Everyone knew. We hear this over and over and over again. Every single time a male actor, athlete, musician, artist, politician, chef (and the list goes on) are alleged to be perpetrators of domestic and sexual violence and abuse, the refrain is “oh, everyone knew”. ‘Everyone knew’ about the multiple allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault … Continue reading Everyone Knew: Male Violence & Celebrity Culture, by @LK_Pennington
Mothers Day, several years ago, I went with a friend to feed the ducks (and possibly nutria) at a local park. It was supposed to be a pleasant excursion to take my friend’s mind off of troubles with her own kids and to see some animals. It ended up being a sad and clarifying outing. … Continue reading Of Ducks and Drakes: Male Violence Across Species, by @terristrange
There is not much in the way of quality programmes on TV, so it was with some delight that I looked forward to last weekend when three of my favourite programmes – Broadchurch, Call the Midwife and Vera were going to be on ABC TV in Australia. And each of them dealt with male violence … Continue reading Broadchurch, Call the Midwife, Vera – Male Violence Against Women
I found this article while searching for information about the Oromo goddess Atete on a scholarly database. Here the southern Ethiopian goddess hardly appears in her own right, most of the Oromo having (incompletely) converted to Islam or Christianity. Yet she has survived in women’s domain, especially in a ceremonial period around birth, known as … Continue reading Oromo women protest male violence under banner of goddess Atete, at Suppressed History Archive
(Cross-posted from Sarah Ditum’s Paperhous) November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, which is also the international day of tediously explaining why violence against women needs to be discussed as a category. November 25 is the day when you will be reminded that two thirds of homicide victims in England and … Continue reading Why talking about male violence matters by @SarahDitum
(cross-posted from Ending Victimisation and Blame) This morning we received a link to a Jezebel article entitled “Woman Shot and Killed After Refusing to Give Man Her Phone Number” from @ma_franks. 27-year old Mary “Unique” Spears was shot to death for refusing to give out her phone number to a man. The unnamed (as of yet) suspect … Continue reading The Power of Derailing Political Discussions about Male Violence by @EVB_Now
(Cross-posted from the Arctic Feminist) There’s been a lot of interesting news on twitter today. Its started my wheels spinning. Ian Watkins (lostprophets) has pleaded guilty to 11 counts of attempted rape of an infant girl. Nigella Lawson’s attacker Charles Saatchi has been given license in the British media to slander her character despite the … Continue reading Male Violence effects us all by @terristrange
(Cross-posted from It’s Not a Zero Sum Game) The Daily Mail is doing what the Daily Mail does: taking a human tragedy & obscenely distorting it to score a cheap political point, in the process shedding or neglecting every semblance of decency or tact. Small things like the fact that children are born, not “bred” like piglets; … Continue reading Vile Product: Mick Philpott & our cosy acceptance of male violence by @Marstrina
(Cross-posted from Crates & Ribbons) Last Tuesday night, two teenage girls from India went out into the fields, looking for a place to relieve themselves, due to the lack of toilets in their village. On their way, they were brutally attacked by a group of men, gang-raped, and murdered. Their bodies were found the next day hanging from … Continue reading When Women and Girls Are Attacked by Men, We Blame Everything Except Male Violence by @CratesNRibbons
(Cross-posted from God Loves Women) Today is my son’s 9th birthday. He is an amazing child; intelligent, articulate, funny and extremely cute! I am married to the most extraordinary man, who has selflessly given so much of himself, his gifts, his time and his energy to enable me to fulfil that which I have been called … Continue reading This is what male violence does by @God_loves_women
Every time we tweet about male entitlement and male violence, we hear two things a) not all men and b) women are violent too. We need to be clear here: the vast majority of violence is committed by men. Street violence is usually committed by men against other men. Domestic and sexual violence and abuse … Continue reading This is male entitlement: why domestic & sexual violence are gendered issues (content note for extreme violence) BY @EVB_Now
In November 2017 Ruth Hunt, the Chief Executive of Stonewall, the national LGBT human rights organisation in the UK, stated in Huffington Post that butch lesbians are all woman. Rightly defending trans rights, she did so with reference to the differences between trans people and butch lesbians like her. “I have never – regardless of … Continue reading Whose Afraid of Female Masculinity? | finnmackay
There’s an MRA-style position too beloved of economistic socialists — it would be wrong to call them marxists — which treats women’s unsympathetic wordstowards males as being on a par with male-pattern control over women and children, and all the violence and abuse which that entails. This economism acts as though a sufficient anti-capitalist critique can be accomplished by ignoring capital’s … Continue reading Male and female power, and ‘structural analysis’ – avoiding the MRA contagion, at Liberation is Life
‘Woman [Latin: mulier] takes her name from “softness” [mollities], or as it were “softer” [mollier].’ (Isidore of Seville, Etymologies) ‘the most stone butch of them all … a woman everyone said “wore a raincoat in the shower”‘ (Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues). In her novel Stone Butch Blues, Feinberg imagines a brutal police raid on an underground club full of … Continue reading Stony (Butch) Femininity and the Watery Female Body: Why Women Want Bounded Bodies, by @LucyAllenFWR
Watching footage in the news this week of a male person running into a crowd to swing a punch at a sixty year old woman, you might be forgiven for assuming this was another example of male violence against women, and therefore proof that women sometimes need spaces of their own, in order to stay … Continue reading Why is a A Male Rapist In a Woman’s Prison? by @helensaxby11
Ever since it began publishing in 1983, T&S has included an occasional ‘classic review’ feature in which a contemporary feminist re-reads an important text from the past. The latest addition to the series features Liz Kelly’s groundbreaking 1988 book Surviving Sexual Violence. Revisiting it in 2015, Alison Boydell finds it as relevant as ever.I first … Continue reading Surviving Sexual Violence – a review
The Guardian recently published leaked documents of hundreds of pages of abuse and sexual assault of women and children on Nauru’s off-shore refugee detention centre. Much of this abuse appears to have been at the hands of the Wilson’s security guards at the facility. There have been articles since condemning the Australian government’s treatment of … Continue reading Same Old Patriarchal Crap: Abuse and violence against refugee women and children.
This is an article that WEAVE wrote for Parity in 2013. Still very pertinent for today. How is a lack of feminist analysis within domestic violence and contemporary services contributing to a reproduction of women’s and children’s homelessness and continued risk of domestic violence victimisation? By Marie Hume, Dr. Elspeth McInnes, Kathryn Rendell, and Betty Green (Women Everywhere Advocating Violence … Continue reading How is a lack of feminist analysis within domestic violence and contemporary services contributing to a reproduction of women’s and children’s homelessness and continued risk of domestic violence victimisation?
I cooked the holiday meal yesterday. It was a lot of work, but it was fun. This was my first time hosting Xmas. For various reasons, Mom was invited to the festivities this year, but dad was not. As we sat down to enjoy the meal I had just made, Mom addressed my partner. “[smash’s … Continue reading Ruled Over by a Male Figure (RObaMF) by @SmashesTheP
As Joanna Dennehy begins a life sentence for the killing of three men, Debbie Cameron considers the way she has been represented and reflects on the meaning of her crimes ‘I murdered three men, but it could have been worse—I could have been fat and ugly’. If this line had been spoken by a fictional character we could read it … Continue reading The return of the female serial killer at @strifejournal