Tag: misogyny

• Is Whispering Nothing?

  Sometimes I randomly accede to the frivolous demands of boredom, but more frequently I am goaded, and approach not of my own volition, but like Don Quixote, hoping to right some wrong. At those times I am, I like to think, teleology’s servant. I assume that it is the purposes they end up championing, rather […]

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  March 14, 2018

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  art, Banksy, BBC Culture, cow masks, dissonance, Don Quixote, Guerrilla Girls, India, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, Lascaux, masks, misogyny, sexism, Sujatro Ghosh, teleology, the Venus of Laussel, Thomas Hobbes

• Dealing with Women

  “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” cried Chicken Little running around frantically when confronted with an unexpected knock on her head. There are any number of versions of the story but all, seemingly, involving females who misinterpreted some benign event as being catastrophic. Fearful. Outside of their comfort zones. In other words, acted inappropriately given […]

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  August 12, 2015

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  BBC news, Chicken Little, Confirmation bias, dominoes, folk tale, Henny Penny, Iran nuclear negotiations, Macbeth, male bastion, male-only club, misogynous culture, misogyny, Orthodox Jewish community, P5+1, Sampson, Samson’s hair, shake on it, shaking hands, stereotyping, Wendy Sherman

• A Feminist Resurgence?

  Women’s Liberation -that’s what we used to call the women’s movement when I was a teenager. It sounded like a good idea to me, even though I didn’t really know what it was all about. Girls had always seemed to bring out the best in guys, so I was all for it. I still am. But […]

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  August 28, 2014

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  Antifeminism, Cats against feminism, discrimination, dogma, evolution of feminism, Feminism, Feminist movement, Gynaecology, male gynaecologists, misogyny, the three waves of feminism, women’s liberation