How many more Eric Schneidermans and Jian Ghomeshis before we stop pretending...
Embed from Getty Images Back in October 2014, just after the CBC announced it would be dropping Jian Ghomeshi — the public broadcaster’s star — the radio host himself published a defense against...
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On feeling like a woman
Not long ago, if someone asked me what it feels like to be a woman, I would have thought they wanted to explore metaphysical reality. Increasingly, though, the concept that one can “feel like a woman”...
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Ja feel men’s fashion label: corporate sexual predator promoting...
Australian company, Ja feel, promotes the sexual abuse and degradation of women and girls (as well as pornographic imagery and racist stereotypes) all in the name of marketing their “lifestyle brand.”...
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Anita Sarkeesian’s new video takes on male entitlement
Anita Sarkeesian released a new video in her Tropes vs Women in Video Games series on August 31, this time taking on the “women as reward” trope. As always, she is so right on when it comes to...
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‘Sex is wrong’: Making sense of the lie sex trade advocates love to tell...
A write up on the satirical website, The Onion, titled “The Pros and Cons of Legalizing Prostitution” presents a telling picture. The piece is meant to be funny but inadvertently demonstrates the true...
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You’ve heard of rape culture, but have you heard of pedophile culture?
Dear Todd Nickerson, Over at Salon a few days ago, you wrote an article provocatively entitled “I’m a pedophile, but not a monster.” Presumably, a lot of people are now asking questions such as “Is...
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Playboy’s decision to ‘drop nudes’ is nothing to celebrate
The news that Playboy will no longer be publishing images of “fully nude women” within the pages of its print magazine is not as “radical” as it might sound. This was a profit-driven decision, plain...
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Don’t worry, Justin Trudeau will never be hurt by sexist objectification
Canada has a new Prime Minister. And he’s not a monstrous hard-right asshole, so that’s a good thing. The thank god relief many Canadians are feeling about getting rid of Stephen Harper is palpable on...
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Shit liberal feminists say: Choice
On December 5th, feminists gathered at the Vancouver Public Library to commemorate a tragedy that’s become known as the Montreal Massacre. On December 6th, 1989, Marc Lépine, a poster boy for...
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Growing up in Pornland: Australian girls have had it with porn-conditioned boys
“[I want] better education regarding sex for both boys and girls [and] information about pornography, and the way it influences harmful sexual practices.” These are the words of Lucy, aged 15, one of...
View ArticlePODCAST: Empowerment and body positivity in the selfie age
These days, we hear an awful lot about “empowerment.” In an image-based culture, explicitly connected to social media, this has meant that young women’s understanding of ideas like “empowerment” and...
View ArticleMicrosoft sexualizes teen girls during Game Developer Conference, liberal...
Surprise! Gaming is a sexist industry that pornifies women. Through a particularly hypocritical post, even for Jezebel, it has come to light that Microsoft hired women in sexualized Catholic...
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INTERVIEW: Lindsay Kite on empowerment, body positivity, objectification, and...
This interview was transcribed and then edited for clarity based on an audio interview featured on the Feminist Current podcast earlier this month. Lindsey Kite, PhD, is co-founder of Beauty...
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The problem with pornography has little to do with ‘consent’
The image above, while enormously misogynistic, is not particularly out of the ordinary — not for female politicians, not for female females. Pornographic imagery is rampant in our culture today,...
View ArticleCeleste Barber’s ‘model’ poses show the extent to which women are expected to...
What do you look like when you’re eating in bed? A 100 pound, perfectly made up sexpot? Or this: Happy birthday #mirandakerr fry it all up and take a photo pretending to eat it, it's your day do what...
View ArticleLeague of Exotic Dancers demonstrates limitations of female ’empowerment’
The most notable thing about League of Exotic Dancers, a Canadian documentary opening Hot Docs on Thursday night in Toronto, is that it highlights, even if unintentionally, the issue of privilege....
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No, letting creepy men grope your objectified body will not combat...
This week in nooooooope, Swiss artist, Milo Moiré, who describes herself as a “conceptual and performance artist, painter, and psychologist,” is getting a lot of attention due to her new performance...
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Emily Ratajkowski & Naomi Wolf team up to sell Playboy Feminism
What could be even more provocative than an interview with a naked lady talking about the innate empowerment of self-objectification? An interview with a naked lady about the innate empowerment of...
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Whether you like it or not, pole dancing perpetuates sexism
Image: Doll House Pole Fitness Since Monday, staff at the London Abused Women’s Centre (LAWC) have been inundated with angry comments on their Facebook page. While one might assume the natural enemy...
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David Hamilton’s sexual abuse has taught us a lesson we should already have...
David Hamilton was known for his pedophilic photography that some called “art,” but was little more than sexualized imagery of teenage girls. What he produced and encouraged should never have been...
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The impact of porn culture on girls is too big to ignore
If we were to plot events that have significantly altered the female experience, one of them would have to be the arrival of porn culture and the role of technology in this advancing phenomenon. Last...
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The horror of the witch hunts remains ever-present in modern culture
Image: Facebook/Suppressed History Archives/Witch Hunts: legacies of misogynist persecution On Saturday evening at SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver, feminist historian and founder of the Suppressed...
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All I want for Christmas is an end to porn culture sold as empowerment
Emily Ratajkowski, “carb-loading” In case you were so lucky to have missed it, Love magazine has been unveiling its annual advent calendar throughout the month. And, surprise! We’ve been gifted with a...
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If the Grammys want to say #MeToo and #TimesUp, they have to address...
Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Perform ‘Despacito’ at the Grammys On Sunday night, a number of women wore white roses to the Grammys in solidarity with the Time’s Up campaign. Janelle Monae introduced...
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Facebook doesn’t hate breasts; it likes them so long as they are for men
Facebook’s “community standards” are a conundrum — from misogyny to mammaries, it’s often unclear what is and isn’t acceptable. Campaigns like “Free the Nipple,” which demands the online platform...
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‘Drag Kids’ doesn’t celebrate the ‘true self’; it pushes hyper-feminization...
What’s it like to be a KID #DRAGQUEEN? @CBCKidsNews spoke with the four stars of CBC’s new #DragKids documentary to find out what #drag is, and why they do it. #lgbtq #queer #kiddragqueen @cbcdocs...
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Stop saying ‘self-love’ when you really mean ‘pay attention to me’
Embed from Getty Images Lizzo, a performer beloved by the “YAS KWEEN” social media chicks, who proclaim to be about female empowerment, but can’t seem to imagine said empowerment happening in pants,...
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‘More girls in hell’: The ethics of Maïmouna Doucouré’s film, ‘Cuties’
When I first noticed my social media feeds exploding over Netflix’s advertisement for the French film Mignonnes — Cuties, in the English version — followed by #CancelNetflix trending on Twitter after...
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The Oscars take one step forward and two steps back
Amy Schumer For women, watching the Oscars can be frustrating. No matter how many gains women make from one ceremony to the next, it often feels like Oscar night drags us backwards, into a regressive...
View Article#GirlswithGluten doesn’t celebrate women’s love of snacks, it celebrates...
The kids internet tells me the new hip hot cool Instagram account is “Girls with Gluten,” an entire account devoted to sharing images of women “eating” food items that include carbs. There are photos...
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