feminism 2.0 – the women who rule the web

“Up until this point, some have considered feminism  a ‘’dirty’’ word, having previously associated it with crusty academics and angry, man-hating women. I’ve read so many interviews where young girls in the spotlight are claiming they aren’t feminists, purely because they don’t really know what feminism is or are scared of its negative connotations. However, thanks to this new digitalised wave of female empowerment, things are clearly starting to change.”

http://uk.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1037744/guerrilla-girls-call-out-pharrell-and-perrotin

The Guerrilla Girls have updated their classic posters to take a jab at Pharrell, the music industry, and Galerie Perrotin

End violence against women in a generation: teach boys and young men to #challengeattitudes and overcome everyday sexism

“we need to shift global attitudes to women – and that means teaching boys and young men to challenge and change attitudes to sexual violence and overcome everyday sexism.“

17 #YesAllWomen Tweets Everyone Must See. For The First Time Ever, I’m Speechless.

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“At least I’m not a misogynist…”

“Once you’ve said that you’re a feminist a few dozen times, everyone will know and the world will be one step closer to being the happy place it could be if more people would just get with the programme. If I can be a feminist, you can too.“

An open letter to all my male friends

“I know you are not the guys catcalling women in the streets. I’m not trying to make you feel bad for being a man. But I want to tell you about what it’s like to be a woman”

“The real cost of casual sexism”

“The same wilful blindness that makes each of us so quick to imagine that we personally know very few victims of domestic abuse crosses over into our convenient dismissal of public, acceptable sexism. “It doesn’t matter, because he’s a good guy and I know he doesn’t mean it,” you might think. “It’s just a joke” … “It’s banter” … “He probably meant it as a compliment”, and so on.“

Should there be positive discrimination towards female artists?

“Of works by living artists acquired by Tate last year, 21 per cent were by women, and a similar proportion of the current 125 Royal Academicians are women. So unless you think women make worse art, you must conclude that the art world fails female artists.”

Why are women so ‘unhappy’?

“One of the strangest anti-feminist stereotypes to me – among the Birkenstock-wearing and bra-burning – is the idea that we’re unhappy. Angry. Bitter. Both because the foundation of the insult is the assumption that women should be perpetually happy, and because the truth is that the culture doesn’t actually mind if women are unhappy – so long as we keep it to ourselves.“