Feminist. Irate but like to laugh. Reluctant expert in online hate. Author of best-selling Rage Becomes Her and just-released The Resilience Myth.

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New York resident Tara Rule was denied medication for crushing cluster headaches because she is of ‘childbearing age.’ She is suing the hospital for prioritizing the "life" of a nonexistant and hypothetical fetus dlvr.it/Sx2XcV
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Just to be clear, the entire planet is being held hostage and threatened by fragile and toxic masculinity. Calling these men babies or children insults babies and children.
UPDATED: Brazil says no to G7 aid, but may relent if Macron 'withdraws insults' ctv.news/8Uf9vPb
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What hostile sexism looks like: Dr. Katie Bouman’s reputation is being battered across multiple platforms. Her Wikipedia profile, marked for deletion, fake accounts, her work attributed to a man (he’s renounced the lies). “Trolls” doesn’t capture it: organized sexist harassment.
Not only are there a bunch of fake Katie Bouman @instagram accounts now, but they’re spreading the lie about her colleague writing most of the code and commenters are just eating it up anyway thinking they’re replying to the real deal. They even made a fake account for the guy.
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Thinking that Warren is “too much,” “nasty,” and “mean” because she is assertive, aggressive, dominant, and defending women is how we ended up with Trump.
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On any given day, there are 600,000+ frozen embryos housed in fertility clinics and labs across the US. All it takes to dispose of or donate one is signing a form. No interference, shaming, protests, or terrorists. Never say this is about life and not women's freedom.
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Incredibly sad and difficult to share. In my experience, most people don’t want this knowledge, but not talking about these crimes only helps perpetrators. 19-year old Nusrat Jahan Rafi was burned to death for reporting sexual harassment, at her school bbc.com/news/world-asia-4794…
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26% of Sanders supporters would support Donald Trump if the 2020 race ended up being between Trump and Elizabeth Warren. Some people call this “weird.” The rest of us call it misogyny. forbes.com/sites/michaeldurk…
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Teenage boys with more progressive views about gender are half as likely to engage in violent behaviors as peers with rigid views about masculinity and gender, new study finds. Another reason to be explicit about gender equity in early childhood education. abcnews.go.com/Health/progre…
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“Jill Biden should think about dropping the honorific, which feels fraudulent, even comic.” Really, is there no end to men affronted by women’s authority? Is it worse with women who’re successful (and so, often, legitimized) by standards optimized for male success? SO TIRESOME.
Such an incredibly bad take. Sail on, Dr. Biden. wsj.com/articles/is-there-a-…
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A woman who was 11 when she was forced to marry her rapist has worked for six years to ban child marriages in Florida. On Friday, she was hailed as a hero after the Legislature passed a bill prohibiting marriage for anyone under 17. usatoday.com/story/news/nati…
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WH @PressSec just announced @USTreasury is moving forward to put Harriet Tubman on the new $20 bills. I appreciate critiques, but am really happy to see this and know that Andrew Jackson is no longer going to be memorialized this way.
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In 1972, there were only 700 girls playing high school level soccer in the US. By 1991, 121,722. In 2018? 390,482. It’s impossible to overstate the importance of Title IX, not just in the US, but globally, and not just on sports, but socially and politically. Thx @MoiraDonegan
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Majority of men, despite being involved in 100% of unplanned pregnancies, say they “never or rarely” worry about them. 37% think affordable birth control for women makes a difference in their lives. This carelessness and ignorance is literally going jail and kill women #DoBetter
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Gotta say re: Aunt Lydia...it’s not a joke. It’s exactly what so many warned about, fought, and grieved over when Trump won. Women’s rights in the US are being set back decades.
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This quote really makes it sound like the "real" fans are the sexist, racist assholes that attacked Leslie Jones and made the entire launch of the last Ghostbusters a nightmare for the women involved and for fans who looked forward to their work.
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Brock Turner is trying to appeal his rape convictions. His father called what happened "twenty minutes of action." Here, again, is the letter written by the woman he raped. Instead of reading that news, RT this instead. buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/he…
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Elizabeth Warren, like so many women now in office, is a great example of a woman who marshals her rage and is ambitious, methodical, rigorous and unrelenting. Men like Trump don’t know what to do in response other than belittle, mock and fall back on disparaging stereotypes.
After ramble-mocking Elizabeth Warren in an official speech to realtors, Trump says, "She's got a lot of pent-up anger. She's an angry person."
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I can’t shake Daisy Coleman’s death today. There needs to be a different word than “suicide” to describe what happened to her and so many other survivors of assaults.
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There should be a new word for the combination of anger, contempt, and disgust elicited by Kavanaugh being on the Supreme Court. Not even his supporters really doubt that he did the things he’s described as doing. They just don’t believe that what happens to women matters.
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The point about women leaders isn’t that they are magical beings or feminine superheros. The point is that their leadership is a resounding commentary on the values of the societies that elect them.
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Always worth repeating: Women politicians are far more likely than male counterparts to be threatened and denigrated online. Recent research shows that @AOC and @IlhanMN, by a large margin, are targeted with the highest proportion of abuse, hate, & threats washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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👏🏿It’s 👏🏽not 👏🏻about👏🏾 the 👏🏽babies 👏🏾and 👏🏿 never 👏🏼has👏🏻 been. 👏🏽 Women have the human right to decide what happens within their own skin. These lawmakers, sodden with misogyny and racism, don’t see girls and women as human beings capable of moral self-governance.
63% of women in the U.S. say birth control has empowered them to take better care of themselves or their families. 51% say it has allowed them to complete their education. But under Trump's #TitleX changes, many low-income Americans will lose access to affordable birth control.
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Think about this when the Oscars' men's and women's awards suggest parity of any sort. I've seen these numbers, about how speech is apportioned in films, but this chart is really striking. ht @ellentejle
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#notallmen practice violence against women but #YesAllWomen live with the threat of male violence. Every. Single. Day. All over the world.
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Only 9 states with women governors in the US and men with guns have stormed state legislatures in two of them. Don't tell me that this has nothing to do with women having the power to define safety and act with authority that men like these can't tolerate.
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Satanic Temple launches abortion clinic named after Catholic Supreme Court justice. The facility, which is located in New Mexico, is named “The Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic.” abcnews4.com/news/nation-wor…
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“In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention I have never heard of this level of inhumanity,” said Cooper, an attorney. “Seeing our country at this crucible moment where we have forsaken children and failed to see them as human is hopefully a wake up...”
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I honestly don’t know how HRC remains gracious when discussing 2016, Trump, and the situation we are in today.
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Please stop suggesting that remarkable women are role models for only girls and women. They are and we cherish each and every one of them. BUT BOYS AND MEN NEED TO SEE WOMEN like RGB as THEIR role models. This isn’t incidental but really critical and central #rolemodelsforall
Justice Ginsburg was an inspiration to countless young women and girls across our nation and around the globe – dedicating her life to equal justice under the law. She was an American icon. May her memory be a blessing.
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Again, not to disparage what Ronan Farrow has and is doing, but do people think Jane Mayer’s name appears along side Farrow’s just for the fun of it?
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Was appalled to hear NPR describe these boys as being in DC “on a field trip” this morning, like they were visiting the National Gallery instead of being part of a movement that threatens, harasses and endangers women and the people who provide care for them in clinics every day.
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Hill was “brave, but also deliciously brash in a way that women must be if they are to survive Trumpism. She was unapologetic in a way that is ...unusual but should be more usual for women. She said a number of things about women...that should not be lost...” via @MollyJongFast
"In the highest-stake case, she was the best possible witness, and beneath her steely surface one could see a patriot who was desperate to save Americans from themselves," writes @MollyJongFast trib.al/BeF2bWK
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It’s never “just words,” online or off. Why hasn’t this been front and center all week? Three historically black churches have burned in less than two weeks in one south Louisiana parish nyti.ms/2ImnE7V
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That both Warren and Klobuchar apologized for being angry shouldn’t surprise anyone. Women are constantly apologizing for being angry because the penalties are material. It doesn’t matter how justified their anger might be. It doesn’t matter how prominent or powerful a woman is.
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This is insanity. “Each woman died without knowing a hunter was on her land because he never needed to ask to be there. Each woman died because that hunter thought he saw a deer and shot her instead.”
#Maine has long allowed hunters to go on private property without permission. But the deaths of 3 women on their own land, at the hands of hunters, has some asking, 'Should that change?' bit.ly/30BIHbL
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Seeing conservatives try to taint and shame a father and son for being physically affectionate is sad. How barren their relationships must be. That kind of masculinity, seeing warmth and care as weakness is how we ended up in this mess.
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Did a TED talk about Rage and women navigating social ideas about how, when, and where we can say what’s important to us and why we want change. This is what anger tells us. There are so many racialised gender stereotypes about anger, all of them silencing in different ways.
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A Providence police officer running for state office as a Republican punched his Democratic opponent, Jennifer Rourke, in the face during an abortion protest last night. He’s now being investigated and has dropped out of the race. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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This is just tragic. All pregnancies involve risk, but what's happening today is a deliberate strategy of hurting, humiliating, and endangering women, especially Black women. The risks of pregnancy exacerbated by white supremacy, medical bias and racism, are immense.
Krystal Anderson, a former cheerleader for the Kansas City Chiefs, died of sepsis last week following a stillbirth, according to her family. She was 40 years old. trib.al/W3ChpKR
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It's Equal Pay Day 2021, so please talk about how, globally, girls' and women doing unpaid and largely invisible work is a *wealth transfer* in the form of time and support to men. Time as an asset also being distributed unequally between women. Pandemic illustrates this sharply.
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👇🏾👇🏽👇🏻👇🏿👇🏾👇🏼 many, of not most, men can still often count on unpaid care work done by women around them, a gendered wealth transfer, whereas women have to pay for that work to be done to free up time to work or play.
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Postal workers in Washington State have reinstalled high-speed mail sorting machines—dismantled after controversial orders from the U.S. Postal Service— despite USPS orders not to put machines back in use. forbes.com/sites/danielcassa…
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Can’t get Goodson’s senseless death out of my mind. Cities can decide to undo legacies of a world built by men for unencumbered, able-bodied men. People with disabilities & women, caring for children & elderly, need ramps, elevators, access, lighting. These are political choices.
Malaysia Goodson, 22, of Stamford, Conn., died when she fell down a flight of subway stairs in Midtown Manhattan while carrying her baby daughter in a stroller, the police said. nyti.ms/2G7AJAB
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Victims of sexual harassment or assault who come forward in hopes that what they say matters are whistleblowers. It’s just that most people in rape cultures don’t see the harassment, assault, and rape of women as institutional corruptions.
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Why "feminism" and not "humanism"? Grateful for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's spot on response.
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How is it possible to write a story like this and ***not say her ex-husband is the man who killed her***? A crossbow. Really had to reread. This completely erases the intimate partner violence, terrorism, that women live with. #whenwomenrefuse you
Heavily pregnant Sana Muhammad, 35, was fatally injured at her home in Ilford, east London, on Monday bit.ly/2OCdeAp
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New rule: for every Brooks column, the NYT should give 10 WoC space to write about imagined conversations with imagined select men.
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They aren’t scared of motherhood. They are worried about poverty, exhaustion, relational inequality, poor health outcomes due to horrible maternal health care , pregnancy discrimination and wage penalties at work. They’re scared about living in a society that doesn’t care.
“Millennial women are afraid of losing control — of their jobs, of their finances, and of their freedom to craft a career that they love.” bit.ly/35P7Xz8
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“My teen daughter is so angry,” “She used to be so sweet,” and “I don’t get the same pleasure I used to from spending time with her,”... things we’ve heard fathers say recently. What fathers’ discomfort with girls’ assertiveness, authority and anger means: nbcnews.com/think/opinion/fa…
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It’s 2019 and Paul Ryan has left office with a 12% approval rating. I just wanted to type this sentence so it lives on my twitter feed forever.
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For worried parents: A boy has a *far higher chance of being sexually assaulted than he ever does being falsely accused.* It makes much more sense to worry about the risks posed by say your friendly congressman, coach, or priest, than a “lying girl.” huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/0…
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Asking men to speak up for women’s rights doesn’t mean asking men to tell us what to do or come up with “new” ideas. It usually means please listen, support the people who have been doing this work for decades and are experts. Yes, women. So tired. I’s not even 10:30 am.
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Just going to share the same thing over and over: 51% of 18-30-year-old men believe men should know where girlfriends or wives are at all times. 41%, a growing number, think they should make all final decisions. For these men, masculinity means domination and control over women.
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This image is astounding every time. Imagine what he’s like in private. Like Kavanaugh’s aggrieved tantrum, this is ridiculous, but think of the insults, slurs, threats, and mockery a woman has to navigate for just defending herself and doing so having to stay quiet and composed.
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I have also had people, men and women, say they “can’t quite put my finger on why,” and then, without skipping a beat, “It’s not sexism. Something about her just irritates me. Her voice especially.” It’s a profound and cultivated discomfort with women having authority.
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Well, this will send some predatory men back today. Woman conceived when her mother was raped as a 13-year-old wants the "family friend" prosecuted. “I am DNA evidence. I’m a walking crime scene.” theguardian.com/law/2019/aug…
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House bill for reauthorizarion of the Violence Against Women Act, which has to happen this week, doesn’t have a single GOP co-sponsor. Believe people when they tell you who they are. Then vote them or run for office. This party’s antidemocratic, authoritarian core in plain sight.
The Violence Against Women Act is set to expire by the end of the weekend. huffp.st/d08n1tm
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To eliminate polio, women — mostly young mothers — have gone door-to-door, slipping drops of polio vaccine under the tongues of as many as 30 million Nigerian children.
Thanks to women, 🙏🏽Nigeria is on the brink of eliminating #polio! @UNICEF & volunteers, mostly young mothers, have spearheaded vaccination efforts that many experts believe will soon lead to a polio-free #Nigeria. #ThePowerOf nbcnews.com/health/health-ne…
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Their school refused to require masks, but bans spaghetti straps..”a disruption to the education process.” These girls protested — and won. thelily.com/their-school-ref…
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It was Curran’s first marathon. She’d trained for a year and had 10 miles left when Galvin intruded on the race to pop the question." Why didn't he wait, let her focus and finish without interruption and refocus? Men proposing in public... washingtonpost.com/lifestyle…
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Women are 50% more likely than men to wash hands, a gender gap across nations/cultures. Those lines at women's restrooms? The ones that so many guys like to say are due to vanity? Turns out women are using *sinks and soap.* Machismo really isn't worth it. nytimes.com/2020/03/17/us/wo…
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Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor. "Without Ms. Berezin...there would be no Bill Gates, no Steve Jobs, no internet, no word processors, no spreadsheets; nothing that remotely connects business with the 21st century.” nytimes.com/2018/12/10/obitu…
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Trump claims his dad was born in Germany for the third time. This is not true. Lie number whatever to infinity. Fred Trump was born in New York. This is some kind of seriously perverse reverse birtherism here. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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“Fallout” from the #MeToo? You know the word for raising girls in a patriarchal world optimized for predatory men? Life. It’s not “parenting on steroids” to teach young boys to respect girls as equals whose time, attention, bodies, and patience they aren’t entitled. It’s decency.
"It's like parenting on steroids": Raising boys in the #MeToo era cbsn.ws/2Pn5MLX
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We all know “it’s only been hours.” RBG’s life was political. Her death is political. It’s what she herself chose, dedicated herself to, and clearly expected us to understand and continue her work with relentlessness.
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America loves the *idea* of women, but really really really really has a problem on its hands when it comes to trusting individual women as expert, morally competent, politically capable and powerful leaders.
Mayor Pete may outraise Sen. Warren
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North Dakota has the highest mortality in the world. *Higher than ANY country.* This is so much sadder because it didn't have to be this way. Our government squandered every opportunity and, now, so many more lives.
My god, I cry so much for North Dakota and the Midwest right now. We are just at the beginning of the wave of deaths that are coming. North Dakota has the highest mortality in the world. Higher than ANY country. (Analysis by my FAS team. HT @euromaestro). #COVID19
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Truly having a hard time imagining anyone describing a woman who behaved this way as “fired up.” Serena Williams is routinely described as “melting down,” for example. Worth considering even just the difference between “melting down” and “fired up” in terms of media bias.
"Absolute rubbish...Disgrace." Nick Kyrgios is fired up again after a time violation. Cincinnati Masters live on ESPN.
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Why Isn’t a Rape Allegation Worth an Impeachment Inquiry? THANK YOU ⁦@megangarbertheatlantic.com/entertainmen…
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Another mass shooting perpetrated as intimate partner violence. The first person this man killed was his ex-fiancé. The “insanity” isn’t about these individual men. It’s in the denial of what toxic masculinity looks like when it is staring us all in the face. This is so sad.
#BREAKING @ChuckGoudieABC7 reporting the 1st victim in #MercyHospital shooting is a female doctor who was reporting for work, gunman is her former fiancé who forced her to ground & shot her multiple times, then went into hospital & kept shooting
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People continue to seriously to say things like this, at dinner tables, in police stations, here, during a trial: Med student who raped unconscious woman "availed himself of an opportunity" he couldn’t resist due to stress of "leading an exemplary life.” cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/p…
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People talking about “the red pill” to shed light on white nationalist extremism without including its appropriation by misogynist “men’s rights” groups are not helping. If you can say “white supremacists” you can say “white male supremacists,” because it matters.
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A damning new CDC report shows most maternal deaths are fully preventable, but American women dying pregnancy related deaths up to a year after giving birth. “Moms are dying in America because we don’t take care of them,” one doctor said. huffpost.com/entry/american-…
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Well, I guess better late than never? A Common Trait Among Mass Killers: Hatred Toward Women nytimes.com/2019/08/10/us/ma…
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I’m Soraya Chemaly, and I’m so tired of talented, ambitious, brilliant, hard-working women being told to take a seat and listen, with a smile on their faces. Elizabeth Warren should be our president.
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If everyone on Star Trek: TNG wore the same uniform as Counselor Troi lol boingboing.net/2020/02/26/if…
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A group of domestic violence survivors, called “The Brave Ones," is Zimbabwe's first all-women anti-poaching team. They quickly earned a reputation as expert sharpshooters. They've arrested 80 armed poachers in the past year. cbsnews.com/news/the-brave-o…
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A teenage girl in Oklahoma explained to a boy that “she liked him as a friend, not anything more and that they remained friends” so he sat behind her in a school assembly and stabbed her more than a dozen times. #whenwomenrefuse #ToxicMasculinity thinkprogress.org/boy-stabs-…
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Refusing to give a hungry nine-year old girl food for 6 hours to teach “grit” and “help” her make up for a lack of “innate” mechanical skills... Not enough tweets in the world can make this a laudable act of parenting.
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“Sexual misconduct with a child” is an example of the failure of language and the law. Abuse that violates the child’s human rights, is frightening, humiliating and confusing, perpetrated by a trusted person is a deep betrayal, often life-altering. We need new words.
Pennsylvania priest has been placed on leave after allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor trib.al/GeMMEKU
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“The paradox is subtle, but punishing all the same: The harder she works to prove to the public that she is worthy of power—the more evidence she offers of her competence—the more “condescending,” allegedly, she becomes.” Warren & all women with authority. theatlantic.com/culture/arch…
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The police FINED HER for reporting the man who was stalking her. She tried five times and then he killed killed her.
Police officers who fined stalking victim before she was murdered face disciplinary action independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
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Angry. Aggressive. Shrill. Difficult. Unlikeable. Old. Lol “new line of attack”? Maybe if media stopped reporting on this bias, in this ways, using these words, we could move past this. But no. Because it’s “important to ask” if it’s real. Welcome, literally, to my TED talk.
Elizabeth Warren faces a new line of attack: She’s angry and antagonistic. wapo.st/2NLW3Ou
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WHOLE THREAD. Men with high, strict standards = competent, authoritative. They're often buffered by women - assistants, nurses, wives - who do the work of "softening" them for others. Women, expected to do their own emotional labor, are seen as bitchy, mean, less trustworthy.
The first couple of years out of residency, as a new attending, I made a number of trainees cry. A couple of my ER residents. An ortho intern. A medical student, a young nurse. I still feel kind of awful when I think about it. Want to know what I did to them to elicit tears?
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For people who think women should be happy & flattered when a stranger says they’re hot, or they’re told to smile or perform a sexual act. Especially tho, for men who refuse to believe that women have to think about rape or assault when we refuse. 19 years old.
A 19-year-old UIC student was killed by a man who grew angered when she ignored his repeated catcalls on the street, Cook County prosecutors say. trib.al/9HgPDxB
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If s almost as though women are human and have basic needs that society recognizes. AMAZING.
Scotland will offer free tampons and sanitary pads to all school, college and university students, the first country in the world to do so.
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You should care about what Nina Kouprianova, divorcing Richard Spencer, America’s second-most notorious racist, says happened in their marriage. @lyzl interviews her — and explains why huffingtonpost.com/entry/ric… # via @HuffPostPol
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Also, gotta say, most men, esp white in the US, aren't used to being told what to wear or having their sartorial choices tied to morality. People's policing women's appearance has always directly impacted our health vis-a-vis threats of violence. Just wear the masks.
This really is particularly ironic: Men, less likely to think the virus will affect them, are less likely to wear face masks because they're 'not cool' and 'a sign of weakness' nypost.com/2020/05/14/men-le…
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1/Got a bunch of #wagegap deniers in my mentions so here’s a thread about reductive thinking about women’s “choices”:
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Why I RT women writing about politics and you should too. The Male Echo Chamber of Political Twitter: men who cover politics have bigger audiences and use that to talk to, and amplify the voices of, other men. That shapes algorithms, and public knowledge. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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