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http://blaghag.blogspot.com/2009/03/boards-games-inclusiveness-evil.html
Conservative Christians are upset that an online version of the game of life allows you to play as a homosexual couple. I have a mini rant about how dumb this is.
This week, I wrote about an experience I’m confused about–was it sexual assault? Also, someone recently told me that being a vegetarian will cause me to bleed out of me ass. But maybe it’s only a southern thang.
This is primarily of interest to Texans, but I blogged about the upcoming Lilith Fund Reproductive Equity Awards
A roundup of things going on in the world of immigration.
Only In A Woman’s World Frito Lay Goes Girly: Women are now no longer considered a niche market and yet essentialist gender marketing is still the stock and trade
Teaching About the Laramie Project Will Get You fired: Looking at the case of a teacher that lost her job for daring to teach the Laramie Project.
If Your Mom catches you jerking off punch her in the face: Looking at the case where a man punched his mother because she dared to tell him that masturbating in a public space is wrong and the victim blaming that ensued from this incident.
Megan McCain Responds To Laura Ingraham: Looking at her response on the view and a discussion of the ways in which women fat shame as a form of collusion with patriarchy.
Confession: I think Sylvia Plath was kind of an asshole…
- and yes, I recognize that thinking this makes *me* kind of an asshole, but I’m ok with that.
And also- The Kind of Girl You Can Take Home to Your Mother…
I looked at the criticism of orgasmic birth and discussed racism, film and political correctness.
I talked about rape in a heavily gendered military setting and how an intensely masculine society “invaded” by women creates men who feel emasculated, who then take out their desire to maintain control over women via rape.
The two latest posts in my Legendary Latinas series are on Rita Moreno and Gloria Anzaldua. I also have a post up about gender & the economy.
this week i wrote why i think gwyneth paltrow should STFU in regards to her “advice” to joaquin phoenix (not cuz i’m on his side, since they’re both idiots): http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/03/shut-up-gwyneth.html
also, i had a little fun viewing my favorite childhood cartoon (Batman, the Animated Series) through my adult feminist lens: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/03/batman-animated-series-look-at-gender.html
and, in case anyone missed it, a short rant about I Love You, man regarding a behind-the-scenes quote from one of the actors–you know, cuz rape is funny: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/03/another-product-of-our-rape-culture.html
Are Black Webrowsers Racist? BETxKevin KellyxBlackbird
http://modelminority.blogspot.com/2009/03/blackbird-x-bet-x-kevin-kelly.html
Rihanna, Sasha and Malia
http://modelminority.blogspot.com/2009/03/rihanna-sasha-malia.html
Good.Clean.Fun. ****Wink.
I witnessed a crime and I didn’t know what to do after that.
Responded to Shakes Anonymous’ post on relinquishing a child. (The resultant argument was quite expected.)
I squealed about my favourite 80′s cartoon, She-ra and the Ultimate Ship that resulted but never really did get totally explored.
And shared in part of the collective “aw fuck” that Kyle Payne is blogging amongst us again. You know, the molestor-posing-as-a-feminist who said he wouldn’t blog until he was welcomed back by the feminist community.
The week wound up mostly about international issues, in part because some of the most active US campuses were on spring break.
I wrote about police violence against students sitting-in in Spain, protests against the deadly militarization of a Yemeni campus, a student protest that rolled back a tuition hike in Vietnam, and last week’s massive French student and labor protests.
Meanwhile, back in the States, Visit W3Schools! is forming, and a labor solidarity campaign against a university apparel manufacturer has won disaffiliations on nearly two dozen campuses since January.
I gave some thought to the politics of attraction – in a mostly lighthearted vein, inspired by a hilarious post by Aunt B on why patriarchy sucks for conservative men, too. (I hope she won’t mind me shamelessly promoting her post along with mine!)
Oops. HTML screwup. That second-to-last link (still in moderation, as I write this) should have read “A new national organization for adjunct faculty is forming.”
Wrote a little diddy on the Equal Rights Amendment and if its in the cards for the Obama administration.
http://tabootrinity.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/the-lucretia-mott-amendment/
I’m certainly not a fan of beauty pageants but I’m impressed by Miss Virginia
My humble opinion about Jade Goody
And a piece about a lying, ratbag of a researcher
Stupidity in Texas.
I wrote about the use of humor in “feminine hygiene” ads and the new Tampax ad campaign
I wrote about the Pope claiming condoms are not the solution to AIDS in Africa.
I prepared 42 cover letters this week looking for work….which has nothing to do with blogging…but the whole thing is exhausting and I just needed to share.
Ahem…will draft prospectuses for medical benefits…
Here’s what the ESC was up to this week:
~We’ve started sharing our fabulous taste in music with our readers, and surely they’re very grateful.
~We took shameless self-promotion to the extreme, because our empire just won’t stop growing.
~We attended the feministing happy hour in NYC, which was also a fundraiser for the awesome organization Girls for Gender Equity.
~In light of the whole Meghan McCain/Laura Ingraham drama, we took a look back at some of the things that Ingraham has said in the past, and concluded that it’s pretty ridiculous for her to appoint herself judge of who should be taken seriously.
~We took a look at a new group called Votes Have Consequences, which is going to target certain pro-choice members of Congress in the 2010 elections, and some of their rather interesting “pro-life” rhetoric.
I’m linking here because of a little nugget buried in the middle of the post: Girls reported their parents are twice as likely to encourage them to become actresses as to become engineers.
“We Can’t All Eat Lettuce.”
Snippet:
Humans can’t survive on lettuce alone, but humans can survive on plants alone. As the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada say:
“appropriately planned vegetarian [including vegan] diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate and provide health benefits”
Nonviolence United says:
[...]“40,000 will starve to death… every single day. This doesn’t happen because there isn’t enough for everyone. This happens because while people are starving, we are wasting enormous amounts of grain to feed cows, pigs, chickens and other animals so that we may satisfy our desire for meat, milk and eggs.” [...]
“Because raising animals for food takes so much land, water and other resources, the Earth would be able to sustain only about 2 Billion people on a meat and dairy based diet. With a world population of nearly 7 Billion people, it’s easy to see that we need to find a better way.”
I’m in love with Meghan McCain.
CombatQueer discusses the safety issues of blogging as a transwoman in the military.
http://combatqueer.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/ncaa-tournament.html
Just blogging out of frustration. A summary of my recent feelings.
On the border
I’m one of several feminist historians who’ve been blogging on Judith Bennett’s ‘History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism’ this month.
My latest post is on the periodization of women’s history.
I wrote about how I feel about my transmale breasts and how the media imposes a flat-chested male ideal, just as it impose a big-chested female ideal.
I also wondered about the possible emotional effects of testosterone therapy on transgender men.
As part of a news roundup, I wrote about the Brazilian excommunication and about Israel’s ban on the celebration of Arab Culture Day.
Brian wrote about Iraq, Cheney, and Papa Ratzi: Get With the Times, Conservatives
Well, robyn, thank you for providing my daily dose of ableism for today. i did not know that having disabling depression made me a sociopathic asshole. thanks for “educating” me on that.
this week I rewrote an MSNBC ‘sex scandal’ story about rape as a ‘generosity scandal’ story about theft to highlight the problems with how the media reports stories of rape. I don’t know if this has been done before but I haven’t seen it and i feel pretty clever after writing this.
http://skeptifem.blogspot.com/2009/03/msnbc-must-have-pretty-screwed-up.html
I reported on a filmmaker who is doing the old “sell your virginity online and let me film it” routine, and pretending it’s edgy! and Fresh!
The twist this time? He’s been attempting to solicit random people on university campuses into his little prostitution fantasy, many of whom are underage (especially this time of year), and filming their responses without permission. Campus folk and police are unamused.
Special K’s new ad irritated me.
Also irritated by Pat “the douche” Kenny an Irish broadcaster
It’s been an irritating week!
creates Eco Friendly Feminist Fashion, using hand cut stencils of feminists throughout history (herstory!), and printing them on recycled clothing.
OK, I managed to screw that up! Let’s go old school.
lorikoop.etsy.com giveaway! http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/03/lorikoopetsycom-giveaway.html
Women’s History: Emma Hart Willard http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/03/womens-history-emma-hart-willard.html
Lindsay Keating-Moore from KM Stitchery creates Eco Friendly Feminist Fashion, using hand cut stencils of feminists throughout history (herstory!), and printing them on recycled clothing. http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/03/km-stitchery.html
Sometimes, arguing that we live in a rape culture is hard. But sometimes something makes it very easy.
Structural parallels between the ideology of racism and the ideology of animal abuse.
How has invasion affected the women of Iraq and Afghanistan?
Possibly the worst advert ever (or rather, the worst yet…)
Everyone was once a child. Therefore we should hate God?
Will technology ever free us from the compulsion to work? Not if the big C has anything to do with it…
Obama appointed an Indiana judge to US Appeals court
http://mzbitca.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/obama-appoints-indiana-judge-for-us-appeals-court/
This week I shared the good news that our favorite Arizona sherriff is under investigation, a local story about a pastor who would rather go to jail than stop harassing women going to a clinic, and a series of posts on this prompt:
The series came out in four installments; Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV.
Debunking the old lie the “comprehensive sex ed” gets “twelve times” the federal funding that abstinence-only gets:
http://www.amplifyyourvoice.org/u/AFY_Joe/2009/3/19/More-lies-from-the-Abstinenceonly-Lobby
Shelby Knox attends the introduction of the REAL Act, which would finally create a funding stream for comprehensive sex ed:
http://www.amplifyyourvoice.org/u/ShelbyKnox/2009/3/18/Watching-a-dream-come-true-for-REAL
Not that anybody important reads my blog, and it’s a little too late besides, but I have my own economic recovery plan.
A post about an annoying chain email sent to me by my (extremely conservative) grandfather.
And a wee St. Patrick’s Day post from Tuesday.
Hugo Schwyzer wrote mocking the theory that men *have* to be older in hetero relationships. I dug in a little deeper in Older Men, Younger Women, and Two Different Speeds Towards Adulthood.
figleaf
GallingGalla –
I’ve struggled with depression on and off for my entire life, and I agree with Robyn: Sylvia Plath was a self-pitying jerk in a lot of ways. And no, it wasn’t all about the disease: an old professor of my mine knew her, and said that by the time she was a sophomore at Smith she was so into the idea of the Artist Suffering and Dying for Her Art that nothing anyone said to the contrary could penetrate.
Also, having clinical depression does not give anyone, even a talented poet, the right to backbite someone who paid for her schooling and medical care, and rip apart the school that educated and later employed her. Sylvia Plath did all these things.
She may have been talented (personally I’ve never had much use for her poetry, but I know many people do), and she was certainly ill used by her husband. But a nice person? No.
Comrade PhysioProf has posted his NCAA hoops bracket and opines on Civility and Decency.
I blog about the scape-goating of Rosemarie Fritzl
http://safespaceblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/mens-oppression.html
A couple of magaziney things from me this week.
First, a story I wrote, entitled: Why we’re not that into HJNTIY (He’s Just Not That Into You).
Second, a story I didn’t write and didn’t like (two qualities not related ;)), entitled: A naked woman walks into a bar… (and Cosmo asks the patrons to list everything that’s wrong with her body)
oh, and i just added “It’s never too early to be sexist,” which is my rant on the commercial for the Screature toy: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/03/its-never-too-early-to-be-sexist.html
Eh, somebody on True Mom Confessions made a truly obnoxious confession about who has the right to reproduce (only the rich, apparently), which prompted an entire post as a response.
I had a few quick little posts this week:
, on their newest commercial that involves a dress being ripped off of a black, female mannequin
, on a drink recipe I found online telling people to give the drink to a woman and she “won’t be able to say no”
, on the trend to have disembodied ladies on the covers of misogynistic movies… and the new cover of Psychology Today
Woops, html did not work properly in that last comment – no fancy stuff now…
“Old Navy Has Pissed Me Off”, on their newest commercial which involves a dress being ripped off of a black, female mannequin:
http://quitthecompromise.blogspot.com/2009/03/old-navy-has-pissed-me-off.html
“Tastes Like… RAPE”, on a drink recipe I found online telling people to give the drink to a woman and she “won’t be able to say no”:
http://quitthecompromise.blogspot.com/2009/03/tastes-like-rape.html
“The Legs-Ass Cover Theme”, on the trend to have disembodied ladies on the covers of misoynistic movies… and the new cover of Psychology Today:
http://quitthecompromise.blogspot.com/2009/03/legs-ass-cover-theme.html
Hi there, first time posting in the round up.
In no specific order, I posted about
Silence and Domestic Violence
I wrote about Hidden abuses in our culture.
I also posted about Writing through fear, as a survivor of violence.
A quick post on a brave high school student, Lori Phanachone who is being bullied by her school administration for refusing to take a “demeaning and racist” standardised test.
Vogue fetishizes dead models in their Fashion for Every Figure issue.
A short rant on the “boob machine.”
Feminist film reviews at Bitch Flicks:
A review of Rachel Getting Married by me:
http://www.btchflcks.com/2009/03/rachel-getting-married-response.html
and a review of Two Lovers by Stephanie:
http://www.btchflcks.com/2009/03/movie-review-two-lovers.html
new post on the most recent episode of Dollhouse
http://mzbitca.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/dollhousehas-the-tide-turned/
This week, BBC television show “The One Show” asked Do we still need feminism? I and at least one other male respondent said “yes” – a number of women respondents said “no”, and some male respondents spouted the same old guff about feminists hating men.
In Waltham Forest, primary schools insist on teaching tolerance for gay folks; US hate-preacher Fred Phelps wants to come over and protest outside the school. Parents keeping their kids out of these classes, apparently, will be regarded as encouraging truancy.
I also posted a link to my metal/rock version of a folk song written by a friend of my sister almost twenty years ago, and a 2minute blues improvisation that happened while I was unable to sleep one night: The Bottom Line & 3am Blues.
FilthyGrandeur: Is it beyond the realm of possibility that Paltrow was being sarcastic?
I wrote about Annie Leibovitz, labels, and the “gay tax”
http://jwablog.jwa.org/leibovitz
Thanks for this grassroots round-up! It’s such a great idea.
Recent Episode recap of America’s Next Top Model/exclusive interview, etc!
http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/americas-next-top-model/confidence-and-catwalks-347.html
Third Gendering of Binary Identified Trans People in the sex workers rights movement, also posted at Bound not Gagged and Questioning Transphobia.
A little late to the party, but here’s my post about the weird anti-geek backlash coming about through the release of Watchmen and the SciFi Channel’s rebranding.
zooeyibz: The first two comments on the Sioux City newspaper story you linked to pointed out, very astutely, that the school administrators probably are desperate for her to take the test because they know she’ll score high and boost the school’s overall ranking on NCLB or whatever idiotic, arbitrary statistical score they’re worried about.
Yet another example of how arbitrary standards and school bureaucrats are a lethal combination.
[Formerly "Pop Feminist"]
I have a new Twitter webpage thingy: http://twitter.com/nextwaving
Maybe it’s time to lay off the idea that “Mother” is responsible for creating perfect children… http://tinyurl.com/blamother.
My latest Tip of the Hat/Wag of the Finger, Meghan McCain Edition.
I don’t mince words about the Pope.
I kick off my New Moon blooging w/ Dreams and Choice and the horrors of people liking you.
A little rant on racism in She Doesn’t “Look Native”.
Finally, guilt trips laid on women w/ supernatural powers to get the to embrace their destiny in The Weight of the World.
Have a great week!
I have a post up responding to Quiverfull, but Kathryn Joyce, and musing on connections between leftist and conservative counterculture impulses.
An example of why Catharine Tate is so damn funny.
And vintage gender and marriage weirdness can be found in this Mystery Science Theater short featuring a marriage counseling circa the 1950s.
I wrote about the hypocricy of the AIG antics and finger pointing.
We put up a guest post by a postpartum doula, Meredith Lichtenberg, titled Atlantic Monthly’s “Case Against Breastfeeding” Makes the Case for Mothers’ Self-Care
Redneck bumper stickers and theories on how to piss off a liberal.
St. Pat musing:
Irish Holidays Involving Snakes
One of my perspectives on TOUCHING:
Mental Cupcake
A blurb about the band “Friendly Fires”:
Skeleton Oy
Yikes a thousand pardons as my links didn’t work for above:
Irish Holidays Involving Snakes
Mental Cupcake
Skeleton Oy!
I wrote two sides of police confidentiality laws with the police union trying to release those of a former officer running for council against their candidate and what it’s like to be harassed and not access information on your harassers because of the same law.
bitter scribe:
even if she was being sarcastic, how does that make it any less offensive?