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 [...]

Police humiliates trans woman

I wish I could be surprised. I really do. But I’m not. I haven’t been able to find this piece of news in the English news sources from Denmark, so you’ll just have to make do with a link to a Danish news source and my post here. A trans woman was arrested, the news [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Rights of Pregnant Women: Not a Matter of Equality

In the news yesterday and today a story has emerged that a company has fired 8 women who were either pregnant or on maternity leave. The company is PFA, a company that sells pensions and prides itself of its high morals and ethics. Bad? You bet. A crime? You bet. When an employer fires a [...]

PETA should look in the mirror

PETA has criticized Britney Spears for her video Circus. Not that there’s anything wrong with this, but the words quoted on FemaleFirst triggered my hypocrisy allergy. Take a look: “As Britney is such a victim of the paparazzi and always complaining and crying about how she hates to be held up in her guarded house [...]

The Back-Up Project

A good while ago many feminist blogs covered the topic of sexual harassment at Cons. The amassed hordes of geeky boys and men who get their sole ‘education’ about women from computer games and misogynist films of one sort or the other tend to gather a rather large percentage of misogynists. This, for one thing, [...]