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PoC News in America

This week we talked about the overwhelming whiteness of Hollywood award season and honored Martin Luther King Jr.

This Week in Lady Reads

What do butts, sea turtles, and disconcerting wedding dress names have in common? You’ll find them all in this week’s lady reads!

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On #Reign, Rape And Sexual Assault As Plot Device

Post author By Cate Young
Post date Wednesday, December 10th, 2014
1 Comment on On #Reign, Rape And Sexual Assault As Plot Device

Trigger Warning: This post contains discussion of rape and sexual assault. Let me start by saying that Reign is a great show. I started watching during the break between seasons one and two and haven’t turned back since. In a lot of ways, Reign is typical CW fare, pretty people’s pretty problems, but in others, it’s a very progressive […]

Tags feminism, Rape Culture, Reign, reviews, television

This Week in Misogyny

There was a ton of great writing about Bill Cosby this week, and because there needs to be balance in the universe or some shit, a corresponding amount of truly heinous commentary. Let’s dive on in. (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)

Tags "Literally I Can't", #DonLemonReporting, #FeministPrincessBride, #shirtstorm, 8chan, a voice for men, abortion, bad cops, Barbie, bill cosby, birth control, Blue Cross, Calvin Klein, campus sexual assault, catcalling, climate change, clinic protestors, condoms, Congress, Dapper, Dillard's, don lemon, el salvador, Ellen Pao, GamerGate, Howard Kurtz, Indonesia, intersex, Janice Dickinson, jessica valenti, Jezebel, Jill Filipovic, jimmy wales, jonathan franzen, julien blanc, Karl Stepanovic, Lady Parts, Lammily, lesbians, LGBTQ, libertarians, Lindy West, Matt Taylor, Michael Phelps, misogyny, Misy Copeland, MRAs, MTA, Myla Delbasio, news, okcupid, pedophiles, Princess Leia, rape, Rape Culture, rape kits, recommended reading, reddit, refugees, Roxane Gay, Rush Limbaugh, Saartjie Baartman, Sexiest Man Alive, Sierra Leone, space travel, statutory rape, street harassment, suicide, Ta-Nahesi Coates, Tammy Duckworth, Taylor Lianne Chandler, teen pregnancy, Texas, This Week in Misogyny, Twelve Days of Trolling, uber, victim-blaming, wikipedia, women in the workforce

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This Week in Misogyny is So Not Basic

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Friday, October 24th, 2014
3 Comments on This Week in Misogyny is So Not Basic

GamerGaters are still rearing their ugly heads this week, to the surprise of precisely no one. We also have some not-good news for everyone who was so excited that the Nigerian schoolgirls might have been on their way home, but at least the massive list of terrible people is somewhat mitigated by a bunch of awesome […]

Tags "It Girl", ableism, American Enterprise Institute, american girl, Andrea Tantaros, Anita Sarkeesian, ArtPrize, basic, bill cosby, Boko Haram, Brandy Melville, breast cancer, bullying, campus sex abuse, catcalls, Chris Kluwe, Clickhole, conan o'brien, cross-dressing, Denis Mukwege, don young, douchebag, esquire, fatphobia, FCKH8, Felicia Day, GamerGate, GeekGirlCon, Halloween, Hannibal Buress, homophobia, housework, institutional sexism, james o'keefe, japan, jena malone, joe biden, lean in, lesbian sex, madeleine albright, Mariska Hargitay, misogyny, Mo'Ne Davis, Moana, Nigeria, North Dakota, obama, online harassment, Oscar de le Renta, Pennsylvania, personhood, Pharrell Williams, rape, Rape Culture, reddit, renee zellweger, Sakharov Prize, sam mufti, same-sex marriage, sex ed, sexual harassment, steve king, suicide, tom corbett, transgender, twerking, Twitter, uber, women in tech

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This Week in Misogyny: You Won’t Believe What Happens Next Week!

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Friday, August 22nd, 2014
4 Comments on This Week in Misogyny: You Won’t Believe What Happens Next Week!

There’s oh-so-much misogyny to cover this week, including a larger-than-usual dose of transphobia, lots of cool study findings, and several Twitter accounts you’re going to want to go follow right now. (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)

Tags #likeaboy, abortion, Amal Alamuddin, Bad Feminist, black hair, breast feeding, butch women, BYU, Carolyn Porco, christina hendricks, Common Core, Congress, Daniel Radcliffe, diversity in sci-fi, Doree Lewak, Fark, feminism, Fox News, friend zone, Fund Texas Choice, Fund Texas Women, funny or die, gender wage gap, girl crush, google, grand theft auto, Henry Rayhons, hockey, intersex, Ireland, jessica valenti, Lego, lesbian emojis, mansplaining, marvel, Michael Brown, Michelle Duggar, Mike Coffman, misogyny, Mo'Ne Davis, MRAs, nail polish, Narendra Modi, Neil deGrasse Tyson, nerdy black girls, New Jersey, new york times, NFL, orgasms, Pajiba, peru, post-partum depression, prostitution, rape, Rape Culture, Roxane Gay, sex offender registry, smile bitch training camp, spider-woman, street harassment, suicide, taco or beer challenge, tampons, tea party, Texas, trans, transphobia, Twitter, wendy davis, wikipedia, woman against feminism, women in gaming, women in the workplace, zimbabwe, zoe quinn

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I Believe You. It’s Not Your Fault.

Post author By croguesberg
Post date Friday, August 15th, 2014
2 Comments on I Believe You. It’s Not Your Fault.

Even just typing those words in the title has left me with a feeling of such relief that I struggle to convey it. For every person who nods her head knowingly when you recount a story of street harassment, there is someone who scoffs. For every anonymous stranger on the Internet who stars or likes […]

Tags feminism, i believe you, it's not your fault, project unbreakable, Rape Culture, street harassment, tumblr

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This Week in Misogyny is Staging a Topless Protest

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Friday, August 1st, 2014
1 Comment on This Week in Misogyny is Staging a Topless Protest

We’ve got lots of cool readings this week, ranging from confused MRAs who don’t understand cat-based satire to why Cosmo‘s sex positions for lesbians are ridiculous. But there’s a lot of bad news too, including Ray Rice’s two-fucking-game suspension, assaults at SDCC, and slut-shaming Nicki Minaj and the Bachelorette. (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much […]

Tags abortion, Adrianne Curry, andrew cuomo, Ant-Man, atheism, Bob Beckel, breast cancer, brooklyn, Charles C. Benzing, Come and Take It Texas, comic con, confused cats against feminism, cosmo, emergency contraceptives, Facebook, false rape accusations, feminism, Girl in a Country Song, hercules, Hobby Lobby, Julya Johnson, Keith Olbermann, Lucy, Maddie & Tae, maternity leave, MichFest, misogyny, Mississippi, mommy wars, MRAs, national pro-life alliance, NFL, nicki minaj, ohio, Palestine, parenting, planned parenthood, Rape Culture, Ray Rice, revenge porn, richard dawkins, rick santorum, Rush Limbaugh, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, satanists, SDCC, slut shaming, Steven A. Smith, Texas, the amazing atheist, the bachelorette, The Onion, transmisogyny, Turkey, VBAC, when harry met sally, Whoopi Goldberg, women in business, women in tech, Women's Equality Party, woody allen

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This Week in Misogyny is Drinking MRA Tears

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Friday, June 27th, 2014
3 Comments on This Week in Misogyny is Drinking MRA Tears

Raise your hand if you’re mad as hell at the Supreme Court right about now. Yup, thought so. To find out who else you should be mad at this week, let’s take a look at the rest of the news. (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)

Feminism

Keys Out and Guard Up: What Women Do to Stay Safe

Post author By [E] Rachel
Post date Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
7 Comments on Keys Out and Guard Up: What Women Do to Stay Safe

Given the amount of discussion lately about gender politics, violence, and feminism (Elliot Rodger, #YesAllWomen, “Not all men!”), I’ve discovered a somewhat startling fact: men, in general, have no idea how many different things women do as a matter of course in the name of keeping safe. Like, no clue. So I polled the P-Mag […]

Tags #MenNeverHaveTo, parking lots and streets are like bad horror movie sets, Rape Culture, the mind-blowing things we do to keep safe, women's safety

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This Week in Misogyny Wants Some Potato Skins

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Friday, May 23rd, 2014
7 Comments on This Week in Misogyny Wants Some Potato Skins

It’s been another banner week for misogyny news. Several studies were published that will likely depress you, and the weekly roundup of terrible people will probably piss you off. There’s some fun stuff at the end, though! (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)

This Week in Misogyny

This Week in Misogyny is Not a Terrorist

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Friday, May 16th, 2014
2 Comments on This Week in Misogyny is Not a Terrorist

Is Hillary Clinton responsible for the Boko Haram kidnappings (and is she hiding brain damage from us)? Why did the New York Times fire Jill Abramson? Are you smarter than the average American? Let’s see if we can answer these questions and more. (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)