https://theconversation.com/battered-wife-or-strong-woman-the-real-life-and-death-of-gracia-hosokawa-37793
Month: February 2015
Patricia Arquette calls for wage equality for women at Oscars, but then provokes controversy with racial insensitivity.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/oscars/oscars-2015-patricia-arquette-faces-backlash-over-comments-calling-for-people-of-colour-to-fight-for-women-20150224-13msml.html
Australia's best selling author receives sexist obituary
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/30/colleen-mcculloch-well-celebrate-a-woman-for-anything-as-long-as-its-not-her-talent?CMP=share_btn_fb
Women leaving the tech industry in droves citing hostile work environment
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-women-tech-20150222-story.html#page=1
Women are being terrorised in the gaming industry – but authorities fail to act.
http://www.bustle.com/articles/63466-im-brianna-wu-and-im-risking-my-life-standing-up-to-gamergate
The hazards of internetting when female and how to navigate them.
http://www.marieclaire.com/culture/news/a13403/online-harassment-terms-fight-back/
Violence dressed up as erotica – Fifty shades of grey and abuse
http://theconversation.com/violence-dressed-up-as-erotica-fifty-shades-of-grey-and-abuse-37589
"White Ribbon" ambassador outed as an apologist for male violence, claiming rising violence attributable to male loss of power.
http://theconversation.com/disempowered-men-still-lead-on-economic-power-37576
I”. . .he is, in some important respects, right. Men are losing power in a world where women have gained formal equality. Ahmed is certainly not the first to suggest that some are “evening the score”, in crude terms, in their private lives. An analogous argument has been made by “radical feminists” regarding the exponential rise of the global sex industry.
Where Ahmed falls drastically short is in naming that the power being lost was not a legitimate power in the first place – any more than whites having power over blacks or gay couples not being “allowed” to marry was legitimate. This unearned privilege was and is part of a system of social, political and economic control that feminism as a movement for women’s equality has sought to name, critique and dismantle.”
Refuges turning away women and children fleeing domestic violence
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/advocates-say-refuge-changes-leaving-women-at-risk-reforms-are-a-failed-experiment-20150203-133kyw.html
Australian of the year calls on PM to reinstate community services for women
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australian-of-the-year-rosie-batty-calls-on-pm-tony-abbott-to-reinstate-community-services-20150131-132o1n.html