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• Prejudice in Briefs: Why Page 3 is Toxic to All Women

  

  - Caroline Criado-Perez“Don’t like it? Don’t buy it!” So says the ever-helpful internet commenter. Sweetly thinking they’re the first to make this insightful... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Kate Gould Exposes the Phallacies Surrounding Flashing: Review

  

  - Caroline Criado-PerezAs the title of Exposing Phallacy suggests, Kate Gould’s book is an exploration of sexual exposure – otherwise known as flashing – which... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• There’s Something Fishy in the State of Wolf Criticism

  

  There’s been something a little unseemly going on in the past week, and it concerns Naomi Wolf’s Vagina. Sorry.But all the best articles seem to start with a... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Bare Boobs & Bare-Faced Bullies

  

  - Caroline Criado-PerezIn 1987, Labour MP Clare Short tried to introduce a Commons bill opposing Page 3 – our daily dose of boobs benevolently provided by The... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Reshuffling Democracy

  

  Legitimate rape. Forcible rape. Anti-abortion. It’s not been a good time to be a woman in the US. Over here in the UK we’ve watched with mounting concern as... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Chicks Doing Shit – Claire Moore

  

  - Caroline Criado-PerezI’m scared for Rose; I’m gripped by her fear. I feel shivers on my body and my jaw clenching up. I watch her wait for her abuser’s... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Quotation of the Week

  

  Afterward I lay there on the comforter, shuddering like a trauma victim – The Quickie, James Patterson & Michael Ledgwidge, who, in their otherwise extensiv... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Legitimate Language on Rape and Mental Health

  

  When is it OK to tell a joke about rape? And when is it OK to question someone’s mental health?  Perhaps these questions seem to have little to do with …... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Can Men Be Feminists?

  

  This article has now been republished in the New Statesman – do feel free to comment there too!* * * * *- Caroline Criado-PerezA couple of days ago on twitter,... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Muff Schmuff: The Pits Are Where It’s At

  

  - Charlotte KingI can’t be the only person who has become entirely desensitised to the word VAGINA. VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA. It’s as much part of my lexiconImage... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Where’s the Justice in Ignoring Rape?

  

  - Caroline Criado-PerezWhat is a ‘just war’?In a recent article for Women Under Seige, Soraya L. Chemaly explains the current conception of what we consider... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Quotation of the Week – John Donne on Consent

  

  Licence my roving hands and let them go / Before, behind, between, above, below- John Donne demonstrates he understands consent in To His Mistress Going to Bed. Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• My Hijab, My Body – A Muslim Feminist on Street Harassment in Argentina

  

  - Nasreen Amina “The little streets of Buenos Aires have this, je ne sais quoi, you see?” So said Astor Piazolla in his famous song, Balada para un Loco. For …... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Vaguetionary – Words of the Week Are ‘Legitimate Rape’ and ‘Misspoke’

  

  Those dedicated followers of…my blog who hail from the UK might recall a similar episode of ‘misspeaking’ in the context of rape by a man who one would have... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Akin Mispeaks with ‘Legitimate Rape’ Comment

  

  Those dedicated followers of…my blog who hail from the UK might recall a similar episode, oh…about a year ago, where the words ‘classic rape‘ issued forth from... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Infographic

  

  This informative and disturbing infographic has been provided courtesy of Compliance & Safety I would like to distance myself from the propagation of the... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Guilty Patriarch Crush of the Week: Mr Thornton

  

  But not just any version of Mr Thornton. Oh no dear readers.The version of Mr Thornton that never fails to make me yearn for my own personal piece of the... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Chicks Doing Shit: Helen Lewis

  

  - Caroline Criado-Perez© www.sarahwatsonarts.com‘Pass the pink sick bucket’, says Helen Lewis at the end of an article in which she decries the prevalence of th... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• The ‘Feminist’ Patriarchy – Clue: the Scare-quotes Are There for a Reason

  

  - Caroline Criado-Perez So, this week, Louise Mensch stood down from her position as the Right Hon MP for Corby. And right on cue, the lovely, dependable... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Quotation of the Week

  

  …there was a paragraph in one of the more foolish London dailies about an ‘Undergraduettes’ Rag’…the ‘Lady Head’ was said to be taking disciplinary measures.... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2012 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES