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This essay by s. e. smith is something I honestly wish I could have written myself (but see Comment 1 below), because it’s a point that is rarely raised in fighting against misogynist sentiment and the gender roles that enable it. That point is, eliminating those gender stereotypes does not entail actually eliminating the stereotyped [...]
Posts Tagged ‘misogyny’
“Get your antifemininity out of my feminism”
April 30th, 2012 
Jason Thibeault 
Posted in Gender 
Tags: anti-feminism, antifemininity, feminism, gender roles, misogyny 
47 Comments »The twenty comments in my moderation queue
March 11th, 2012 Jason Thibeault I want to clear out the twenty comments I have pending moderation — the only twenty comments to hit moderation since I joined Freethought Blogs. These comments came from people who have earned “bans” (which, around here, means they can post but only I see it) for various reasons, and in one major case, from [...]
Posted in Asshats, Blogosphere, Gender, Privilege Tags: conspiracy theory, feminism, free speech, hate speech, misogyny, privilege, The Monument 9 Comments »Are universal statements always a problem?
January 8th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Or just sometimes? It occurs to me that many (“ALL!” “Shh.”) of our problems around these parts viz every new conflagration, from our recent conversation with Mallorie Nasrallah, to the statement by DJ Grothe that we only blog about controversial topics for hits, to the pushback against a Rebecca Watson blog title as though it [...]
Posted in Gender, Privilege Tags: egalitarianism, feminism, misandry, misogyny, sexism, universal statements 81 Comments »Frat email trains frosh on how to treat women
January 6th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Edit: yes, this is from March. It is still relevant though, and it was news to me. I just read the purest example of unbelievable fuckwittery that enablers of rape culture — the substrate of society that deals with everything to do with sex as a commodity and with women as objects and obstacles to [...]
Posted in Asshats, Gender Tags: heavy sarcasm, misogyny, objectification, rape culture 43 Comments »Mallorie Nasrallah says “I like it when #mencallmethings”
January 3rd, 2012 Jason Thibeault That’s the only takeaway message I can get from this open letter to the skeptic community, which apparently came as a direct response to her active participation in this discussion at Greta’s. In the comments on my ill-received but well-intentioned (but as Classical Cipher is fond of saying, intent is not magical) post regarding whether [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Gender, Privilege Tags: #mencallmethings, feminism, Mallorie Nasrallah, misogyny, Penn Jilette, privilege, rape, sexism 278 Comments »Vilifying dissent
January 2nd, 2012 Jason Thibeault A fifteen year old girl posts a picture of herself on Reddit r/atheism holding a copy of Carl Sagan’s Demon Haunted World, which she took to post to Facebook originally. She didn’t know she was evidently transgressing unwritten and sexist-by-design social rules by posting her picture, and thus was being taught the lesson that she [...]
More pushback against systemic misogyny within our respective communities
December 30th, 2011 Jason Thibeault I’m sure you’ve seen quite a few of the posts that have sprung up about Freethought Blogs lately in the wake of Rebeccapocalypse 2. Posts like Greta Christina’s “Why ‘Yes But’ Is the Wrong Response to Misogyny” or Maryam Namazie’s “We are not an atheist community”. Excellent conversation abounds, but I do hope you’re looking [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Gender, Privilege Tags: atheism, feminism, gender, misogyny, pushback, skepticism, troll 4 Comments »Marieke Hardy apparently incorrectly named the man who calls her things
December 23rd, 2011 Jason Thibeault A while back, in my post The General Pushback against Misogynist Trolls Begins, I mentioned an incident where Marieke Hardy, a screen writer from Australia, has endured a years-long hate campaign by a particularly vicious little misogynist troll. She posted the name Joshua Meggitt in a post supporting the Twitter #mencallmethings hashtag, only it turns [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Gender Tags: feminism, gender, Marieke Hardy, misogyny, pseudonymity, troll No Comments »In defense of my male feminism
December 23rd, 2011 Jason Thibeault I’ve had listed for some time, as part of my profile on the right, the fact that I consider myself a feminist. I put it in shortly after joining Freethought Blogs and being assailed in very short order by the winged monkeys who have this absurd tendency of descending onto any pro-feminism post, shouting down [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Gender, Privilege Tags: feminism, gender, gender roles, male feminism, masculinity, misandry, misogyny, movement purity 32 Comments »How-to guide for male supremacists: give women acid baths
November 30th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Via The Guardian (disturbing photos on the landing page): Seventeen-year-old Neela Khatunis is one of more than 2,700 victims of acid attacks in Bangladesh over the past 10 years. ‘My husband was angry … because he claimed a dowry but my family couldn’t provide one,’ she says. ‘His plan was to sell me in Saudi [...]
Posted in Gender, Privilege Tags: acid throwing, feminism, misogyny, Pakistan, social causes 7 Comments »
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