We spend a lot of time fighting about the concepts of gender. Our radical feminist friends would contend that gender is nothing but a social construct and some of them really do believe in the idea of a genderless society (extending that belief that this would negate the need for transsexual people to feel their [...]
I stopped reading Feministing a little while before the whole trans boycott of the site largely because it was clear to me that it isn’t a safe place for trans women. It was already quite clear to me that the site holds a quite narrow view of feminism which did exclude a lot of women [...]
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The thing called “male privilege” is very real. Men do maintain a role in this world dripping of privilege which allows them to behave despicably to women. This behaviour starts with disparaging concepts and stereotypes of women, leads on to views of the role of women in this world which keep women down and on [...]
I came across this story on a forum I read: Some Abortion Foes Shifting Focus and was pleasantly surprised by the first couple of paragraphs: Frustrated by the failure to overturn Roe v. Wade, a growing number of antiabortion pastors, conservative academics and activists are setting aside efforts to outlaw abortion and instead are focusing [...]
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Today is an important day for lesbian rights in the UK with a key vote taking place regarding lesbian reproductive rights, including NHS-funded fertility treatment and the right for lesbian couples to appears as parents on their child’s birth certificate. In the same bill, stem-cell harvesting from human embryos is also included. This doesn’t seem [...]