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Month: June 2013
Feminisme i dag
Jinan Younis besluttede at starte en feministisk klub på sin skole i England. Så kom reaktionen. Dette er 2013, and still we get this.
What I hadn’t anticipated on setting up the feminist society was a massive backlash from the boys in my wider peer circle. They took to Twitter and started a campaign of abuse against me. I was called a “feminist bitch”, accused of “feeding [girls] bullshit”, and in a particularly racist comment was told “all this feminism bull won’t stop uncle Sanjit from marrying you when you leave school”.
Our feminist society was derided with retorts such as, “FemSoc, is that for real? #DPMO” [don’t piss me off] and every attempt we made to start a serious debate was met with responses such as “feminism and rape are both ridiculously tiring”.
The more girls started to voice their opinions about gender issues, the more vitriolic the boys’ abuse became. One boy declared that “bitches should keep their bitchiness to their bitch-selves #BITCH” and another smugly quipped, “feminism doesn’t mean they don’t like the D, they just haven’t found one to satisfy them yet.” Any attempt we made to stick up for each other was aggressively shot down with “get in your lane before I par [ridicule] you too”, or belittled with remarks like “cute, they got offended”.
The situation recently reached a crescendo when our feminist society decided to take part in a national project called Who Needs Feminism. We took photos of girls standing with a whiteboard on which they completed the sentence “I need feminism because…”, often delving into painful personal experiences to articulate why feminism was important to them.
When we posted these pictures online we were subject to a torrent of degrading and explicitly sexual comments.
We were told that our “militant vaginas” were “as dry as the Sahara desert”, girls who complained of sexual objectification in their photos were given ratings out of 10, details of the sex lives of some of the girls were posted beside their photos, and others were sent threatening messages warning them that things would soon “get personal”.
We, a group of 16-, 17- and 18-year-old girls, have made ourselves vulnerable by talking about our experiences of sexual and gender oppression only to elicit the wrath of our male peer group. Instead of our school taking action against such intimidating behaviour, it insisted that we remove the pictures.
Unge kvinder, der insisterer på deres ligeværd, udsættes for chikane og hån – og omgivelsernes (i dette tilfælde skolens) bud på en reaktion er at bede dem lade være med sådan at provokere. Er det virkelig 2013, vi skriver?
Link: What happened when I started a feminist society at school
Onion Pi: Beskyt dit privatliv med et bærbart Tor-hotspot
Raspberry Pi + Tor + trådløst netkort er en kombination, som let og elegant kan befri dig for efterretningstjenesters og andres overvågning af din Internettrafik. Jeg har faktisk tit tænkt på at lave noget lignende.
Ideen beskrives nærmere hos Adafruit:
Feel like someone is snooping on you? Browse anonymously anywhere you go with the Onion Pi Tor proxy. This is fun weekend project that uses a Raspberry Pi, a USB WiFi adapter and Ethernet cable to create a small, low-power and portable privacy Pi.Using it is easy-as-pie. First, plug the Ethernet cable into any Internet provider in your home, work, hotel or conference/event. Next, power up the Pi with the micro USB cable to your laptop or to the wall adapter. The Pi will boot up and create a new secure wireless access point called Onion Pi. Connecting to that access point will automatically route any web browsing from your computer through the anonymizing Tor network.
Who is this good for?
If you want to browse anonymously on a netbook, tablet, phone, or other mobile or console device that cannot run Tor and does not have an Ethernet connection. If you do not want to or cannot install Tor on your work laptop or loan computer. If you have a guest or friend who wants to use Tor but doesn’t have the ability or time to run Tor on their computer, this gift will make the first step much easier.
What is Tor?
Tor is an onion routing service – every internet packet goes through 3 layers of relays before going to your destination. This makes it much harder for the server you are accessing (or anyone snooping on your Internet use) to figure out who you are and where you are coming from. It is an excellent way to allow people who are blocked from accessing websites to get around those restritions.
Journalists use Tor to communicate more safely with whistleblowers and dissidents. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) use Tor to allow their workers to connect to their home website while they’re in a foreign country, without notifying everybody nearby that they’re working with that organization.
Groups such as Indymedia recommend Tor for safeguarding their members’ online privacy and security. Activist groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recommend Tor as a mechanism for maintaining civil liberties online. Corporations use Tor as a safe way to conduct competitive analysis, and to protect sensitive procurement patterns from eavesdroppers. They also use it to replace traditional VPNs, which reveal the exact amount and timing of communication. Which locations have employees working late? Which locations have employees consulting job-hunting websites? Which research divisions are communicating with the company’s patent lawyers?
A branch of the U.S. Navy uses Tor for open source intelligence gathering, and one of its teams used Tor while deployed in the Middle East recently. Law enforcement uses Tor for visiting or surveilling web sites without leaving government IP addresses in their web logs, and for security during sting operations.
Via Boing Boing.
Ud af landet – du kan myrde udlændinge i stedet..
Den danske hverdagsracisme er nu så integreret i vores mentalitet at den sjældent bliver noteret. Se fx en aktuel tragisk sag om en 16 årig der har voldtaget flere mindreårige piger. En ubeskrivelig tragedie for pigerne og deres familier og naturligvis noget der bør straffes.
Men ikke alene skal den unge fyr straffes, nu kræver flere at fyren skal sendes tilbage til Somalia hvor hans familie holder til. Tilbage til et endnu værre sted, uden familie, hvor sandsynligheden for at nogle unge somaliske piger bliver udsat for noget lignende er markant høj.
Men dem er vi ligeglade med – monstret skal sendes hjem, og hvis han så går helt amok dernede, så hører vi jo ikke om det alligevel.
Det er grimt. Og den 16 årige er ikke det eneste monster i denne historie.
Crowdfunding af “Den danske naturs genkomst”
Rune Engelbreth Larsen arbejder i øjeblikket på en vigtig bog om den danske naturs genkomst, som han forsøger at skaffe midler til at færdiggøre. I den forbindelse skriver han på Facebook:
42,63 procent er nået af bogprojektets ansøgte beløb, og der er tre dage tilbage til at nå 100 procent – hvis ikke sendes samtlige donationer retur. Gi’ en hånd og få boggaver som tak – læs hvordan her:
http://www.booomerang.dk/projects/den-danske-naturs-genkomst
Jeg har lige været inde og støtte med et passende beløb, og jeg kan kun opfordre dig til at gøre det samme. Vi har en smuk natur i Danmark, og der er alt for få, der passer på den.
Forsørgerpligt for kæresten er skattepligtig
Hvis du er i den sitation, at du får kontanthjælp og bor sammen med din kæreste, vil du nu ikke længere kunne få kontanthjælp, fordi din kæreste har forsørgerpligt (eller omvendt). Hvad du nok ikke havde regnet med er, at du også skal betale skat af din kærestes forsørgelse af dig.
Som man hører i DR P1:
Kommunerne skal i fremtiden ikke skele til, om kontanthjælpsmodtagere er gift eller bare bor sammen som par. Fremover får også ugifte pligt til at forsørge kæresten, hvis han eller hun bliver arbejdsløs. Det skal ikke længere være kommunens opgave.
Beskæftigelsesminister Mette Frederiksen skriver på ministeriets hjemmeside, at “samlevende par (…) hermed ligestilles med ægtepar”. Men det viser sig nu slet ikke at passe.
Tværtimod stiller kontanthjælpsreformen fremover ugifte par langt ringere økonomisk end ægtefolk, der bor sammen. Ifølge skattereglerne, skal den ugifte mand eller kvinde, der bliver arbejdsløs nemlig betale skat af de penge, som vedkommende fremover skal ha’ af kæresten i stedet for kontanthjælp. Det skal ægtefolk ikke.
Og samtidig kan kæresten IKKE overtage den arbejdsløses bundfradrag, men skal også selv betale fuld skat af sin indkomst, som om han eller hun var enlig.
Det er en borger i Valby, Palle Jensen, der har gjort Folketinget opmærksom på disse øjensynlig uforudsete konsekvenser af kontanthjælpsreformen. Og en lektor i skatteret Inge Langhave Jeppesen fra Syddansk Universitet giver ham fuldstændig ret i, at kontanthjælpsreformen dermed ikke ligestiller samlevende par med ægtepar – sådan som ministereren siger. Tværtimod.
Ja, det manglede vel næsten bare.
Via Denmark Online.