Guest Post: On Attention Deficit Disorder, Video Games and Community
This is a guest post written by my amazing little sister, Catherine Thériault. She is a complete treasure. I was seven when I was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder, although my parents had...
View ArticleFCKH8 Exploits Little Girls In Order To Sell T-Shirts
Trigger warning for rape Yesterday, FCKH8 released a video called F-Bombs for Feminism: Potty Mouthed Princesses Use Bad Words for Good Cause that quickly went viral, and has been shared hundreds of...
View ArticleAsk A Feminist: Is BDSM Inherently Misogynist?
Q: What is your opinion on BDSM? Obviously people should be free do to whatever they want in the privacy of their bedrooms… but don’t you get suspicious when guys nonchalantly admits to enjoy getting...
View ArticleVirginity, Violence and Male Entitlement
I’ve seen a number of articles written this week by men – nice, well-intentioned, feminist men, I’m sure – about how they empathize with Elliot Rodgers. Oh, of course they’re disgusted by his actions...
View Article“But Not All ______ Are Like That!”
I see this happen all the damn time. Someone describes the actions of a privileged group of people and how these actions, purposefully or not, encourage the marginalization of a less-privileged group....
View ArticleIs This Rape Culture?
I’d seen this image pop up a few times on my Facebook feed, but it wasn’t until the super-popular website PostSecret shared it on their page that I really sat up and took notice. Or rather, it wasn’t...
View ArticleI Am Not Your Wife, Sister or Daughter
I don’t have to tell you that Steubenville is all over the news. I don’t have to tell you that it’s a fucking joke that Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond, the two teenagers convicted of raping a sixteen...
View ArticleA Few Small Things
Hey y’all, here are a few things I wanted to share with you today: 1. Here is a post about women in geek culture that I wrote for Shameless Magazine’s blog. I am really proud of it! I am also super...
View ArticleHow The Oatmeal Turned Me Into A Humourless Feminist
There’s this comic from the Oatmeal that’s been making the rounds on my Facebook feed. It’s called My dog: the paradox, and it’s basically a sequence of short vignettes about how stupid and crazy (but...
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