The year in sexism: how did women fare in 2015?

[niyad]

The year in sexism: how did women fare in 2015?


Over the past 12 months, women ‘ruined Fifa’ and were told that not doing enough housework was making them fat. From Nigel Farage making a boob of himself to the supposed death of feminism, here’s a look at 2015’s most misogynist moments



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Clockwise from top left: Rita Ora, Fifa, Serena Williams, tampons, Steph Houghton, captain of England women’s football team and breastfeeding were all topics of sexist debate.
Clockwise from top left: Rita Ora, Fifa, Serena Williams, tampons, Steph Houghton, captain of England women’s football team and breastfeeding were all topics of sexist debate this year. Photograph: BBC/Reuters/Alamy/Linda Nylind/Shamil Tanna



January
The beginning of the year saw Rita Ora lambasted for showing too much cleavage on The One Show (as reported by the same publications that routinely publish entire articles about cleavage). Nigel Farage made a boob of himself by demanding that breastfeeding mums should sit in the corner, and the Sun succumbed to the No More Page 3 campaign with all the grace of a toddler throwing a screaming tantrum.


February

The trailer for Magic Mike XXL gave columnists the opportunity to declare that “men are now objectified more than women”. Feminists might have responded with any one of a million recent examples suggesting otherwise, had they been able to stop laughing long enough.


March

Rachel Reeves threw the world into confusion and disarray when she said she would keep her ministerial job if Labour were elected, despite being pregnant. MPs fretted that she wouldn’t be able to give the job her “full attention” and columnists accused the “stupid woman” of treating motherhood like “a hobby” (unlike all those multitasking professional fathers).


April


As the general election approached, the media decided the best way to critique female politicians’ policies was to Photoshop their heads onto scantily clad models, create cartoons of their cleavage and devote more column inches to their shoes than their views. Strangely, their male colleagues’ wardrobes went largely undiscussed.

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http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/dec/15/the-year-in-sexism-women-2015-feminism-misogynist

[malthaussen]

1. The Planned Parenthood bull is a major injury.

Since it has give fuel to the RWers who want to control women's health. Not that they needed any fuel, and they'll do what they want anyway, people be damned. Still painful, given all the important work PP does.

-- Mal

[niyad]

2. you are quite correct about that. and here, we saw the direct result of that attack, along

with the absolute refusal of many to see the connections.