A day late and a dollar short but here’s this week’s open thread for discussion and our regular round-up of some of the articles and blogs we’ve noticed over the last week or so, but not had time to post about.
If you have a link or comment that doesn’t fit anywhere else and would like to share it, feel free to drop it in the comments here.
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- First Person: Breaking the Chains of Religious Tradition (Religion News)
- Start Improving the World: Goodbye, Gender Across Borders (Gender Across Borders)
- Are there such things as mugging myths? (You Oughta Know)
- Girlhood explained online (Eva Wiseman, Guardian Life & style)
- WTF Files: Samsung’s “Too Smart For Amy” Camera Ad (Bitch Magazine)
- Court rejects student Tom Martin’s claim of anti-male bias at London School of Economics (Camden New Journal)
- Self-Defense and the Criminalization of Survival (Trans Women’s Anti-Violence Project)
- A Historical Guide To Hipster Racism (Racialicious)
- Domestic abuse: rugby star Adam Jones urges men to speak out (BBC Wales news)
- Ched Evans rape case: 13th arrest made over naming victim (Guardian)
- Wish’s submission to Leveson: discriminatory representation of women with MH needs; women offenders (Leveson Inquiry – direct link to PDF)
- Who are the men’s rights activists? (Forty Shades of Grey)
- Fat is a prejudice issue (Guardian Cif)
- Light bulb moment (Inside Housing)
- Politics at the Tip of the Clitoris: Why, in Fact, Do They Hate Us? ()
- Op-ed: CeCe McDonald Was Punished for Surviving (Mara Keisling, The Advocate)
- Ska pioneer Lloyd Brevett dies (BBC News, Entertainment)
- Beastie Boys star Adam Yauch dies aged 48 (BBC News, Entertainment)
- Companies pull ads from Village Voice Media to protest child sex trafficking (Deseret News)
- Why is there so much misogyny online? (Guardian Cif)
- Let me tell you a story of being harassed by the police whilst not quite being naked… (reclaimthecunt)
- In Search of Stripper Solidarity (Rachel Aimee, In These Times)
- France drops sex harassment law, angers feminists (Reuters)
This week’s closing video is “Mood For Ska” by Laurel Aitken & The Skatalites:
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The image Telephone operators, 1952 is from the Seattle Municipal Archives’ Flickr photostream and is used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
