Misogyny

160 Million Missing Females: PRENDA and Misogyny

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Abortion, Amartya Sen Reproductive Rights, Misogyny, Human Rights, Mara Hvistendahl, Global Sex Imbalance, Sexism, Contraception, P.R.E.N.D.A., Boy Preference, Global Sex Ratio, HR 3541, The Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA), Gendercide, War on Women, Global War on Women, Unnatural Selection, Christopher Smith, Planned Parenthood, Violence Against Women, Femicide, Gender Selection, Politics News
Soraya Chemaly

Because of gender bias and sex discrimination, there are an estimated 160,000,000 girls and women missing from the planet today. This isn't man-bashing or "victim feminism." It's just a documented statement of fact. By virtually any measure, this is dystopian.

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Angie's List Has a Problem with Women

Krystal Ball | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Mitch Daniels, Misogyny, Hudson Institute, Boycott Rush, Rush Limbaugh, Stoprush, Angie's List Inc, Angie's List, Business News
Krystal Ball

By choosing to place their ad dollars with Rush Limbaugh, Angie's List is supporting his regular spew of offensive, vulgar and divisive rhetoric about women, minorities, and just about anyone else that he has in his gunsights at any given time.

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Saving the Girl Child

Elischia Fludd | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Girls, Child Abuse, Violence Against Women, Obstetric Fistula, Breast-Ironing, Impact News
Elischia Fludd

Every day, somewhere in the world, a girl child struggles to live. In a world that still prefers the value of a male over a female, the girl child is already a miracle if she exists long enough to be born.

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Pastor: Women's Voting Rights 'One Of America's Greatest Mistakes'

The Huffington Post | Gene Demby | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Women's Rights, Kirsten Powers, Jesse-Lee-Peterson, Women's Issues, Women's Right to Vote, Sandra Fluke, Sean Hannity Talk Show, Jesse Lee Peterson Quotes, Sean Hannity News, Jesse Lee Peterson, Video, Women's Suffrage, War on Women, Sean Hannity, Bv-Politics, Jesse Lee Peterson News, Sean Hannity Guests, Black Voices News

Jesse Lee Peterson, the controversial conservative preacher and regular guest of Sean Hannity, said in a recent video it was a mistake to allow women ...

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What's a Girl to Think?

Carolita Johnson | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Cartoons, Senate, Vawa, Violence Against Women, Humor, Carolita Johnson Cartoon, Republicans, Political Cartoons, Comedy News
Carolita Johnson

I mean, really. What do Republicans think we'll think? ...

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How Women Accept Offensive Songs

Joseph Rauch | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Hip Hop, Women's Issues, Rap, Hip Hop Misogyny, Song Lyrics, College News
Joseph Rauch

Since I attend a school with a vast majority of women, I have had many opportunities to get answers to this question: "How can you stand to listen to songs that reduce your entire gender to bitches or hoes?"

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The Larger Point

Nancy K. Kaufman | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh, Anne Hutchinson, Sandra Fluke, Religious Freedom, Contraception, Birth Control, Right to Choose, Women's Rights, Women's Health, Politics News
Nancy K. Kaufman

The whole environment surrounding a woman's right to access a safe, legal abortion is premised on the assumption that women are not capable of making their own moral, religious, and ethical decisions without the intrusion and supervision of the government.

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A Complete Life: Miss Fuller by April Bernard

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Emerson, Miss Fuller, April Bernard, Thoreau, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Books, Transcendentalists, Feminism, Nineteenth Century, Books News
Ilana Teitelbaum

In Miss Fuller, April Bernard takes a speculative scalpel to the life of Margaret Fuller, offering a narrative of her experiences that shines a harsh and unbecoming light on the male transcendentalists.

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Why Some Women Are Sexists

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Social Conservatives, Eve, Women's History Month, Pandora, Sexists, Miss Representation, Abortion Rights, Transvaginal-Sonogramviolence-Against-Women, Progressive Women, Gloria Steinem, Richard Cohen, Good Christian Bitches, Sarah Palin, Reproductive Rights, Human Rights, Pretty Little Liars Gossip Girls, Jezebel, Sexism, Abstinence-Only Education, Game Change, Women Sexists, Women Misogynists, Lovesocial, Video, Culture News
Soraya Chemaly

Every day people, like me, are banging their heads on their desks, asking "What is wrong with that woman?" "Why is she doing that?" "Doesn't she realize she's being used by a system that denigrates her?" Women in these positions clearly don't see it that way.

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D.C. Blogger Makes Misogyny Watch List

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Pick-Up Artists, Splc, Southern Poverty Law Center, Roosh v Misogynist, Bang, Video, Roosh V, Splc Roosh V, Reason Magazine, Roosh v Misogyny, Roosh v Bang, DC News

WASHINGTON -- When Washington City Paper caught up with Roosh Vörek -- Roosh V on the Internet -- in 2008, he was 29 years old, living in his dad's b...

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The Spring of Sexism

Amy Siskind | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, Bill Maher, Greta Van Susteren, Rush Limbaugh, Louis CK, David Axelrod, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Sandra Fluke, Obama Sexism, Rush Limbaugh Slut, Politics News
Amy Siskind

President Obama spoke out and did his part. Now we must demand a national conversation about the war of words and its impact on women and girls. It's not the president's responsibility to police the airwaves -- that's our job.

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Limbaugh Is Sorry for Calling Fluke a "Slut," But Why Were We ALL Sorry, Too?

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Sandra Fluke, Women's Sexuality, Contraception, Slut, Rush Limbaugh, Sexuality, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh Slut, Sex, Sluts, Media News
Marianne Mollmann

If we say that slut is a bad word, we are implicitly saying it is bad for women to want to have sex. If we say that prostitute is a bad word, we are saying that taking money for sex is an insult. Neither is automatically true.

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Faux-Apology Not Accepted: Fire Rush Limbaugh for His Hateful Misogyny

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Women in Politics, Misogyny, Rush Limbaugh Apology, Rush Limbaugh, Sexism, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, Sandra Fluke, Sandra Fluke Rush Limbaugh, Politics News
Soraya Chemaly

The entire planet has spent the last two hundred years coming to terms with the implications of race and class on society. Now some people are having the dawning realization that gender is salient, too.

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Why We Need More Women in Poliltics

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Sexism, American Association of University Women, Ann Gerhart, Reproductive Rights, Name It Change It, Hervotes, Quotaproject, Women's Rights, Women in Politics, Misogyny, National Protest Against the War on Women, Women in Congress, Erin Nanasi, Karen Middleton, Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics, Rick Santorum, Unite Women Abortion, The 2012 Project, Gender Quotas, Institutionalized Sexism, Gender Gap, Jennifer Lawless, March Against the War on Women, Aauw, Video, Women News
Soraya Chemaly

When women run, they are just as likely as men to win -- but they are not running. The study details exactly why -- and it's not because of a biological mandate.

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The He-Man Woman Haters Club

Bob Cesca | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Abortion, Rush Limbaugh, Darrell Issa, Transvaginal Ultrasound, Affordable Care Act, Contraception, Health Care, Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh Danica Patrick, Politics News
Bob Cesca

The most popular radio talker in the world just called an ordinary citizen a slut and a prostitute in front of 15 million people. 15 million Americans tune in specifically to hear him say horrendous things like that.

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Why I Couldn't Be Catholic And A Woman

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Sexism, Misogyny, Abortion, Women's Health, Reproductive Freedom, Roman Catholic Church, Civil Rights, The Pope, Catholic Church, Gender and Religion, Catholic Women, Catholic Leadership, Contraception, Politics News
Soraya Chemaly

Either you are willing to support and participate in a culture in which men, refusing to accept women as equals, use a perverted claim of divine right to control women and their bodies, or you don't.

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Gauguin Exhibition Strikes Controversy

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Jen Graves, Ernest Hemingway, Chris Brown, The Stranger, Woody Allen, Paul Gauguin Colonialist, Paul Gauguin, Gauguin, Paul Gauguin Racist, Paul Gauguin Orientalist, Gauguin and Polynesia, Video, Seattle Museum of Art, Sexism, Old White Dudes, Racism, Roman Polanski, Arts News

Almost as legendary as Paul Gauguin's colorful depictions of Tahitian utopia is the colorful story of how he got there and what he did once in the tro...

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'Smash'-Mouth: Confronting Homophobia And Misogyny On The Set Of NBC's New Series

Court Stroud | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Homophobia, Misogyny, Nbc Smash, Smash Set, Confronting Homophobia, Smash Nbc, Confronting Misogyny, Gay Voices News
Court Stroud

Though I didn't speak up when I first overheard the offending comments, part of me feels it's my obligation to educate these two young actors and let them know there is no "woman" in a gay relationship -- and no "man" in a lesbian one.

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Dear Jay-Z: You Should Have Written That Poem

Lisa Belkin | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Misogyny in Music, Did Jay-Z Write the Poem, Rap Lyrics, Bitch, Jay-Z, Parents News
Lisa Belkin

I hope you understand that while the words attributed to you may have been fake, the response of countless fans to what they thought was your announcement was very, very real.

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Should I Thank Jay-Z For Not Calling Me A Bitch Anymore?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Beyonce, Rap Lyrics, Fathers and Daughters, Jay-Z, Jay-Z Poem, Blue Ivy Carter, Parents News
Lisa Belkin

Jay-Z is not the first man to realize he has been a misogynistic jerk only after he has a daughter. Scientists have found examples of others.

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Paterno, Penn State and Patriarchy

Melissa Ross | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Catholic Church, Penn State, Child Sex Abuse, Children, Paterno, Patriarchy, Joe Paterno Fired, Joe Paterno, Sports News
Melissa Ross

It was a toxic, patriarchal culture that drove the priest sex abuse scandals that continue to rock the Catholic Church. And the same toxic patriarchy that infuses college and professional football was at play in the Penn State scandal.

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Despicable Behavior, But Is This Harassment?

Lisa Solod | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Male Privilege, Feminism, Herman Cain, Sexual Harassment, Empowering Women, Sexual Assault, Politics News
Lisa Solod

Women who are on the receiving end of male advances should not and must not call them all sexual assault or harassment. If that happens then the real issue of both will neither be properly defined nor properly punished.

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Porn-Addled Teenage Boys Do Rule The World

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Soccer Dads, Media and Gender, Women's Rights, Soccer Moms, Gender Bias, Men and Power, Barbie, Power of Pornography, Gender Bias in Media, Gender and Media, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Teenage Boys, Miss Representation, Girls and Self-Esteem, Teenage Girls, Fear of a Female Planet, Feminism, Teenagers, Gender, Pornography, Gender Bias in Toys, Human Rights, Sexism, Women and Politics, Girls and Depression, Women and Power, Women News
Soraya Chemaly

So what if we don't have a female head of state for the next 500 years. Go get a facial. You'll feel better. Develop a hobby. I hear recreational pole dancing is really fun.

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Will Hugh Hefner Be Remembered as a Visionary or a Flesh Peddler?

Martha Rosenberg | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Misogyny, Hugh Hefner, James Caan, Gene Simmons, Hugh Hefner Documentary, Playboy, Brigitte-Berman, Chicago News
Martha Rosenberg

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner may be in his golden years but he still makes headlines like celebrities a quarter of his age. After his bride-to-be Cryst...

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A Thinking Girl's Guide to Taming of the Shrew

Lauren Gunderson | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Misogyny, Taming of the Shrew, Drama, Theatre, Theater, Shakespeare, Feminism, San Francisco, Calshakes, Bay Area, Books We Love, Arts News
Lauren Gunderson

No matter how smart the direction, how poised the Kate, how fiery the lust between our violent lovers, The Taming of the Shrew is still a play about a mean woman tricked and trapped to the point of submission.

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