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Hey, Working Moms, Harvard Says You Have Nothing to Feel Guilty About 1 eridani Jun 2015 Jun 2015 5 1498

Great cartoon series illustrating what consent is all about 2 eridani Jul 2015 Jul 2015 3 2122

Locked Up for Surviving: The Untold Story of the Sexual-Abuse-to-Prison Pipeline 1 eridani Jul 2015 Jul 2015 7 1511

Social Media Is Catalyzing Change for Women in Science 1 eridani Jul 2015 Jul 2015 8 1430

Will Educate Girls for Food: A Plan to Fight Poverty and Illiteracy Is Helping Egypt 1 eridani Jul 2015 Jul 2015 5 1516

 Women and Girls Raped in Conflict Need Abortion Care—but the US Is Standing in Their Way 2 eridani Jul 2015 Jul 2015 7 1654

Rebecca Solnit; If Rape Jokes Are Finally Funny It's Because They're Targeting Rape Culture 2 eridani Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 1822

Tech-Loving Girls From North Africa and the Middle East Descend on the U.S. 1 eridani Aug 2015 Aug 2015 7 1396

She never dreamed having her picture taken to recruit engineers would turn out to be a controversy. 3 eridani Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 1769

A Recycling Program in Mozambique Is Reducing Waste and Empowering Women 1 eridani Oct 2015 Oct 2015 4 1340

A Back-to-School Message From Celebs: Without Consent, Sex Is Rape 1 eridani Sep 2015 Sep 2015 4 1446

The War Against Women: College Campuses and American Culture 1 eridani Sep 2015 Sep 2015 4 1463

Carry That Weight: Report Confirms Troubling Statistic About Campus Sexual Assault 0 eridani Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 1324

Why Walking Down a Dark Alley at 2 A.M. Is Not ‘Asking For It’ 14 eridani Sep 2015 Oct 2015 14 2411

Gloria Steinem's Life on the Feminist Frontier 0 eridani Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 1313

This badass runner is using her body to crush weight stigma and shut down fat shamers. 5 eridani Oct 2015 Oct 2015 13 1971

He 'won't lower his standards' to hire women. Why this comment tells us a lot. 2 eridani Dec 2015 Dec 2015 8 1741

A woman's purity certificate went viral. Time to talk about that whole 'virginity' thing 9 eridani Nov 2015 Nov 2015 3 2455

Emma Watson and Malala Yousafazai Want to Take the Fear out of Identifying as a Feminist 4 eridani Nov 2015 Nov 2015 14 1707

For $2, this 11-year-old girl will create you a virtually uncrackable password. 3 eridani Nov 2015 Nov 2015 3 1814

'My Body Was Not Mine, But the US Military's' 1 eridani Nov 2015 Nov 2015 4 1539

The Scary Connection Between Sexual Assault and the Lack of Toilets 3 eridani Nov 2015 Nov 2015 7 1941

Flight attendant tells how she learned to recognize human trafficking and what you can do 2 eridani Jan 2016 Apr 2016 13 2159

Women’s Economic Agenda: Creating an Economy That Works for Everyone 0 eridani Nov 2015 Nov 2015 1 1266

What It Would Look Like If Men Were Insulted Like Women 2 eridani Dec 2015 Jan 2016 14 2142

Survivors of Domestic Violence Deserve Clemency, Not Prison Cells 2 eridani Dec 2015 Jan 2016 6 1674

bell hooks: Feminism Is the Social Change Movement That Has Been Most Honest With Itself 2 eridani Dec 2015 Dec 2015 3 2195

The High Cost Of Just Being A Woman 6 eridani Dec 2015 Dec 2015 13 2030

This movement wants guys to take a stand when women face verbal harassment. 2 eridani Jan 2016 Jan 2016 3 1780

Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified 4 eridani Jan 2016 Jan 2016 5 2418

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Melissa Harris-Perry has a great point about Oprah’s new weight loss ad. 4 eridani Jan 2016 Jan 2016 5 3125

Rapist acquitted because penetration occurred after he "tripped"? 5 eridani Jan 2016 Jan 2016 2 1974

For the first time in her 57-year history, Barbie comes in different body shapes 6 eridani Feb 2016 Feb 2016 7 1980

Why Are We Paying Sales Tax on Tampons? 8 eridani Jan 2016 Feb 2016 9 2447

Women’s Health: Lost in Translation? 0 eridani Feb 2016 Feb 2016 3 1446

The Past Is Never Dead: Peyton Manning and Today’s Jock-Rape Culture at Tennessee 1 eridani Feb 2016 Feb 2016 5 1945

This Ad Calls Out 5 Ridiculous Double Standards Women Face In Less Than 60 Seconds 5 eridani Dec 2013 Dec 2013 16 1773

How to fake a "thigh gap" 7 eridani Dec 2013 Dec 2013 2 2934

Seeing Other Women As Allies, Rather Than Enemies: A How-To 3 eridani Dec 2013 Dec 2013 9 1553

After Months of Protests, Tampons Will No Longer Be a ‘Luxury Good’ in France 2 eridani Dec 2015 Dec 2015 14 1470

Happy Thanksgiving 7 etherealtruth Nov 2014 Nov 2014 11 2505

"My country's problem with menstruation" (Anisha Bhavnani) 9 Exhibit A Feb 2015 Feb 2015 6 2802

Female academics face huge sexist bias 12 Exhibit A Feb 2015 Feb 2015 9 2135

Cracked: 8 Things Some A$$#ole Says in Every Debate About Sexism 6 Exhibit A Feb 2015 Feb 2015 10 1915

I Am the ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ the Men in Your Life Talk About, And I Have a Few Things to Say… 17 Exhibit A Feb 2015 Feb 2015 38 4423

Despite the significance of Mary Wollstonecraft's life and work, she has no monument. 0 Exhibit A Feb 2015 Feb 2015 6 1225

16 Shocking Vintage Posters That Warned Men About The Dangers Of Women Having Rights 10 Exhibit A Feb 2015 Mar 2015 31 4549

Barbara Mikulski, the longest serving female senator in history, to retire 0 Exhibit A Mar 2015 Mar 2015 2 1256

Resources for Women's History Month 4 Exhibit A Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 1568

Women in New York State Prisons Don’t Have Enough Sanitary Pads 7 Exhibit A Mar 2015 Mar 2015 6 1615

Ohio Abortion Providers Now Required to Do Fetal Test That Doesn't Exist 10 Exhibit A Mar 2015 Mar 2015 13 1803

X-Posted from GD: Ferguson Police Tolerate Sexual Harassment of Female Officers: Justice Department 7 Exhibit A Mar 2015 Mar 2015 2 1534

I would like to say thank you. 40 F4lconF16 Jun 2014 Jun 2014 56 5473

Steve Duin: Former cheerleaders put the s-e-x in SEO 5 F4lconF16 Jul 2014 Jul 2014 5 2020

A question for HOF 22 F4lconF16 Jul 2014 Jul 2014 7 2529

I laughed when I read Kris Straub's strip today. Seen it too often on DU. 4 F4lconF16 Sep 2014 Sep 2014 46 3123

Thoughts on a culture of sexual violence... (Trigger Warning?) 11 F4lconF16 Aug 2014 Aug 2014 29 2303

Turns out even men can't call out sexism online without getting shut down for it. 1 F4lconF16 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 5 2749

I was sexually harassed for the first time today. Thoughts that have been running through my head. 46 F4lconF16 Dec 2014 Jan 2015 53 6498

Help with understanding a passage from "The Female Eunuch" 1 F4lconF16 Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1458

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Is there any "master list" of anti-woman, anti-choice, etc., legislation in progress out there? 2 F4lconF16 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 1297

Does anyone have any good resources on masturbation? 18 F4lconF16 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 0 2960

Capitalism and sexual assault: Toward a more comprehensive understanding 17 F4lconF16 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 2 2300

Thoughts? 13 F4lconF16 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 4 2267

Rojava: Where socialist feminist revolutionaries fight ISIS every day 1 F4lconF16 Jun 2015 Jun 2015 5 1433

Going to make a quick post before bed about something rather personal for me. 14 F4lconF16 Jul 2015 Jul 2015 14 2754

Cosmo wrote a positive body image article on how to get a bikini body? Say what? 8 F4lconF16 Jul 2015 Jul 2015 5 2079

Loving John Oliver: he's been fantastic on a whole bunch of things. Here, on sex education: 1 F4lconF16 Aug 2015 Aug 2015 4 1432

Hey HoFers, can I talk about Hillary Clinton with those of you who support her? (HoF group post) 9 F4lconF16 Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 1931

What do you think? 1 F4lconF16 Sep 2015 Jun 2016 0 2307

Comparing the Benghazi hearing to gang rape--thoughts? **Trigger warning** 12 F4lconF16 Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 2388

Anyone have any links to information on cultural changes in Afghanistan due to media expansion? 1 F4lconF16 Nov 2015 Nov 2015 1 1388

Please give your opinion on this video: 21 freshwest Jul 2014 Jul 2014 6 2867

Man Uses Spreadsheet to List All the Times Wife Turned Down Sex; Wife Posts It on Reddit 11 freshwest Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 4066

Women Under the Male Microscope 12 freshwest Jul 2014 Jul 2014 14 2438

HOF Post: 'Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity' [View all] 76 freshwest Aug 2014 Aug 2014 15 25405

The Ridiculous - and Sexist - Reason This Little Boy Was Sent Home From School 35 freshwest Aug 2014 Sep 2014 38 4643

Trigger Warning: Real Women and Girls Behind the Statistics 0 freshwest Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1312

There Are So Many Things Wrong With This Alabama Middle School Rape Case 7 freshwest Sep 2014 Sep 2014 8 2308

The woman who made a video about catcalling is already getting rape threats 12 freshwest Oct 2014 Oct 2014 14 2972

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