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Why don't men stand up against sexual villains like Julien Blanc?

The basics of this story are known, too well known, in fact. Julien Blanc, a reptilian American bloke promises to teach men to pull, manipulate and (allegedly) ravage women at will. All for a price, of...

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6 Female Illustrators Weigh in on Sexism, Feminism and the Newsweek Fiasco

Illustration industry sexism can't silence the female perspective. Sadly, gender disparity is part and parcel of almost every industry on our little blue planet. According to the Bureau of Labor...

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Stand Up For Heresy

A review of The New Philistines: How Identity Politics Disfigure the Arts by Sohrab Ahmari. Biteback Publishing, (October 16, 2016) 128 pages. Postmodernism might have had a liberating effect on the...

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Voting for Hillary Because of Her Gender Doesn't Make You a Good...

Sanders is better than Clinton not only on economic issues, but also on reproductive choice and gay rights. The following is an excerpt from the new book False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary...

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Social Justice Bullies: The Authoritarianism of Millennial Social Justice

Social justice, as a concept, has existed for millennia — at least as long as society has had inequity and inequality and there were individuals enlightened enough to question this. When we study...

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McCarthyite Anti-Semitism Smears and Racism at the Guardian/Observer

I Over the last few years, and as the corporate neoliberal project has started to unravel, the Guardian/Observer news stable has devoted a considerable amount of space to smears on re-emerging...

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The Modern Feminist Rejection of Constitutional Government (The Heritage...

(Source: The Heritage Foundation) August 8, 2016 | First Principles Series Report on Political Thought By Christina Villegas Many people assume that it is modern feminism, not the Constitution, that...

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President Trump: Irish writers have their say

While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...

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British Grandmaster Nigel Short to Conduct Clinic At Nairobi Gymkhana

[The Star] British grandmaster Nigel Short, straight from winning the South African Open over the weekend, will be in the country from Saturday until Tuesday, courtesy of the Kasparov Chess...

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The Global Chess Festival 2015

Judit Polgar became a grandmaster in 1992 when she...

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Just because he's smiling doesn't mean he's not sexist

A sexist man is supposed to be easily identified. He is dismissive of female coworkers, makes crude comments about women and openly criticizes the gains of feminism. Yet, a new study shows that sexist...

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Fighting school sexism: feminist theory hits classrooms

Sixteen-year-old feminist Stella Bridie was sick of being called "bossy" and "bitchy" at school. She sees herself as ambitious and assertive. She's unafraid of asking teachers tough questions, and...

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After 26 years at the top, Judit Polgar surpassed by Chinese chess challenger

She hasn't exactly been dethroned, but Hungarian GM Judit Polgar's reign as the ratings queen of women's chess has finally come to an end after an astonishing 26 years of supremacy. Young Chinese...

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Sexism And The Media: As Election Heats Up, Are We Nearer To Tipping Point...

At the start of what is likely to be the most important feminist election cycle in American history, the role of women in the media has become a constant topic – yet the percentage of female voices...

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Norwegian keeps chess crown

The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — On a dreary, rainy Manhattan night, a huge, happy roar arose in a crowd of chess fans from around the world. Two-time world chess champion, Magnus Carlsen, had just...

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I am a Snoop Dogg fan. That doesn’t make me less of a feminist

When I first joined the women’s movement, in the late 1970s, I was sneered at for watching romcoms, for preferring dogs to cats, and – as time went on – refusing to go to Greenham Common. (I like a...

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Working trip to Budapest (World Chess Federation)

(Source: World Chess Federation) On January 28, the FIDE President during his working trip to Budapest visited the office of the Hungarian Chess Federation where he met with GM Judit...

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Harika’s mantra for women’s world chess championship: Go for gold

The year 2016 was wonderful for women’s sports in India. PV Sindhu secured silver in badminton during the 2016 Rio Olympics while Sakshi Malik won bronze in wrestling. In women’s chess, 2016 was a year...

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Creeps pretending to be feminists

You know the type: the guy whose bio advertises "feminist," who wears the t-shirt and the pink hat, is well-versed in feminist doctrine but rather too eager to harangue women about it rather than get...

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Oxford Dictionaries accused of 'sexist' usage examples including 'rabid...

Oxford Dictionaries has agreed to review the language used in its definitions after coming under fire for sexism. The publisher, part of Oxford University Press, currently prints “a rabid feminist” as...

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