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Conference anti-harassment campaigns do work: Three existence proofs from SF&F, atheism/skepticism, and open source
Guest Post by the Ada Initiative, a not-for-profit organisation supporting women in open technology and culture (originally published at the Ada Initiative blog)
One Reason Why False Rape Allegation Statistics Are So High
Guest Post by Dana Hunter
Men, even good men, believe women lie about rape. There’s this myth that runs amok saying that some enormous proportion of rape accusations are just women lying to get attention, or revenge, or to hide their summer fling from mommy and daddy. And they believe it without question.
When male friends toss that grenade at me, I toss it back by asking if they know what the percentage is. “Fifty percent,” they’ll say, or above, depending on which MRAs their stats are coming from.
“It’s two to eight percent,” I say, and I need to remember to never do this when they’re walking or have something in their mouths, because the good ones are always staggered, and they always gasp. “But even those numbers are on the high side.”
clarifying-concepts
Guest Post: More Men Are Raped in US Than Women?
Originally published at Echidne of the Snakes. Crossposted with permission.
You may have come across that assertion before if you have the habit of visiting MRA sites on the net. I’ve seen it, but never found any sources for it, except for fuzzy hints that it’s because of prison rape of men is not included in the general rape statistics.
debunking myths
FAQ: Aren’t feminists all lesbian man-haters?
Short answer: No. Feminists come from a variety of backgrounds, with a variety of values and opinions, and (among other things) are in no way uniform in their sexual preferences. Some feminists identify as lesbian, some as heterosexual, some as bisexual, some as asexual, etc. As for the “man-hating” moniker, it has more to do […]
- Feminism 101: Periods
- Online interaction and free speech
- FAQ: if “gender is a social construct”, aren’t feminists saying that gender doesn’t really exist at all?
- Feminism Friday – “Feminists Look for Stuff to Get Mad About”
- FAQ: if women like sex just as much as men do, then why is rape so bad? It’s just rougher sex, right?
FAQ
FAQ: vagina vs vulva and public “faces of feminism”
Q: A celebrity feminist said something about the incorrect usage of vagina vs vulva and I want you to explain every nuance of her thoughts to me and why feminism thinks that way.
A: “Feminism” doesn’t necessarily think that way just because that celebrity feminist does.
Possibly there is controversy about her opinion.
Possibly her opinion is highly unpopular.
Also, just a thought, possibly she didn’t actually say quite what you think she said?
Feminism Friday
Feminism Friday: What can I do, right now today, to help stop sexual violence
It is frustrating to live in a society where sexual violence is commonplace, and feel helpless to stop it. Many people are so disgusted and frightened for themselves and those they care about, that they do not have the patience to wait for our culture to right itself. It is from this frustration, impatience, and usually from a sincere worry for women’s safety, that people often will try to pass along rape prevention measures that may or may not be useful. […]
Much of the safety advice that is given out is aimed at potential victims (quite often young women), that seems solid and constructive, but that largely ignores the social and societal context in which the violence happens, and also fails to take into consideration the practical realities of women’s lives.
- Guest Post – Privacy 101: privacy, anonymity and you
- Feminism Friday: How can men express sexual interest in a feminist way?
- What will Twitter will make of a #feminismfriday hashtag?
- Feminism Friday on Tuesday: Echidne’s “Need For Feminism” series
- Feminism Friday: Why, if you think women should be flattered by your harassment, you are stupid
FWW
FAQ: But doesn’t evidence show that women are just as likely to batter their partners as men?
A: No. This is an often repeated claim based on either faulty understanding or outright misrepresentation of a few studies made using the CONFLICT TACTICS SCALE (CTS) or similar self-report surveys. One of the authors of the original study, Richard Gelles, categorically rejects this interpretation of his research, and has done ever since these factoids […]
- Feminism Friday: Addressing claims of “female privilege” – The Military
- In which the moderator apologises for dropping the ball
- FAQ: What’s wrong with saying that things happen to men, too?
- Feminism Friday: SotBO (Statements of the bleedin’ obvious)
- Frequently Whimpered Whines: The Nice Guys™ theme song
introductory
Reader request: Feminism 101 book recommendations for teens?
It’d be great to find a book written with intersectionality in mind which contains info on slut-shaming, body positivity, abortion rights, internalised misogyny, etc., which is easy to understand and digest for young girls who aren’t educated about things like privilege and oppression and class, etc.
- FAQ: What is “sexism”?
- FAQ: Isn’t the existence of the term “sex-positive feminism” effectively an admission that many feminists are anti-sex?
- Open Thread: Top 5 Introductory Texts
- FAQ: What can I do for feminism?
- FAQ: Why "feminism" and not just "humanism"? Or "equalism"? Isn’t saying you’re a feminist exclusionary?
man-hating
Open Thread: Feminism, Sexual Orientation and Social Hostility
This thread is a response to a comment from Astrodyke in the Suggestions thread: I don’t see tags for “lesbian” or “sexual orientation”. It’d be nice to have some FAQs about lesbianism and how it relates to feminism. There are the straw questions, “Don’t all feminists hate men?” or “Aren’t all feminists lesbians?” But there […]
no-sense-of-humour
Feminism Friday: Humour as a tool for shaming and silencing
Last week’s Feminism Friday post was on why Rape Jokes Just Aren’t Funny, based on a series from Melissa McEwan of Shakesville, and at the crosspost on Hoyden About Town Bernice made a telling comment. Humour – the final frontier of colonialisation. You really now you’ve co-opted someone into the frame of dominance from which […]
op-ed
Cyberbullies 101: Part 2 – The Art & Science of Moderation – Free Speech vs Free Audience
I had a long post in the works about comment moderation, but RealLife™ intervened and I hadn’t been able to complete it.
Luckily Bora Zivkovic at Blog Around The Clock has a long and detailed post full of relevant links which includes pretty much every point I wanted to make. I’m providing a summary of his headings with some meaty quotes below, but please make sure to click through and read his post in full in order to see all the points he makes and the many link citations he provides.
spot the strawfeminist
Feminism Friday: that “why are Western feminists such cowards about atrocities in other countries?” lie
Shorter Pamela Bone: feminists are such cowardly hypocrites for being against FGM and rape in war whenever any culture does it instead of just specially castigating Islamic societies where such brutalities occur. I posted over at Hoyden About Town a few days ago with more background to Bone’s article about how she bravely spoiled a […]
- FAQ: Some feminist said/did something offensive/stupid/crazy/evil, so isn’t feminism a failure?
- Call for links: debunking the malicious stuff
- FAQ: But men and women are born different! Isn’t that obvious?
- FAQ: Why are you concentrating on X when Y is so much more important?
- FAQ: Aren’t you all just a bunch of "feminazis"?
More Articles
#FF101 Call for Links: On Silencing Campaigns Against Feminists Online
Anything you have bookmarked over the last few years regarding this issue would be useful.
Signal Boosting: spruik your social justice events in July-August
Events posted so far: SlutWalks continue around the globe – check out the SlutWalk Toronto website which is keeping tabs on the Satellite Slutwalks. This post is open to any social justice activist to spruik any upcoming event/activism outreach: protests, vigils, petitions, fundraisers, film nights, book launches, festivals etc. Guidelines: 1. Please include links to […]
Signal Boosting: spruik your social justice events in June-July
This post is open to any social justice activist to spruik any upcoming event/activism outreach: protests, vigils, petitions, fundraisers, film nights, book launches, festivals etc. This June spruiking post is brought to you by the recently published novel Last Chance Cafe by Liz Byrski:
Signal Boosting: spruik your social justice events in May
This post is open to any social justice activist to spruik any upcoming event/activism outreach: protests, vigils, petitions, fundraisers, film nights, book launches, festivals etc. There are Guidelines. This May spruiking post is brought to you by the recently published anthology Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the academic industrial complex of feminism, edited by Jessica Yee.
Comments fixed
I thought that I had unchecked a settings box that I checked for a brief hiatus over the New Year period. I just realised that apparently that change never went through.
An Open Letter to US College Students
I’ve been getting quite a few emails from students asking very similar questions, although the very similar questions are about rather different issues, over the last few months. I bet I’m not the only blogger getting them, either.
Obviously this is an approach that somebody is recommending to you, but can I tell you what it feels like to me? It feels like you are asking me to do your homework. That’s not what tertiary education is supposed to be training you to do.
Back on deck
Approximately a month’s worth of comments have just been released from the moderation queue now that I’m back from hols.
Hiatus
It’s school holidays here for the next few weeks. I will only have intermittent internet access as I race about doing holiday things. All comments will go to the moderation queue while I’m otherwise engaged.
Call for submissions: sexual violence survivor stories/poetry/artwork etc
Soulspeakout.org was born out of the need for a safe space for survivors to tell their stories. We hope that you are able to use it as a safe space to reach out to other survivors or just have your voice heard.
Quicklink: Derailing for Dummies has been updated
FYI: I have been alerted by the author that Derailing For Dummies (D4D) has five new entries: I’ve also updated the mirror of D4D here at FF101 to reflect these changes.
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