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Patricia Arquette won an Academy Award last night for Best Supporting Actress and received booming applause after calling for equal rights and equal pay for women. Although some predicted Arquette would receive…

Sexual violence in Game of Thrones is presented as titillating and entertaining. Do those without the ability to reproduce have a right to surrogate wombs for rent? Rebecca Mott: “How dare you…

The modeling industry exploits underage girls who are legally unprotected, overworked, and underpaid. If a feminist critiques the practice of wearing high-heels, she’s called a femmephobe. If a man does it, he’s…

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is trying out the Jian Ghomeshi defense: “It wasn’t rape, just rough sex.” Özgecan Aslan’s death was Turkey’s tipping point. Non-perfect women out in public are shocking! The Pentagon spent…

Are you now or have you ever been a TERF? Hey, did you know that men are not physically stronger than women? And “human beings actually differ very little in their sexual…

We cannot allow censorship and the silencing of Feminist voices. Signatories of the letter took a stand together in favour of free speech. Internet replied with violent intimidation and death threats. Mary…

Why we need a Femicide Census. The vanishing of murdered prostituted women. “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” hits theaters across America. (Just a reminder, ladies, that even your feminist rage is judged…

Former head of IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on trial for “aggravated pimping.” Revealed in court that he refers to women as “equipment” and “gifts” in texts. “Raising awareness” with a couple PSA’s…

It’s not bestiality. He was so brave to “come out of the closet” as a “zoosexual.” Don’t be a bigot about men’s fetishes… Excuse me, men’s “identities.” “I respect your boundaries, Valentine.”…

Twitter admits that they “suck as dealing with abuse and trolls,” but apparently they’re just fine at censoring online services for women’s health. Women are not incubators! On the anniversary of Roe…

800 maternal deaths a day is not gender neutral. A chain of hardware stores is distributing copies of 50 Shades of Grey to employees so that they may familiarize themselves with the…

Buzzfeed’s Katie J.M. Baker and Adam Serwer provide some excellent and much-needed reporting on Paul Elam and the men’s rights movement. (The real story both frightening and unsurprising.) On the misogyny of…

After 25 year-old man secretly films having sex with his 17 year-old girlfriend and posts it to social media, she pours acid on his penis in retaliation. 100 rapes undeniably, directly facilitated…

Male academics think the rape and torture of women happened in history “for obvious reasons.” Boss Lady Soraya Chemaly on “Why it matters that the Internet is made for men, by men.”…