grandma was a suffragette

A week in feminism

Out & About: The Muffia, "trying to inspire people to question society's relentless portrayal of a female which is mostly white, thin and hairless."

1. Zoe Williams, with whom I and every other Guardian reader I know have a love-hate relationship, criticises media coverage of Baroness Shriti Vadera, who has been denounced as a ball-breaker for daring to state an unpopular opinion this week.


2. I profiled Rachel Maddow for Lesbilicious (look, they give bonuses for page views and I'm skint, OK?!)


3. ...and when blogger Lisa-Marie Ferla tried to read the website on her phone, she discovered that the 3 network regarded the site as pornographic - DESPITE the fact that its own homepage links to 'adult' websites after 9pm.


4. Ann of Feministing.com discusses the women who have been appointed to Obama's category, referencing GWaS' homegirl Hillary in particular.


5. Screaming Into the Void posts about "hearing men attempt to justify all the bullshit of patriarchy through faux-academic faux-scientific comparisons or humans to the “natural”, animal world."


6. A bill is currently going through Parliament to re-define the 'provocation' defence in murder cases - crucially, at the moment it only applies to immediate circumstances rather than ongoing situations such as abuse. F Word blogger Kit Roskelly says:
   
   

   "This law is the relic of an earlier age. Light sentencing for men who kill
   their wives reinforces and permits the assumption that men are by nature
   sexually possessive and prone to uncontrollable violence which it is unjust to
   punish them for. It also upholds the notion that women have no right to attempt
   to leave abusive situations, or to defend themselves from violence."

   
   Hear, hear, Kit!
   

Labels: weekly round-up; activism, woman of the week

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