Facing Down Condescension and Lectures, Sotomayor Teaches Senators About Civics and More
My thought about Sotomayor are up at RH Reality Check. A teaser: If there’s one thing that this week’s Senate confirmation hearings made clear, it’s that Judge Sotomayor is not just a great mind, but a patient and generous teacher. Surrounded by senators who seemed primarily concerned with topping each other in condescension, Sotomayor responded [...]
...read moreShocking: teens know sex feels good
Via Tracy Clark-Flory’s excellent takedown of yet more conservative fear-mongering, news of a sex education pamphlet published by the National Health Service of the United Kingdom titled “Pleasure.” The word doesn’t quite inspire hives for me, but for some, it sure seems to: conservatives are calling it “deplorable” and — wait for it — “nothing [...]
...read moreThe Hammering
I’m may end up regretting this, but I’ve come to feel that there’s really no way around it. I’ve tried to figure out how I could ignore what I’m feeling and move on to the stuff that I’d rather use this time to blog about, but it hasn’t worked. So here it is: Lately, whiteness [...]
...read moreMocking Gendered Advertising
Via both Sociological Images and Hoyden About Town, I came across this little clip from British TV show That Mitchell and Webb Look and felt absolutely compelled to share. It’s a short but sweet take on gendered advertising — not hugely different from what our favorite lady Sarah Haskins does, but as one commenter noted, [...]
...read moreSotomayor Open Thread
What did you all think of the hearings?
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Operation Beautiful
The image above is via a website and project called Operation Beautiful. The mission is simple — to post anonymous, encouraging notes in public places. The website shows images of notes that have been left in a huge number of places — on public bathroom mirrors, in gym locker rooms, in clothes store fitting rooms, [...]
...read moreCarnival of Feminist Parenting
Thanks to a generous trackback I received on my other blog, I’ve just recently learned about a new feminist blog carnival: the Carnival of Feminist Parenting. It’s run by Anji over at Mothers for Women’s Lib, and the second edition of the carnival is up now. It sounds like an amazing idea to me, and [...]
...read moreWhat Do You Want Judaism To Be? (Feministe Edition)
Daisy Bond here again! Because I am Jewish, much of my writing, this post included, is targeted at Jews. I just want to say at the outset that I care about this because it is mine, not because I think it’s somehow superior. I’m very strongly in favor of other folks doing this kind of [...]
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