Instructions:
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2. To be on the cutting edge of dating in the times of Tinder, you have to be aware of a number of terms describing a variety of phenomena some of which were not possible before online dating really took off. So if good’ ol’ fashioned Ghosting is when someone you are happily dating suddenly drops off the map and does not contact/respond to you at all, then what is Haunting?
3. This image is from a campaign to raise awareness about -------- -------- targeting the World Cup in 2018. Give me the the tagline from the campaign that goes with this image, or give me an explanation. (the blanks are indicative of word length)
4. A study in genetics published in 2012, revealed the presence of genetically distinct male cells in the brains of women who had been examined in autopsy. This phenomena--two genetically distinct populations of cells in a single human body--known as microchimerism, is not new and is known to occur after transfusion, pregnancy, vanished twins. What was new in the study is that it demonstrated that these these male cells--wherever they came from--were able to cross the blood-brain barrier. Significant as this study was, it led to a whole slew of pseudo-scientific articles claiming something wholly different (and not established by the study, as Snopes clarifies in detail) which caused shock-horror-disgust among many sexually active women. What was the claim?
5. The recently concluded World Cup has been infamous for a lot of sexism and misogyny, with men harassing female TV reporters on camera gaining a lot of attention. Probably because of this, before the semi-finals, FIFA issued a warning to broadcasters. What was the warning about?
6. Author Allan Giles turned sexist Daily Mail comments from a section of fans of a long-running popular BBC TV series into episode title cards. Here’s one. What were the fans so upset about? For bonus fill in the blank in the image (indicative of word length).
7. Why is the term ‘hysteria’ sexist?
8. Every woman ever: guys playing “soggy biscuit” do not realise that the winner is not going to win any prizes for being first. What is soggy biscuit?
9. It tells the story of four wealthy male libertines who resolve to experience the ultimate sexual gratification in orgies. They seal themselves away for four months in an inaccessible castle in the heart of the Black Forest, with a harem of 36 victims, mostly male and female teenagers, and engage four female brothel keepers to tell the stories of their lives and adventures. Written in 1785, what is this pathbreaking pornographic equivalent of Scheherazade’s 1001 Nights? For a bonus, name the author.
10. What is common to the Shakespearean characters Ganymede (As You Like It) and Cesario (Twelfth Night)?
11. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are pictured as lovers in a host of fanart and fanfiction. They come together as part of which Marvel series in the cinematic universe?
12. If #MeToo is about people (mostly women) documenting sexual abuse by men, which movement can be best captured by #MeNeither?
1. Having sex with a dog
ReplyDelete2. Stalking someone online?
3. Domestic violence
4. That the male cells are 'implanted' during sex?
5. Not to zoom in on women, particularly their breasts
6. No idea
7. It comes from the Greek word for 'womb', and its meaning derives from the idea that it's a mental condition governed by the menstruation cycle, pregnancy, etc
8. No idea
9. Salo? Casanova?
10. Women dressed as men?
11. X-Men
12. People who say they have never been abused?
-- Annie