Comments on: Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

By: Lauredhel

Lauredhel — Tue, 01 May 2007 06:44:30 +0000

I’ve started to explore the effects of the passive voice in reports of sexualised violence, in Passive Aggression: Foregrounding the Object.

This was triggered by reading a snippet of research which found: “When men read rape and battery stories written in the passive voice, they attributed less blame to the perpetrator – and less harm to the victim – than for the active-voice versions. The effect was specific to sexual violence: verb voice did not alter how men viewed murders or robberies.”

Now I’m seeing the passive voice everywhere, and it’s making my teeth itch.

By: cara

cara — Tue, 01 May 2007 00:03:30 +0000

My blog less than two weeks old, and I just wrote a post (a critique of an article supposedly "dispelling" media myths about women) that I particularly like. Selling Anxiety . . . and Heteronormativity?

By: nightgigjo

nightgigjo — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:46:18 +0000

Perhaps my first post of substance. At least the first post of substance that I didn't feel horribly insecure about.

By: Hawise

Hawise — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:20:25 +0000

Dang, dang double dang

http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/

Go the long way…

By: Hawise

Hawise — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:19:37 +0000

Dang, first time trying to post a link and it didn’t work ;(

Try, try again…

By: Hawise

Hawise — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:18:12 +0000

ballastexistenz has a great collection of links related to Disability blog carnival #13 about the boxes people get put into. Her own entry is long but well worth the read.

By: Mighty Ponygirl

Mighty Ponygirl — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:45:19 +0000

I was pretty proud of my (small) post on The intersection of murder, videogames, and media, but I didn't generate much discussion. :(

By: Lynn Gazis-Sax

Lynn Gazis-Sax — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:09:14 +0000

I don't have a lot myself, but Riverbend has decided to leave Iraq. For my own blog, I'll go with a post on a couple of famous cases of people getting trigger happy with guns.

By: Bolo

Bolo — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:40:13 +0000

I made a nice little graphical timeline of Thomas Friedman's stupidity re: Iraq. Link here

By: Kristjan Wager

Kristjan Wager — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:53:04 +0000

I wrote about an Amnesty International survey on abuse of women in Norway: Shocking misogyny in Norway It got some play in the Danish media (and the Norwegian media as well, obviously), because the results were surprising.