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Sexual Harasser Learns Same Old Excuses Don’t Work Anymore
To be fair, your modern flasher rarely wears a hat. I can’t promise I’ll be there every week, but today I’d like to start posting a weekly invitation to come to Panda Party again. Summer’s finally here! Let’s Panda Party! Some of this week’s discussions about disingenuous arguments, sexual harassment, and the tendency…
The Real Problem With “Check Your Privilege”: It’s Too Generous
In the comments of this post and on Twitter two days ago, I laid down a gauntlet: Since so many anti-feminist “skeptics” (I refuse to acknowledge the skepticism of someone who won’t apply it to gender roles and patriarchy, when these are major societal issues) were having multi-year meltdowns of tone…
Iowa Senate Republican staffer fired after reporting sexual harassment
A female former staffer for the Iowa state Senate Republicans says she was fired only hours after she reported sexual harassment by male lawmakers. In an interview on Sunday, Kirsten Anderson told WHO-TV that she had worked as the communications director for the state Senate Republican Caucus until Friday when…
Fringe Misogynists Expose Themselves To The Houston Chronicle
Yesterday, I mentioned as an aside the harassment campaign against feminist atheists conducted by a very small but very dedicated group of sexists whose two main complaints appear to be: 1) Sexual harassment is a holy right and conferences shouldn’t have policies banning it and 2) It should be…
Saudi cleric urges veils for baby girls to avoid sexual harassment
A Saudi cleric has said baby girls should be veiled to avoid sexual harassment, in remarks broadcast on television that sparked outrage in the conservative kingdom. “Girls should wear the veil from the age of two,” said Abdullah Daoud on Islamic television al-Majd, adding that Saudis should follow the example…
Fear of Vulnerability and Geek Misogyny
Ta-Nehisi Coates has been reading Raymond Chandler, and finding the aggressive and frankly silly misogyny of it a bit hard to take at times. But we all benefit, since it gives him an opportunity to write about the relationship between misogyny and heterosexual male desire: I think to understand misogyny…
Anti-Feminist Atheists Inevitably Choosing Sexism Over Commitment to Rationality
I’ve blogged here in the past about the dogged and weird pro-harassment* cult that erupted in the atheist/skeptic movement, one that is very small but, being composed by a lot of unstable people have nothing better to do than harass others, can nonetheless make a pain of themselves.** By and…
India lower house passes sexual harassment bill
India’s parliament, which has been deadlocked for days due toopposition protests, on Monday used a brief break in the uproar to pass legislation protecting women from sexual harassment at work. The lower house passed the bill before business was again abandoned for the day as lawmakers from the main oppositionBharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
Canada policewomen file sex harassment class action
More than 200 policewomen and former cops have alleged sexual harassment on the job in a class action lawsuit against Canada’s federal police force. Hearings opened in British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver Thursday to certify a law suit filed in March by Janet Merlo, a 19-year veteran of the…
Study: 43 percent of women experienced street harassment in Britain
Sexual harassment is a persistent and dangerous problem on Britain’s streets, women’s charities have warned, as a poll reveals that more than four in 10 young women were sexually harassed in the capital over the last year. A YouGov survey of 1,047 Londoners commissioned by End Violence Against Women Coalition…
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