It’s the misogynist men who make the comments in the first place. They have inflamed the situation, not the women who are fighting back.
Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
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A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Guardian scolds Charlie Hebdo for “provoking”
And for taking “pot shots” at radical Islam.
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Quiverful Duggars to have child # 20
Quiverful wants to raise up a cultural army to roll back modernity, and transform the US into a conservative Christian theocracy.
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Anti-misogyny campaign goes viral
The standard policy of ignoring trolls is now being superseded by proposals that their comments be exposed to ridicule and rejection online to raise awareness of the issue.
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Brendan O’Neill sneers at the campaign against misogyny
“The more radical the feminist is, the more likely she is to suffer fits of Victorian-style vapours upon hearing men use coarse language.”
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What should we do about sexist abuse online?
Helen Lewis-Hasteley, Zoe Williams, Bella Mackie and Catherine Redfern offer suggestions.
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Would Mississippi’s Prop 26 outlaw birth control?
Legislators, judges, and district attorneys will be empowered to implement personhood as they see fit. Nothing to worry about there.
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Officer bullies subordinates in his blog
They of course can’t fight back – until they leave the military. Atheist Sgt Dustin Chalker is finally able to reply to Christian Major Jonathan Dowty.
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Read the AAUW sexual harassment report
Sobering statistics about the prevalence of sexual harassment and the damage it does to students’ education.
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More on sexual harassment survey
Nearly a third of the victims said the harassment made them feel sick, affected their study habits or fueled reluctance to go to school at all.
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Sexual harassment is pervasive in schools
48% of US middle and high school students suffered sexual harassment in the past school year, both in person and online, a national survey released Monday said.
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US warns of attacks on Lagos hotels
The Hilton, Nicon Luxury and Sheraton hotels were named as possible targets of Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram attacks kill at least 100
An unnamed local government official in Damaturu was quoted by AFP as saying that hundreds of wounded people were being treated in hospital.
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A guide to online abuse
And the excuses given to pretend it doesn’t happen.
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Laurie Penny on the normalization of misogyny
Many commentators, wondering aloud where all the strong female voices are, close their eyes to how normal this sort of threat has become.
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Women bloggers call for an end to misogynist trolling
The violent online invective levelled at female commentators is now causing some of the best known names in journalism to hesitate before publishing their opinions.
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Archbish of York tells Lords about exorcism
The Church of England has a Deliverance Ministry with a cleric on standby in each of its 43 diocese to cast out evil spirits if required to do so.
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Helping patients by casting out their demons
The NHS, working with the CofE, uses exorcism as an alternative form of treatment for mental health problems.
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Vatican stunned by Irish embassy closure
“After all we’ve done for them!” sobbed the pope.
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Ireland closes embassy to Vatican
This will save up to €700,000 per year.