by admin | Mar 24, 2017 | Featured, Women's Rights
There is a simplistic view of gay men that, by dint of their being gay, they’re inherently not misogynists. That view crops up among gay men who use derogatory terms for women but defend it as okay because, after all, they’re gay. But that doesn’t make those...
by admin | Mar 16, 2017 | Featured, Gender
Children learn from a very young age what is expected of them based on their gender. Their young, impressionable minds are highly receptive to the gender stereotypes that exist within advertisements, books, toys, television shows, video games, and apparel....
by admin | Aug 24, 2016 | Featured, Women's Rights
For far too many years, feminists have been stereotyped as “hating men.” It didn’t help when Rush Limbaugh infamously coined the term “feminazi” in the 90s. And even though feminism pushes for men’s rights as well as women’s, the negative connotations remain...
by admin | Dec 5, 2014 | Equality, News, Resources & Info, Women's Rights
Last month, Mic released a short video inspired by Jimmy Kimmel’s “Celebrities Read Angry Tweets,” with a twist: this video featured feminists reading mean tweets about themselves. Whereas Kimmel’s version is humorous and absurd, the tweets shared in Mic’s compilation...
by admin | Nov 17, 2014 | Articles, Equality, Gender, News, Women's Rights
By now you may have heard about TIME Magazine’s annual word-banning poll. It’s the magazine’s fourth annual word banishment poll, and includes words and phrases such as “basic,” “bossy,” “said no one ever,” “sorry not sorry,” and “feminist.” If you examined this poll...