrenching piece about being raped. It was a “nice guy” liked by everyone, including her; it was at a party, where she felt ill and went to sleep. She woke up to find him raping her (although she didn’t …
Aug 21 2012
The phenomenology of harassment
Stephanie has a post about whose is the liberty in “libertarian” on sexual issues, which follows up on a comment she made here on the temperature post. The proof comes when women start going after what they want. He wants the freedom to hit on me at any time and any place? Fine. Liberty in …
Aug 20 2012
Prior to each insertion
George Galloway is certainly being disgusting on the subject of the rape allegations against Assange. In a thirty minute podcast, the controversial anti-war MP said it was “an extraordinary coincidence that public enemy number one, Julian Assange, somehow gets inveigled with two women with incredibly complex political backgrounds who just, at the right time, come …
Aug 20 2012
Rape, legitimate and illegitimate
Round 873 of “there’s rape and then there’s just getting a little frisky.” Naomi McAuliffe lays it out. Yesterday, US Representative Todd Akin reinvented female biology by telling us that we can’t get pregnant from “legitimate rape”. But there is a rich history of rape being redefined to suit the occasion; whether it is former …
Aug 20 2012
What we say when the temperature goes up
A little more about this one crux in Jean’s argument about two types of skeptics-about-feminism (or particular feminist claims), because I think it is one place a lot of wheels came off, so better understanding might help…at least with understanding. To rehearse the claim again: The respectable skeptic may be on board with all substantive …
Aug 17 2012
Your Nasty, Nerdy Sexism Isn’t Cute
There are two (yes two!) women working at Gizmodo now. One of them has a few tips for some of their readers. Some of you seem to be under the misguided impression that sexual favors are the only way a woman could possibly end up writing for a tech blog—wrong. And you know what? It’s not just wrong, …
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