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democracy: a male thing
But then again, when the re-elected President Hamid Karzai approves a law condoning marital rape, starvation, and enforced seclusion if a wife does not fulfill her ‘conjugal duties’, you’d almost rather not have any contribution to propping up a government that so grossly ignores women’s human rights. Continue reading
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men and boys
If the editors of 1980 – not that long ago – could blithely segregate the men and boys sections from the women and girls sections, it makes me wonder what kind of gender blinkers we still have today. Continue reading
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my two cents’ worth
The Slanderers: Hillary is obviously a troublemaker, from a family of troublemakers, who only got into office by virtue of being married to the chief troublemaker. Come on, this is the age-old trick of rubbishing a competent woman for her background, associates, or any random connection because they can’t actually rubbish her performance. Continue reading
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a mad wicked folly
Hi! My name is Emma, and I am a feminist. That’s pretty easy. What I find harder to define is feminism. What is it really? And what is my own particular kind of feminism? Too often, I think of feminism … Continue reading
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