Without Comment or Apology, Facebook Quietly Removes Rape-Joke Pages
November 7, 2011 by Angi Becker Stevens · 19 Comments
After more than three months of complaints from users, a grand total of over 200,000 petition signatures (186,000 of them on a single Change.org petition), a Twitter campaign, the withdrawal of several ...Read More
#NotFunnyFacebook: Day of Action Against Facebook’s Rape-Joke Pages
November 2, 2011 by Angi Becker Stevens · 18 Comments
About six weeks ago now, I blogged here about the proliferation of rape-joke pages on Facebook and the company’s refusal to remove them. Though Facebook has policies against hate-speech and threats ...Read More
Gaming: Tool of Pedagogy or Oppression?
October 27, 2011 by Janell Hobson · 4 Comments
Last month, a trailer for a new video game, Slavery the Game, was released on YouTube and instantly went viral. It also elicited worldwide outrage and indignation, as well as racially abusive rhetoric ...Read More
Ryan Gosling, Feminist Scholar
October 14, 2011 by Michele Kort · 13 Comments
We didn’t think we could love Ryan Thomas Gosling more than we already do here at the Ms. Blog. He’s so talented, so darn good-looking, so noble–and so willing to call out the patriarchy! ...Read More
Tavi Talks New Mag, SlutWalk and High School Politics
September 22, 2011 by Cortney Rock · 3 Comments
When we last spoke with Tavi Gevinson, uber-precocious 15-year-old fashion blogger and out feminist, she was talking about launching a reboot of feminist ’90s teen magazine Sassy (which shared ...Read More
Dear Facebook: Rape Is No Joke
September 19, 2011 by Angi Becker Stevens · 71 Comments
According to Facebook’s terms of service, users are not permitted to post content that is hateful, threatening or incites violence. But it appears that, in the minds of the Facebook powers-that-be, ...Read More
Who’s Behind the Mask of Feminist Hulk? Only the Ms. Blog Knows!
August 22, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · 11 Comments
In comic books, superheroes always have secret identities, and only a handful of people ever get to know the person behind the mask. But readers are insiders, knowing all along that Batman is really ...Read More
This Week in “Blame It on Emasculation”: The London Riots
August 14, 2011 by Christie Thompson · 4 Comments
Talking heads, academics and news outlets have been speculating about the motives behind the recent London riots. Most have agreed on a complex combination of deep-seated racial and economic inequality, ...Read More
Women, Let’s Claim Wikipedia!
July 30, 2011 by Piper Klemm · 10 Comments
Earlier this year, while I was sequestered in the bat-cave studying for my qualifying exam, I came across something very distressing. As has been widely reported, only 13 percent of the people editing ...Read More
Michelle Obama’s Milkshake and Other Non-Stories About Women
July 26, 2011 by Christie Thompson · 9 Comments
Want to know how women politicians accessorize? How many calories they consume? Us neither. And yet that’s exactly the kind of hard-hitting journalism we’ve been seeing from major news ...Read More
