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Rosie The Riveter – Style Saturday

July 16, 2016 Mary McFadden

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Today’s theme on The Arcade is GIRL POWER and what better icon to represent girl power than Rosie the Riveter? The ‘We Can Do It!’ poster and the cultural icon Rosie the Riveter (representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II) were combined to form what we today see as […]

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Opinion: Gender Equality In Online Games

July 13, 2015 Laura Kelly

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The recent news of an underage hacker being imprisoned for terrorising several women has sparked a lot of things in my mind. Of course, online terrorism is bad, and you have to sincerely wonder how someone could be so amoral as to ruin the life of a perfect stranger over nothing. But the real thing that […]

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ReRead: We Should All Be Feminists

April 10, 2015 Jack Dempsey

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Last  International Women’s Day I was in the mood to read something timely and  We Should All Be Feminists by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie certainly suggested itself.  So picked up my copy and, with a view to publishing my thoughts in a similarly timely and exuberant fashion, re “read the situation from the front to that back”. The […]

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Opinion – Comics versus Women

June 23, 2014 Lissa Breen

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How is it that at a time when we should be progressing forward when it comes to equality, the comic book world seems to not only be remaining stagnant but is actually reversing. Lissa asks why comic books have such a big issue with women!

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Beyond Refrigerators VI – May The Odds Be (n)Ever In Your Favour

September 24, 2013 Beyond Refrigerators

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Feminism began simply by taking seriously the revolutionary notion that women are human, yet it has continued to evolve into so much more. At its core, modern feminism is a philosophical movement that attempts to identify the origins of our assumptions and test them for truth.

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Anime/Cartoons

Beyond Refrigerators III No Man is an Island

August 15, 2013 Beyond Refrigerators

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No Man Is An Island   Well, except when he’s having a bath. An adult male may not be a landmass surrounded by water, but we all begin life as tiny human babies blank even of language, and we spend a lifetime building our world from the ground up. Childhood is a never-ending quest for […]

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Anime/Cartoons

Beyond Refrigerators I

July 17, 2013 Beyond Refrigerators

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Once upon a time, in a land far far away… Or rather, a while back in the real world, the people began to notice a disturbing pattern popping up in fictional stories. Female characters kept being killed off or tortured in gratuitously shocking ways, called “fridging” after one rather infamous example. Not just another lazy […]

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