This ad has been doing the rounds for a week or so now. I think it’s a good example of how corporations objectify women and their bodies to sell products. So why is this particular ad objectifying? Blogger Caroline Heldman put together a 4 part series on objectification of women and girls. According to Heldman, objectification is the … Continue reading »
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Further Casual Sexism In Our Language: Debunked
Trigger warning/content note for discussion of misogynist language, sexual assault, heteronormativity and swearwords. Following on from my post about casual sexism in our language, I want to talk more about sexist and outright misogynist expressions in english. The idea of someone who “wears the pants” in a relationship. This is heteronormative as fuck. And gender essentialist … Continue reading »
UQWC’s Reply to ‘Fabulous Feminism’ in Semper Floreat
via UQWC’s Reply to ‘Fabulous Feminism’ in Semper Floreat. Read this. Read all of this. Background: UQ’s once-great student publication Semper Floreat published an article entitled ‘Fabulous Feminism’ (a scan is at the link). In short, the article espoused ‘I Choose My Choice Feminism’ and accused feminism of devaluing femininity. It was also riddled with spelling, punctuation … Continue reading »
My Saturday, aka, Why We Need Feminism, Reason #352
I was out on Saturday night and a guy I know from a while ago came up to me and started paying out this den of awesomeness: Ro Bo Cup. Laughing in my face for being a feminist. And patronisingly asking me if he’s a feminist too because he “believes in gay marriage” (the intent … Continue reading »
Reading List
This is a photo of my meagre book collection. Some points: I bought The God Delusion before I found out how much of a complete and utter misogynist Richard Dawkins is. That said, he does make some interesting points about the whole atheism thing in the US. I always feel like it’s less stigmatised to … Continue reading »
Why Don’t Women’s Sports “Get The Ratings”?
Quick hit here: there’s a fabulous article over at the News With Nipples about the appalling levels of reporting of women’s sporting achievements in the Australian media. One commenter mansplains that “if women’s sports got the ratings, this simply wouldn’t happen”. (i.e. women’s and men’s sports would be reported equally) So why don’t women’s sports … Continue reading »
“Coming out” as a feminist
I’m a sucker for advice columns. Captain Awkward is obviously a favourite, but Ms Opinionated, over at Bitch Media, is fast becoming another favourite. This week’s question was about coming out as a feminist when newly dating someone. In my experience, it’s a tough one…particularly when dating men. I’ve found myself “compromising” by dating conservative men (wtf?) … Continue reading »
