Category Misogyny
We are Women Against Rape but we do not want Julian Assange extradited | Katrin Axelsson and Lisa Longstaff | Comment is free | The Guardian
In over 30 years working with thousands of rape victims who are seeking asylum from rape and other forms of torture, we have met nothing but obstruction from British governments. Time after time, they have accused women of lying and deported them with no concern for their safety. We are currently working with three women […]
Twitter Slams New York Times for Serena Williams ‘Body Image’ Story – The Root
The article says that in spite of Williams’s success (a win Saturday would give her 21 Grand Slam singles titles and her fourth in a row) body-image issues among female tennis players persist, forcing many players to avoid bulking up.Williams “has large biceps and a mold-breaking muscular frame, which packs the power and athleticism that […]
The Color of Feminism | The Women’s International Perspective
For many years women all over the world have been fighting for their rights. As I was discussing gender equality with some classmates, I realised how Western women have achieved a lot compared to women in my country. And while wage equality is one of the priorities of some Western feminists, it is not the […]
Bill Burr Slams Michelle Obama For Role In #BringBackOurGirls Movement
Burr said, She’s sitting there holding up those hashtags, “BringBackOurGirls”” Remember that hashtag #BringBackOurGirls. That blew my mind, like why are you asking me that, I am a stand up comedian. Like what am I going to do to get back the girls. Why don’t you look across the dinner table, you see that guy? […]
The Capitalist Origins of the Oppression of African Women » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Matriarchy in ancient Africa was not a mirror image of patriarchy today, as it was not based on appropriation and violence. The rituals and culture of matriarchy did not celebrate violence; rather, they had a lot to do with fecundity, exchange and redistribution. Early man was unaware of the link between intercourse and birth, therefore […]
Rape and HIV as Weapons of War – United Nations University
While the history of wars and conflicts is replete with systematic incidents of sexual violence against vulnerable women, modern-day wars have witnessed large-scale indiscriminate deployment of rape as a “weapon” of war by combatants. In recent armed conflicts — such as in the former Yugoslavia, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, the Central […]
The Terrible Truth About Bill Cosby | Alternet
I recognize Bill Cosby as a comedic genius, and black people — with good reason — don’t throw away our geniuses. Even when they beat and rape and kill women and abuse children. Far too often, racism becomes an excuse for us not to confront sexism. And internalized misogyny and victim-blaming keep Americans from ostracizing […]
UNC Press – White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960, by Lisa Lindquist Dorr. Chapter Excerpt.
Nevertheless, in an early articulation of what would come to be rape shield laws, which, in the 1970s, attempted to protect against attacks on the character of a rape victim, white southerners argued that the two women’s sordid sexual past should have no bearing on the case. As one spectator told a reporter, the victim […]
Lucy Parsons Center – Biography Of Lucy Parsons – by IWW
Little is known about the early life of Lucy Parsons. She had an African American, Native American, and Mexican ancestry. She was born in Texas around 1853, during the Civil War Era, and it is likely that her parents were slaves. During her lifetime, in order to disguise her racial origins in a prejudiced society, […]
Jamilah Stands – News & Views – EBONY
There have been nearly 20,000 tweets with the #StandwithJamilah hashtag following the events of last week. I do not have words to express the gratitude I have for the individuals who have raised their voices publicly and privately to ‘stand’ with me after I was attacked, or in Internet parlance, trolled following my exchange with […]
Interview with Simone de Beauvoir on “Why I am a #Feminist”
Interview with Simone de Beauvoir on “Why I am a #Feminist” Marcel’s fearful fatalism represents everything De Beauvoir condemned in her writing, most notably her groundbreaking 1949 study, The Second Sex, often credited as the foundational text of second-wave feminism. De Beauvoir rejected the idea that women’s historical subjection was in any way natural—“in the depths of our being.” […]
Transgenerational memories passed down through DNA — Science of the Spirit — Sott.net
According to the Telegraph, Dr Brian Dias, from the department of psychiatry at Emory University, said: “From a translational perspective, our results allow us to appreciate how the experiences of a parent, before even conceiving offspring, markedly influence both structure and function in the nervous system of subsequent generations. “Such a phenomenon may contribute to […]
Texas Father Arrested in Connection With the Deaths of Lesbian Couple – The Root
On Wednesday, authorities arrested a Texas man in connection with the deaths of two women, one of whom was his daughter. According to Lone Star Q, James Larry Cosby was charged with evidence tampering.Cosby was allegedly “not happy” about his daughter Britney Cosby’s relationship with girlfriend Crystal Jackson. Britney’s body, along with that of her […]
International Women’s Day: Lucy Parsons’ Fight Against America’s Robber Barons and the Ku Klux Klan | Global Research
International Women’s Day: Lucy Parsons’ Fight Against America’s Robber Barons and the Ku Klux Klan | Global Research. via International Women’s Day: Lucy Parsons’ Fight Against America’s Robber Barons and the Ku Klux Klan | Global Research.
Cain’s False Attack on Planned Parenthood
Sanger says that a minister could debunk the notion, if it arose, that the clinics aimed to “exterminate the Negro population.” She didn’t say that she wanted to “exterminate” the black population. The Margaret Sanger Papers Project at New York University says that this quote has “gone viral on the Internet,” normally out of context, and it “doesn’t reflect […]
10 Amazing Women Who Led Rebellions – Listverse
Nanny, featured on the Jamaican $500 bill, was the leader of a group of slaves who revolted against their British oppressors. Queen Nanny was born into slavery sometime during the 1680s, a child of the Gold Coast, which is now Ghana. At some point Nanny, reportedly of royal blood, was able to escape a British […]
Canadas rejection of inquiry into violence against Aboriginal women is a national disgrace | rabble.ca
In 2009, the United Nations Human Rights Council UNHRC in Geneva conducted a Universal Period Review of Canadas rights record and concluded its need to address the concerns of indigenous populations — particularly, Aboriginal women.During that year, fifty submissions slammed Canada on topics from labour rights to foreign policy and highlighted the country in the […]
Akon And WizKid Reject Dark Skinned Girls From Video Participation In Ghana | FashionGHANA.com 100% African FashionFashionGHANA.com 100% African Fashion
Ahead of the upcoming concert that will see the likes of Akon, WizKid, Sarkodie and more in Ghana, controversy sparks! In a recent video shoot for an up and coming Akon and WizKid video, some Ghanaian models and girl were called upon to participate by the directors a few days ahead of the shoot. Presumably […]
The Slaying of Renisha McBride Casts Another Ugly Glare on the Peril to Black Women | Earl Ofari Hutchinson
None of this initially happened in the McBride slaying. This then raises the always troubling suspicion the race played a role in her slaying. There\’s the horrid history of racial stereotyping, profiling if you will, that indelibly link crime and violence with African-Americans. This linkage isn\’t just confined to black men. There\’s the feminization of […]
Updated: The Black Hat: Hey Sisters, Feel Free to Pursue White Men; They Don’t Want You Anyway | EURweb
Petition Started Against EURweb Writer For Misogynist, Racist Rant Against Black Women | Son of Baldwin – A petition has been started against EURweb writer Cory A. Haywood, for his Nov. 3 misogynist, racist rant against Black women entitled, “The Black Hat: Hey Sister, Feel Free To Pursue White Men, They Don’t Want You Anyway.” […]
domestic violence | The Feminist Wire
And in South Africa, Uganda, and other parts of Africa in HIV/AIDS crisis, men still troll the country looking for virgins to rape, convinced this will cure them of the disease. And in Mexico and too many other parts of the world, the patriarchy is so controlling that female subservience and wife beating is considered normal and right; it is considered […]
Jesus Christ, Columbus, and the US Constitution » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Jesus Christ, Columbus, and the US Constitution » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names – In light of the above it is revealing that, in his oft-quoted diary entry of 1498, Columbus wrote: “let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.” That is, […]
History News Network | The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics
Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a co-called “Master Race.”But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn’t originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an […]
4th World Radyo: Colonial Sociopolitics and Gender Democracy 09.12.2013 | APNS Public Radyo
Summary : TheAngryindian offers a personal stream of opinion on the issue of gender marginalisation and the intentional misuse of women and female eroticism in modern, martial-culture dominated capitalist mainstream media. This dispatch also presents the thoughts of Sexologist Dr. Gail Dames on the pornography industry and its exploitation of misogynist gender abuse and a […]
When Your Brown Body is a White Wonderland | tressiemc
I then explained to him my long, storied, documented history of being accosted by drunk white men and women in atmospheres just like these. Women asking to feel my breasts in the ladies’ restroom. Men asking me for a threesome as his drunk girlfriend or wife looks on smiling. Frat boys offering me cash to […]
4th World Radyo: The Politics of Perception 08.22.2013 | APNS Public Radyo
Strong Language Warning – Summary: TheAngryindian looks the surrounding dynamics of the Chelsea Manning verdict and asks if the general public is actually considering the covert ‘Divide and Conquer’ social and political aspects of the modern and vacant intellectual norm. Listen/Download: 01:08:35 128Kbps mp3 (41MB) Stereo via 4th World Radyo: The Politics of Perception 08.22.2013 | […]
Jamila Aisha Brown : If Trayvon Martin had been a woman … | Jamila Aisha Brown | Comment is free | theguardian.com
There was neither much sympathy nor outrage over the death of Deanna Cook Patrick, who was found dead in her bathtub two days after she called 911 for help in August 2012. Deanna had suffered a known history of violence at the hands of her attacker: her ex-husband Delvecchio Patrick had been arrested for assaulting […]
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