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Tag Archives: privilege

So, today when I was mansplained…

Featuredby tenderhooligan 6 Comments

… I alternated between frustrated, angry, and amused every couple of seconds. Eventually I settled on ignoring him until he gave up. “Mansplaining“ is an Internet slang term used to […]

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feminisms, sociologies

Bigger. Fatter. Horribler

Sun, February 19, 2012by tenderhooligan 8 Comments

I was really shocked the other night when I watched two minutes of “Bigger, Fatter, Gypsier” on Channel 4. I was flicking around stations and was stopped by the horror […]

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sociologies

In brief: cultural snow: the sins of the sons

Sun, August 14, 2011by tenderhooligan 5 Comments

Via the inimitable cultural snow: the sins of the sons. Grammar aside, is this not a very good question?

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sociologies

The Real Face Of Rapists (Trigger Warning)

Tue, June 14, 2011by tenderhooligan 4 Comments

Please read this. All of it. Now tell me again how I’m supposed to “avoid” being rape, stop putting myself in danger, stop wearing those rapey sorts of clothes etc. […]

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feminisms

In brief: child brides

Thu, June 9, 2011by tenderhooligan Leave a comment

(Trigger warning.) Photo caption: “Whenever I saw him, I hid. I hated to see him,” Tahani (in pink) recalls of the early days of her marriage to Majed, when she was […]

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feminisms, sociologies

Calm down, dear. Fuck off, toerag.

Mon, May 2, 2011by tenderhooligan 14 Comments

Yes, I know Osama Bin Laden was killed today or yesterday or overnight but I have a feeling that’s been done to death (pun intended) at this stage. Frankly, I’m […]

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feminisms, sociologies

What I’ve been reading – burka ban, budget 2011, Ivory Coast horrors, and US revisionist history

Mon, April 18, 2011by tenderhooligan Leave a comment

Ok, yes, I possibly have been on the Interbets all week. Here’s some of what’s been happening: It’s quite unbelievable, still, that France passed the “Ban on the Burka” law last week, but […]

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feminisms, sociologies

What I’ve been reading – Willets, “virginity tests”, acid violence, and slut-shaming

Sun, April 17, 2011by tenderhooligan 5 Comments

If only I could spend all day online reading blogs, I would. I can’t, so I can only give you what I see. Recently: David Willets: feminism has held back […]

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feminisms, sociologies

What I’ve been reading – French ads, men against rape, condoms in Uganda, and Nigerian traffickers

Thu, April 14, 2011by tenderhooligan Leave a comment

Where to start. It’s been a busy week in the blogoshere. There’s been a lot to talk about. In no particular order: The iconography of French advertising (theillusionists). This is a discussion of […]

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feminisms, medias, sociologies

Naughty little peers, they are

Mon, January 26, 2009by tenderhooligan 4 Comments

I’m only really posting this because it makes me laugh. Not because I care enormously about it one way or t’other. Peers respond to cash allegations Two of the Labour […]

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feminisms

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