Genies, gender and Pots of Gold

A genie sprouted on the other blog a day or two ago, and whaddaya know - today there’s a news report that says it’s scientifically proven that genies can give you pots of gold!
Let’s start with the genie. I did a little link-following, and found that the Gender Genie is based on this.
we find significant [...]

“Why do you turn everything into a feminist issue?”

“Have you seen that ad? How sexist can you get?”
“Which one?”
“The Kamasutra personal care range one. ‘I let my daughter wear Kamasutra’.”
“I think parents should have some say in what their children wear…”
“That aside, why does it have to be daughter? Why not son?”
“That’s extreme - you see sexism everywhere!”
Um. Sexism is everywhere. And as [...]

linkclinkclink

That rather disorganised feminism series of mine that I promised to resume? Well, it’s coming back!
Tigtog led me to ThinkingGirl, who thought up Feminism Friday. And since it’s such a great idea, I’m going to join up. Instead of random feminism posts as and when I feel like them (though those will happen [...]

Rinsing

I raised a lot of questions about a particular law in the last post, as an example of how the law does treat women as inferior to men. The law relating to rape assumes that everything apart from penis-vagina penetration is ‘unnatural’. It assumes that marriage is blanket consent to sexual intercourse. It assumes that consent [...]

Dyeing

In the last post, I wrote of recognition. Since I’m a lawyer, it isn’t surprising that the form of recognition I seek to address is legal recognition - does the law treat women as individuals, no less worthy than men, no less entitled to the protection and resources of the State? The answer, sadly, is [...]

Weaving

So, what’s common? What is it that weaves feminism together? There are many answers, but the one I like best is that it is a concern for women and a desire to see them recognised as complete human beings.
Perhaps because of feminism’s roots in the movement for women’s rights, the last part of that statement [...]

Spinning*

I wrote this a while ago, and now I have to write something similar. In different circumstances, of course: those of you who’ve seen the commentspace on the previous post already know why.
You see, there’s a comment there that appears to be inspired by a fear of laws that the writer believes are biased towards [...]