La Barbe-groupe d'action féministe Not In The Kitchen Anymore Seth MacFarlane and the Oscars' Hostile, Ugly, Sexist Night Watching the Oscars last night meant sitting through a series of crudely sexist antics led by a scrubby, self-satisfied Seth MacFarlane. That would be tedious enough. But the evening’s misogyny involved a specific hostility to women in the workplace, which raises broader questions than whether the Academy can possibly get Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to host next year. It was unattractive and sour, and started with a number called “We Saw Your Boobs.” “We Saw Your Boobs” was a song-and-dance routine in which MacFarlane and some grinning guys named actresses in the audience and the movies in which their breasts were visible. The song was part of a larger skit whose premise was that William Shatner, as Captain Kirk, sends MacFarlane a message from the future about the dumb things he might do while hosting the Oscars. The Academy is supposedly a trade group, and yet it devoted its opening number to degrading a good part of its membership. How old is that? Photograph by Christopher Polk/Getty.
La Barbe Groupe d’Action Féministe visual attack formation - the graphic design of videogames Geek Girl Con: Speaking Out on Online Sexism Anita Sarkeesian and Maile Martinez by Jarrah Hodge (trigger warning for misogyny and language) This past weekend I headed down to Seattle for the second annual Geek Girl Con, which I’d been to the year before. Last year I really enjoyed the Con but found there was a bit of a lack of panels taking a really critical look at sexism and misogyny within geek culture. On the issue of the sexism, harassment and misogyny that exists in geek culture, there were no shortage of truly appalling examples presented. Even having followed the blogging and reporting around Anita’s recent experience with violent sexism in the gaming community, it was disturbing to see examples of some of the YouTube comments and tweets she received projected on the big Con screens. Anita shared how after she went public with the harassment, the group doing the harassing made it their mission to silence her comments on that, trying to flag all her social media accounts as “hate speech” or “terrorism” to get them blocked:
Osez le féminisme ! Gourmet Gaming How the web became a sexists' paradise | World news Last week, Kathy Sierra, a well-known software programmer and Java expert, announced that she had cancelled her speaking engagements and was "afraid to leave my yard" after being threatened with suffocation, rape and hanging. The threats didn't come from a stalker or a jilted lover and they weren't responses to a controversial book or speech. Sierra's harassers were largely anonymous, and all the threats had been made online. Sierra had been receiving increasingly abusive comments on her website, Creating Passionate Users, over the previous year, but had not expected them to turn so violent - her attackers not only verbally assaulting her ("fuck off you boring slut . . . While no one could deny that men experience abuse online, the sheer vitriol directed at women has become impossible to ignore. On some online forums anonymity combined with misogyny can make for an almost gang-rape like mentality. Most disturbing is how accepted this is. Is this what people are really like?
The Hawkeye Initiative Microaggressions : Power, privilege and everyday life. Repair Her Armor ...1 month ago throwdownyourhat submitted: I’m not a big fan of anime, but I do tend to leave Cartoon Network on when I’m using my computer and sometimes I end up watching a bit of it every now and again.As that is, I noticed an absolutely atrociously inappropriate outfit on a young lady (Chi Chi from Dragon Ball) and I immediately felt the call to fix it for her. I took the liberty of embellishing upon the design already present, giving her a jumpsuit instead of a bikini, and flattening her chest as well as rounding out her waist area to emphasize her youth. What I find most disturbing about the unfixed version is the chest. I mean, it is very well-pronounced for what is supposed to be a child.