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Guest Post: Coming Out as Feminist
Editor’s Note: Today’s post, by Chris (who also blogs at Grounded Parents), was written a while ago about finally coming to terms with the identity “feminist.” ****** I’m tired. I’m tired of tiptoeing...
View ArticleIs “Married at First Sight” a Legitimate Science Experiment?
I have to come clean: I genuinely enjoy the show Married at First Sight. I know, I know. I started watching it because I thought it looked terrible, and bad TV is something I love. The first few...
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A Woman’s Room Online
[Trigger warning for images based on threats and harassment] Get your black dresses- and your reading glasses out. There is an art show a comin’ to town! For the past month I, along with the help of...
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Five More Things Richard Dawkins Thinks You Should Be Held Criminally...
Last night, Mark Oppenheimer posted an article on Buzzfeed about misogyny in the atheist/skeptic movements, and specifically about how men like Michael Shermer have ruined the movement for women. The...
View ArticleA.W.R.O. Art Opening and Live Feed tonight!
UPDATE: A live feed of the art installation can be seen at awomansroomonline.com. Tonight, Saturday the 13th at 7pm the activist art installation entitled A Woman’s Room Online will open its (one)...
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Cross-Post: Ask the right question: #whydoesheabuse?
Editor’s Note: This cross-post is written by Steph of Grounded Parents. To read the full post and to leave comments, click through the link at the end. ****** As the country reels after another...
View ArticleDear Innocent People Murdered in Witch Hunts
Thousands of women, accused of sorcery, tortured and executed in Indian witch hunts RichardDawkins.net July 27, 2014 The killers came for her on Saturday. Two of her sons tried to save her, but...
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Sam Harris Doesn’t Understand Bell Curves
It’s Thursday and that means it’s time for another round of Bad Chart Thursday. This week, rather than make fun of a bad chart, I was inspired to write a bit about bell curves and more specifically Sam...
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Guest Post: Insight into the Lives of the Intersexed
Editor’s Note: You may remember Amy’s last guest post about the Invisible Intersexed Community. Next, she tackles what it feels like to be diagnosed as intersexed (with a female identity). ******...
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Music Break! Are Video Games Sexist? Auto-Tune Rebuttal
Jonathan Mann did an absolutely inspired and glorious rebuttal of Dr Christina Hoff Sommers recent youtube video. And he did it to music. If you do not know Christina Hoff Sommers, don’t worry. I had...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: ‘Happy’ Dancers Sentenced to Jail, A Boy Gets Justice, and...
IRAN The young men and women who were arrested in May for posting a video of themselves dancing to Pharrell Williams’ ‘Happy” have been sentenced to six months in prison and 91 lashes. The sentences...
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Sexism, Transphobia and Arguments from Biology
A lot of you have probably seen the comment by Sam Harris quoted in the Washington Post where he claims “there’s something about that critical posture that is to some degree instrinsically male and...
View Article#GamerGate and Game Journalism’s Ethics Problem
Support more videos like this at http://patreon.com/rebecca Relevant links: Overview of harassment against Zoe Quinn IRC chat logs Duke Nukem PR fail Kotaku on mock reviews EA’s BS A good criticism of...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Mars on a Budget, Sharia Law, and The Vatican Arrests a Priest
INDIA India has succeeded, at their first attempt, to send an operational mission to Mars. The Mangalyaan mission was also really cheap, $74 million. That’s less than what making the movie Gravity...
View ArticleThe Hidden Cost of “Leaking” Celebrity Nudes: Kim Kardashian
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sort-of-transcript: Another day, another batch of celebrity nudes have been “leaked”, which is a word used to downplay the fact that these were...
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Stephanie Zvan and A Woman’s Room Online
If you are anywhere near Los Angeles on Tuesday, October 7th, at 7 pm, I encourage you to join the women of LAWAAG and see a talk by Stephanie Zvan. This event is sponsored by LAWAAG but is open to the...
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The Ada Initiative and Ally Skills
There is a wonderful organization called the Ada Initiative. Oh what? You aren’t familiar with the Ada Initiative? You should be. They were one of the very few groups who lent us support back in the...
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Global Quickies: Zombies, Evil Atheists, and Discriminated Virgos
MALDIVES The government is trying to “reduce adverse effects on society that could be caused by published literature” by introducing new regulations to ensure “that the works published in the Maldives...
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Aziz Ansari is a Feminist
Categories: FeminismOh, I’m sorry, did you think you could not possibly love Aziz Ansari any more? Did you?? THEN YOU ARE A FOOL. Enjoy his bit on Letterman about how he’s ...(Read more...)
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Guerrilla Feminism Founder Takes On Victim-Blaming Campus Police in Madison
TW: Sexual assault Lachrista Greco, founder of the organization Guerrilla Feminism, experienced rape culture firsthand when she was sexually assaulted on the UW-Madison campus in her hometown of...
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