Inspired by Adam Bienkov and others: these are the posts that got the most views on this blog in 2010.
1. Big John (November 2010)
Post about Judge John Rogers QC, who in November this year gave an eight month jail sentence to a rape victim for “falsely withdrawing” her original allegations against her perpetrator.
2. “That’s alright because I like the way it hurts” (August 2010)
My take on that Eminem/Rhianna song and video.
3. The missing list (September 2010)
A list of 80 UK based feminist blogs that tend to be ignored by the politics bloggers who make up the blokeosphere.
4. What a hoot (August 2010)
In August Hooters supporters embraced social media. In the process they kindly provided us with ample evidence of how Hooters promotes and perpetuates sexism and demeans and degrades women.
5. Well that didn’t take long (February 2010)
A post and comment thread in which the prostitution debate continued apace, and that culminated in me and Thierry Schaffauser of the IUSW actually agreeing on something.
6. “Your husband has a right to expect regular sex” (October 2009)
An old one, but depressingly one of the most popular posts on this blog that’s arrived at through search engines – terms that people (I’d hazard a guess it’s mainly women) have used to get here include things like “husband wants sex all the time, do I have to say yes?” and “husband’s right to sex?”
7. Tory councillor claims domestic violence policy a “war on men” (December 2010)
Portsmouth Tory Councillor James Williams (the chair of Portsmouth City Council’s Education, children and young people scrutiny panel) has a bug up his arse about domestic violence strategies. He also hosts a men’s rights radio show on Portsmouth’s Express FM channel entitled ‘Mens Matters’.
8. The attack on child benefit is an attack on women (October 2010)
In October George Osborne announced that from 2013 Child Benefit payments will be axed for any family with a parent earning enough to put them in the 40-50% income tax bracket.
9. Forsaken? (November 2010)
On Nadine Dorries and the pro-life organisation that she claimed in a House of Commons debate was “neither pro-life nor pro-choice: it is pro-women.”
10. Melanie Phillips talks shit, again (May 2010)
In 2010 Melanie Phillips continued to do what she does best.
I have to admit I’m pleasantly surprised by this list. I wasn’t expecting my top ten most popular posts to be dominated by feminist ones, I expected the more mainstreamy political posts to be up there. Just goes to show how much I know eh?
Too Much To Say For Myself 
I fear those searching for ‘husband’s right to sex’ could be male.
Oh PS – apropos of your twitter – Mormons have now abandoned knocking on doors to spread the word, as they know people just hide. So they tend to just wander around outdoors. Two of them once stopped me as I was on my way to a funeral, and I said, “I can’t talk to you now, I’m on my way to a funeral and I’m late”. And instead of apologising, they just said ‘Perhaps some other time’.
Bloody menace and should banned.
I’ll second that Polly. Bloody tossers.
I sprayed them with the garden hose when they showed up near my house!
Also Cath, to continue the discussion of things on your twitter, and because this would just be deleted off CiF…
Why doesn’t Naomi Wolf just beg Julian Assange to let her give him a blow job and leave the rest of us in peace?
PS he SO looks like John Inman…
Lol. He does a bit doesn’t he.
I was going to have a bit of a rant on here about my comment being deleted off that thread. But it’s now been reinstated. So I won’t.
But the article is infuriating. Fucking liberal lipstick fucking feminsts!
Well that’s the bit I don’t get. Why, oh why, oh why, are all these Khan/Wolf etc etc etc women frothing at the mouth about the man….
HE LOOKS LIKE BLOODY JOHN INMAN!
http://totallylookslike.icanhascheezburger.com/tag/julian-assange/
OMG the resemblance is uncanny!
I couldn’t bring myself to read that latest CiF article. I actually felt sick reading the byline.
If Julian Assange is guilty of such an awful crime then obviously he should face the consequences just like any other rapist but i have to say that its no wonder that people are in two minds about this. Looks to me suspiciously like a way to split the left in our support for him. But the women shouldn’t be disbelieved yet at the same time there is a strong suggestion that everything was consensual. As a committed feminist even I smell a rat here. Heres an interesting post I came across recently which seems to suggest that a large degree of consent was involved. You can’t blame people for having doubts – we all will until further evidence appears.
http://furiouspurpose.me/2010/12/13/whatever-you-may-think-of-wikileaks-and-julian-assange-the-rape-charges-are-ridiculous/