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Jessica Valenti column

Daily commentary on feminism, politics, culture and more from Jessica Valenti

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    Gamergate didn't fade into obscurity. We just stopped noticing its existence

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    The movement never ended its abusive tactics, but it reared its ugly head this week to silence women who planned to speak about harassment at SXSW
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    Cheerleaders are exploited workers whose 'sexiness' is used against them

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    Expecting dance teams to smile and sit pretty as they’re scandalously underpaid is still common across the United States
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    Paul Ryan is terrible, but we shouldn't discount his praise of family time

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    The more we applaud men, even those we disagree with, for talking about about their desire to have a balanced work life, the more we change the culture
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    'Yes means yes' standards clarify consent for all of us - not just rapists

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    Classes on consent give people the tools they need to weed rapists out of their communities - to make abusers easier to pick out and victims easier to help
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    Barbie will not become a feminist anytime soon, don't get your hopes up

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    Barbie has been a paleontologist, a computer engineer and a presidential candidate. But she has a long way to go before she can embody empowerment
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    We can't stop rape if we prize men's reputations over women's safety

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    Sexual harassment rules made in the 1990s with a similar sense of dire societal need not only didn’t make us hate men – they didn’t end sexual harassment
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    Playboy just learned that old sexism doesn't make money anymore

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    The move to remove nudes from the magazine has more to do with business than progress
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    At bedtime, my daughter asked me if guns existed 'in real life'

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    I resent that I have to tell my daughter anything about guns. I resent that I have to be afraid for her
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    Right-wing hate can't kill widespread love for Planned Parenthood

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    Women (and men) across the country have gone there when they couldn’t go anywhere else – and that makes them loyal and grateful
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    Opposition to legal abortion takes magical thinking and a lack of logic

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    Those intent on destroying access to abortion live in a dream world where they are right and just, even as they are continually provided evidence to the contrary
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    Gender inequality is a problem men created – now they have to help fix it

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    Men need to step up and actually help women out at home and at work. We need them to take active responsibility for their faults
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    A doll period party? No thanks, Lammily, I'll just talk to my daughter

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    Children should be learning about menstruation as part of everyday life and conversation, not necessarily a rite of passage
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    It's time to retire the idea that alcohol-facilitated rape is simply drunken sex

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    One day, deriding sexual assault victims for drinking will be as unthinkable as suggesting a married woman signed on to sex on demand
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    If feminist icons lose their way the movement continues without them

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    Young activists do the work they do because of what came before - not in spite of it. Still they shouldn’t have to constantly pay homage to older generations
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    Many shootings are not called by their proper name: domestic violence

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    To stop domestic violence homicides and show victims a modicum of respect we must – at the very least – call the crimes what they really are
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    Money isn't the only reason why police have ignored 80,000 rape kits

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    A new $79m initiative to tackle the backlog won’t address the fact that many officers still treat rape survivors with suspicion and scorn
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    Not all comments are created equal: the case for ending online comments

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    Wading into comments sections is like working a second shift where you willingly subject yourself to attacks from people you’ve never met
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    No, the anti-choice movement doesn't care about sexism, racism or ableism

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    This anti-discrimination rhetoric is just the latest stop in the anti-choice movement’s evolution towards a more mainstream-friendly image
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    It's about time young women get credit for their feminism

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    Celebrities like Amandla Stenberg and Rowan Blanchard disprove the old misconception that young women aren’t involved in the movement
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    Anti-abortion one-upsmanship will haunt Republicans in the election

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    Conservative presidential hopefuls are handing the future Democratic nominee a mighty large sword to wield against them in the general election
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