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Tropes vs. Women: #6 The Straw Feminist | Feminist Frequency - 1 views

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    This is the last of a six part series created for Bitch Magazine. Tropes vs. Women explores the reoccurring stories, themes and representations of women in Hollywood films and TV shows. The Straw Feminist trope is a deliberately created, exaggerated caricature of a feminist that is used to undermine and ridicule feminist movements.
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Melvina Johnson Young: Feminism's never-ending struggles | The Kansas City Star - 0 views

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    I'd like to offer this link to an article in the Kansas City Star (9.26.14) titled "Feminism's Never Ending Struggles"-a back and forth imaginary dialogue between two women-one of whom is not a feminist. http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/midwest-voices/article2261855.html I think it captures a prevailing current belief that feminism is not only irrelevant, it is damaging.
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After terrorist threat, feminist video game critic Anita Sarkeesian cancels lecture at ... - 1 views

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    We live in a world in which it's considered normal that women who critique video games face regular threats to their life.
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Feminism But Were Afraid to Ask - 1 views

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    During our discussion of the FemTechNet Difference video dialogue on Sept. 16, I mentioned I would post the link to this article. Fudge, R. (2006). Everything you always wanted to know about feminism but were afraid to ask. Bitch, 31, 58-67.
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    In Pennsylvania in 2014: Women make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes in the same job. PA is the 5th worst state to have a baby in and PA has the the fewest OB/GYNs per woman in the country. In PA, a woman can still get fired for being pregnant. (from Planned Parenthood, PA)

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