Give us what you got.
And wish me luck — my open house is today. I want an offer because I want this over with!
Shameless self-promotion Sunday
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Reproductive Health Matters
We’re in the Guardian
Good luck Zuzu!!!!! :)
My county is offering same sex public education. Why? I have no idea. What is the cult behind the same-sex thing? Is this basically conservative? It sounds like it.
(I guess you can tell it’s been over a half-dozen years since I had a kid in school, right? I haven’t kept up with the controversies and trends.)
Shameless self-promotion – I write for InTheFray.org under the name writegal. My most recent post was “Michelle Obama lives in the real world.”
Added a second Boston terrier to the household this weekend. Pictures here.
I question whether police officers have ears.
Fed-ex annoys me.
I meet Pidomon.
The Most Important Video You Will Ever Watch!!! and why I posted it.
Colin Powell, Obama and Mandela are basically called Good Negroes.
And finally, I discuss the friends with benefits “phenomenon” in response to Rev. Rob’s post.
Oh, and while my link-o-rama is in moderation, the best of luck on your open house!
Quick posts on the way we frame discussions about teen pregnancy, and new women-only hours at one of Harvard’s undergrad gyms. I’ll have a post soon on my horrendous Valentine’s Day dinner, too.
(Good luck! I hope you get an awesome offer.)
Thoughts on hearing the fabulous Angela Davis speak.
More on formaldehyde, trailers, and New Orleans.
Fingers crossed for ya.
Mind, Body, Self, an intersecting exploration on mind/body split in pwd (physical) and what exactly makes a person disabled — their physical or mental condition, or a society that is unprepared to deal with it.
And then I get frustrated with an article in the NYT about a link between popularity (or lack thereof) and higher weight in school-age girls.
Good luck!
The New York Times Cuts EcoMoms down to “just a housewife” size.
A breakdown of fans’ music videos for each of the candidates. I discovered specifically what was wrong with Clinton’s campaign.
The Hilarity of Sexism (Valentin’s edition).
Thanks guys!
And I always have cat pictures galore all over my blog. It’s the dangerous combination of an amateur photographer and a person who is really, really attached to her cats. :)
Wow. How could I misspell Valentine’s? Yikes. Sorry about that.
I have a post up highlighting victim-blaming in an article about a woman who was raped by her superior officer: Rebellious Jezebel Seen in Office of Superior Officer
I also suggest encouraging and thanking some members of the North Carolina Legislature for working to put an end to Women having to pay for their rape kits
I use V day to talk about violence against women. Bah humbug for Valentines!
In honor of Valentine’s day, I came down hard on a new website that tries to foster straight men’s insecurity in their ability to form relationships with women in order to sell products.
I also made a disturbing discovery about how the history of Susan B. Anthony, whose birthday was this past week, has been appropriated.
I’m a student at the University of Wisconsin, and a member of my school’s New Voter’s Project. We had an event on VDay where we handed out condoms (in light of National Condom Week) that said “Lose Your Political Virginity on Feb 19th on them. We thought we might as well promote safe sex along with safe voting :)
Diane drops an F-bomb
Jane drops a C-bomb
Good luck with the open house!!
For all the talk of the Obama grassroots machine, the energy the Clinton campaign has inspired, esp. since Super Tuesday, is worth celebrating too. Donors have raised millions and also made well over a million calls on her behalf, the latter basically in the last few days.
In true shamless self-promotion fashion, I’d like to direct any HRC supporters to a pro-Clinton support network and blog called The Hillary 1000, which I launched with my mom and some of her friends. Other bloggers – esp. Donna Darko and Pocochina – have been instrumental in spreading the word about our efforts.
Even if you’re not a Clinton supporter, the site is turning out to be a great spot to track media misogyny and sexism.
Many of the bloggers in the blogroll were added by request, so please let me know if you’d like to be included!
Good luck, Zuzu! I’d attend your open house but I can’t afford to buy an apartment. On my and my husband’s income, renting is about all we’re ever going to be able to do. Probably a good thing, too, considering the sub-prime mortgage crisis…
Long time lurker, first time poster. Yes, delurking to shamelessly self-promote myself – that’s how shameless I am!
So, I’ve just recently started blogging. I’m Swedish but write in English about my two cents on things like human rights, feminism, politics (Swedish, foreign, global), culture and such. Not terribly original, but I enjoy it. So some stuff from this week:
Random thoughts about the invisibility of the victim and on the issue of consent, with regard to a high profile rape case here in Sweden.
A rant about being unemployed. (The post that got me my very first blog comment, from Lauren of Faux Real!)
My take on that horrible Lori Gottlieb article on “settling”.
Likewise coped with impromptu “can we show your house in 35 minutes?” Great to do when sick with persistent bronchitis and goofy from meds, with two autistic sons below 6 also sick with bronchitis. Two words: carpet puke.
Anyway, to self-promotion. I have a short piece on how two different credit card companies jerked the calendar on me last month to try to make bogus short months (and thus induce late payments by surprise.) I assume that they have some 4-point type toilet paper notice that allows this. This may be of particular interest to bloggers/web heads who may set their Outlook or other reminder calendars to pay bills monthly online, rather than relying primarily on the paper notices.
For straight women who like watching The L Word,
and,
Turning my frown upside down. about my book reviews.
Happy reading!
Also adding best wishes for open house thing.
This week, I made a brief explanation of discovering how trans-unfriendly one of my local newsagents is.
More on V-Day: I wrote about a production of The Vagina Monologues that only stars African American women — significant because the play has been attacked in the past for its white, Western feminist perspective. I also wrote a follow up of the play after watching it last night here in D.C.
St. Joseph might be able to help you sell your house.
Good luck on selling that house Zuzu.
Hope you don’t meet any lowballers or people expecting the Trump Tower for what they are paying for.
Just encountered someone who was expecting a flatpanel monitor to be included with a computer priced at less than $200. :roll:
Bouncing off the Sanesha Stewart comments, why I’m not happy about the transgender vs drag queen distinction.
A bit on police brutality towards queer and/or trans* folks as well as how trans*women are profiled as prostitutes.
It’s pretty cheap, as New York real estate goes. Seriously, one of the cheapest things on the market, one of the few that’s got carrying costs less than rent nowadays.
Thanks everyone for the good wishes! It was very well-attended, from what I hear from the agent (she ran out of information sheets, and multiple people took offer-submission sheets). I take that as a sign that I’m selling at the right time; it’s a nice place, but not priced so high that your basic middle-class person or couple couldn’t afford it. Or couldn’t afford the payments if the looming recession hits and one of the couple loses his/her job.
Good luck; I have had mine on the market for almost 11 months, with no offers in sight.
Is feminism colonialism?
Let’s talk about some anti-porn feminist instances of hypocrisy for a minute.
GT 2008-02-05: Rapists in uniform, in which an Ohio county sheriff declares that when a woman is thrown in jail on a bogus “disorderly conduct” charge, having a gang of cops, including two male officers, pin her down and strip search her over her screams of protest, and then leave her naked in a freezing-cold cell for six hours, counts as “us[ing] reasonable force to … protect prisoners in their custody.”
GT 2008-02-10: The Conservative Mind (second Sin Fronteras edition), in which we’re reminded that they’re not against immigrants; they’re just against illegal immigrants!
GT 2008-02-13: Liberty, Equality, Solidarity: Toward a Dialectical Anarchism, in which your humble blogger appears in print.
DAISY,
What they are doing is HORRIBLY sexist. It is not JUST a matter of teaching boys and girls separately. They are going to try teaching them DIFFERENTLY, based on crazy gender stereotypes! Boys will get to go outside more, will get stress breaks with Nerf bats, will be taught about “heroism” and “being a man,” and will be disciplined more. Girls will be taught in groups, will be taught “character development” instead of “heroism,” will be taught math and science differently. Literature teachers will ask girls about the feelings of the characters, while they are instructed never to ask boys about their feelings, focusing instead on the action of the story. Teachers are being taught to look girls in the eyes and smile, but to avoid looking boys in the eyes. It’s disgusting. I might not be against single-sex classrooms necessarily, but they are NOT just talking about separating the boys from the girls and giving them the SAME education. DO NOT buy this trojan horse “separate but equal” stuff, because, as usual, we eventually find out that separate turns out NOT to be equal!
Here is a post I just did about this and about what happened where I live (sorry, the stuff that’s relevant to your topic starts about halfway down):
http://nolaradfem.blogspot.com/2008/02/me-going-to-war-with-school-board.html
The ACLU successfully fought this in my parish (county, to the rest of the U.S. outside of LA). PLEASE, PLEASE get in touch with the ACLU immediately, as they are all ready to fight these cases. The ACLU got an injunction here, in my area, but these school districts are doing this faster than the ACLU can even keep track, I think. Please let them know. Or, if you don’t want to, just tell me the county and I can notify them for you if you’d like. Let’s keep fighting this!
ACLU stories:
http://www.aclu.org/womensrights/edu/26328res20060802.html
(and, most shocking is this one, the temporary restraining order memorandum they filed here, eye-popping stuff starts around page 3):
http://www.aclu.org/womensrights/edu/26326lgl20060801.html
There is also a post on this at “Feminist Law Professors” (comments by me there too), and you can download his 75 page law review article on this topic there:
http://feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu/?p=2990
If I can help in ANY way, let me know (via my blog, just comment on anything and I will see it). I have the direct contact to someone at the ACLU who worked this case, but it would take a little digging to find it, so let me know if you need it, okay?
Not my shameless self promotion, but on behalf of my national broadcaster:
“For more than a century, Americans have enjoyed a long and passionate relationship with the gas-guzzling automobile. Rear Vision investigates why a desire for fuel efficiency was never part of the romance.”
It has an interesting bit in the middle about the electric cars of the early 20th century. The guy postulates that it’s downfall was that the car was marketed to women, feminised, and so rejected by the public. It’s interesting. Have a listen.
Good luck with your open house!
I wrote about the c-word.
And I went celibate (which isn’t the c-word I’m talking about).
Sexiest. Cover. Ever.
Amazingly good review
My own life was insane (14 hr work days all week), so I didn’t get much written on politics or deep thoughts
Now you can check out my ranting and raving about various things (like Radiohead & cupcakes) OR you can check out my creations on Etsy!!
Not something I’m personally involved in, but the bloomingOUT podcast feed is being updated. bloomingOUT is one of a handful of queer public affairs radio programs hitting the airwaves in the United States. Although some of the content is focused on the Southern Indiana area, there is a fair bit of discussion of national issues as well:
http://news.wfhb.org/news/newstopics.php?tid=1
My response to Lori Gottlieb’s “Settle! Quick! Before your eggs get old! And who cares if you find him the least bit attractive!” advice on marriage.
I just e-mailed this to a bunch of friends. It’s an…interesting story. (Names of friend/wife redacted):
a little late on this…but i tried to entertain a discussion about changing your name when you get married…
The boxcar has grown an appendage.