Oh, This Is Just Too Weird
Gah! It’s the 80s again! VH1 Classic will be playing an hour of “99 Luftballons.” NEW YORK – They’re kidding, right? VH1 Classic will present a full hour of the English and German music videos for the 1984 hit “99 Luftballons,” aka “99 Red Balloons,” by German rock group Nena. The music video presentation, to [...]
...read more“It Would Be Best To Do So In The Old Imperial Style”
You just can’t make this shit up. While serving in British India during the nineteenth century, General Charles James Napier was reportedly approached by a delegation of locals upset at a ban on the practice of Sati (widow burning), defending it as customary. The reply they received was that it was a British custom to [...]
...read moreWe Hate Feminists… Until We Can Use Them To Antagonize Black People
Oh Mike Adams. You make a career of fueling the castration fears of conservative men and writing articles about how feminists are evil, and then you expect to use us as allies in railing against black rappers who “hate white people”? No thanks.
...read morePalestinians Massacred in Iraq
Just so you don’t forget how fucked up things are over there.
...read moreFeminist Round-Up of the Day
Too much good stuff, not enough time to write individual posts. Here’s what’s going on lately:
...read moreWomenomics
Working women are routinely punished for their biology. But for all they do to boost the economy, women continue to get the shaft across the American workplace. It’s not just the wage gap — which remains at around 20 percent four decades after equal wages were made the law of the land (According to the [...]
...read moreManipulating Iraqi Journalism
What is it with the Bush administration and paying off journalists? They did it here with op/ed writers, and now the Pentagon has extended the policy even further in Iraq by paying news sources to print U.S.-friendly articles and offering individual journalists financial rewards for skewing news coverage. Whether or not this is a breach [...]
...read moreTo All the Girls I’ve Rejected
What’s that Ginger Rogers quote about doing everything Fred Astaire does, but backwards and in high heels? Turns out that young women applying for college have to substantially out-perform their male peers to secure themselves a space. Rest assured that admissions officers are not cavalier in making their decisions. Last week, the 10 officers at [...]
...read moreUnthinking Thought
From nobody.really on the Alas thread about “minority” and its casual deployment: Some words evoke an archetypical (or “default”) image in my mind. This dynamic need not be related to power or oppression. For me, the word “bird” evokes an image of a sparrow, not a penguin. Intellectually I acknowledge that both are birds equally, [...]
...read moreGatekeepers
Interesting piece on animal rescue in today’s Times that brings up but does not directly address some issues of class. Though, hell, it’s the Style section again, and class issues are a bummer. Even as adopting a stray dog or cat — rather than buying one from a store or breeder — has become politically [...]
...read moreFriday Random Ten – The “I’m Back” Edition
I go away for two weeks and there’s a major flame war; we get picked up by the New York Times; and finally the blog explodes. I thought I told you all to be good? Kidding, kidding. The vacation was excellent, and much-needed. I’m finishing up a brief due at 5pm today, and then blogging [...]
...read moreWhen You Know It’s Time
Thank you for hosting me at Feministe again. Jill is ready to rejoin the lovely piny and zuzu, and I am back to my retirement. (Let’s start another flame war since Jill is back.) I knew it was time to quit blogging again when, two nights in a row, I dreamt that the doctors taking [...]
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