Comments on: Weekend Reads

By: MandyV

MandyV — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:00:08 +0000

Here's a little something from Professor What If's blog:What if the feminist blogosphere is a form of digital colonialism?

By: emjaybee

emjaybee — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:47:50 +0000

Sigh. The stuff I’ve seen from the natural birth community about orgasmic birth has NOT been this weird “validating Freud” thing–the only midwives I’ve ever heard talk about witnessing it made it clear that they thought it was pressure on the clitoris (sometimes by the mother using her hand) that probably would account for any pleasurable feelings during birth. Being that every woman’s genitals are somewhat differently shaped and that babies can present and descend in different ways, or be of different sizes, it’s not unthinkable that some lucky women have an ideal combination (plus, a relaxed enough atmosphere) that allows them to access those nerve endings in that way. How many women have the possibility of doing birth that way is unknown. Certainly would be interesting to see if the number could be increased; orgasm beats anesthetic any day.

But most people talk about it just to laugh at it or be shocked (as so many always are) that a woman dares to use her body for her own pleasure even in birth, because that’s icky and weird.

Whoever’s discussing it, though, Freud’s opinion on orgasm should be entirely irrelevant.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:52:54 +0000

The Teaching Moments idea in the last link didn’t really resonate with me, just because in high school I was always really put off by heteronormative assumptions like that. I would immediately tune out whatever the teacher was saying, even if they did have a relatively progressive message like the one this teacher seemed to be trying to get across. I realize I’m not exactly the target audience for this exercise, though.

By: The Heretic Loremaster » The Coraline Grab Bag!

The Heretic Loremaster » The Coraline Grab Bag! — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:48:01 +0000

[...] found Filthy Grandeur’s review of Coraline via Feministe. On the darkly seductive Other Mother, Filthy Grandeur writes: Also, her whole identity is based on [...]

By: Mel

Mel — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:35:03 +0000

OMFG, Taken pissed me off so, so much. I felt dirty afterwards (and pissed that I’d spent money on it). That review touches on…about half of what infuriated me.

(Although I didn’t realize the Albanians were supposed to be Muslim.)

By: Feminist Review

Feminist Review — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:41:05 +0000

Can I add to the list a feminist review of Taken?

By: Deborah Lipp

Deborah Lipp — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:56:39 +0000

Okay, totally weird coincidence. One of MY awesomely creative friends from high school is an animator on Coraline. Different person (mine’s male) but how weird to see the heading about Coraline, think that thought, and then read the exact same thought.