On Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup, Special Patriarchy-Is-Dead Edition

[ismnotwasm]

Big news, everyone! According to Slate's Hanna Rosin, the patriarchy is dead. Like really dead. Super deceased. She has no idea why feminists won't stop banging on about inequality and stuff, because she's just not seeing it. Ladies in Congress exist, y'all! Feminist pundits sometimes get airtime! White ladies with books to sell, like Rosin herself, feel totally equal! So in honor of patriarchy's cool new dirt nap, let's read a roundup of all the news that's on our radar that we might call "feminist" but that Rosin would probably just label "victimy whining."

• We'll miss you, patriarchy! Kinda odd that many of your fruits (vajazzling! rape culture! no mandatory maternity leave!) seem to be sticking around, though. [The Cut]

• A group of more than 100 Latina activists who traveled to Washington to advocate for an immigration-reform bill that recognizes the need for family support and reproductive justice were arrested after a peaceful protest on Capitol Hill. [National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health]

• What do the tech-bro events of this past week have in common with Riptide, the new history of how the rise of new media disrupted the old status quo of journalism? Both almost completely ignore women's participation in shaping the culture of digital technology and information. [LinkedIn Today]

• Remembering Chien-Shiung Wu, the female physicist who along with two male coworkers disproved The Parity Law in the 1950s. Her male coauthors—but not Wu—were awarded the Nobel Prize. [American Association of University Women]

http://bitchmagazine.org/post/on-our-radar-todays-feminist-news-roundup-special-patriarcy-is-dead-edition

[Squinch]

1. So that congressman in my uterus is what? An infection?

And crap! Cucunelli is now crawling up my cucinelli!

I dunno. It really feels like patriarchy...

[Warpy]

2. This one deserves to be read on its own

http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/09/39-things-well-miss-about-patriarchy.html

I think #23 is one we can all relate to if we've ever taken any form of mass transit, including planes.

I'd say Hanna Rosin needs to answer the clue phone and just shut the fuck up for the rest of her life except the stuff her silly book has inspired has been stellar.

[ismnotwasm]

3. Heh!