Feminism: Invading a Gym Near You
Journalist and men’s rights activist Peter Lloyd is suing Kentish Town Sports Centre (warning: the article is hosted on an MRA website, which some readers may find offensive or upsetting) for offering women-only sessions in their gym and swimming pool. According to Lloyd, barring him from using the pool or gym at certain times, but [...]
It’s about much more than gun control
When children are murdered, there is nothing you can do to alleviate the tragedy. There is nothing you can write which isn’t a platitude, nothing you can say to ease the pain of those affected. But there are things you can do to try to reduce the likelihood of such events happening again. Rage at [...]
Radical Independence Conference: Doing Feminism
This weekend I was one of four Bright Green editors who took a day trip through to Glasgow to give a workshop at the Radical Independence Conference. It was a great event, not least because it was a rare opportunity to see so many people from different parts of the notoriously tribal Left playing nicely [...]
Anti-Abortion Bullshit Bingo
Eyes down, ladies and gentlemen, eyes down. It’s time for Anti-Abortion Bullshit Bingo! Nadine Dorries has been granted a 90-minute debate in the House of Commons on reducing the abortion time limit, and that means we should be in for some high-quality bullshit. Print off your card and get ready to cross off each dodgy [...]
In Defence of Irrationality: why Mehdi Hasan is wrong about sensible debate
The former New Statesman editor Mehdi Hasan has announced that, when it comes to abortion, he stands with that noted advocate of women’s rights, the late Christopher Hitchens – that is to say, firmly on the side of the antis. He is, of course, entitled to his opinion, but by voicing that opinion on the [...]
Feminists shouldn’t have to strip off to get in the Guardian
It’s not often you have a controlled experiment in analysing media content. Each story only happens once, so it’s nearly impossible to say that it wouldn’t have been reported, or it wouldn’t have been reported in the same way if it didn’t play to an oppressive trope, or include a popular but problematic element. The [...]
Why Theresa May’s immigration proposals are a feminist issue
One of big news stories this week is that Home Secretary Theresa May has been briefing MPs on proposals to introduce a minimum income requirement for UK citizens who want their spouse from outside of the EU to live with them in this country. As part of the Coalition government’s drive to reduce immigration, anyone [...]
Feminism 101
EK McAlpine is taking part in the Fuck The Patriarchy Readathon in aid of Rape Crisis – donate here. My name is EK McAlpine and I am a strident feminist. I’ll shout that from the rooftops, if you like, but to a lot of people it either won’t mean anything, or it will mean something [...]
Celebrating 44 Years of Legal Abortion
Today it is exactly 44 years since the 1967 Abortion Act came into effect. Since 27th April 1968, women in Scotland, England and Wales have had the right to decide whether to continue a pregnancy, or whether to safely and legally end it. Abortion is not a new invention; there are records of its use [...]
Mean Girls: feminism, the internet, and being “nice”
This week I got into an argument in the comments of a blog post about rape allegations on another website. The location of this argument doesn’t matter, and although most of the content doesn’t bear repeating, it provided an almost textbook example of the prehistoric attitudes that women – and in particular, feminist women – [...]
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