2 days ago by Dalia Ziada

It is the patriarchal mentality that holds women accountable for the mistakes of men. Three years ago, a number of bloggers on their way back home after celebrating Eid el-Fitr in downtown Cairo, saw a group [...]

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19 days ago by Dalia Ziada

I was once asked: if you were given the choice, would you choose to be born now in the new millennium? I replied: definitely, yes! Not only because I was given the unique chance to [...]

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30 days ago by Mommy

“Oh my dear God! You used the F-word?” No, it is not a mother scolding her child for swearing, but expressing her shock at the use of the word ‘feminism’. What indeed is feminism? To ask a man, who has grown up in a dominant patriarchal society (such as me), to define feminism is asking for an opini ...

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66 days ago by gildap

Surviving in a competitive, patriarchal society with all its disfunction (shame, control, hate, fear, denial, disassociation, deprivation) just to name a few. You could say I’ve been on a path of recovering an reclaiming in myself, all that modern society has deemed unworthy and unvaluable (love, co ...

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81 days ago by The Editorial Board

1) The Simpsons: Flying under the radar, so to speak, it is not recognized that the popular animated series “The Simpsons” conveys a powerful Matriarchist message. Homer Simpson is the nominal head of the household which is the expected norm in a Patriarchal society. He is stupid, ignorant, irrespon ...

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88 days ago by sassycamille

A little 8 year old girl in the US has been disowned by her family because she was raped by 4 boys in her neighbourhood. The article here gives a little more detail . The girl was found by police officers in the midst of the assault as it seems and of course the officers informed her parents. Subseq ...

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150 days ago by Xu Ying

It is generally accepted that Chinese women were inferior to their male counterparts in the feudal society. This can be well illustrated in the morals for women in old times which could be best summarized as “San Cong Si De”(Three Obedience and Four Virtues for women—Three Obedience includes obeying ...

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181 days ago by swati jr.

wombyn/womyn: why should i not spell this word correctly? why am i told to make my spelling match that of the “majority”? there is meaning here. meaningful connection between sounds, letters and thought. maybe that’s why i choose to use the new spelling. the old spelling. the original spelling- for ...

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205 days ago by xflamez

this is just messed up…in Saudi Arabia, this 50 year old is divorcing a 9 year old because the news drew too much attention internationally so he feels he needs to….According to Saudi Arabia, age isn’t specify when it is appropriate to get married…come on man…9 year old at that age should be having ...

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220 days ago by iibro

Jennifer Burns asked: Gender-neutral language (also called gender-inclusive language, non-sexist language, sex-neutral language or politically-correct language) is becoming increasingly frequent in written and spoken language, and attempts not to favor either gender over the other in contexts where ...

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