January 2012
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A Man's Guide to Approaching Women on the Street
When men try to interact with female strangers in public, it’s hard to understand their intentions. Some of them seem to get a kick out of making you feel uncomfortable. Some genuinely feel they’re complimenting you with a sexual comment. Some ask you the time in an attempt to hit on you. Some ask you the time because they need to know the time, and you’re wearing a watch.
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December 2011
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Why Women Don't Make It to the Top →
A great TED talk about women’s career challenges
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November 2011
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“Every time I’ve done a book reading or a media interview for Reality Bites Back,...”
– Jenn Pozner (via sparkamovement)
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A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not "Crazy"...
This article is from the Huffington post - here’s the link.
You’re so sensitive. You’re so emotional. You’re defensive. You’re overreacting. Calm down. Relax. Stop freaking out! You’re crazy! I was just joking, don’t you have a sense of humor? You’re so dramatic. Just get over it already!
Sound familiar?
If you’re a woman, it probably...
October 2011
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Why do French feminists want to ban... →
padaviya:
To North Americans in Paris, being addressed as mademoiselle may seem the epitome of chic.
But French feminists have a word for its je ne sais quoi: sexism, pure and simple.
Activists are so incensed by the title’s demeaning tone – the male equivalent, damoiseau, or squire, was dropped decades ago – that they’re calling for a complete ban of mademoiselle, Time reports.
Unlike...
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Celebrities Who Want You To Know They Aren’t... →
padaviya:
You know what I really hate? Making the same amount as men for the same work. Also, choices. Jesus, I fucking hate choices. What I like is lying on a fainting couch and just having my ass grabbed. And weeping and popping pills to combat the vague malaise that comes with having no options to establish my own identity.
Because the definition of feminism is pretty simple. It’s corny...
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The Dangerous Way We Talk About Eating
In America, women for the most part feel comfortable being incredibly open with each other about their diets and their hatred for their body.
Getting lunch with a friend who complains about the calories in her salad. Is. Infuriating.
Do French women do this? I don’t think so. They tend to be more private, whether it’s about food or about their sex life.
I have never overheard a...
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SLUT
is a figment of the patriarchal imagination
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“I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect...”
– Gloria Steinem
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Women Objectified, Even while Occupying Wall... →
This links to an article on Feministe in reaction to a new tumblr blog called Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street.
It’s so ridiculous that no matter what we’re doing, no matter what the cause is, or who is doing the fighting, men feel the need to draw attention away from what the actual issue is and turn women into objects of their voyeurism.
The guy who started the site obviously is...
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Fashion and the Artificiality of Women →
This is a link to a really thought-provoking photo project. The artist had “regular” women pose like the models in fashion magazines. The results are funny, but disturbing on another level too. In the artist’s words:
I tried to express what many women feel about women’s magazines and the image of women in the media – absurd, artificial, a hanger to wear dresses and bags, only...
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“Everything is stacked in men’s favour, but still I wouldn’t want to...”
– Isabel Fonseca
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Women in Politics - Weight Issues
On the subject of Chris Christie’s weight: If he were a woman, we wouldn’t be talking about it.
You might think that’s because it would be too dangerous to go there, mentioning a female politician’s weight. No, although that’s true, too.
Rather, we wouldn’t be having this discussion because corpulent Christine Christie, if you can imagine her, probably wouldn’t have been elected governor of...
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“From the moment a baby’s genitalia is categorized, everything else in his or her...”
– Lori Day, The Gender Pendulum: How the Free Market Economy Creates Gender Polarization | The Good Men Project (via sparksummit)
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Bury Me Standing
Have you encountered the Gypsies in Paris?
Begging on the streets, holding sickly children, accosting tourists with the deaf and dumb scheme, they are unavoidable. I stepped over their dirty rags in the metro, pushed their hands and petitions away when they tried to demand money or sneak a feel though my purse.
But what do we really know about them? Sarkozy’s efforts at deportation...
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“While the prevalence of street harassment may be new to many men who read or...”
– Street harassment of women: it’s a bigger problem than you think | CS Monitor (via sparksummit)
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Food for Him and Her →
Click the headline to read an interesting article about how advertisers and food companies market different foods and brands to men and women.
“…women aren’t as hung up on making gender-based choices because, over time, they have taken on more traditionally masculine roles and it’s become more socially acceptable for them to be seen consuming masculine products. Men, on the other hand, are...
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Le Mot "Mademoiselle"
La nouvelle a fait scandale outre-Atlantique: la frange radicale du féminisme français veut abolir le mot mademoiselle».
La raison derrière cette bataille? Mademoiselle serait inégalitaire, sexiste. Il n’y aurait pas d’équivalent masculin, sinon le poussiéreux damoiseau». Mademoiselle» infantiliserait les femmes, par l’intermédiaire d’un vocabulaire patriarcal.
This...
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September 2011
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SPARK a Movement!: How to teach boys to be... →
sparksummit:
via this post at Princess Free Zone
As a young boy:
Teach them it’s okay to be emotional and that holding feelings in is not what being a man is about.
Become media literate so that they can become aware of how gender is portrayed in terms of what they are seeing and hearing. When a…
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“Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, and of course, each...”
– Betsey Johnson (via yourfashionfowardgirl)
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“This is not about these women wanting things; it’s about men wanting to see them...”
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Women and the Army
In most countries, women aren’t allowed to serve in combat roles. However, that doesn’t mean they don’t end up on the front lines, and female soldiers in the U.S. have complained that the restriction just means they aren’t getting enough training for when they do end up in combat. Today Australia’s military took a big step forward, announcing that women will soon...
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Women in WWII →
This is a link to a really great photo gallery of women from around the world who were involved in WWII.
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“I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.”
– Alanis Morisette
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Jackie O and Women of Power
In the recently released tapes of Jackie O, she voices some unfavorable opinions towards several women in public life, many of whom had a different view of a woman’s role than she did at the time.
The women Jackie criticized basically have one thing in common: They diverged from the roles usually assigned to women at the time. And at age 34, the former first lady was deeply invested in...
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Be Sexy Be Sexy Be Sexy Be Sexy
But DON’T HAVE SEX!
How can girls be comfortable with themselves when this is what they’re taught?
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“We mistake sex for romance. Guys are taught that pushing a girl up against a...”
– John C. Moffi
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Get Thee to A Nunnery
Arcangela Tarabotti was a feminist ahead of her time. Though forced into a convent in 17th century Venice, she wrote blistering attacks on patriarchal repressiveness in the family, the state and even the Church.
“In ‘Convent Life as Inferno,’ she describes a very sad existence. The book is a sociological analysis of women living together unwillingly - of a prison life....
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SPARK a Movement!: Ten Ways to Create Hardiness... →
sparksummit:
from Hardy Girls Healthy Women:
1) Listen to Girls — Girls are the best people to tell you what girls need. Listening means not assuming you know all the answers or that your way is the right way. Pay close attention to what girls are saying and ask them to elaborate on their thoughts and…
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3 Reasons Why It Pays to Not Let Sexist Comments...
A recent study proves that confronting men about sexism is actually a good idea - despite assumptions that men would react angrily or with hostility.
When confronted, “The men accused of sexism smiled and laughed more, appeared more surprised, gestured more often and with greater energy, and were more likely to try to justify or apologize for their remark. But they did not react with...
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