Before you book a flight with Virgin, you might want to read this.

So now Virgin wants to help entitled creeps hit on fellow passengers when they’re trapped in a metal tube at 35,000 ft. Fan-fucking-tastic.

And of course anyone in receipt of such unwanted advances then has a choice between playing along despite any personal discomfort, or being labelled an ungrateful cold bitch for the remaining duration of the flight.

This isn’t ‘flirty’, it isn’t ‘fun’, it’s encouraging sexual harassment. Cut it out Virgin.

The streets are yours - [Guest Vlog]

Guest vlogger KJ talks about their personal experiences with street harassment, the way it happens too commonly in daily life and needs to be abolished.

More Guest Videos: http://bit.ly/OaTZKx
More videos on Street Harassment: http://bit.ly/Y8EVUW

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thosepeskydames:

“Look at the legs on that” - street harassment needs to stop

TRIGGER WARNING: Sexual harassment/assault/rape/rape culture.

Jenn discusses why street harassment is not a compliment, and shares experiences of it. 

Article referred to in the video (as a side note, it is very annoying that it apparently takes a man’s voice to show other men the error of their ways. Women have been saying this for a loooong time, but apparently our voices don’t matter to harassers): http://www.theferrett.com/ferrettworks/2012/08/can-i-buy-you-a-coffee/

List of experiences: http://bitemebeautiful.tumblr.com/post/36294308063/street-harassment

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“Look at the legs on that” - street harassment needs to stop

TRIGGER WARNING: Sexual harassment/assault/rape/rape culture.

Jenn discusses why street harassment is not a compliment, and shares experiences of it. 

Article referred to in the video (as a side note, it is very annoying that it apparently takes a man’s voice to show other men the error of their ways. Women have been saying this for a loooong time, but apparently our voices don’t matter to harassers): http://www.theferrett.com/ferrettworks/2012/08/can-i-buy-you-a-coffee/

List of experiences: http://bitemebeautiful.tumblr.com/post/36294308063/street-harassment

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Currently scripting my video for this week, which is onstreet harassment.

When was the last time you were harassed on the street? How did it make you feel?

I want to make the point that street harassment is really horribly commonplace and that it’s really horrible and often very scary.

I’d love to get some of your experiences/opinions for my video. You can reblog/reply to this is you have any you want to share or say on the subject. Alternately you can message us on here, on facebook, or email us. My personal tumblr is bitemebeautiful.tumblr.com in case you want to chat to me there. And if you want to remain anonymous, that’s fine, we can do it completely confidentially.

Jenn x

Schools and feminism?

… could you trust Michael Gove? Really?

[TRIGGER WARNING: for sexual harassment, prude shaming and the upsetting state of sexism we live in]

More videos on Feminism in Schools: http://bit.ly/NKUfDJ

Sorry about the lack of videos lately dames, times are weird at the moment. Anyways, what kind of a feminist education did you have at school? Would you like to see more/less of it in the classrooms? Is this hippy shit upsetting you? (if that last one is the case, then you are in the wrong place, friend.)

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amysterybanana:

-VagendaMag

I had one of my first major lessons about gender and power dynamics in third grade playing Catch a Girl, Freak a Girl during recess at Henry C. Lea School in West Philadelphia. In our version of the game, which is known in other regions as Hide and Go Get It and—alarmingly—Rape, the boys would chase girls around tag-style. If a girl got caught, her captor would dry-hump her on the spot or march her off to a less visible crevice of the schoolyard for dramatic effect.

(Trigger warning for rape/assault - especially in comments)

Government hits back in gay marriage debate Church told not to ‘polarise’ gay marriage debate (The Independent)
Ministers tell church not to make discussion a battle between gay rights and religion.

Rainbow Nations: Gay marriage around the world (The Independent)
The Government is obfuscating over same-sex unions, but in many countries – including staunchly Catholic ones – it’s already legal.

On Passing, Over Compensating and Disability (Journeys with Autism)
What I want to address, from a different perspective, is the idea that anyone who “passes” as non-autistic for some portion of their lives (and by “passing” I mean “acting in a way that doesn’t look like someone else’s autism stereotype”) can’t possibly be autistic.

Heart disease drug ‘combats racism’ (The Telegraph)
A common heart disease drug may have the unusual side-effect of combating racism, a new study suggests.

The model agencies say one of these girls is the proper shape and the other is too fat. Are they right? (The Independent)
A concave chest, pin-thin arms, and jutting hip bones can propel a teenager to catwalk stardom - or straight into hospital with a feeding tube down her nose. Model agencies are once again in the dock amid claims that an eating disorder is an advantage for young girls hungry for the fame and fortune that life as a clothes horse can bring.

Anonymous hacker planned to publish details of women who had abortions (The Guardian)
Court hears James Jeffery stole 10,000 database records of women registered with Britain’s biggest abortion provider BPAS.

Kony 2012: Invisible Children and Visible Racism (Trinicenter)
A critical analysis of the Kony 2012 phenomena.

Without consent: the truth about forced marriage
When Abbas Rizvi’s girlfriend phoned from Pakistan, she told him: ‘I’m in trouble.’ Catherine Deveney hears the harrowing stories of young women coerced and bullied into matrimony – and asks whether plans to criminalise ‘forced marriage’ will help.

Terence Blacker: Wolf-whistles aren’t matters for the courts (The Independent)
Making relatively trivial acts into crimes puts women in the role of victims.

Wolf-whistling is just the start – harassment is not harmless (The Guardian)
There is no reason sexual harassment in the street should be any more permissible than racist language.

International Women’s Day Links

International Women’s Day highlights hurdles obstructing equality
Domestic violence against women, pay inequality and abortion rights among issues raised.

International Women’s Day in tweets
Hundreds of tweets from women all over the world show why feminism is still important. Here are some of them…

An open letter to men and boys on International Women’s Day
Sadly, we have to confront the fact that Rush Limbaugh is no aberration. It’s up to us men to challenge men’s abuse of women