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Posted on 25th February 2001 Details

RTL: rapport accablant sur les violences conjugales

Anew reportpublished in France today reveals that one out of two murders of women is committed by her husband or boyfriend. This is truly scary.

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Posted on 28th February 2001 Details

The Observer: Boys will be boys... but Jane is spending $12m to find out why

Jane Fonda has donated $12.5 million for theestablishment of a Centre for Gender and Educationat Harvard University. It’s principal aim is breaking down the stereotypes that divide boys and girls.

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Posted on 5th March 2001 Details

New Haven Advocate: The unkindest cut

Intersexuals (also known as hermaphrodites) are launching a movement tostop doctors from "assigning" them a sex at birthwith a scalpel. Most doctors, like everyone else, seem to want to fit people neatly into boxes. Sadly, they’ve only got 2 boxes when it comes to gender.

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Posted on 4th April 2001 Details

ABC news: study - Men Attracted to Women's Scent When She's Fertile

If you want to feel like an animal, just read this article:Men Attracted to Women’s Scent When She’s Fertile.

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Posted on 8th April 2001 Details

PlanetOut: Brandon Teena's Mom Wins Court Case

The mother of Brandon Teena, the real-life subject of the filmBoys Don’t Cryhaswon her legal battleagainst the sheriff whose actions led to her child’s murder

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Posted on 24th April 2001 Details

GraceNet: The disgraceful award in advertising

The GraceNetdisgraceful award in advertisinggoes to Wired magazine this month for theircover featuring a hooker. It certainly stinks of male geek "humour".

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Posted on 9th May 2001 Details

FEER: Girls' Night Out

Feminists in South Korea, alarmed at the success of the Miss Korea pageant have devisedthe Anti-Miss Korea festivalas a counterstrike measure. And it seems to be working too.(Thanks Olivier)

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Posted on 9th June 2001 Details

The Telegraph: Saddam in warning to 'wasteful' women

Can you sayhypocrite?

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Posted on 21st June 2001 Details

The Guardian: Lay off men, Lessing tells feminists

Novelist Doris Lessing has claimed that men are thenew silent victims in the sex war, continually being demeaned and insulted by women without a whimper of protest.

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Posted on 14th August 2001 Details

MSNBC: Breaking down a male myth

Research argues that the popular notion of men being emotionally shutoff islargely overstated. Nothing new there.

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Posted on 30th August 2001 Details

BBC News: Transsexual sues airline over clothes row

The BBC are having serious problems with their pronouns inthis story. What’s so complicated about writing it all in the feminine?

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Posted on 6th September 2001 Details

NYTimes: Boys and Girls: Separating Truth and Myth

This looks like an interesting book, taking a neutral look at the age-old "nature vs nurture" question.

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Posted on 8th September 2001 Details

NY Times: Pol Opposes Women's Suffrage

Back to the middle ages: A female senator in Kansas says if women’s suffrage were being voted on today she would not support it, because it was responsible for the erosion of family values. So I guess she also thinks women should not be senators?

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Posted on 29th September 2001 Details

The Observer: The Afghan women who saw freedom ebb away

She can remember the cinemas and the picnics in the sun. She can remember the packed cafes and the student parties and the libraries with their shelves heaving with books and the clean, modern hospitals with the calm, competent doctors that made her decide she wanted to be a doctor herself.

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Posted on 30th September 2001 Details

WFTV: Male Student Dismissed Because of Dress

More gender discrimination: a Male student got sent home because he wore a dress to class. What is it with people’s fixation on bipolarity? There’s a poll on that page asking if readers think the school was right for sending him home. Go and tip it by voting "no".

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Posted on 4th November 2001 Details

Ananova: Study finds female beauty is male drug

Pictures of attractive womentrigger the same reward circuitsin the brains of heterosexual men as food and cocaine. Well, if that’s not a depressing comparison…

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Posted on 12th November 2001 Details

Monkeyfist: I Am Homophobic

I am homophobic (literally, "afraid of non-heterosexuals") to the extent that I accept the exclusive validity of "traditional" notions of gender, of masculinity or femininity. I assume, as most people do, that everyone around me is heterosexual, unless they make it clear that they aren’t. By making this assumption, I expect a uniform range of behaviors from everyone I encounter. This expectation has everything to do with why life is extremely difficult for those who are homosexual and for those who’s sexual identity lies somewhere in between.

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Posted on 17th November 2001 Details

Le Monde: Les invisibles

Magazines and other documents found in locations abandonned by the taliban featured stickers masking the faces on all images of women.This article from Le Mondeaccurately describes Afghan women as living ghosts used only for reproductive purposes. The taliban have a serious psychological problem when it comes to women.

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Posted on 20th November 2001 Details

Ten Things Men Can Do to End Sexism and Male Violence Against Women.

Ten thingsmen can do to end sexism and male violence against women.

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Posted on 27th December 2001 Details

The Observer: Science recasts Casanova... as a woman

Males are promiscuous and females are choosy. Not sosay researchers.

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Posted on 21st January 2002 Details

Alternet: When the Babes Beat Up the Boys

Why has the image of a frenzied female attacking a callow guybecome a media staple?

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Posted on 3rd February 2002 Details

Gay Wired: Yearbook Fiasco Cuts High School Lesbian's Portrait

A senior at a Florida high school is being left out of her yearbook forrefusing to wear a dress. This episode shows, yet again, the out-dated gender roles kids are being pressured into.

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Posted on 8th February 2002 Details

Home the most unsafe place for women in the west

A study carried out by the University of Madrid on violence in the European Union has shown that one European woman in five experiences violence in the hands of her male partner at some point in her life,making home the most unsafe place for a woman!

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Posted on 20th February 2002 Details

Omaha World-Herald: Sheriff in Brandon case again seeks a badge

The former sheriff who was extremely offensive to Brandon Teena (see the film ’Boys don’t cry‘) during the post-rape interview isrunning for the position once again. If anyone votes for him, they need their head examined.

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Posted on 27th March 2002 Details

Ananova: Council bans 'sexist' chocolate bar campaign

Ridiculousadvertising techniquesusing gender division.

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Posted on 16th April 2002 Details

Philadelphia Inquirer: A 'marriage strike' emerges as men decide not to risk loss

It seems American men (and their counterparts in many other parts of the world, I imagine), in the face of a court system that’s stacked against them in the case of a divorce, are subsconsciously going onmarriage strike.

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Posted on 6th July 2002 Details

Ventura County Star: Saudi women endure contradictions

In Saudi Arabia, it’s men whochoose women’s underwear.

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Posted on 28th October 2002 Details

The West Australian: X marks the spot for intersex Alex

Extremely cool: Alex MacFarlane has become the first person in Australia and probably the world to hold a passport acknowledging thatnot everyone is male or female. That’s a great step away from binary thinking!

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Posted on 23rd January 2003 Details

IHT: In Iran, runaway girls survive dressed as boys

In Iran where women are required to conceal their heads and bodies, runaway girls have taken todisguising themselves as boysin order to seek safety.

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Posted on 20th February 2003 Details

Men and women think differently. But not that diff...

Men and women think differently. But not that differently.

Linked on 4th August 2006 Details

Women, don’t let a guy hug you unless you plan to ...

Women, don’t let a guy hug you unless you plan to trust him.

Linked on 11th August 2006 Details

“visually, American men remain perpetual boys, as ...

“visually, American men remain perpetual boys, as shown by the bulky T-shirts, loose shorts and sneakers they wear from preschool through midlife. The sexes, which used to occupy intriguingly separate worlds, are suffering from over-familiarity, a curse of the mundane”

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Posted on 29th June 2010 Details

Men Resist Green Behavior as Un-Manly

A different type of toxic masculinity.

Linked on 28th December 2017 Details

How To Kill Your Tech Industry

In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer. By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to a labor shortage produced by sexism.

Linked on 17th November 2018 Details