Feminism
- • 95%www.motherjones.com Women on TikTok are schooling a Trump ally who denied people are “bleeding out” due to abortion bans
The video by Project 2025 staffer John McEntee backfired big time.
- • 97%www.bbc.com Women in France moved by defiance of Gisèle Pelicot in mass rape trial
As her story has emerged, she has become a symbol of courage and resilience.
As a cishet male i dont feel in the position to give an opinion about it, i just want to know how you feel about it
Now when you search such content a warning is displayed
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Misogynist Manifesto: Project 2025’s Plans to Gut Women’s Rights in the Workplace and Classroom
msmagazine.com Misogynist Manifesto: Project 2025’s Plans to Gut Women’s Rights in the Workplace and Classroom - Ms. MagazineProject 2025's plans for women students and workers would devastate their educational opportunities, harming their careers and earning power.
I started to become interested in feminism over the last few months, but with the last horrifying cases of crimes against women i saw that many feminist women have (reasonably) learned to fear us, or at least, have some resentment towards us (again, reasonably), so, do we have a place in this movement, or we should take a step aside
- • 98%english.elpais.com ‘They were killed because they were lesbians’: Attack on women burned alive shocks Argentina
Four women who shared a room in Buenos Aires were attacked with a Molotov cocktail and only one survived. Members of the LGBTQI+ community ask for justice and warn against the increase in hate speech
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27417815
- • 100%yewtu.be Rape is Consensual: Inside Haryana's Rape Culture | Documentary by The Quint
In January 2018, ten rapes in ten days in Haryana seemed to shock everyone. And yet again, people asked, “Itne rapes kyun hote hai, yaar?" We set out to travel across the state in an attempt to find out. Catch the whole story here: https://bit.ly/2qd9X0k Music: Big Bang Fuzz
- www.salon.com Trump wants his bro voters to believe he's a "fun" misogynist — but his abortion bans say otherwise
Trump's abortion flip-flop is a distraction from MAGA's true goal: Tie young people down with marriage and kids
- • 100%www.vox.com “I’m an environmental journalist, but I never write about overpopulation. Here’s why.”
Since you asked (many times).
- • 66%www.salon.com The media's double standard comes for Kamala Harris — and misses
But it hasn't ended: Almost immediately after her first interview, there were calls for a press conference
- • 100%www.france24.com No 'feminist propaganda': hit Chinese video game in censorship row
The co-publisher of hit Chinese video game "Black Myth: Wukong" this week sent guidelines to foreign streamers urging them against discussing politically touchy topics like Covid-19 or feminism, players…
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/15743507
> Archived version > > The co-publisher of hit Chinese video game "Black Myth: Wukong" this week sent guidelines to foreign streamers urging them against discussing politically touchy topics like Covid-19 or feminism, players said. > > Released globally on Tuesday, "Black Myth" rapidly became one of the most successful Chinese-made games ever, as measured by the number of players on gaming platform Steam. > > [...] > > But in the run up to the game's release, video streamers reported receiving a document from co-publishers Hero Games warning them to avoid topics including "feminist propaganda" or "politics" when they received a passkey to play the game, an email exchange seen by AFP showed. > > Gamers were also warned against any reference to "Covid-19", "isolation" or "quarantine" -- likely a reference to China's pandemic-era policies that placed millions under arbitrary lockdowns and sparked civil unrest. > > [...] > > Benoit Reinier, a French video game content creator, confirmed [...] that he had received the guidelines and shared his email exchange with the firm's representative. > > In a YouTube video, Reinier said he would not stream the game on his channel in response to the guidelines, he described as "censorship". > > "I have never seen something so shameful," he said in the video. > > "It is very clearly a document which explains to us that we must censor ourselves and we must not talk about subjects considered negative such as politics." > > [...] > > But Chinese gamers have rallied to the game's defence, with some painting any criticism of China's first "Triple A" title -- some of it focusing on the lack of diversity in the game -- as evidence of foreign bias. > > "Feminists have always tried to achieve their anti-China goals by smearing and suppressing traditional Chinese culture, but I believe they will definitely fail," read a post on Weibo, an X-like platform, which defended the game on Wednesday. > > Other Chinese social media users also targeted reviews by foreign media that awarded scores considered low. > > A review by Canada-based Screen Rant was ridiculed for marking the game down for "lacking in inclusivity and diversity". > > "How can it be lacking diversity when it has so many monsters?" read one Weibo comment under a post about Screen Rant's score of 3 out of 5. > > [...] > > Another post accused foreign gaming review platforms of "joining the ranks of those smearing China". > > "Seeing that China has released a hugely successful game, they start relentlessly pushing ideologies like LGBTQ and feminism," the user added.
- www.salon.com MAGA's obsession with Ella Emhoff could backfire
They can't stand a fashionable young woman who doesn't care what they think of her
- • 100%www.salon.com "Simply put, they are out of their minds": Kamala Harris won't let Republicans hide their misogyny
Republicans know their views on reproductive rights and cat ladies are unpopular, but they keep taking the bait
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Want to fight gender inequality? A review of data from 118 counties shows that development aid works
theconversation.com Want to fight gender inequality? A review of data from 118 countries shows that development aid worksAid successfully narrowed gender gaps in nearly every country researchers examined.
- www.bbc.com Roxanne Tickle: Australian court rules in case that asked 'what is a woman?'
Roxanne Tickle has won a landmark case which questioned who can legally claim to be a woman.
- • 100%www.motherjones.com DNC delegates want their woman to win—for all women's sake
The “existential” battle against a Republican ticket that would roll back equality.
- www.independent.co.uk Chrystul Kizer sentenced to 11 years for killing man she says sexually abused her
Kizer, who is now 23 years old, will spend 11 years behind bars and another five years on extended supervision
- www.theguardian.com Birth changes women’s bodies for ever – and we need to get real about it | Emma Beddington
The tennis player Naomi Osaka opened up this week about how she feels physically since having her daughter. Both athletes and non-athletes will have nodded in recognition
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JD Vance isn't just out to get cat ladies — his weird plans target dog people and grandmas, too
www.salon.com JD Vance targets grandmas and dogs, tooThe self-styled expert on the ladies now claims "normal" women don't care about reproductive rights
- www.bbc.com Kolkata: Raped Indian doctor's colleague speaks of trauma and pain
A protester from the midnight march in Kolkata city tells the BBC why she participated.
- • 100%www.wired.com Gamergate’s Aggrieved Men Still Haunt the Internet
Ten years ago, much of the frustrations gamers were expressing came from anger over no longer being the target audience. Now those feelings are everywhere, from fandom to politics.
- • 100%www.vox.com The right’s plan to fix America: Patriarchy 2.0
JD Vance and likeminded Republicans are theorizing a kind of “neopatriarchy.”
- • 100%www.propublica.org In Rural Tennessee, Domestic Violence Victims Face Barriers to Getting Justice. One County Has Transformed Its Approach.
Despite being a rural area that’s steeped in gun culture, Scott County has emerged as a model for the state in trying to prevent domestic violence from escalating.
- msmagazine.com Chromosome Count: Who Gets to Decide Which Athletes Are ‘Feminine Enough’ to Compete? - Ms. Magazine
Chromosome Count: Who Gets to Decide Which Athletes Are ‘Feminine Enough’ to Compete? In Defense of Imane Khelif
- www.theguardian.com Republicans are on the offensive, and ‘Tampon Tim’ Walz is to the rescue | Arwa Mahdawi
Reeling from jokes that they’re ‘weird’, Republicans create a hopeless nickname for Walz after a period product mandate
- www.theguardian.com Girls, ignore the sexist rhetoric. Revel in everything that upsets the haters | Van Badham
The preferred model of femininity for the yelping far right is the homebound tradwife. Let them cry and keep boxing
- msmagazine.com The Paradox of JD Vance’s Misogyny - Ms. Magazine
The collective female rage in response to JD Vance using the “childless cat lady” archetype as an insult is driven by shared hurt at the mockery that reduces us to our reproductive capacity in a political context where women are already devalued. It demeans our dreams and aspirations outside motherh...
- msmagazine.com Mother’s Equal Pay Day Is One 'Holiday' I Would Like to Stop Observing - Ms. Magazine
Aug. 7 is Mothers’ Equal Pay Day, raising awareness for working mothers and their pay gap and equal pay challenges and need for childcare.
- • 100%www.nytimes.com The ‘Orgasm Gap’ Isn’t Going Away for Straight Women
A new study suggests they still have fewer orgasms during sex than men do, even with age and experience.
- • 100%www.motherjones.com “He’s an agent. No one will believe me over him.”
The case of an alleged rape at the Border Patrol Academy, and the culture of silence that helped keep it from public view.
- msmagazine.com ChatGPT Thinks Doctors Are Male—How AI Mirrors Society's Gender Bias - Ms. Magazine
ChatGPT Thinks Doctors are Male—How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Mirrors Society's Gender Bias Against Women in Medicine and Science.
- • 100%www.theatlantic.com The Real Reason People Aren’t Having Kids
It’s a need that government subsidies and better family policy can’t necessarily address.
Non-paywall link: https://12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/08/fertility-crisis/679319/