Tag: sexism
Luisa Capetillo – The Activist Arrested For Wearing Pants
Rejected Princesses is a series of illustrations of badass women from history whose stories wouldn’t make the cut for animated kids movies. They are illustrated in a contemporary…
Free All Women
Until this list is done all around the world we still need feminism. When we say “free all women”, this is what we mean: Source
The World Was Not Built For Women
Karly, a student at Harvard, shared this illuminating thread about how our world was not built for women. She lists many disturbing examples of how…
Women In Male-Dominated Fields
This is an interesting post about women working in male-dominated fields. The theory is that if women all got together and went into electrical engineering…
If the Joker Is a Better Person than You…
The Joker is a criminal supervillain lunatic, but at least he isn’t racist, sexist, or homophobic. So if the Joker is a better person than…
Dear Men Writers
This “Dear Men Writers” thread points out common mistakes male writers make when writing female characters. It’s no secret that sometimes male authors describe women…
Women’s Rights in the United States
This post about gender equality and women’s rights in the United States is so messed up. There is still so much work for feminism to…
Hypatia of Alexandria and the Seven Presocratics – Comic
LOL! For all you history buffs out there, here’s an amusing comic from Existential Comics about the philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria and the Seven…
The Husband Stitch
The husband stitch is a surgical procedure in which one or more additional sutures than necessary are used to repair a woman’s vaginal tears and…
Female Health Issues Having No Known Cure
This post about the medical community saying female specific health issues are “very common conditions” with “no known cause” or “no known cure” is very…