feminism issues

I've noticed this usage a lot lately. Usually used in the context of "a woman politician", "a woman athlete", etc, or as below in the picture. It just sounds really odd to me. The dictionary entries I checked still list it solely as a noun. Is "female" as an adjective now considered gauche...

So, who has seen the movie? Has kept up with the controversy and cancelled and banned screenings? Is the movie honest? Reasonable? Misleading propaganda? This interview provoked me into starting a thread on the topic since I hadn't seen one yet and it has been a few months of controversy by...

This thing was started a few days ago and it's somewhat interesting. Well, some of it is predictable of course but some of it is more than simple anti-feminist talking points. Here is the twitter link (I think - I don't personally use twitter) and here is one of the youtube examples by...

This is the continuation thread from here. As usual, the split point is arbitrary and participants are free to quote from the previous iteration(s) of the thread. {quote from Puppycow} I see others have already posted about this, but it looks like another Nice Thing must be sacrificed on...

Haven't seen a post about this, so here goes: A bunch of students, faculty and alumni at the University of York sent an open letter to complain about the university marking International Men's Day. I can't do it justice so you might as well read it yourself. Here is the university's response...

Ok, I'm sure this has been covered many times in many different ways. What I'd like to do is narrow the discussion to one specific question (or few). My understand is that the "pay gap" of 78/100 is worthless because it doesn't take into account things like hours worked, job, etc. and that a...

I'm fairly new to the topic overall and was wondering what some people thought about an argument I've heard repeatedly, lately. The argument goes that because feminism is for gender equality (I'll accept this as a majority view for the sake of argument - I believe it is probably true but I...

Celebrated champion of women's 'rights' and all around 'funnywoman' Sarah Silverman was caught in a fib anecdote that was meant to highlight the fact that women are paid less than men for the same work. from the daily mail: 'Comedian Sarah Silverman was forced to apologize after she was caught...

This is a continuation of the previous thread which can be found HERE. The split point was arbitrary. Please feel free to quote posts from the old thread in this one Would I be correct in saying that you're not really familiar with GTA, Meadmaker? Not only is it not a game about murder, but...

The only new information is the right wing has noticed. Subject line is Breitbart's headline not mine. Free Republic thread linking to Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3199512/posts One commenter opines ... But will such men be video game developers? Or players...

Bina Shah had a piece in yesterday's New York times about the fate of feminism in Pakistan. Her main argument is that, to be successful, Pakistani feminism needs to merge the two main strands of feminism that exist in the world: Islamic feminism, and secular feminism (some of Margot Badran's...

A great article on the toxic fringe of online feminism. Anyone who has been involved in the A+ thread should be familiar with most of the article. A good examination about how the radicals are shutting down real discourse, and degrading the image of feminism, at for those active online...

The latest issue of The Nation has an article about the recent upswing in "Islamic feminism", Muslim women and organizations who are working towards gender equality from within Islamic tradition, rather than from outside. It talks about two organizations I've often mentioned in my posts here...

About 15 years ago I came to the conclusion that feminism is not my way of taking a stand and supporting social equality, for reasons x and x, this is my position today as well. Nevertheless, I've been looking a bit into current day feminism again after Elevatorgate, and more recently through a...

JREF, it's time we had a talk about feminism. We all know there's been plenty of discussion of it in other threads, but often as a tangent to the issue in the topic. I don't want to have an enormous OP because I'd like to just let the discussion grow organically, but I would like to lay out a...

I recently became a feminist...it took some effort. As a guy, I found a huge barrier was my understanding of the term "patriarchy". It conjures up images of laughing misogynists chomping on cigars and telling the "little woman" to “get back in the kitchen”. Obviously, that wasn’t ME so I felt...