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My take down of Ross Douthat’s asinine NYT op-ed. Plus, thoughts on the Episcopal Church splitting and the Sean Avery debacle.
on being femme and being called out on it in a classroom
Read a little about my Intro to Women Writers class focusing on Food Fiction on my blog: http://annieem.wordpress.com.
This week on MMW, we examined the commodification of the burqa, the politics of lust in the Malaysian fatwa against tomboys, pondered gender at the MANA conference, reprimanded the Egyptian media for its coverage of the murder of two women, and linked up a storm.
Teaching Slavery: A teacher binds the hands and legs of two black girls to teach them about the middle passage.
Tell It Sisterhood: When White Women Speak Out: What happens when you get passed the STFU stage and it is time to engage with WOC.
Michelle Obama and The Politics Of Shifting: How language and behaviour changes when in a room of mixed elasticities. Can we really know Michelle when whites are uncomfortable with blackness?
I dissected a NZ Herald columnist crying over his privilege, and discussed a new study about men’s self-esteem and how it might be related to masculinity.
lots of stuff this week: brief comment on the planned parenthood gift certificates, info on the court decision that CA failed to implement a health care plan for people with HIV, outrage on bossip’s bullshit misogynist commentary on the jennifer hudson murders, thoughts on commercial surrogacy in india, thoughts on US involvement in and responsibility for narco violence in mexico, and snarkiness about the bush administration’s use of the movie “chuck and larry get married” as evidence of potential fraud in federal benefits for same-sex partners.
This week at The Feminist Underground:
1. When Nice Guys (TM) Attack: “Hot Chicks with Douchebags”
2. FGM as Grounds for Asylum
3. The new Arkansas ban on same-sex couples adopting or becoming foster parents.
4. A teen girl saves her dad from armed robbers with her Tae Kwon Do skills.
So here someone leaves a comment on my blog in august declaring why, to him, “people cannot take most feminist views with any seriousness is because [...] it’s EXTREMELY anti-intellectual” there’s a little more to that comment as well. I’m a new blogger, and as you may see on our blog we don’t really get any comments. So for the most frequent commentator to frequently oppose our views let alone declare most feminist views to be anti-intellectual with out offering much more for a dialogue I found insulting. So I reacted to it. Probably not in the most constructive way or articulate way. this led him to respond on his blog. My blogging partner then chimed in with her insights here. Finally I apologized for my strong reaction and promised to offer a more thought out response to his claim that most main line feminism is anti-intellectual. anyone have a suggestion as to where to start?
other than that, Etheline the other blogger on our blog offers some insight about the recent Victoria Secret Fashion Show..
thanks!
Olives
I have some more thoughts on “grope-gate” (as I’m calling Favreau’s class act) and how it defies Obama’s “platform” of no drama and superior judgment. I also have some personal ruminations on gender inequality in academia in a post-2008 election world.
Jazz critic and cranky old guy Stanley Crouch wrote a bizarre column suggesting that Obama’s election heralds the end of hip-hop. Here are my thoughts.
It’s the holiday Christmas season so that means that the AFA boycott of all companies that disrespect Jesus now includes CostCo and Jeb Bush thinks sedition is A-OK once his brother is out of office.
You should all check out this week’s edition of our Dreams for Women project (we have asked people to send us postcards with their Dreams for Women on them ex. I Dream that no woman is seen and not heard).
http://antigonemagazine.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/dreams-for-women-millennium-scholars-edition/
Also, we REALLY need your help! With only one month left of 2008, we still have 350 copies of our 2009 Dreams for Women Calendars left to sell! The money raised by selling these calendars is instrumental for us to launch Antigone For Girls (a magazine written by and for girls aged 10-15 that will encourage them to get involved in leadership and politics). They’re only $20 (Canadian!)
http://antigonemagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/its-here-the-dreams-for-women-2009-calendar-is-here/
For Bloggers:
We’re giving FREE calendars to the first 15 bloggers who write about the calendars and pay a $5 shipping fee at this link:
http://antigonemagazine.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/dreams-for-women-blogger-giveaways/
For Non-Profit Organizations:
Raise money for your organization by selling calendars! We sell calendars to non-profits at half price and allow them to sell them to raise money for their organizations! Or just buy them as thank you gifts for a special low price. Find out more information here:
http://antigonemagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/its-here-the-dreams-for-women-2009-calendar-is-here/
I wrote a post on how homophobia, racism, and sexism are all knotted together at the root, when I noticed how many pro-Prop8 blogs were suddenly declaring that Demographic Winter was the best thing since sliced bread… Humans are not an endangered species.
I also noted that No, it’s not unfair that the LDS Church is being condemned for its political campaigning against Proposition 8.
I put up a piece over at studentactivism.net this morning about a 1902 prank photo of temperance movement leader Carry Nation, and how it reveals a similar mentality as that behind Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau’s pose with the Hillary Clinton cutout.
About my fear of death
My thoughts on why lying about the numbers and telling someone “You don’t look that fat!” isn’t a good idea.
Mzbitca and I are live blogging our delve into Twilight to see what all the fuss is about. Please join us. The posts are here, here, here, and here. Should have another one up later today.
And finally, I write yet another letter to Cosmo b/c they just don’t fucking get it.
Have a great week, everyone!
On liking ‘male’ music and what ‘female’ music says.
I have found that D is the new F in schools across the country. Thankfully, a few others seem to be as annoyed by this as I am.
A look at “Expelled” and Ebert’s review of it. Not my best work, however.
My latest feminist dream and a few posts on Governor Ed Rendell’s comments on how having no family means a single woman has no life.
This is only quasi-self-promotion, since I’m promoting the impressive work of my co-bloggers, and not my own. Stacey May Fowles wrote a moving personal account of how she has been involuntarily sexualized for talking openly about her sexuality. Already, one of our co-bloggers has posted either in: Lee Jacobs Riggs here. Feministe’s own Cara has written on a related topic, an old Katha Pollitt piece that seems really to not get it on the revocation of consent, here.
I’m most of the way through the book, Yes Means Yes, and I’m incredibly impressed by the depth and quality of the essays that make up the collection.
And if I may promote someone else’s work*, my partner’s thoughts on the Pirelli calendar and another take on the “War on Christmas” (not to take anything away from ol cranky).
*Because if I don’t, she never will.
We suggested 10 things you can do on World AIDS Day.
We talked about how much Saxby Chambliss really really deserved to lose his Senate seat, which unfortunately didn’t happen.
We addressed PA Governor Ed Rendell’s comments about AZ Governor Janet Napolitano being a great choice for DHS Secretary because she has no family and therefore can devote 100% of her life to the job.
In our ongoing feminist watch series, we discussed NOW’s 2009 Feminist Agenda, and the survey that they’re doing now to collect feedback on which parts of the agenda are most critical to us right now.
Over at Pink Scare:
LN shares her reaction to last week’s New York Times Magazine’s story on a Times writer who paid a woman to carry and give birth to her baby. It leads to a discussion about privilege, resentment, and giving other women a break…
I get into some theory about identity and revolution and Wendy Brown’s critique of feminism (she says feminists are afraid of politics).
And T keeps us posted on the latest political developments and analyses in Venezuela, Thailand, and Mumbai.
I wrote about:
1. George W. Bush in Still Lying After All These Years.
2. The joy of transition in Watch Out: Obama’s Coming!.
As always, thank you for the opportunity to shamelessly self-promote.
Carly D. Kickslaw
A Smut-Filled Tome and The Triad Rag
I posted my favourite recipe, which is more or less self-invented (I had to look up what to use as the base in a book, but after that it’s all my own experimentation): a curry for the masses!
In Destroy what we cannot control, I wrote about the tyrannical tendencies of the New labour “project” in Great Britain, with respect to the internet and sexuality.
I wrote about my latest visit to the doctor, and some curious self-identity issues it threw up – but not in the way you might expect.
I cover the rightwing blogosphere. There was a time when the only lefties being read were the dreaded war bloggers. Dr. Frank was the former front man of Mr. T Experience. He wrote a blog post in 2003 urging Bush to more neoconservative. In the good doctor’s mind; the only way Bush could connect with the masses was to channel his inner-neocon.
I also spotlight Michelle Malkin appearing in a mink calendar. The only purpose of the calendar is to offend the Left.
Tas and Litbrit Mock Silly Bloggers
I responded (a bit late) to Ed Rendell’s open mike comment about Janet Napolitano, and I’ve started a new series of Conversations with the Patriarchy here and here.
A post about literally the most offensive thing anyone’s ever said to me (trigger warning).
A more lighthearted post in which I truly earn my feminist blogger badge by posting pictures of a cat.
I’ve been actively live blogging my reading of Twilight and my impressions on the relationship between Bella and Edward and the way the characters actions and words set up a very unhealthy and in some ways, sexist relationship
http://mzbitca.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/im-sorry-i-almost-choked-on-your-victim-blaming/
I have been watching the same folks who bailed out the Armani suited free market bankers try to blame the UAW and unions for the economic state the nation is in.
As an anarcha-feminist I believe workers should all belong to unions and that feminists should support the Employee Free Choice Act.
This week I am offering up:
“There is power in a union”
http://womanrebel.blogspot.com/2008/12/there-is-power-in-union.html
SuzyQ
I praised a campaign to introduce white readers to books by black authors.
Check out our Dreams for Women postcards this week. The Dreams for Women project asks men and women around the world to submit their Dreams for Women on postcards (ex. I dream of a world where no woman is seen and not heard).
http://antigonemagazine.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/dreams-for-women-millennium-scholars-edition/
Also, we REALLY need your help! With only one month left of 2008, we still have 500 copies of our 2009 Dreams for Women Calendars left to sell! The money raised by selling these calendars is instrumental for us to launch Antigone For Girls (a magazine written by and for girls aged 10-15 that will encourage them to get involved in leadership and politics).
Please forward this e-mail on and let everyone know what a great project, organization and calendar this is. Buy copies of the calendar for yourself or as holiday gifts for family and friends. Or buy one for a special woman in your life who has helped YOU make your dreams come true!
http://antigonemagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/its-here-the-dreams-for-women-2009-calendar-is-here/
Wrote an opus on the dangers of over-professionalization in the non-profit sector, and why this hurts the very things they are supposedly out to achieve.
Opened up a discussion on the pros and cons of these 4 models for immigrant integration. Was promptly swarmed by crowd of nativists and nationalists.
Wondered how it would look if friendships were legally recognized.
Yay!
I’ve continued to blog a charity a day until Christmas and am always open to suggestions. I also put up a piece about Florida voters who have elected the son of a Klansmen – http://aftercancernowwhat.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/what-is-wrong-with-florida-voters/ and a piece about screwed up priorities in this country http://aftercancernowwhat.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/screwed-up-priorities Come on by and thanks for the opportunity as always?
Not really an article per se, but I found an awesome article on live art modeling and had to comment on it.
The Daily show makes light of three deaths on Black Friday, and they get the three stories totally wrong.
http://afunnyfeminist.blogspot.com/2008/12/so-not-funny-daily-show.html
The trailers for Milk and the AFA propaganda film They’re Coming to Your Town are kinda similar, in a funny way, blast-from-the-past sort of way.
http://afunnyfeminist.blogspot.com/2008/12/fear-teh-gayz.html
And this was something I wrote a few weeks ago. But since Feministe brought up that Quinn guy this week, I thought I’d link up to a post about another crazy conservative commentator, Bill Cunningham. What’s the difference between Cunningham and Ayman al-Zawahri? I don’t know!
http://afunnyfeminist.blogspot.com/2008/11/which-is-which.html
Reviews of note this week:
The Women: The biggest debit of the film, though, is that its only women of color are served with the worst-written characters, and pillaring English for her racial insensitivity is only one issue I have with the film.
Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta!: In the proud feminist parade of successful and enriching anthologies, Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta! marches to a beat unlike its predecessors such as Listen Up!: Voices from the Next Generation and Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. First, it’s my favorite kind of feminism: it doesn’t label itself or even use the term feminist in its description, and it’s a powerhouse of creativity.
Synecdoche, New York: Okay, I know all the reviewers are raving. My husband raved (and I’ll let him justify that on his blog). I suspect the reviewers are raving because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do. It’s a deep and serious movie. It’s existentialist! It’s about the meaning of life! It’s surreal! Yes, it’s all those things, but that doesn’t mean it’s good.
Thinking about why it’s so hard to talk about eating disorders in activist communities, especially for mixed girls and women of color.
Only thing I have done this week is take some pictures today, however, I think they are worth a look.
Cheers
In Spanish: The most popular blog among Spanish-speaking bellydancers is the woes of a bellydancer’s partner. I’ve criticised the vision of spouses of women with hobbies as “victims” of that hobby:
http://danza-oriental.blogspot.com/2008/12/damnificados-y-cosas-que-se-me-ocurren.html
Are we all sodomites now?:
http://notfrisco2.com/leones/?p=3928
I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy (on the silly “Obama isn’t really natural born” lawsuit):
http://notfrisco2.com/leones/?p=3932
More on medieval theology and homosexuality:
http://notfrisco2.com/leones/?p=3942
Sex and Relationship Advice for Women:
http://notfrisco2.com/leones/?p=3946
Why I love Las Vegas:
http://elainevigneault.com/las-vegas-traditions-the-santa-run.html
My dogs are ridiculous:
http://elainevigneault.com/bella-and-floyd-2.html
It is argued (and is the opinion of this blogger) that it should be sociably acceptable to identify with a gender that is not the one a person was born with, and one should be able to become that gender if they desire. Can, and should, the same be said for race?
http://moonstruckwoman.blogspot.com/2008/12/panic.html
About having panic attacks at work.