My response to a dude who was JAQing off in a rape thread on FB and got very huffy when I told him to stop it:

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Just saw Joseph Gordon Levitt’s directoral debut, Don Jon. So, this movie was not what I expected. And I say that in the best way possible. The movie was unexpected and fresh. Better yet, it has a feminist, progressive message that was thought-provoking but not preachy ( Read more... )

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Why I Write "Strong Female Characters"
BY GREG RUCKA 
MAY 22, 2012 12:00 PM

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But there's  a second part to the question. The unspoken part.

It's the part where I'm being asked and not, say, Laura Lippman. Because Laura is a woman, and it's presumed therefore that she knows how to write about women, what with having been one her entire adult life. ( Read more... )

Am I the only one who thinks that The Gift of Fear is just another way of victim-blaming, ie "You didn't listen to your intuition/fear about that skeevy dude!" I see this book recommended all the damn time and when I read it, granted a few years ago, I remember throwing it across the room in disgust because it felt to me like another re-hash of the ( Read more... )

  Went and saw 'War Horse' today. It was great--beautifully filmed, wholesome, emotionally gripping story.

What was not so great was this trailer:

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I am soooooo fucking tired of Hollywood misogyny, especially when it masquerades as non-misogyny. We all know the plot of this movie. The girl finds out that the guys are fighting over her and, after ( Read more... )

  So much fail going on at /r/atheism. Rebecca Watson is once more calling out misogyny and the douchewaffles are coming out of the woodwork to defend themselves. So. Much. Fail.

Fuck you, LJ. I had a huge entry all typed out and ready to go but backspaced and LJ dumped it all. FUCK!

Okay, basically I have a lot of my course planned out. First, my job is to teach writing. However, I also want to impart some critical reading/thinking skills and I think using controversial topics is a good way to do that. BUT I don't want to ( Read more... )

Halp, feminists are oppressing those that don't agree with them!

It is totally okay to call another woman a 'twat'. P.S., rah-rah Dawkins! As if Dawkins doing something nice for women makes his comments any less offensive and misogynist...

Twat is totally not a hateful, dehumanizing term. Listen to me because I'm a man.

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  For my English 101 classes, I'm thinking of doing the entire class or a unit on feminism. Mostly because a lot of my students are science/engineers, so they won't be taking women's studies classes. And also because the furor of sexism in atheist circles has reminded me that, unfair as it is, it's my duty as a teacher to help to make my students ' ( Read more... )