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• I should probably acknowledge that even as a feminist, I am guilty of this in very personal settings. Not that the setting is an excuse, but I have done this knowing that what I said is not a joke -
  (posted to When sexism masquerades as humor)
• I'm here and it's fantastiiiiic!
  (posted to Women Action and the Media 2009)
• I wanted to go to that one! I'm glad to hear it's so amazing. I'm happy my Marquette co-attendee is there. Yeahhh!
  (posted to WAM 2009: Gender, Non-Conformity and the Media. )
• How awesome that this just happens to be the Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah today! Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin held it's Women and Gender Studies (WGST) Spring Kick Off today to mark the beginning of a formal, institution-recognized WGST program
  (posted to Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: Women's and Gender Studies)
• This is heartbreaking - as is mainstream media coverage. CNN coverage spent 12 minutes debating whether Carl Walker-Hoover was "really" gay. As if whether he was "actually" gay should somehow shift our sympathies and reactions to his suicide and his
  (posted to Homophobic Bullying is a Problem. )

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• Bullying is bullying - but some bullying hurts worse than other bullying, at least among males. As a kid, I was bullied for being lightskinned, for being fat, for having the "wrong" hairstyle (an afro, instead of a caesar or (posted to Homophobic Bullying is a Problem. )
• The brutal pecking orders that students set up mirror the tracking that is the official policy of every school system. Schools set up official pecking orders - some kids are on the academic track, some kids are on what used (posted to Homophobic Bullying is a Problem. )
• "Calling a girl lesbian implies that she's masculine - and, in a world where girls and women have a much lower status than boys and men do, that's not that much of an insult." On what scale do you judge (posted to Homophobic Bullying is a Problem. )
• Hey guys, I'm currently a journalism major at a school that only offers women's studies as a minor but I am currently transferring to a larger university with a women's studies major is available. I am very interested in the (posted to Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: Women's and Gender Studies)
• Hi Everyone, I am a Women Studies major at the University at Albany. Recently, the department was vandalized as someone wrote woman-hating and homophobic slurs on the office doors and bulletin boards. This is such horrifying news to me. (posted to Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: Women's and Gender Studies)

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