Weekly round-up and open thread, 22-28 May 2012
by Alicia Izharuddin // 28 May 2012, 09:15
In case you've missed some feminist-related news and great posts in the past week, here's a selection of the finest.
As usual, add links in the comments section and feel free to begin a discussion on a topic you feel strongly about or on one we haven't blogged about. Please note that the links here do not necessarily imply endorsement or agreement and may be triggering.
- TaxPayers' Alliance: opponents of tax cuts suffer from "sexual jealousy"
- Sugar daddy' website seekingarrangement.com offers darker side of networking (Independent)
- My message to those who would attend Radfem 2012
- Orange to withdraw sponsorship of women's prize for fiction
- When women are sport: lingerie football comes to Australia (Melinda Tankard Reist)
- The United States: Where Pregnancy is Probationary and Your Body Is a Crime Scene (RH Reality Check)
- Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim (Independent, World). Church excommunicates mother and doctors - but not accused rapist.
- RadFem2012: Excluding on the basis of gender (The Independent)
- Father doesn't know best (The New York Times)
- Devastating - Mother dies from acid-poisoning in botched DIY abortion attempt.
- Let's Embrace Our Bodies (And That Includes Aging) (fbomb)
- Luton schoolgirl rapists have sentences doubled (BBC News)
- Lapdancing clubs encourage rape and sexual assaults, claims police chief.
- Chaya on xojane.com: What Women's Media Needs to Know About Chassidic Women
- Passenger thrown off plane by female pilot because of sexist remarks (Telegraph) Note the 'ungendered' passenger.
- Why women leave academia and why universities should be worried.
- Recorded rape up 53% in London.
- Laurie Penny: To men it may seem harmless. To women it is anything but.
- Radical feminists are acting like a cult (Roz Kaveney at Guardian Cif)
- 'RadFem 2012: a uniting force against transphobia' by Orlando (Resist RadFem12)
- In defence of 'fatspiration'
- How to use a trigger warning (Geek Feminism)
- A radical feminist plan for the dissolution of gender (Sarah Ditum)
- A Tory MEP's take on UK Child Poverty - "It's mostly self inflicted"
- Resist RadFem 101 - Links Round-Up (Resist RadFem12)
- 'Smile love...' Not if you're a leery, sex-obsessed snivelling creep (Barbara Ellen at The Observer Cif)
- Abortion Rights in India: The Gender and Disability Dichotomy
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Shadow // Posted 28 May 2012 at 14:07
I fail to see what connection this phrase has concerning malestream media reporting a female commercial pilot rightly ejected a misogynistic male passenger.
'Passenger thrown off plane by female pilot because of sexist remarks (Telegraph) Note the 'ungendered' passenger.'
The fact malestream media did not specifically state in its headline 'misogynistic male passenger ejected by female pilot' was of course intentional. However, it is clear the individual uttering misogynistic sexualised insults against female commercial pilots is male. Ergo sex of perpetrator is stated albeit not in headline.
Justine Ossum // Posted 28 May 2012 at 21:33
Can someone explain why the story about the Brazilian mother and doctors being excommunicated is news this week? The dateline on the article is 2009.
(Not that it's not a horrifying story still.)
Laura // Posted 29 May 2012 at 17:04
Sorry Justine - must have been doing the rounds somewhere and one of us picked up on it without noticing the date.
Laura // Posted 29 May 2012 at 17:06
Shadow - that's what Alicia was getting at.
Feminist Avatar // Posted 30 May 2012 at 15:10
@Justine - somebody, I think at Democratic Underground (but maybe it appeared somewhere else earlier), brought it up during an argument about the catholic church, and then it appeared as a discussion point on a few feminist blogs in the last week (one of the ones I read directed me back to DU). I remembered reading it the first time around in 2009, so picked up on it!
Alicia Izharuddin // Posted 01 June 2012 at 06:16
Shadow, I was actually pointing out how malestream mainstream media reporting is. A quick comment, nothing more. Thanks Laura for helping to point that out as well.