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This week I wrote about the bystander effect after an intense nighttime incident involving screams, the police, and my own hesitation. I also commented on Pacific University’s reaction to the date rape that occurred on their campus, and the treatment of the body acceptance movement in the mainstream media.
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The Stoning of Soraya M.: The film sets a dismal tone from the very beginning as viewers learn about the violent and humiliating marriage in which Soraya is trapped. Soraya stays with her abusive husband because she lacks the financial resources to raise her daughters without him. When Soraya’s husband fails to force her into a divorce that would free him to marry a fourteen-year-old girl, he begins plotting with other men in the village to falsely accuse her of adultery, and subsequently have her stoned.
The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife’s Memoir: Harman is a nurse-practitioner and her memoir tracks a handful of women for approximately a year, zeroing in on the many variables that impact their health and well being: rampant drug and alcohol abuse, poverty, violence, mental illness, and inadequate information about staying healthy, among them. It’s a gripping account.
United States of Tara: Beyond the instructive aspect, however, a quitely overt feminist message is evident in the series. The show starkly reveals a few of the never-ending roles many women are faced with in their daily lives. What woman has not had to “play” several roles, whether it be model homemaker, friend to her teenage daughter, companion to her disaffected husband, and just plain Mom? It is an ingenious ruse to disguise these roles as different personalities of the same woman, but not a far stretch of the imagination.
I’ve been on a roll about socialization and growing up as a transkid this week.
I wrote three pieces that are rather closely related and should proably be read in the order I am presenting them here.
http://womenborntranssexual.com/2009/06/18/psychology-constructs-the-female/
http://womenborntranssexual.com/2009/06/20/socialization/
http://womenborntranssexual.com/2009/06/21/gidget/
women born transsexual have been beaten up about the socialization matter for way too long. We get our socialization from the same places everyone else does.
I wrote a post about how different sorts of oppression resemble or differ from – or in fact involve – each other. It then sparked a series of thoughts which has now splurged into several posts exploring links between (mainly, so far) feminism, animal rights, and communism.
Highlights that may be of interest include how adult-male-human identity is constructed against women and animals, how this turns sex into a resource, producing a ‘class struggle’ between sexual classes, like ‘sluts’ and ‘husbands’, and how ‘owning’ things and ‘fucking’ women are examples of the same thing.
In less theoretical news, I was sarcastic and rude about the Supreme Leader of Iran.
In even less theoretical news, I have a headache.
I started a new blog called The Nice Feminist, where my boyfriend and I blog about feminist issues and theories. imnotme recently posted a poll asking who has the best vagina, and I posted about how infuriating it is to receive letters from customers at the bank I work for that are addressed Dear Sirs. Among other things.
Solid week at Social Science Lite: I discussed the white privilege of anti-white privilege activists: http://socialsciencelite.blogspot.com/2009/06/white-privilege-of-anti-white-privilege.html
Tony responded with his own reflections on guilt and privilege, touching on the intersectionality of race, class and gender http://socialsciencelite.blogspot.com/2009/06/reflections-on-privilege-guilt-and.html
I also wrote a piece on racism and Omar Edwards, using a scene from The Wire to pinpoint the intricacies of racism in these country, arguing that it’s much more than just race: http://socialsciencelite.blogspot.com/2009/06/public-space-and-civic-dilemmas-lessons.html
We had other posts, but these three were the highlight.
Pride Worldwide, Enjoy This Photo Collection of Pride Events Around The World!
Are Questions about Feminism Being Obsolete Obsolete?, CNN’s clever ruse to dog feminists while promoting Palin
The New York Times “Reaches Out to Heavier Young Women”, the NY Times’ feminist FAIL
How my dad made me the feminist I am, pretty obvious what this is about
Where Have All the Riot Grrrls Gone? Pop Music and “Post-Feminism”, why we’re not gaga over the new gaggle of lady pop stars
PETA is a Bunch of Bull, this week’s nonsense report on PETA’s ineffective tactics
Gay Animals: They’re All Around You!, more evidence that queerness is au naturale
Twitter, Women, and Protest in Iran, a round up of stories on women in Iran
Boys can learn from watching Xena: Looking at my attempts to teach my child that one can be a princess and kick butt thus disturbing his idea that girls “just aren’t that tough”.
Letting Illegals Die Is Better Than Littering: Looking at a man who faces a year in prison after leaving water for those attempting to cross the desert to enter the US illegally.
A Study in Ableism: Looking at the case of man who was forced to wear a bright red cap to identify him as disabled to customers and his fellow employees. Apparently having Aspegers Syndrome was enough to justify the abuse.
Shopping for a birthday gift? Consider Having your vagina retooled: The case of a woman who had hymenoplasty 6 times to please her husband.
Justice Is Blind Unless You Are Latino: A teen is almost hung, called racial slurs and his assailants receive ten days in jail.
Deepa’s Inferno: Domestic Violence and the Indian Diaspora in Heaven on Earth: Couched in a story from Indian mythology, Deepa Mehta’s newest feature film, Heaven on Earth, blurs the line between reality and fantasy to provide a nuanced and authentic look at the struggles of a young Punjabi woman who has immigrated to Canada from her homeland for what turns out to be an abusive marriage. Never one to shy away from heavy and complex issues, Mehta’s film addresses arranged marriage, Indian family dynamics and expectations, domestic violence, and love.
Isa Chandra Moskowitz and the Art of Vegan Brunch: Aside from writing some of the best vegan cookbooks on the market, Isa is the creator of The Post Punk Kitchen, a website and public access cooking show that is currently on hiatus, although there is a plan in the works to re-air the show online. I spoke to Isa about her new book and the beauty of black salt.
I disagree with the Rev. Houlding about the alternative worship movement, whilst enjoying his choice of words.
I wonder why socialised healthcare is supposed to be a bad thing.
And I do some very amateur philosophy about the importance of learning.
Part nine in an ongoing series “Why TV Sucks” brought to us this week by GoDaddy. This was my only real post this week, but it did spark some discussion.
This week I shot fish in a barrel and wrote about AskMen.
I wrote about the folly of birth plans and how the collaboration of Masters and Johnson had its roots in sexual harassment.
Is it sad that I had to actually go and look at my blog to remember what I’d written?
Anyway, I mentioned the new so-called food safety bill moving through Congress.
My partner discussed self-help books for women and the Ingrid Newkirk of nutrition (which is unfair of me, because there are solid arguments in favor of vegetarianism).
Just a brief post about depression, graduation, and other things they don’t teach you in college.
I wrote about the connection between body image/self esteem problems and being transgender.
In the wake of the Letterman/Palin media war something else emerges: the protection of white women as a group
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/06/white-woman-virtue-intact-as-letterman.html
Black women don’t get to experience such levels of protectionism
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/06/im-so-used-to-black-women-being-dissed.html
Calm heads must prevail about Iran
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/06/calm-heads-must-prevail-when-reacting.html
I wrote about feminism and bukkake.
Also, check out the New York Sex Bloggers Calendar to raise funds for <a href=”http://sexworkawareness.org/”Sex Workers Awareness.
I wrote a piece critically addressing two rumors that have been circulating with regards to the Iranian elections: one, a letter claiming that Ahmadinejad came in third in the election, and two, that Lebanese Hizbullah and Palestinian Hamas members are present in Iran and are attacking protesters. If you have heard these rumors or are otherwise interested in the protests in Iran, please take a look.
This week, at Deeply Problematic, I wrote:
Steve teaches us about inequality, in response to an ignorant comment on this article.
New York Times acknowledges, devalues fat fashion,
Southern accents and attraction, on my sometimes patriarchal patterns of attraction
Something about I really don’t think that my sex education class from back in the day was very helpful at all. I’ve had lots of time to reflect on it and… ehh while the class wasn’t strictly abstinence only and I suppose it could have been much worse, it was probably more counter-productive in the long run than anything. Now I’m in a better position to pick it apart & recognize everything that backfired.
In An Unspoken Non-Assumption in the 2009 Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report I talked about a particular, institutional vulnerability that makes exploitation of the trafficked easier than it needs to be.
I really appreciated Blue Gal on Pretending to be Shocking So Viewers Can Pretend to be Shocked
Finally, Ensign and Vitter Scandals, etc.: It’s About Integrity and Competence, not Hypocricy or Morality is an indictment of Ensign’s affair that doesn’t rely on guilt or shame.
On this Father’s Day I think of Dr. Tiller’s family missing out and other families who’ve lost loved ones thanks to extremists.
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/06/we-have-home-grown-terror-groups-right.html
The same sex marriage that was touted last week was in fact a marriage between a cis-gender and trans-gender couple.
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/06/just-when-you-thought-same-sex-marriage.html
Legacy Spotlight & Tribute to Ethel Waters
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/06/aa-legacy-series-spotlight-on-ethel.html
I will not be ashamed of my imperfect self.
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/06/its-my-body-so-lay-off.html
Hello!
I wrote the following:
Two affluent men talking about abortion, about Mike Huckabee’s appearance on The Daily Show
and
Pigeon-holed, about one of my new favorite TV shows, Beautiful People
Enjoy!
I wrote about racial and gender stereotypes in YA fantasy, in an entry called “The Werewolf Ate My Homework”: http://talulahmankiller.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/the-werewolf-ate-my-homework/
It was actually inspired by an earlier post of mine about stereotypes in romance novels, called “I Love My Dead Gay Husband”: http://talulahmankiller.wordpress.com/i-love-my-dead-gay-husband/
I wanted to wish the world a Happy Solstice!
I wrote a piece on the appropriation of the word “tranny” by some folks in the ftm community, and why it’s inappropriate.
http://community.livejournal.com/transgender/2038174.html
I was out of town at Bonnaroo last week so I wasn’t writing with my usual depth but I would like everyone to consider an easy way to help young people with cancer and if you live in North Carolina Contacting Kay Hagan’s office regarding healthcare reform.
Also, for the dog people out there the first chemo for dogs has been developed.
Hope you all have a great week!
Jill (comment #1):
Your links are broken. Fortunately, your search engine works.
As for my own promotion, check out God is a Talentless Hack
My review of Up (spoilers).
I make a recommendation about a newish feminist blog called The Female Gaze that you should read.
Not quite short enough for a Tweet
And also, if you have any moving advice, I could use some.
HOWDY ALL!
I posted a cool reproductive rights gig with a 7/1 application deadline and an even cooler NYC event about Zimbabwe happening this Tuesday. I also wrote about my thoughts on the NYPD’s sensitivity training and why it’s not nearly enough.
Our guest writer on why Sookie Stackhouse is the heir to Buffy’s feminist throne and we question a new bra for itty bitty titties.
This week, a UK judge ruled that bloggers have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
The Metro newspaper surprised me be being slightly sex-positive in its reporting
The Guardian newspaper reported on a study of South African men’s tendency to rape , and I commented that the same cult of masculinity exists everywhere.
Also in the Guardian, Pamela Stevenson-Connolly dealt with the quandary of a feminist-identifying man whose girlfriend is subbie in her column Sexual Healing.
Finally, I’m promoting a petition (UK citizens only) for the PM Gordon Brown to put more pressure on the Iranian regime to re-run the election there.
Thanks for the heads up Gordo (#25)!
Fixed links for those who don’t want to search:
Bystander Effect
Pacific University
Body Acceptance
Sorry it didn’t work the first time around!
I was interviewed by email about my forthcoming book, Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology and on gender and feminism in popular culture for ScifiPulse.net.
This week at Happy Bodies we continued to talk about the ethics of attraction and celebrated a term of on-campus activism with our documentary about body positivity at Carleton college.
Two posts about what is going on in Iran:
An op-ed from a student in Iran, published in the NY Times, about how to read the situation in terms of the contested election there.
A post about life imitating art in terms of classical Iranian poetry and the current situation.
GT 2009-06-11: The Police Beat, discussing (among other things) Philadelphia police officer Thomas Tolstoy’s use of hyperviolent paramilitary drug raids as an opportunity to sexually assault women in the houses that his squad was raiding. (Trigger warning: several of the cases discussed in the post involve the use of extreme violence by male police officers, against both women and men.)
a Father’s Day tribute to my Ted (or as I playfully call him, “weekday dad.”)
Adam Lambert’s Rolling Stone Interview–full of win! Don’t think I need to explain that one…
Fuzz Therapy–your no fuzz edition.
We finally got back from the International Women’s Writing Guild summer conference… here’s our initial recap, plus some celebrity speaker fantasies and awesome dancing bears!
We also wrote about our 80s nostalgia, the One Million Moms’ protest of the Secret Life of the American Teenager, and why New York magazine keeps dissing Rock of Ages.
Oh and since we use the blog as free therapy, we threw in a rant about friends and exes for good measure.
This week I blogged about finalizing my son’s IEP…. it was our first attempt to include him (12) in the process. It was a rough meeting…. http://spectrumbeach.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/awkward/
Sahariah hand dyes silk bellydance veils
http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/06/silks-by-sahariah.html
At Handmade Rinkrash, Syd (also known by her derby name “Liz Dexic”) has all things roller derby!
http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/06/handmade-rinkrash.html
Jessica Tsianina Peterson makes Native American Style Flutes and Rattles one at a time, with great love and honor for the wood, the music, and her teacher, David Nighteagle.
http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/06/nighteaglefluteco.html
There’s a new documentary on transgendered Iranians, I wondered about the plot of Sarah Haskin’s new movie script, and my own personal debunking of BMI indexes as indicators of health by running a 10k.
Alongtime Republican gay-basher and former wrestler Brian Blair is in jail for two counts of child abuse. Blair punched and choked his two sons.
Blair ran against openly gay Democrat Kevin Beckner and made the Day of Silence a campaign issue.
Blair attempted to prove his tolerance by implying Michael Jackson is a white man.
Blair is what Florida Republicans consider a family values candidate. Sad.
We finally got back from the International Women’s Writing Guild summer conference… here’s our initial recap, plus some celebrity speaker fantasies and awesome dancing bears!
We also wrote about our 80s nostalgia, the One Million Moms’ protest of the Secret Life of the American Teenager, and why New York magazine keeps dissing Rock of Ages.
Oh and since we use the blog as free therapy, we threw in a rant about friends and exes for good measure.
Estimated Prophetess (meandering post, but good feminist rant and links included)
A bunch of fabulous women singers (maybe one or two you don’t know)
Georgia woman arrested for performing exorcism on son
South Carolina woman charged with having a fat kid (“medical neglect”)
I wrote my first post about starting grad school at Texas A&M University about the forced resignation of their first Hispanic and first woman president, Dr. Murano, after only one year, and the infuriating complacency with which TAMU’s school officials allow liberal and feminist students to feel unwelcome.
my roommate is also going to post a promotion– heads up for when you notice we have the same IP address.
I was happy to contribute this piece to Nice Feminist.
I also speak to the origin of sexual speech here
I am excited to be included in this new blog and I think increased discussion will really elevate the overall quality of it. Cheers!
“In a pinch” – Bluemilk talks about the disproportionate folderol over a Senator bringing her daughter to a late-night emergency division when there was no time to drop her into someone else’s care.
Zing
“On up-front warnings in certain kinds of posts” – I explain my approach to warnings about graphic/potentiall upsetting material in posts.
“AMA delegation seeks to code for non-compliant and ungrateful patients.” Scary.
“Obesity Drops Risk of Severe Swine Flu More Than 40%” – what you won’t read in the papers.
I didn’t quite get off on a rant about The Loveless World of the Pro-Lifers. Also in the same post: The B in GLBT is not decorative.
At Pink Scare, I did some theorizing about consumerism and marketing and how they’ve transformed the relationship between capital and patriarchy in late capitalism.
T knocks down some of the worst arguments against any form of national healthcare.
The Czech is back after a (stalker-induced) hiatus:
Why My Name Is The Czech
TIME Tackles the “Why Don’t Gays Go Extinct?” Conundrum
Vegetarian Don’ts
At SAFER’s blog I wrote about condom ads that promote negative sexual stereotypes, and a settlement in the case of Dominican College, who misrepresented their crime statistics to students. The case sets an important precedent–NY state sued not for violation of the Clery Act (a federal law) but for state fraud.
http://www.safercampus.org/blog/?p=1248
http://www.safercampus.org/blog/?p=1251
Carnival against sexual violence 72 latest collection of posts.
Study 1 in 4 South Africa men admit having committed rape discusses a recent study which reveals more than just the number of men who have raped.
Advice for fathers who want to talk to their children about dating and safety provides links to useful advice for dads and others who want to reduce sexual and domestic violence.
June 20th is World Refugee Day! This article by Maria is about real people behind the refugee crisis.
This article by Thomas is about whether or not the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival is a Feminist Festival.
A report about a Netherlands swimming instructor for people with mental disabilities is suspected of sexual abuse by Elizabeth.
Alison wrote about Who Fits the Abercrombie Look? about a retail store that penalizes employees for not adhering to the Look Policy.
Emily wrote about the blog networking conference that was catered to men called Blogs with Balls and what it means for women involved in sports.
Carrie wrote about the violence against transgender people in Venezuela and what you can do to take action.
I started a new little series in which I post quotes every day or so.
http://quitthecompromise.blogspot.com/2009/06/quotes-tables.html
http://quitthecompromise.blogspot.com/2009/06/quotes-womans-pleasure.html
A tongue in cheek piece discussing the potential consequences of students binge-drinking
http://sugarplumfairycake.blogspot.com/2009/06/lipstick-check-perfume-check-wet-floor.html
On a very, very light note, we don’t know what happened, but it was a thrilling encounter in our family toy store.
A short piece on how Women’s Professional Soccer, and one executive in particular, don’t want to market the league based on the social cause of women’s rights. Instead, the league is marketed as “entertainment,” and “a great athletic sport” which really means marketing the players as feminine, docile, lipstick chicks.
http://www.fakesigi.com/2009/06/peter-wilt-wps-and-womens-rights.html
I wrote a blog post about how applications that make things more convenient for faculty can often have positive impact on learning.
http://audiovisualdiary.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-conveeeenient.html
I did a post on Western Media Narratives of Women in the Iranian Demonstrations.
Mickey Schulz did two pieces: Girls Not Wanted… Screw That! and Framing the Conversation
Man stabs woman after being told that he made a wrong turn — A West Columbia, South Carolina man stabbed a woman that he was taking home very early one morning last week after she was working at a night club.
Man beats up girlfriend for laughing at him — A Bamberg man was arrested for domestic violence a second time after beating up his girlfriend just because she was laughing at something he said. Fucking pathetic and outrageous if you ask me.
I recently graduated grad school and so I was finally able to devote more time to my blog last week. Here’s a few of my posts:
Who’s to blame for super-skinny models?: Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman sent letters to top design fashion houses accusing them of “forcing” the British mag to use superskinny models in its fashion shoots. But who’s really to blame for size-zero models? Short answer: We all are.
Food History Blogging: Breakfasts of Champions: Who invented corn flakes? How did the donut get its hole? A look at our evolving notions of breakfast foods by a food historian (me).
Calling out Catcalling: Readers share their experiences about receiving unsolicited comments about their bodies from men, often from positions of power (a car, a building), with the intent to objectify and/or intimidate.
Want to look hot this summer? Bacardi suggests getting an “ugly girlfriend” — A look at an advertising campaign sponsored by Bacardi in which women are encouraged to accessorize themselves with a Bacardi and an ugly gal pal in order to look better at the beach and mall (Bacardi has since pulled the campaign in light of overwhelming negative publicity).
Watch the full-length documentary When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories, read a guest post from kb about the pseudo-feminist move in the 2008 version of The Day the Earth Stood Still, and join in the conversation about the new Disney princess movie–all at Bitch Flicks.
Interview with Antonio Orea via Milk – This article, written by a member of the Youth Activist Network through ICAH, details racial and sexual stereotypes.