Feminism | Posted by Steph L on 07/12/2010

Frape

I’m sure I’m not the only one out there who’s disturbed by the number of people who casually use the term “facebook rape” or “frape.” For those of you not familiar with facebook (if such a rare species exists any longer) or this term in particular, it means hacking someone else’s account (usually your friend’s) and posting as them as a joke.

And while posing as somebody is a crappy thing to do, this seems to justify being named after one of the worst crimes of humanity. This usage cheapens a word that should not be used so lightly, and the fact that we live in a society where rape not only exists, but can be turned into a joke is disgusting. As such, I have decided to start calling people…

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Feminism | Posted by Julie Z on 06/24/2010

Girl Scout and Dr. Phil to Testify at Congressional Hearing on Cyberbullying

Go Dominique and the Girl Scouts of America!

The advent of new media in recent years has been both a blessing and a curse to the youth of the world. Thanks to Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites, we can hop on the computer and have a conversation with somebody half way around the world in thirty seconds or less - or more commonly, we can learn that the girl that sits behind us in History who always wears black and scowls actually has an intense love for narwhals and unicrons, by clicking on her photo album “I Love Narwhals and Unicorns.” We’re able to  instantly connect to others in a way no other generation has previously experienced, but we’re also exposed to the darker side of rapid, often anonymous, communication. Cyberbullying, defined…

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Feminism | Posted by Julie Z on 05/17/2010

National Punch a Slut Day

take note, FB trolls…

The facebook trolls who think they’re hilarious for their misogynistic groups and events are at it again, folks!

Some FBomb readers and a recent Jezebel article alerted me to a series of “slut punching” events – one a week-long event that I believe was removed, and another, which will merely last a day.

The latter event includes some seriously gross comments, such as:

Dongie Lee:
Some of you need to stfu about violence toward women. boohoo. Ever thought about violence toward men? toward elderly? toward kids? And I bet 99.9% of you fuckers bitching and crying aren’t doing a fucking thing to stop any real violence. Let’s also not forget that this group isn’t about punching women but about punching slutts. Do criminals deserve time in prison? Yes. Do slutts deserve to…

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Pop-Culture | Posted by Nellie B on 01/19/2010

Burn Your Bra Color Status Updates

I was wondering why, starting on about Thursday, my Facebook friends were posting words like “black,” “hot pink,” and “beige” as their statuses.  Then I got the mass message: “Cancer awareness: Write the color of your bra in your status.  Just the color, nothing else. And send this on to ONLY girls, no men …. It will be neat to see if this will spread the wings of cancer awareness. It will be fun to see how long it takes before the men will wonder why all the girls have a color in their status.”

I started to sneak a peek under my own shirt, but then the radical feminist analysis of the message ran through my head.  Let’s break this message down.

1. Write just the color, nothing else.  Okay, I’m…

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Feminism | Posted by Colleen R on 01/11/2010

Impulse Control

I have been told that I have impulse control problems.

I have a tendency to put in my two cents in for every little issue that passes me by, whether it was asked for or not. My mother has always told me I need to learn to “let things go.” I do my best to just keep my mouth shut and let things slide, but sometimes I just can’t. So imagine my struggle to control my raging anger impulses when my friend sent me the link to a group on the social networking site “Facebook” entitled, “102 Things Girls need to know about Guys!” in response to another “Facebook” group entitled “102 Things Guys should know about Girls!”

the photo emblem of the group "102 Things Guys Should Know About Girls"

Let me…

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