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Embracing the Enormity

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One reason that I’ve stopped posting regularly was that the enormity of the various tasks at hand are sometimes overwhelming. Fighting sexism? Ongoing, huge battle. Fighting classicism? Ditto. Fighting racism? Yet…

One More Thing Feminism Can Do: Critique Traditional (White) Masculinity

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I’ve been thinking some more about why I think the tragedy that is Sean Bell’s death is a feminist issue. Holly pointed out at Feministe that part of the reason why it’s a feminist issue is because it’s difficult to…

Feminist Allies: Post Feminism?

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The next time somebody tells ya that we don’t need feminism, we only need humanism, you may trot out this little ditty, from a United Nations commissioned report:Women are discriminated against in almost every country…

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What to Say

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One feels the need to respond to the controversy, but really, there isn’t so much left to say that hasn’t already been said, and said better than I could say. I guess I’ll just say this:Feminism and anti-racism ought to…

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Restrained Amusement

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In yet another example of one of my favorite comics annoying the crap out of me: XKCD Thinks Restraining Orders Are Funny.Thing is, I get that this is funny, conceptually. At the risk of going Monty-Python-esque, the h…