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 [...]

They’re really opposed to breast reductions out there

From the sometimes strange and sometimes frightening list of search terms that bring people to this blog I have drawn these little tidbits.
woman wants breast reduction
That one appears rather neutral. No problem there. But then the ‘fun’ starts.
breast reductions are bullshit
why women should not get breast reductions
how to talk a girl out of breast reduction
breast [...]

Freedom of Speech no longer

In Ireland legislation to ban blasphemy has been passed. This is a huge step backwards for the Catholic nation in the Atlantic. The law not only makes blasphemy illegal and punishable by a considerable fine, it also grants the police the right to enter and ransack premises, where blasphemous material is suspected to be kept, [...]

Intimidation 101

If the situation is in no other way threatening to anyone, then, telling a person that you will not do X, will make that person think that X is exactly, what you’re planning to do.
Example from the other day: Early in the morning I drive my boyfriend to work, ’cause I need to car myself [...]

Rape wasn’t really rape, but was rape, anyway

From the Copenhagen Post:
A Jutland couple who made money from allowing men to have sex with two foreign teens living with them had their sentence extended
The Western High Court in Århus today upheld the guilty sentence of a man and woman sentenced to prison for keeping two teenage Slovakian girls in their house as sex [...]

Woman wants breast reduction – men across the world weep

And I’m not even kidding. A google search for Simona Halep, a Romanian tennis player, will drag out enough muck that I won’t be linking any of it here. Most of them are writing the same thing anyway. I’ve found you a few choice quotes, though, especially the response to Halep’s own statement, which I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]