Women's Voices

 

7 September 2021

 

Women's Voices

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Roughly 8 hours after @guardian published an interview with queer theorist Judith Butler, several paragraphs have been quietly pulled, including claims that women who understand basic biology and oppose sexist stereotypes are equivalent to fascists. ...

September 7th @ 7:17 pm |

Women's Voices

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“There is despair at the heart of the cheerful Butlerian enterprise. Judith Butler’s hip quietism collaborates with evil. Feminism demands more and women deserve better.” — Martha Nussbaum https://t.co/591lBg... https://t.co/ScqCGs...

September 7th @ 2:26 pm |

Women's Voices

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“Almost half (49%) of girls aged seven to 10 have had a negative experience on the internet in the last year. Nearly a fifth (18%) said they had encountered a person pretending to be someone else, while more than 11% said they had seen obscene ...

September 7th @ 1:22 pm |

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“Blackmailers follow you on Instagram, make incessant video calls until you pick up, and then demand you pay them a hefty sum or else they’ll slide into your friends’ and family’s DMs with deepfake porn using your face.” https://t.co/cuuddM...

September 7th @ 1:03 pm |

Women's Voices

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RT @HJoyceGender: This review means so much to me. Obviously it’s immensely gratifying to be reviewed in the NYT, I’m delighted that @jessesingal thinks so well of it, and the (minor) criticisms are well taken. https://t.co/pL5GXW...

September 7th @ 12:16 pm |

Women's Voices

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Children cannot be protected from exploitation as long as pornography is protected & prostitution of adults is tolerated. These are the same people at two points in time, sometimes the same time — children presented as adults, adults presented as ...

September 7th @ 9:25 am |

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RT @WomensLibFront: "Ever since SB 132 passed I have been living in constant fear." California's incarcerated women are bravely speaking out about the traumatic impact of being forced to live with violent men, even as they fear retaliation. ...

September 7th @ 5:46 am |

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“It’s one thing for him to say: ‘I’m coming to terms with the fact that I’ve always been a woman inside,’ and quite another to say: ‘I’ve moved on from masturbating in women’s clothes to wearing them all the time.’” @HJoyceGender #SexNotGender ...

September 7th @ 5:04 am |

Women's Voices

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Almost 26% of Jordanian wives ages 15 - 49 have been abused by their husbands, while only 1% of husbands have been abused by their wives. The reported abuse covers emotional, physical and sexual abuse, according to the statistics. ...

September 7th @ 4:44 am |

Women's Voices

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In South Korea, a woman is killed or nearly killed by a man in a close relationship with her every 1.6 days. The most common motives were the woman wanting to break up or get a divorce (23.4%) or a spontaneous urge during a fight or a fit of rage ...

September 7th @ 4:39 am |

Women's Voices

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RT @Bernard_Lane: In Australia, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the "affirmative" model of medicalised gender change for under-18s has outsourced its media management to the public broadcaster @abcnews @ABCaustralia https://t.co/8fMnC5...

September 7th @ 3:55 am |

Women's Voices

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“In the absence of voting rights, Burroughs saw labor organizing as an effective method. Burroughs and her organization enlisted 1,800 Black women and men from 37 states and the capital to advocate for a ‘wage that will enable women to live ...

September 7th @ 1:04 am |