Feminism: Explained for Ladybrains

I use the tag surfer and the Readomattic with great pleasure. Sometimes it brings me to awesome blogs the existence of which I didn’t know of. For instance it caused the recent addition of Feminist Whore to my blogroll. However, it also sometimes brings me to blogposts about feminism, written by people who have no [...]

No Thanks, America

I’m all for receiving exports from you in terms of science, inventions, good books, music and actors. That’s cool. But there’s one thing I would’ve appreciated you’d have kept for yourselves:
40 Days For Life
This despicable anti-abortion propaganda group has now begun their first serious campaign. On the road leading to Holbæk hospital they have placed [...]

Islamophobia in the name of Freedom

There’s a Danish group called Women for Freedom. Sounds like a good thing, but alas, they are as bigoted as they are active. Their chairwoman wrote (and I’ll translate from the Danish):
I have previously written about a hotel where one of the cleaning assistants were scarf-imprisoned.
Yes, that is what she calls it: Scarf-imprisoned. Because in [...]

News: Spam is not spam

Sometimes I get spam comments – I suppose we all do. The filter catches it and I can delete spammity comments at my leisure. Sometimes, though, one of them catches my eye. That happened just now, this spam comment was just precious.
The wording?
Yooo..
I kno it has nothing to do with what you wrote, but have [...]

Temper, harpiness and gender

I had one of those “hmmm…” moments the other day when talking to my mother. She and my dad work at the same place as teachers, and recently they’ve had some problems with their new boss, and so mails have been exchanged, and diplomacy skills have been exercised.
When my mum told me about how they’d [...]

Feminism Fail

In case you were in doubt as to how to ‘do’ feminism Dena Leichnitz is here to teach you. She has a post up about how ‘real’ feminists would do things, and I don’t know where to start. To be honest, it frightens me a bit. One thing is believing what she does, we’re all [...]

Consent, Agency and Free Will

A little more than a year ago I wrote about consent. Those were some of my early thoughts on the issue, and I never really broached the more difficult situations. In the post I dealt only with the ridiculous notion that even sleeping, unconscious and dead women should have said no, otherwise their consent to [...]

Celebrating the centenary of female votes

I’m way behind on this. It was actually on March 13th, that women could celebrate the right to vote and stand as candidate in local elections here in Denmark. They’d won the right to vote a year earlier, and on March 13th 1909 the first election with female participation took place. Here’s an exerpt from [...]

One small step at a time

Yesterday I was talking to two co-workers in the lunch room. We discussed the tragedy in Winnenden, and the fact that all victims except one had been female. I pointed out that the majority of victims being women or girls was actually a fact for the majority of school shootings during the past several decades. [...]

Babies having babies

Everyone’s heard of the story out of UK. 13 year old Alfie and 15 year old Chantelle becoming parents. And I’m sure they’ll try their hardest. Only days later a stay emerged here in Denmark. Two 13 year olds are having a child together, except they’re no longer together. The news quote the boy as [...]