Perhaps the oddest thing about woke-ism is just how many feminists choose to ally themselves with a movement that embraces what are easily the two most misogynist ideologies going. Woke-ism’s fetishisation of Islam is weird enough. An ultra-conservative religion characterised by legions of brutally intolerant followers who violently abhor
Ann Farmer mercatornet.com Ann Farmer lives in the UK. She is the author of By Their Fruits: Eugenics, Population Control, and the Abortion Campaign (CUAP, 2008); The Language of Life: Christians Facing the Abortion Challenge (St Pauls, 1995), and Prophets & Priests: the Hidden Face of the Birth Control
Angela Shanahan mercatornet.com Angela Shanahan is a Canberra-based freelance journalist and mother of nine children. She has written regularly for The Australian for over 20 years, The Spectator (British and Australian editions) for over 10 years, and formerly for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra
Anne I worry about the future of women if we cannot say ‘women have babies’. I’m a woman with XX chromosomes, have grown from girlhood through all life stages to deliver three wonderful babies, breast-fed those babies and given them the best start I possibly could. Nobody knows the
Silicon Valley Robotics Women In Robotics robohub.org Eliza Kosoy is a Ph.D Student at UC Berkeley. She studied mathematics in college and then worked for Prof. Joshua Tenenbaum at MIT in his computational cognitive science lab. She then started on a Ph.D at UC Berkeley working with
Ann Farmer mercatornet.com Ann Farmer lives in the UK. She is the author of By Their Fruits: Eugenics, Population Control, and the Abortion Campaign (CUAP, 2008); The Language of Life: Christians Facing the Abortion Challenge (St Pauls, 1995), and Prophets & Priests: the Hidden Face of the Birth Control
Rezwan globalvoices.org I am from Dhaka, Bangladesh and I have been blogging at The 3rd world view since 2003. I have been bridgeblogging the Bangladeshi and South Asian Blogosphere in Global Voices since 2005. As the translator coordinator for the Global Voices Bangla Lingua I love translating selected Global
Is there any contemporary ideology more misogynistic that transgenderism? At least Islam only relegates women to secondary status. Transgenderism is trying to erase women altogether. Old school sexism declared that women were inferior to men in many ways, but at least acknowledged their superiority in certain essential roles. As the
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg newsbusters.org It’s TERFs vs. Trans! Twitter is awash in rhetorical blood as two reliably lefty identity groups are skirmishing again. But this time, it’s Joe Biden’s fault. Biden announced Wednesday that he was reversing Trump administration limitations on Title IX and restoring the draconian
Ann Vickery Deakin University Growing up in Australia in the 1970s, I much preferred the hijinks of Han Solo and Chewie to Princess Leia’s sexualised damsel in distress. My sister and I spent an entire summer pigging out on Choc Wedges and Barney Bananas so we could collect the
Amanda Laugesen Australian National University Women have had a fraught historical relationship to swearing. Long regarded as guardians of morality and respectability, their use of swear words has been policed and punished in various ways. Yet women have a rich history of using such language as a means of challenging
Katherine Baker mercatornet.com Katherine Baker is a freelance writer who lives in Western Pennsylvania. A couple of years ago there was quite a kerfuffle about the holiday duet, “Baby, its Cold Outside”. This song, from 1944, features a dialogue which some people might describe as a man trying to
Katie Pickles University of Canterbury Kate Sheppard was around 40 in 1888, the year she and her family moved into the brand-new wooden villa at 83 Clyde Road, Ilam. Now part of inner Christchurch, it was then a rural section some five kilometres from the city centre. Today, 132 years
The “MeToo” movement has been dealt yet another blow, with yet another acquittal of a high-profile celebrity accused of predatory behaviour. In fact, contrary to the mantra of “believe victims”, very few MeToo accusations have passed the test of a court of law. Craig McLachlan has been found not guilty
A couple of years ago we read about how important Nanaia Mahuta was after being nominated as one of the BBC’s 100 Super Duper Most Importantest Women. As important as a Samoan who could drive a boat it turned out. Well, seeing as how well things have turned out
Ann Farmer mercatornet.com Ann Farmer lives in the UK. She is the author of By Their Fruits: Eugenics, Population Control, and the Abortion Campaign (CUAP, 2008); The Language of Life: Christians Facing the Abortion Challenge (St Pauls, 1995), and Prophets & Priests: the Hidden Face of the Birth Control
