Rebecca Watson speaking at the Humanists of Florida 2012 Conference. The talk discusses sexism, harassment and threats directed towards many visible women in the atheist and skeptic communities. Youtube comment threads are one of the last warm refuges for complete asshats.
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Five of Five: Solving the Saudi Lust Problem
via BBC:
A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.
Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive.
I’ve always wondered why…
Five of Five: Solving the Saudi Lust Problem
via BBC: A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye. Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive. I’ve always wondered why the burden lies with women to
Continue readingFive of Five: Anders Pushing Transgender Hysteria
Calgary MP Rob Anders has once again drawn criticism for controversial comments, this time about the transgender community.Anders wants to stop Bill C279, a private member’s bill that would amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and hate crime section of the Criminal Code to include "gender identity" and "gender expression" as grounds for discrimination.He says the bill’s goal is to give
Continue readingFive of Five: Anders Pushing Transgender Hysteria
Calgary MP Rob Anders has once again drawn criticism for controversial comments, this time about the transgender community.Anders wants to stop Bill C279, a private member’s bill that would amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and hate crime section of the Criminal Code to include “gender identity” and “gender expression”
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: We Must Appoint the Best Man for the Job, Regardless of Gender!
So declared a pompous civil servant on a famous British 80s sitcom, Yes Minister, and so, apparently, the Harper regime declares today. Yesterday’s news that the son of a former Progressive Conservative leadership contestant from Quebec was being named to the Supreme Court was generally interpreted as “a step away
Continue readingeaves.ca: What the Quantified Self Movement Says and Tech and Gender
Over the past year or two I’ve been to a couple of unconferences sessions about how people are increasingly measuring different parts of their lives: how far they run, how they sleep, what they eat, etc… As some readers may be aware, these efforts are often referred to as part
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Sexism: A Call to Arms for Decent Men
Guys, we have a problem. We are letting way too many boys get into adulthood without actually becoming men. We’re seeing more and more adult males around who are not men.
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: Is Caregiving Women’s Work?
Last week I had the pleasure and the privilege of speaking with a group of caregiver activists in a conference call hosted by WEGO Health, a terrific online information tool open to anyone wishing to advocate for health related causes. On our call was Wendy Kruse, founder of the Military Special
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Maurice Vellacott’s Proposal Deserves Serious Thought
Stop the Bullying of Canada’s Most Vulnerable – The Baby on in the Womb In light of this new awareness of bullying, consistency and credibility demands that we tackle the most cruel and most common bullying of all — the bullying, and ultimately killing, of babies in the womb. Maurice
Continue readingFive of Five: Sunday Night
Well done. Via Memwhore.
Continue readingbastard.logic: Etch-A-Mitt Shakes Things Up Again: Welfare Moms Better Off With “The Dignity of Work”
Via Ryan Grim (ICYMI): Apparently Ann Romney forgot to mention to Willard that moms who don’t work outside the home do THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB IN THE WORLD!!!1 and already have ample dignity, thankyouverymuchyousupersexistsoand… oh, wait — Mittens meant those moms — y’know, the ones who can’t afford dignity. Sorry. They gotsta
Continue readingbastard.logic: The Pre-Butterfly Effect
Gee, I can’t imagine why the gender gap between the Democratic Party and the GOP has widened into a yawning chasm: HUNT: Let me ask you this. The Democrats of course say you are waging, the GOP is waging a war on women. I know you don’t agree with that,
Continue readingArt Threat: Thomas Waugh flirts with fantasy while fucking reality – An analysis of Out/Lines and Lust Unearthed
[Forward: When I saw that Arsenal Pulp Press had these two books on hand I immediately thought of Tyler. A thoughtful writer, Tyler had the pleasure of meeting Thomas Waugh last summer, and I knew he’d have an interesting perspective on both Out/Lines and Lust Unearthed. He certainly delivered. The
Continue readingelementalpresent: The Feminization of Pinterest
Pinterest, I’ve discovered, is something you learn by doing. And by “doing”, I mean getting sucked in to the site, like Alice going down the rabbit hole, picture-by-picture, pin-by-pin, only to emerge, feeling hungry and lazy (yet inspired), wondering where the last two hours of your life went. But when
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Would a female NDP leader be an advantage?
When Barack Obama became President, there was an enormous outpouring of emotion at the historic fact of electing the first black President. Had Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary instead, America would most likely have had its first female President which would have been similarly venerated. Regardless of who the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Stompn’ Mudholes – Or how to beat transgendered people
The binary view of gender is a regressive patriarchal notion that needs to be abolished and the sooner the better. The gender binary hurts women and men as people are shoehorned into roles that they are not suited for and then judged as being deficient by society according to
Continue readingbastard.logic: A Giraffe Hunter in a Ditch is Worth Two in the Bush. Or Something.
by matttbastard Newt teh Perfessor outdoes himself on the future of gender in an excerpt from a mid-90s lecture: Traditionally, he said, “if combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for thirty days, because they get infections and they don’t have upper body
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Is Jason Kenney still Roman Catholic, or does he actually accept women as equals now?
Right? I mean, that is the standard he’s claiming to set, isn’t it? The reason burkhas and niqabs have to be banned from Canada isn’t because they make women too hot in the summer sun, or because they turn women evil, but because they represent a misogynist religious faith that
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: National Post Letter: Feminism Caused the Montreal Massacre
Someone has to be the first to call Rob Bredin an idiot, and I guess it’ll be me: Let’s get real… The feminization of young men… is why no male student was man enough to stop this murderous rampage… No male in the engineering class did, as in more modern
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