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When New York magazine teased Jonathan Chait’s coming opus on race, politics and free speech last Friday – “Can a white liberal man critique a culture of political correctness?” — the hook alone was enough to send his Twitter haters into multiple ragegasms. I thought folks should save themselves some grief and at least wait…
<span><span><span class=”message_content”>How the language police are perverting liberalism. </span></span></span> How the language police are perverting liberalism. Around 2 a.m. on December 12, four students approached the apartment of Omar Mahmood, a Muslim student at the University of Michigan, who had recently published a column in a school newspaper about his perspective as a…
Wikipedia editors have been banned from topics relating to gender and sexuality. Photograph: Wikipedia Wikipedia’s arbitration committee, the highest user-run body on the site, has banned five editors from making corrections to articles about feminism, in an attempt to stop a long-running edit war over the entry on the “Gamergate controversy”. The editors, who were…
Watch Emma Watson’s Second Excellent Speech About Gender Equality By Meg Watson 24/1/15 end article header At this point, I think it’s safe to say Emma Watson is absolutely killing it in her new role as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. Her speech in September last year was watched more than 11 million times and inspired…
For nearly as long as theantifeminist culture war known as Gamergate has raged across the internet, a microcosm of the battle has taken place on Wikipedia. Should Gamergate defined as a push for ethics in gaming journalism, or a paranoid campaign against women in gaming? This week, Wikipedia’s highest court made a major decisionin favor…
One of the Twitter accounts set up using the author’s photo and name This post first appeared on VICE UK. “Ellie! Chia! I didn’t know you were here!” We’re on the Malia strip during the summer of 2010. My friend and I stare blankly back at the boy in front of us, certain we’ve never…
Speaker of the House John Boehner and Republicans passed a bill Thursday that would codify a ban on federal funding for abortions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) | ASSOCIATED PRESS Entry Text On the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark abortion rights decision in Roe v. Wade, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 242-179 to…
Capcom’s next-generation reboot of survival horror classic Resident Evil has lots of new additions – including breast physics Photograph: public domain I need to get something off my chest. Well, I need to get my chest off my chest. No, wait, let’s start again. Video games are a technological art form. Anything you can imagine,…
Even as campaigns to promote strong young women get national headlines, and toys designed to get girls interested in science and math receive popular acclaim, an alarming trend happens to many girls when they hit adolescence. It’s a phenomenon called “losing their voice,” where even the most audacious girls are likely to become more cautious…
Activist Emma Holten Fights Back Against Revenge Porn by Reclaiming Her Body In a Powerful Photo Series | Bustle.