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Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
LA Times: Women are leaving the tech industry in droves 4 YoungDemCA Feb 2015 Feb 2015 9 2032
Female academics face huge sexist bias 12 Exhibit A Feb 2015 Feb 2015 9 2135
Black and Latina women scientists sometimes mistaken for janitors 3 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 11 1704
Please Help. 16 littlemissmartypants Feb 2015 Feb 2015 21 3604
Question ... 15 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 2433
simple definition of sex and gender. or ? 8 seabeyond Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 1959
this heart thing is interesting. but... 16 seabeyond Feb 2015 Feb 2015 11 2267
Quick question for Group Hosts. 6 William769 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1537
I'm Just a Japanese girl!!! 0 yuiyoshida Feb 2015 Feb 2015 6 1516
“Lean the f*** away from me”: Jessica Williams 21 BainsBane Feb 2015 Feb 2015 25 3012
What Superhero Films Can Learn From "Charlie's Angels" 1 el_bryanto Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1377
In Oakland's Radical Brownies, Girls Collect Merit Badges for Activism 12 ismnotwasm Feb 2015 Feb 2015 14 2342
Sweden's Prostitution Solution: Why Hasn't Anyone Tried This Before? [View all] 51 ismnotwasm Feb 2015 Feb 2015 34 6093
Black, queer, feminist, erased from history 1 ismnotwasm Feb 2015 Feb 2015 9 1536
Pickup guru Roosh V: End rape by making it legal 14 ismnotwasm Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 3628
In honor of Leslie Gore 6 ismnotwasm Feb 2015 Feb 2015 14 2152
Average Black Girl 0 ismnotwasm Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1415
Study: Black Girls Are Being Pushed Out of School 2 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 14 1711
A Psychiatrist’s Letter to Young People about Fifty Shades of Grey 7 Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2015 Feb 2015 17 2567
For Lucy and Anarcha 7 mercuryblues Feb 2015 Feb 2015 6 1787
Rape Prevention and Risk Reduction: Review of the Research Literature for Practitioners 2 ismnotwasm Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 2053
Limbaugh: Scott Walker Should Say He Quit College Because He 'Didn't Want To Be Accused Of Rape' 11 LanternWaste Feb 2015 Feb 2015 9 2023
Philippines: Manila students protest violence against women 1 yuiyoshida Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1329
Grown up Wednesday Addams vs. catcallers 5 Warpy Feb 2015 Feb 2015 14 3342
(Because Blondes!) Actual words people say to a blonde woman studying engineering at MIT 20 Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2015 Feb 2015 5 4855
More Female Executives Means Less Tax Evasion, Study Finds 4 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 15 1552
I'm Brianna Wu, and I'm Risking My Life Standing Up to Gamergate (HuffPo) 0 YoungDemCA Feb 2015 Feb 2015 27 1557
There has been a lot of discussion in the media about Harper Lee since the story about her new book 9 greatlaurel Feb 2015 Feb 2015 6 1996
Did you know that I am one of the nastiest bullies on DU? A mindless bitch to boot. [View all] 161 sheshe2 Jan 2015 Feb 2015 23 40259
"All pregnant women get a vaginal ultrasound at 6-8 weeks gestation." 30 CTyankee Jan 2015 Feb 2015 5 3725

History of Feminism Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Bulimia Comedy 'The Skinny' Aims to Conquer Television's Last Taboo 4 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1577
(HOF THREAD!) SO is the word "BITCH" still acceptable on DU... (Poll) [View all] 134 yuiyoshida Jan 2015 Feb 2015 13 26269
Lindy West, others tell of graphic verbal abuse on Twitter 4 shenmue Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 1527
Cartoon: How Rape Makes Women Poorer 6 KitSileya Feb 2015 Feb 2015 25 2410
Judd Apatow gets it. 0 cui bono Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1460
Joss Whedon: 'Quiet Misogyny' Within Industry Prevents Growth Of Female Superheroes 7 ismnotwasm Feb 2015 Feb 2015 15 1771
They Agreed To Die Early If They Could Have 'The Perfect Body.' Yep, Die. 5 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 9 1829
"My country's problem with menstruation" (Anisha Bhavnani) 9 Exhibit A Feb 2015 Feb 2015 6 2802
Women Read Playboy For The First Time The Huffington Post (NSFW) 22 ismnotwasm Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 4603
Brave New Voices -14 - LA: Rape Joke 26 Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2015 Feb 2015 10 3181
This Woman Lost 172 Pounds, So Why Won’t a Fitness Magazine Show Her Body? 3 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 6 4902
Ten responses to the phrase "Man up" 6 ismnotwasm Feb 2015 Feb 2015 16 2244
What happened when I confronted my cruellest troll [View all] 53 ismnotwasm Feb 2015 Feb 2015 118 12730
Rosa Parks' Other (Radical) Side 5 ismnotwasm Feb 2015 Feb 2015 7 1711
“Plain” female person Colleen McCullough also did science, wrote books 15 sheshe2 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 20 2769
This message was self-deleted by its author 2 Mosby Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1341
Mindy Kaling is actually invisible, just like all minority women 4 ismnotwasm Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 2002
Indian rapper speaks out on misogyny 0 shenmue Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1310
*NSFW* The Pervocracy gets through "50 Shades of Grey" chapter by chapter- hilarious 4 ismnotwasm Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 2379
Interesting comments by Bjork on her musical career 7 el_bryanto Feb 2015 Feb 2015 9 1809
Prison Inequality: Women and Race 5 sheshe2 Jan 2015 Feb 2015 6 1981
How Tipping Helped Make Sexual Harassment the Norm for Female Servers 4 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 18 2014
"I swear it to you on my common woman's head, the common woman is as common as ~ 28 sheshe2 Jan 2015 Jan 2015 36 8479
Why 2015’s Pop Music Scene Looks a Lot Like 1995’s 2 ismnotwasm Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 1785
Republican abortion bill shows they still believe many women lie about rape 9 sheshe2 Jan 2015 Jan 2015 10 2737
Cosby: "Trust Me." (trigger warning) 2 YoungDemCA Jan 2015 Jan 2015 11 1620
The Real Lolita 16 ismnotwasm Dec 2014 Jan 2015 10 10094
The plight of the bitter nerd: Why so many awkward, shy guys end up hating feminism (Salon) 35 YoungDemCA Jan 2015 Jan 2015 15 5215
Fighting the Wikipedia boys’ club 4 ismnotwasm Jan 2015 Jan 2015 8 1782
well, this is pretty sad 1 Kali Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 1632

History of Feminism Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
“I am No Man” Doesn’t Cut It: The Story of Eowyn (Lord of the Rings/popular culture-related) 6 YoungDemCA Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 1861
"It's On Us" 2 ismnotwasm Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 1682
UVA Frats Are Back, But Sororities Want Sisters To Avoid Their Parties To Avoid Being Raped 7 LanternWaste Jan 2015 Jan 2015 10 1850
'PC culture' isn't about your freedom of speech. It's about our freedom to be offended 10 ismnotwasm Jan 2015 Jan 2015 21 2765
Wikipedia Purged a Group of Feminist Editors Because of Gamergate 15 Veilex Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 2441
Reflecting on China gives me hope that one day FGM *will* be a thing of the past 2 Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2015 Jan 2015 1 1916
Caroline Matilda of Great Britain and Johann Friedrich Struensee 11 Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 4334
Internet trolls love feminist writers 10 ismnotwasm Jan 2015 Jan 2015 11 2202
New study finds that "genius" fields of work are male-dominated 2 YoungDemCA Jan 2015 Jan 2015 3 1528
Fucking with Feministing: BDSM Subbing (And Feminism) 3 ismnotwasm Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 2162
Will the awful power of the word 'slut' defeat feminists' efforts to reclaim it? 29 ismnotwasm Jan 2015 Jan 2015 3 2897
Producers pull out Fifty Shades Of Grey’s tampon scene, leaving fans highly aroused 2 ismnotwasm Jan 2015 Jan 2015 3 1986
ISIS Executing Educated Women 9 JustAnotherGen Jan 2015 Jan 2015 10 1859
Why Torture When Does Not Work? Orientalism, Anti-Blackness and the Persistence of White Terror 1 ismnotwasm Jan 2015 Jan 2015 1 1555
Why I Had to Quit Filming Hardcore Porn 10 ismnotwasm Jan 2015 Jan 2015 9 3250
'Mansplaining' by The Doubleclicks. Clever, witty... and true. 0 LanternWaste Jan 2015 Jan 2015 9 1747
So I took a really bad fall a week ago Sunday. 6 CrispyQ Jan 2015 Jan 2015 7 2211
here is the thing. we have become such an ugly people, saying whatever offensive thing we want, [View all] 61 seabeyond Jan 2015 Jan 2015 20 11626
Outside Charlie Hebdo 6 ismnotwasm Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 2022
Co-Opted Feminism in the War on Terror 4 YoungDemCA Jan 2015 Jan 2015 7 1870
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