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 [...]

Or he might have been a tourist

Yesterday with all the whoopla about the IOC congress there was wall-to-wall coverage of the whole damn thing. It wasn’t possible to get any decent news from anywhere else in the country (or outside it for that matter) for several hours. All cams were focused on President Obama just like they were focused on Michelle [...]

Promoting women is up to the companies

Yes, I know the article is a week old. I’ve been out of the loop. Shoot me.
Maersk promotes female managers
The number of women in top level positions is set to increase significantly in the next five years
The country’s largest company, A.P.Moller-Maersk, has committed to having more female managers within five years.
The company is one of [...]

Reading comprehension

Is not the big thing among bigots. See, I wrote this post about who’s angry, about Guy White and his complete ignorance on the study he referred to, his ignorane on evo psych, on biology, on sociology etc etc. He did not even allow a pingback to his post. Instead he posted a comment containing [...]

Who’s angry again?

WordPress has this lovely feature called tag surfer. I’ve found some wonderful blogs that way, and sometimes I find some less fantastic ones. A few days ago I found yet another post by an angry white male, who absolutely denies any white male anger to ever have existed. He’s not angry. Nope. Never. No, he [...]

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 [...]

On Allies and Ally-ism

Intersectionality has been much debated in feminist circles; oppressions overlap, and many of us belong to more than one marginalised group. Oppression is oppression, and no matter what the basis for one’s oppression is, what they all have in common is this: they hurt the oppressed. But (and that’s a very big but) while all [...]

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 [...]

Bilingual – sorry, that makes you unworthy

This issue can basically be summed up like this: “We have listened to your advanced use of the English language, but because you are not of white descent, and because you speak another language in addition to English, we must put you through an unnecessary test far below your level of language usage, despite your [...]

Oh yes… it’s all the scarf’s fault

A couple of days ago a story emerged about how a muslim woman had been denied access to a bus because she was wearing a traditional headscarf.
Copenhagen Post has a short article up.
Bus company Arriva said that it was a case of confusion and not racism that led a bus driver to refuse travel to [...]