February 2012
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“Rea: Can I get my Street Fighter without sexual harassment?
Bakhtanians: You...”
– Major controversy in the gaming world, as Aris Bakhtanians tried to assert that sexual harassment was a fundamental part of the Street Fighter community in a recent conversation with Jared Rea of Twitch.tv (the story is continually developing, as Bakhtanians has recently released a statement...
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John's Take: is "Bridesmaids" kinda anti-feminist?
Silpa Kovvali, blogger for The Huffington Post and guest blogger at Feministing, criticized box office hit “Bridesmaids,” finding it less than progressive:
Bridesmaids was not just touted as a money maker, but celebrated as a feminist victory. I will grant that it challenged the dominant Hollywood narrative that movies made by women about women couldn’t find an audience with men....
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Why I Am a Male Feminist →
Wonderful, personal piece by Byron Hurt. Male feminists: we’re out there, and we’re going to be heard.
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Sexual harassment is alive and well in America. →
(via Sarah Burris)
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Female Friends Spend Raucous Night Validating The... →
LOVE this. It does bank on understanding the common judgment of women with partying and promiscuity, which we, as feminists, are already acquainted with. Bottom line, like the parody a ton, and I want to see in real life lots of women looking out for each other. Rock on, stay strong, and stay fierce. (via Nicole Varma)
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A screen shot of today's "Morning Joe" panel... →
Thanks, Connie Schultz! Hilarious, but…sigh.
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Republicans prevent women from testifying at birth... →
Ah, the old “freedom of religion” canard. Birth control isn’t about reproductive rights, right? Way to go, Representative Issa! From Think Progress, check out the gender diversity of the witness table!
Also, this beautifully sexist gem:
Issa also dismissed the Democrats’ woman witness as a “college student’ who does not “have the appropriate credentials” to testify before...
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Breaking news: Chris Brown domestic violence jokes... →
These reactions are upsetting on a lot of levels, but let’s just get a few things in order, here.
Some of these folks are presumably just trying to be funny. Attention, those folks: domestic violence jokes are not funny.
There’s a larger conversation here about how we judge celebrities and people when knowing about their sins, related and unrelated to their particular...
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A Vital Service: African-American Stories of... →
I WANT TO SEE THIS. CAPS LOCK!
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In case anyone asks you what Planned Parenthood is... →
Courtesy of the wonderful Deanna Zandt comes “Planned Parenthood Saved Me.” Time for these stories to get told. (via Sabrina Hersi Issa)
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Komen Foundation Part of Wider Effort to...
Thanks go out to Katherine Haenschen for penning this excellent guest post, our first here on MaleFeminists.com.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation’s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood are yet another component of the larger effort by conservatives to defund women’s health care. What’s framed as an effort to shut down abortion providers will in reality prevent many women from...
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Action: Tweet to pressure the Susan G. Komen for...
If you’re looking for one easy way to help either reverse the decision of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation to sever ties with Planned Parenthood or at least to raise awareness and hold them accountable, get on Twitter!
Tweet your suggested new, more truthful slogan for the Foundation and include “#NewKomenSlogan @komenforthcure” somewhere so that the feminist community...
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Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation severs ties... →
Planned Parenthood provides essential medical services to men and women across the country. So why is the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation breaking ties with them? It’s either weakness, as suggested publicly by Planned Parenthood themselves, or just political timing by an organization founded by a major Republican donor (the link is just a sample of what we’re talking about)....