No matter how you spell it, it still makes me cringe. Wikipedia defines Female genital cutting (FGC), also known as female genital mutilation (FGM), female circumcision, or female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), as any procedure involving the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs “whether for […]
Read More FGM, FGC…Hey all you loyal readers, welcome to another edition of The Bitchin’ Table with Katie O. and KillerTofu. Each week we like to shoot some sass and no topics are safe. This week we’re chattin’ about feminism and laughing, which in appropriate situations go hand in hand.
Read More The Bitchin’ Table: I have all the senses, except for humor.Transgender, a person (transexual or transvestite) who identifies and/or expresses a gender identity that differs from the one which corresponds to the person’s sex at birth, sometimes involving a partial or full reversal of gender. Two Gender & Justice classes ago, we watched a film titled, Almost Myself. My eyes opened to the transgender person’s […]
Read More The “T” In LGBTGoing along with our sexual assaults at JMU, I now see that these behaviors towards women aren’t really much of anything, especially since she was only inappropriately touched, nothing more. Molesting a female is a simple assault. Now, I don’t know much of the legal language and why they choose certain words to define offenses. […]
Read More Simple Assault? Being Molested Is Now “Simple.”A 43-year old woman named Amy-Erin Blakely is suing her former employer, the Devereux Foundation, a non-profit health organization dedicated to helping children and adults with emotional, developmental, educational, and cognitive disabilities, for firing her in 2009 after she filed two complaints about gender discrimination. Blakely claims she was told her breasts were distracting for […]
Read More CAUTION: Distracting Breasts in the Workplace!Dating back to the Victorian era, a common myth within the medical community is that female illness is attributed to make-believe stressors that are commonly caused by a strong desire for attention. During the nineteenth century water cures and extreme bed-rest (think the yellow wallpaper) were used to treat “hysteria” aka, female illness. It would […]
Read More Are you sick? and female? then it must be stress.Seriously. The above is a clip of a 14-year-old Michigan boy speaking out about his homosexuality at a school board meeting. The teacher he’s talking about was disciplined by the school for removing two students from class for making homophobic remarks. EDIT: The video’s been taken off YouTube. It was great though, sorry you missed […]
Read More Quick Hit: This Kid Is AwesomeWrong! I’ve heard this argument many a time. Most of the time by women who feel that identifying themselves as feminist will somehow restrict them from doing things they previously enjoyed; (“But feminists can’t wear short dresses or cleavage-baring tops and go out and dance and have fun!” or “But feminists can’t wear aprons and […]
Read More Mythbustin’ Mondays: Being a Feminist is so Restrictive!“The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.” — Aung San Suu Kyi Burmese opposition leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and generally fantastic Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house […]
Read More Finally free, after 15 years of house arrest(Disclaimer: Sorry this post is so late, I’ve been sick and asleep and on all sorts of meds all weekend). This weekend was Amnesty International’s awesome Violence Against Women Awareness week. I attended two events – a panel featuring All Girls Allowed, First Step, and World Hope International. The other event I attended was a talk with journalist Rana […]
Read More Get educated about violence against women