This week has been nuts, so blogging has been light on my end, but here are a bunch of great feminist-minded reads to make up for it. I’m also going on vacation all next week — I have a fabulous guest-blogger lined up for you and I’ll have wireless in my hotel, though, so it shouldn’t have too much of an impact. And I’ll try to drag myself away from the beach long enough to put up a blog post or two every day. In the meantime, enjoy:
-The economics of prostitution — did Spitzer get caught because he didn’t spend enough on sex work?
-Iraqi women have their say — so when will we start listening to them?
-Why I can’t vote for Hillary Clinton — One woman reacts to the Clinton campaign’s racist smear tactics.
-Laura Ingraham is an asshole. Brett Favre cried during the press conference when he announced his retirement — an understandable emotional reaction — and Ingraham pulled out the masculinity-shaming
“All these years, and I didn’t know there was a woman quarterback in the NFL.
“Brett Favre … we’re watching this in the studio, obviously retiring from the NFL, great quarterback, handsome 38-year-old man, he gets up there and he does this press conference that was frankly one of the most embarrassing things I have ever seen.”
“That’s a great message for young boys. ‘Get up there and act like a girl and start blubbering like a baby.”
Then, in her best impersonation of a crying toddler with its favorite toy taken away, she wah-wah-wah’s while uttering in a mocking tone, “It’s about me, it was never about me, but it is about me, bla, bla, bla” before returning to her regular voice and stating, “I could not believe what I was seeing.”
-What women should take away from the Spitzer scandal and the “stand by your man” expectation of Silda: Don’t quit your day job.
-The cure for depression: An apron, some babies and a man to run your life. Stop expecting things and you won’t be sad.
-Elizabeth Hasselbeck is concerned that white people can’t go to Obama’s church (not true).
During a segment of The O’Reilly Factor to discuss “What is the downside of having a woman become the president of the United States?” author Marc Rudov’s initial response to the question was, “You mean besides the PMS and the mood swings, right?” Rudov later asserted: “Well, you know, I’m joking. Of course, the main problem I have is if a woman has a female agenda.”
A woman caring about things that affect women? Count me out.
-The gender gap in elections — is misogyny influencing the way that men vote?
-Heather MacDonald is wrong on rape. Too bad she’s still a completely misogynist asshat who refuses to inject a dose of reality into her woman-hating and victim-blaming.
-Amy Winehouse doesn’t need a patriarchal media and society to save her.
-It’s a natural resource curse, not a religious one: How oil in the Middle East has negatively influenced women’s rights.
-Men denounce violence against women in Kenya. Way to go, guys — this is awesome pro-feminist activism. Any male readers are encouraged to head over and sign.
-Echidne, one of my favorite bloggers, writes about what it means to be a feminist. See Part 1 and Part 2.
-Contraceptive Crafting for women and girls who want a new space to express their artistic side:
I mean how can it be that the search query for “skateboard designs” has over 19,000 results and two sponsored links while “contraceptive designs” can have 5 results and three sponsored links? Which one is really going to have a bigger impact on you over the course of your entire life? Which actually pushes your design and crafting efforts to consider themes of sexuality, reproduction, personal responsibility, perhaps love, passion, the actual chemistry of choice and other forms of rebellion than having a security guard chase you off the loading dock?
Which is not to say that skateboarding isn’t cool. It is. It’s just that it’s also cool to have an option for not getting pregnant when having sex. Admittedly it’s a small canvas, but it seems like a strategic one.
-Anti-choice nuts demonstrate at a kids’ film — Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who. Then they wonder why people think they’re nuts.
-Anti-sex-trade activists are reeling in the wake of the Spitzer scandal — particularly because Spitzer signed the toughest anti-sex-trafficking law in the nation.
How feminists set women up to be down…
The Christotheocrats’s pet Jew, Dennis Prager, has given his keepers the big O (the one other than Oprah) by asserting he knows the reason that women suffer depression twice as often as men do. Instead of the old standby misogynistic “women are silly…
Good grief. Brett fucking Favre can’t meet the wingnut standards for masculinity? The only thing that obscures just how much they hate men is how much more they hate women. Ridiculous.
Oh. That comment thread at the Favre post is pretty heinous. It’s not enough to call Favre a sissy for shedding tears, it takes all over six comments before they start going after his wife. The comments just get worse as you hit the double digits. Ugh.
I’m going to be up way too late reading some of these. I just know it.
With Rush Limbaugh sticking his trotter firmly in his mouth over Donovan McNabb, don’t you think wingnut commentators would have learned by now to stay away from pro football?
Thanks for the Kenyan link, I signed on…
Don’t forget Vox Day’s little article on how women are the biggest threat to science:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=58449
Both this and the Pranger article have been causing a lot of discussion at Science Blogs.
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What did Rush say about McNabb?
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GNOC: During his mercifully short-lived stint on ESPN, Limbaugh said the media was coddling McNabb because they were “anxious for a black quarterback to succeed.” He was talking about a quaterback who was an Pro-Bowl alternate in his rookie season, led his team to the Super Bowl, and still holds the NFL record for consecutive completions.
It used to be that QB was considered “a white man’s position,” to the extent that black QBs would get death threats. Rush’s little fiasco showed that that ugly attitude is not entirely dead.
That MacDonald thing made me ill. I read these two things and that was it, I couldn’t read anymore because I knew my head would explode:
1) Or would they remain silent about whether girls should continue to frequent that area of the campus, because “rape is never a woman’s fault”?
Yes, put that in quotes because you’re still on the fence about whether or not women ask for it.
2) Virtually all of these alleged rapes could be avoided if the girls took certain steps: don’t get into bed with a guy when you are very drunk, don’t take off your clothes, don’t get involved in oral sex, and so on.
Calling college age women “girls” is the new feminism, I suppose.
Nauseating.
Kind of like how the media has coddled Obama?
McNabb – average statistics (excellent defense)
Obama – below average statistics (excellent orator)
HMMMM, looks like that media attitude of coddling is not entirely dead.
Not as dead as your brain, apparently.
i see you have the gift of language like barack
So I suppose Ingraham thinks Mark Messier is a woman too? Can I use Ingraham’s definition of woman to declare myself a lesbian?
GNOC, I really don’t want to get into a debate about football on a feminist board, under a post that had absolutely nothing to do with football, with someone who thinks that quarterbacks play defense.
As for Obama, his “statistics” measure up against those of many other presidental candidates, including some of the ones you’ve probably supported.
Racists tend to say that the despised racial group is coddled, has it made, etc. It’s tiresome. And so are you.
Who said he plays defense, I said he has (or rather had) an excellent defense.
That was the point. Rush said Donovan was hyped by the media because he was black, his statistics were mediocre. His cohost argued that the Eagles were winning games because of Donovan, and Rush said it had more to do with the defense then Donovan being a great quarterback. Noone said he was bad, no on sad he was anything. The comment was about the media
So SNL picked up on the coddling of Barack, hmm. Are they racist too?
Brett Favre has been a great example to many men: he’s coped with (prescription) drug addiction, alcohol addiction, family bereavement, he’s been a loyal team mate and a dedicated player, I don’t think I’ve ever seen him act in an aggressive way, for example, in celebrations he never seems to do any of that taunting of rivals or their fans that some sportsmen do. And he’s passionate and unafraid of showing his emotional reactions.
If that’s being a cry-baby, then I’m proud to call myself a cry-baby too!
Thanks so much for the superior piece on Winehouse. Really excellent.
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