{"id":2545,"date":"2013-03-08T13:02:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T13:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2020-07-05T13:13:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T13:13:07","slug":"international-working-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/08\/international-working-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Working Women&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is International Working Women&#8217;s Day, a day to celebrate women and support them in emancipating themselves from patriarchy.<\/p>\n<p>A new blog has launched which aims to be a <q><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170131224759\/https:\/\/athousandflowers.net\/2013\/03\/08\/guudbye-ya-pricks\/\">Gender Obsessed Discussion Group<\/a><\/q>. This post discusses the disgusting sexist abuse from a debate at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/universityeducation\/9907930\/Cambridge-University-students-boycott-prestigious-debating-competition-over-sexist-heckling.html\">Glasgow University Union<\/a>. Having never went to it, I was unaware it was the breeding ground for misogynistic Neanderthal reprobates.<\/p>\n<p>This event also prompted a new page on Facebook to document and expose the sexism which appears to run rampant on campus. Right now a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/170785806407618\/\">rally is taking place<\/a> at the Union so hopefully more negative press will put pressure on the Uni to finally do something about these arseholes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is International Working Women&#8217;s Day, a day to celebrate women and support them in emancipating themselves from patriarchy. A new blog has launched which aims to be a Gender Obsessed Discussion Group. This post discusses the disgusting sexist abuse from a debate at Glasgow University Union. Having never went to it, I was unaware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,52,51],"tags":[697,698],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equality","category-politics","category-rant","tag-international-working-womens-day","tag-iwd"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3834,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/3834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}