A round up of feminist sexism on twitter

Week 37. Violence, suicide, homelessness, media bias, amnesia, obscure grievance. And comedy pencils.

Lowlights from this week on @feminist_watch: UN Women claim a global pandemic in violence toward women (UN statistics show it’s toward men); the Labour party pledge free tampons in homeless shelters (90% of the homeless are male); the Guardian claims depression in girls is the main issue (3 times more boys commit suicide); the leader of the Women’s Equality Party forgets that many men recently couldn’t vote; and a sexist book about every day sexism.

Oh, and some comedy “Erase Feminism!” pencils for “Outsmarting The Patriarchy!” with.

Sunday

@EvrydayFeminism asks which gender is most likely to be diagnosed with #depression:

@boneygupta tweets a video of a sustained physical attack of a young school boy by a woman, challenging feminism’s claim of a moral franchise on violence.

Owen Jones claims a Labour Government will be ‘transformative’. As a forewarning of Labour’s transformative approach to social issues, Labour feminist MP Jess Phillips “rocks backwards and forwards on her chair with derision while clamping her hand over her mouth to suppress snorts of laughter” at a proposal to debate male suicide and cancer:

@BehindTCurtain claims young girls are victims of #EveryDaySexism. Education professionals point out that educational attainment of boys is suffering because of sexism toward them in classrooms:

Monday

Feminist magazine @BitchMedia urge feminists to erase feminism and promote patriarchy with some distinctly odd pencils:

Tuesday

UN Women claim violence against women is “a global pandemic”. It isn’t:

… and that only women with mental disabilities suffer violence in Serbia’s mental institutions. They don’t:

Wednesday

Guardian feminist journalist Owen Jones isn’t disgusted by two women in four weeks being jailed for false allegations of rape and sexual assault. He’s disgusted by examination of it, calling those who do it ‘sexist bigots’:

@EveryDaySexism claim depression in girls is evidence of every day sexism toward women. Three times more boys commit suicide:

In response, @ClaireLlop dismisses an evidence based assessment of feminist claims as “pathetic”, alleging trolling and fear:

75% of homicide victims in Finland are men. The President of Finland claims Finland has an obligation “to end violence agains women in all forms”. He doesn’t:

Thursday

@JenShakesby asks: “What about girls who like dinosaurs”, claiming evidence of #EveryDaySexism:

Feminist Labour councillor @michele_paule, who presumably doesn’t follow @bitch, @BitchMedia etc., doesn’t like the New Statesman’s use of feminism’s reappropriated “bitchy”:

Friday

The leader of the Women’s Equality Party, SophieWalker, is unaware of basic history of male and female suffrage in Britain:

… but is still invited to address the pupils of St Paul’s School, who claim to be “one of the UK’s leading independent schools, offering an outstanding all-round education for bright boys aged 7–18 years”:

Barbara Kay posts a video of an abusive young woman, with the reminder that feminists and identity politics people created her:

Owen Jones thinks that Uber should deal with all the issues raised in London Taxi Drivers’ recent successful lobby effort to ban them, “like protecting women’s safety”:

Meanwhile, Sophie Franklin is spared a jail sentence because the Judge “hates sending women to prison”:

Rachel Willmer thinks that journalists writing about issues as though from a man’s perspective is evidence of #EveryDaySexism towards women. Be careful with that line of reasoning, Rachel:

Saturday

Three times more males than females commit suicide in all age groups. The Guardian publishes an article claiming that female mental distress and depression is the particular crisis.

@LabourWomen inform us that the Labour party pledges to fund free sanitary products in homeless shelters. 90% of homeless people are men:

@EmmaDickens44 is settling down to read Laura Bates’ book on “Everyday Sexism”. Bates has written a whole book about her conclusion, after excluding observations of oppressive sexism by women to men, that women are oppressed by male sexism — a conclusion which the cover claims “will make most women feel oddly saner”.

See you next week.