I don’t mean me, I mean you.
Not real fond of the term “blogwhoring,” but this is your opportunity to do just that (and if you can think of a better term, please leave in comments). Leave a link to a post of yours — or someone else’s, even — with a brief description of what it is.
Your horn, it is to toot.
UPDATE: People, people, work with me, work with me. When you post a link, post a link to a post, not just your blog in general (that we could get by just clicking on your name). And just as imporantly, tell the class what the post is about. Because you’re burning to tell the world about it. It’s the Best! Post! EVAR! The Post To End All Posts! Uberpost!
‘Cause, you know, otherwise it’s nothing but a blogroll.
This is going to be at least a semi-regular feature, so post-by-post blogsturbation works better in this format.
Though, really. Cats. Herding.
Criminy.
Consider horn tooted.
Bloglure maybe?
I was gonna say blogpimp, but it’s hard out here for a pimp…
And I don’t toot my own horn, because I don’t wanna go blind. :)
I have not shame at all. tooting like mad.
Blogbaiting, Bloghooking, Blogdrawing?
Ok, I will let others play.
Great to meet you last night, zuzu!
How about using blogsturbation instead of blogwhoring? It’s what I’ve been using over at my blog.
Speaking of, here are a couple of my posts (I am blogsturbating)
http://abirdandabottle.com/2007/02/27/196/
http://abirdandabottle.com/2007/03/01/wading-in/
Great to meet you, too!
I think I like blogsturbation.
Ahem, people: please describe the posts you’re linking to so we don’t just see links.
I swear, it’s just like herding cats. Hmph.
shamelessly excess blogality
S, tig
I’m guilty of self-bloggicism. I’ve gotten to the first step, admitting my powerlessness, but not beyond it yet.
Eh, why not? Here’s my own shameless plug.
And here’s one that’s not so shameless. I suggest it for comic book fans.
Ah, yes, the blog, I will push it, as Salt n’ Pepa said I should. I still like this post many months after I wrote it, always a good sign.
Ok so here’s a post on my blog describing a hitherto unknown transdimensional portal between southern England and northern Spain
Um, here’s my post about feces.
OK, just kidding, it’s about the conservative reaction to a bill in Minnesota which would issue cards that people with ibd or ibs could show business owners, which would require the business to open its restrooms to the card bearer.
Thanks for the opportunity to blogwhore; sometimes I say ‘blogpimp,’ which seems to kinda make more sense.
Sorry sorry — my blogsturbation is out of practice.
OK,
Here’s my post about the flap over the book Unhooked, which the NYT finally picked up on on Thursday: http://abirdandabottle.com/2007/03/01/wading-in/.
And here’s a post about fetal rights and whether or not we should allow children to sue for harm suffered in utero (preview: I say not): http://abirdandabottle.com/2007/02/27/196/.
Sorry for the OT, but I’m really curious – how come when I was trillian I was always automatically in moderation, but I’m not anymore?
I have two posts that I want to mention here, because I think they could be of interest to some.
Is universal health care affordable in the US? takes a look at how much the current US health care system costs compared to the systems in the rest of the Western world, as well as the availability and quality of the current system.
Universal health care as a progressive issue is my take on some of the resons why universal health care should be a key issue for any progressive.
Both of these posts involves some number crushing, and should be good for data points when debating health care in the US.
Obviously I have no first-hand experience with the US system, but seen from the outside, it’s a shocking system.
Bean, you are not the same bean who used to post over at Alas, A Blog are you? It doesn’t appear so, looking at your blog, but just thought I’d ask, to be sure.
I’m going to blogpimp my husband’s blog, because right now my blog is a bunch of posts about my new obsession, knitting, and so is not terribly interesting to others.
He has a pretty good review of eMusic and what he’s been using it for: Cheap Music – An Update
Sadly, I am not the same bean as the one who used to be at Alas! a blog. It’s a childhood nickname that has turned out to be much more common than I realized!
No idea. We have a huge list of very pedestrian terms that have turned up in pr0n spam, and if your email or URL had any of those terms, you’d wind up in moderation.
My wife gave birth to our second daughter at home not too long ago, with two midwives, myself, and our four-year-old in attendance. I know a lot of folks are curious about homebirth, and it’s a pretty great story, so here it is.
(It’s a two-part post — part two is here.)
I feel bad de-lurking to sell my blogging soul, but not too bad, apparently. Am I cheating if I post a link to a post that has links to more posts?
Just so you know what you’re getting yourselves into if you commit your mouse finger, I’m a pro-feminist religious/gender studies grad student who recently left Mormonism. I share a blog with a former Catholic. We probably gripe about religion more than we do patriarchy. She brings in all of the feministe links, and I tend to link to Pandagon (please don’t hold this against me!)
Fine then! I just did a post on all the buzz surrounding Black Snake Moan (which no, I haven’t seen yet) and pondering some of the ignorant shit it’s director/writer has said in defense of it. I wish I’d touched on the mythical “nymphomania” crap, but I was sick, and so there.
I have a post up responding to a post on Shakespeare’s Sister, which could be of interest to some. It addresses that old chestnut, “Why are you SO angry?” :-D
Ooh, yummy.
A post about the Christian Right’s personal delight in shooting themselves in the foot (aka Conservapedia).
My encounger with the Tempest Smith Foundation: An organization to promote tolerance and prevent bullying, following Tempest Smith’s suicide at age 12.
Maybe blogjerking? I guess blogsturbation is ok… but I wanna win the contest!!1!one!
;)
I have a post up entitled Bitching About Feminist Language and Blogs. It’s about how mostly good men react negatively/feel temporarily victimized by feminist language and tone. And why it would be a mistake to shut our mouths.
How to handle common trollisms: http://ginmar.livejournal.com/463135.html
44: “Dyke!”
“Well, actually, my family is part German so that’s Van Dyke to you!”
http://ginmar.livejournal.com/705737.html
Eight myths about rape wihch underlie any and all discussions about rape, from Helen Benedict’s “Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes.”
BTW, I’ve had Kristjan Wager’s blog in my bloglines feeder for awhile now and I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the intersection of science and progressive politics.
Go Kristjan!
I’ve just put up a post about the lone Australian detainee in Guantanamao Bay, David Hicks, who is likely to be the first “unlawful combatant” tried in the flawed military commission process after five years confinement. All the original “worst of the worst” charges have been dropped as unprovable, and he is being charged for “material aid to terrorism” for being captured while guarding a Taliban tank.
The chief US military prosecutor for the Gitmo cases has accused Hicks’ military defender, JAG officer Major Michael Mori (USMC), of violating Article 88 of the UCMJ by using “contemptuous language” referring to the President, Vice-President, etc. This is a transparent attempt at intimidation, so that Mori will put pressure on his client to take a plea-bargain that will see him found guilty, sent back to Oz, and set free on bail, thus not embarrassing either the Aust. or the US government by showing that his detention has been a travesty all along.
I would love to see this case given more attention in the US progblogosphere. Post at my blog [link] and cross-posted at an ozpolitics group blog [link]
It’s Estrogen Month celebration at Pen-Elayne, where readers get to nominate their favorite pop-culture feminist bloggers all month! And at the end of the month on March 31, I’ll be hosting the Twelfth Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Fans; come on by!
Bugger – previous blogsturbation held up in moderation because it had two links. On another subject, I presciently posted on misogynistic responses to Ann Coulter clangers a week before the CPAC “faggot” remark.
Sexism always sucks, even when dissing the Coultergeist
Hi, I wrote a review last week on my blog “Dane and the Lobster” of Mike Judge’s film “Idiocracy.” I’m a big fan of “Office Space” so I had high hope for another quotable classic. Judge has no clue about women. Super stinky.
http://dante-andthelobster.blogspot.com/
Woot! Check out Written on the Body. Feminist and lefty rantings abound.
I’m the idiot obviously who posted the wrong information! If you could delete that possibly I would appreciate it.
So this is it
I’m a bit slow on the tech stuff.
Thanks and enjoy!
Thank you, zuzu, for indulging my very random curiosity :D
The longer I read this thread, the more “blogsturbation” grows on me. So much so that I can’t resist the urge to do it again:
I wrote this post this morning in response to a column titled “Why There Are Almost No Genuine Atheists,” which used the argument that a “purported atheist’s” environmentalism cannot but be based on a belief in god(s). Atheists are moral, therefore they don’t exist.
I am honored — and thrilled — that blogsturbation seems to be taking hold as the word of choice.
See where I coined it here.
Another word I have tried to bring into use: clitzpa
[...] ity, tongues, me The word, coined by yours truly, seems to be taking hold. Check out this comment thread over at Feministe. Cool. [...]
Sorry, Zuzu, missed the point. Here’s an old post about men, women, and the all-too-common problem of a “mother-son” dynamic emerging in the dating relationship.
Damn, I haven’t written anything profound in weeks. I’m glad this’ll be a regular feature. I’ll be ready for next time.
Not exactly feminist subject matter narrowly defined, but a follow-up on the likely long-term impact of the extensive work reporting done by Team FireDogLake re: the Libby trial on the insider culture of Washington.
I apologize for breaking the “don’t link to your whole blog” rule, but since this is just a little hatchling of a blog, I hope you’ll forgive me.
It’s a blog about women’s issues such as dignity and equality, as seen through current events (mostly from a Canadian perspective) and from a legal point of view.
For example, the last post is about a PETA protest on Parliament hill in Ottawa, where female protesters laid naked in the snow, covered in fake blood, for a whole hour, while male protested were standing nearby, fully and warmly clothed, by -15 Celcius, to protest Canada’s tolerance of allegedly inhumane seal hunting practices.
So here it is:
Justice is a Woman with a Sword
Thanks!
Keep up the good work!
I’m an anarcho-syndaclist who blogs inconsistently here. I chaired for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, and Students for A Free Tibet in Santa Barbara, but my interests grew to larger meta-concepts about politics and social condition. I firmly believe that we are not free until we are all free, and feminism is a critical aspect of attaining a truly free society.
In terms of feminism I mostly align with anarchist feminists, and I reject systems like marriage (which has evolved from a system of trading property) and dating (just an extension of courtship that’s evolved with women’s rights and the emphasis on human attraction over politics and property but flawed since it was created for property and not human happiness). I’ve written some screenplays and shorts about this, and intend to write a more thorough explanation of my philosophy on this subject.
Most of what I do, I do not get paid for but the commercial things I have done started with being the webmaster for jackjohnsonmusic.com before he got his record deal, and then filming him and some related bands. I left the music industry because people were asking me to do some other random bands I didn’t have as much respect for, and went to India to meditate and study eastern philosophy some more, after which now I’m doing commercial work until I can buy my freedom in this capitalist state and redirect my attention more to creating solutions.
If you need a dentist check out SmileConnection.com, and I’m also creating a hemp online store — frankly it’s all quite boring and I enjoy my unpaid work of mostly doing research and reading online — which is how I recently ran into this blog.
This post compares several very different nations in the world. On Trinifar I write about the problems of increasing population and increasing consumption in a finite world. Or if you want immediate gratification look at this one which addresses economic class differences.
Thanks for providing the opportunity to advertise my blog.
I should note too that your blog is one of the few on my blog roll. :-)
I like Amptoons. It’s a liberal blog. I’ve been reading it for a while now, and never quite figured out what they focus on if they focus on any one particular subject.
Let’s pass a constitutional amendment disenfranchising Bush voters.
Not mine, but a friend from D.C. This one was on Crooks and Liars.
Well, since Lauren started with an ill-thought through toot, I feel comfortable sounding one of my own:
I’m over at Acephalous arguing that despite his legendary misogyny, there was a moment when Dave Sim could’ve gone the other way. What we have in him is someone who teetered on the edge of insanity–who, with the proper guidance, could’ve produced lesser art but been a better person–but someone who embraced the insanity instead of face reality. (And no, I’m not being a contrarian here. I do believe the most baldly insane of modern misogynists could’ve been saved had he not thought himself into an artificial corner.)
Great idea for a feature. Thanks. This entry is from a personal journal/cultural critique site,
Might help if I actually add the link.
Race In America
http://bluetide.typepad.com/blog/2007/02/race_in_america.html
A little old, but this is some of my better writing as of late, I think. It’s on judging the authenticity of identity, particularly trans identity.
Wow. Thanks Lauren.
I am sure that I don’t have to tell the rest of the readers here what a awesome blog Lauren has, but if people haven’t checked Lauren’s blog out, they should.
If you want something specifically feminist, I have a few thoughts on sex-selective abortion in India and the housework study.
Or there’s my hivemind question to people who understand social cues better than me and can tell when someone’s snubbing them.
I’ve written a Case For Feminism here.
Feminist Events in NYC for March!
And on the sister site, MilbyDaniel, I recently wrote about parental consent to give birth.
ummm, its not a blog. But i literally do toot my own horn sometimes (I play trumpet.)
music of the explicitly political persuasion.
Thanks for doing this. I have a post up about Blog Against Sexual Violence Day: 5 April 2007which is timed to match A Day to End Sexual Violence (part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month).
Now I’m going to check out all the interesting links.
Chipotle burritos and you: An Expose.
Over at 79soul.com, I wrote an entry discussing my views about morality and video gaming focusing on how the choices that developers allow or force a player to make alter how much I enjoy the game.
I don’t write much about feminism but since I lurk here and you threw out the invitation, I’m going to indulge in a little pimping or blogstrabation or whatever we’re calling it.
I’ve written about The War on Drugs and why I think going to war with Iran would be a really bad idea. Other than politics, I write (poorly) about science and a host of other topics.
For those who love feminism and animation:
This is about a panel I went to see hosted by Geena Davis’ group See Jane about women in animation, which I thought would be awesome but was not.
And this is part one of my attempt to analyze animated films from a feminist perspective. Part two…is taking its time…
I originally wanted to start a blog just so I could “refute” things that Adam Corrolla and Dr. Drew said on Loveline. I know it’s stupid and silly but for a while I was addicted to listening to old MP3s of the show. Stuff dating from 2002-2006. I had a job doing data-entry and I would listen to maybe 5-6 hours of Loveline a DAY.
Of course listening to Adam Corrolla just makes you want to shake your fist at him ALL THE TIME. He is the definition of a radio pig. (Dr. Drew is the gentlemanly version of it.)
It was funny though how propaganda works. After listening to the “Adam Corrolla” view of women for 5 hours a day, five days a week I started seeing the world of male-female relationships through his eyes. This is kind of bad. Anyway blogging was my attempt to break myself of thinking like him.
http://bitchkittie.blogspot.com/2006/02/radio-last-bastion-of-open-misogyny.html
http://bitchkittie.blogspot.com/2006/02/radio-misogyny-ii-its-coincidental.html
ok…since all of you are learning about new blogs to go to, I just did a post on my blog gushing about Google Reader...you’ll need a decent RSS reader to deal with alll these new blogs!!
heee
twoluvcats
I blog with a couple other folks in San Francisco. Here’s my take on Global Warming and environmental justice.
I am just a wee feminist and still working out what I mean when I say that, so my blog post is focusing on my interest in Women’s History.
Is it really her story?
I’m writing about Women’s History every weekday this month. (Kinda – it was a holiday here on Monday and I forgot it still counted as a weekday in the rest of the world.)
The Hannitizer goes to Bunny Ranch (and leaves with video)!
I’ve been persuaded to share my dubious poetry talents with the world, so here are 6 verses of trite limericks on why you shouldn’t be a Nice Guy (TM).
Yes, I’m promoting my blog, “If you can read this, don’t.”
i’ve never liked the term “blogwhoring” either. i kind of like “selling my blogging soul” but i’m a sucker for the underdog. if that one’s catapulted to the top, i may like it less. “shameless self-promotion” works for me.
writing is not my forte and i have no single outstanding post worth pointing out, but i do have two projects i’ve let languish and would really like to get back to —
The Goat Rope Challenge, an attempt to define my vision of a just society, inspired by the blogger El Cabrero;
a letter-writing campaign, in which i attempt to e-mail everybody in congress, primarily about my antiiwar views.
Suzanne Frank blogs as Zuska * over at scienceblogs about women in engineering and science. She’s awesome. In this post, she ably explains text vs. subtext and why statements that we think are perfectly reasonable and not biased at all actually exist against a cultural backdrop and can be loaded with mysogyny. There’s a bit of a blog dust-up behind this post, but the post stands pretty well on its own.
http://scienceblogs.com/thusspakezuska/2006/12/stereotypes_and_subtext_a_wee.php
*I’m not outing her, she uses her real name, too.
Coulter’s mouth frothing, the lame response from HRC and Edwards and the shameful response from many on the Left.
I decided to celebrate day against sexism by taking a look at a study out of the UK that talks about the importance of the dad in child-rearing. Anything that breaks the old daddy breadwinner/mommy stay-at-home stereotype is good news in my opinion.