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I compared Pete and Don’s racism on Mad Men and talked about how Betty’s delivery made me understand why my mother was in favor of natural childbirth. Then my co-blogger and I had more lighthearted talks about Marissa Cooper and the painful deterioration of the OC in the 3rd season and wondered if we’re supposed to read Vanessa on Gossip Girl as non-white, and given how sad sack she is, are we offended?
What’s new on Women’s Glib this week…
[Insert witty party name here]: You MUST Get Laid Tonight — Ruth on college party culture.
Applying to College As a Woman — My messy thoughts on gender in the college admissions process.
Glee FAIL — Ruth explains how Glee‘s stereotypes cross the line.
Me & My Notebooks — Public high school is expensive!
“Now let’s all sit down and play a nice game of Race Poker” – A tiny little post about how accusations of “pulling the race card” are absurd.
In defense of Megan Fox – Megan Fox seems to get a lot of undeserved hatred. I think she’s actually one of the more feminist celebrities out there.
Racist Sheriff Arpaio greeted by angry, militant protest: Undocumented workers protest and tell the Sheriff the harm he has done to their community.
The Gay Best Friend: Looking at the relationship between straight women and gay men.
international reproductive rights, birthing injuries, and “the fistula foundation: Looking at the medical damage that occurs when young girls are forced to marry before maturity. Rape and long childbirth leads to fistula.
Dr. Alveda King Attacks Planned Parenthood: Looking at the challenge By MLK’s niece Alveda that planned parenthood is targeting black women thereby resulting in a genocide of black infants.
A Black Woman Gets Beaten In Public And Not One Helps: A Black service woman is beaten and called an N@gger B@tch in front of her 7 year old daughter and no one helps.
Kanye West is not a N@gger: Looking at the racist attacks aimed at west after the incident at the video music awards.
Hitler, Stalin and Saddam Have Sex: AIDS is a Mass Murderer: Looking at a safe sex campaign from Germany featuring women having sex with Hitler, Stalin and Saddam.
In this post, I respond to Judith Jarvis Thomson’s incredibly popular argument supporting abortion rights. This is a must-read for Jill and anyone else who uses the argument.
From the standpoint of evolutionary psychology, I take a look at the the relationship between abortion and maternal infanticide , with startling results.
Based on an experience I had while teaching this week, I speculated on the resurgence of a “reverse racism” meme.
I was at a kid’s birthday party last weekend that turned into a case study in how parents construct masculinity – in six-year-olds.
My post on the revelations about things that are considered preexisting conditions (domestic violence, C-sections, acne, etc.) and how it’s bullshit that THIS is suddenly a huge outrage — because it’s outrageous that *healthy* people would be treated the same way sick people have been treated for years — and hardly anyone spoke up for us then.
: guest post from Amanda at about the differences between the Silk Spectres for Movie Monday.
: why is it that we never see the love/social lives of women with successful careers on tv shows (or in movies)? And if we do, it is always portrayed as dysfunctional.
: I am trying to figure out for myself is the institution of marriage can fit with my feminist values.
: Megan Fox is starting to grow on me, but not because of her acting skills.
: Last week I think I wanted to like Glee so much that I missed some of the problematic aspects of it. I try working towards fixing that in this week’s review of Glee.
“a href=”http://adventuresofayoungfeminist.com/2009/09/reading-persepolis/” title=”Reading Persepolis”>: my review of Persepolis and why I think it is a feminist text.
: a look back to the turn of the century to examine the history of feminist science fiction.
: My review of the season premiere of Bones.
Definitely Shayne Austin’s Cool Inversion of the Usual (Victim-Burdening) Rape-Awareness List Could be Taken Seriously. I’m not sure how serious Shayne was about the list (it’s bitterly snarky) but I explain why I think that approach could be very effective.
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Watchmen 2: Dissecting the Silk Spectres: guest post from Amanda at The Undomestic Goddess about the differences between the Silk Spectres for Movie Monday.
Career Women and Their Love Lives: why is it that we never see the love/social lives of women who have successful careers in tv shows (on in movies)? And if we do, it is always portrayed as dysfunctional.
Some Thoughts on Marriage: I am trying to figure out for myself if the institution of marriage can fit with my feminist values.
Why Does the Media Hate Megan Fox?: Megan Fox is starting to grown on me, but not because of her acting skills.
Glee: Acafellas: Last week I think I wanted to like Glee so much that I missed some of the problematic aspects of it. I try towards fixing that in this week’s review of Glee.
Reading Persepolis: my review of Persepolis and why I think it is a feminist text.
Feminist Science Fiction [Feminist Flashback Friday]: a look back to the turn of the century to examine the history of feminist science fiction.
Bones: Harbingers in the Fountain: my review of the season premiere of Bones.
This week in Evil Slutopia:
We went a little crazy over True Blood this week (we’re obsessed!)… We reviewed the season finale, discussed our theory that Michele Bachmann is a maenad, and created a True Blood diversion program for other addicts.
We also wrote some ESC Reviews over on the Good Authority, told Kanye West to suck it and came up with an idea for a bestselling book (yes, it has vampires).
We realized that the handjob controversy isn’t over and made fun of Cosmo, not once but twice.
We also had three guest blogs – one on the campaign to celebrate Wonder Woman‘s 600th issue, one on the painter Tamara de Lempicka, and one responding to a majorly bizarre comment that someone left on one of our old posts.
And we took apart the latest action alert from the One Million Moms – they’re protesting the new show Glee because they’ve decided that it’s offensive and inappropriate.
Over at Macha Mexico, I celebrated Mexico’s Independence Day by writing about woman heros of Mexico’s War of Independence.
On a new group blog called the F-Wave for which I’m writing, we posted a wrap-up of our experiences at the Women + Power conference.
A time-lapse video of a regular-looking guy working out for 365 days…leads to my picking apart rape culture.
http://factcheckme.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/365-days-of-working-out/
A video of Hillary Clinton giving the best pro-choice congressional testimony I have ever seen…leads to a discussion of international reproductive rights and obstetric fistula (cross-posted at Womanist-Musings)
http://factcheckme.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/you-go-hillary/
For the nerds and gamers out there I some of the panels I went to at PAX this year. Part 1 is
I went on a really long bike ride. It was pretty awesome.
And now, with no html fail: Part one and two of my time at PAX.
I have blogged a lot about former KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones being raped in Iraq. Arbitration and contracting laws in Iraq have made a criminial case near impossible. The Fifth Circuit court ruled Jones can sue KBR.
On an unserious note: a 107 year-old cougar is searching for husband 24. Husband 23 is 70 years younger and in rehab.
I made posts!
“Who are you going to go after next? Koalas? Baby Koalas?” about Thursday’s new SNL Weekend Update.
“You seem pretty smart. You got a sports coat.” about Joel McHale’s new show Community, which can be seen on almost every television network from E! to Oxygen. Overkill much?
“Blingitude is girl’s BFF, AEAE.” about the latest offerings from Sarah Haskins and Stephen Colbert.
Enjoy!
Kanye West wasn’t the only one cutting up at the VMAs. Remember when Fiona Apple yelled at her fans?
actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/kanye-didnt-give-most-infamous-outburst.html
Pink Flies High at the VMAs. http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/mtv-vma-2009-pink-flies-high-gaga-is.html
On creating a Vision Board to achieve your life’s goals.
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/creating-vision-board-helps-u-get-rid.html
I’ve actually spent more time than I should have finally posting the Bonnaroo posts here, here and <a href=http://www.aftercancernowwhat.com/2009/09/bonnaroo-sunday.html" here.
Also a post about the numerous environmental exposures that are leading to more and earlier cancer diagnoses.
And for those who could use it there is easier access to medication payment assistance.
About that female placekicker on Pelion’s football team — Elizabeth Mitchum is the only placekicker on Pelion High School’s football team. In addition to Pelion’s 38-18 win at Wagener-Salley, she had a perfect game against the War Eagles.
On a more serious note, however, former Denmark-Olar High School head coach Andrae Rice was arrested and charged with exposing himself to a 17-year-old female pupil. This arrest was all the talk around the towns of Bamberg, Barnwell, Blackville, Ehrhardt, Snelling, and Denmark here in South Carolina.
http://zeroatthebone.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/call-for-submissions-the-fifth-carnival-of-feminists/ I’m hosting the Carnival of Feminists in a few days: submit your posts!
This is what an activist looks like On privileged (ableist, classist, etc) assumptions of what activism can be. With a discussion of writing/blogging as activism.
Let’s retry again:
Fiona Apple/Kanye West like outburst
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/kanye-didnt-give-most-infamous-outburst.html
Why would president Obama diss president Carter?
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/jimmy-carter-says-its-racism-obama-says.html
In case you missed it: Madonna’s tribute to MJ
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/mtv-vma-2009-madonna-tribute-to-michael.html
Performing Gender and no longer being comfortable with it.
A poll about a story collection
Talk Like a Pirate Day stuff, including a complete story. (this link leads to six entries for the day)
Whitney Houston Oprah Interviews -
Pt 1
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/whitney-houston-oprah-interview-pt-1.html
Pt 2
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/whitney-houston-oprah-interview-pt-2.html
Pt 3
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/whitney-houston-oprah-interview-pt-3-4.html
I looked at how the usage of tragedies changes the way we’re able to react to them. It’s more or less because I felt terribly uncomfortable grieving on 9/11. Here’s why.
Since 2002 transcendent transgender folk artist namoli brennet has self-produced and engineered 6 CDs starting with Boy in a Dress; her 7th CD Until From This Dream I Wake came out in June 2009. In addition to her songwriting, Brennet has also written several commissions for Chorus & Piano as well as scoring 2 plays: Boy (2008), and an adaptation of The Odyssey written by Pulitzer-Prize winner Derek Walcott. Her music has also been featured in the upcoming documentary Out in the Silence. http://www.suchcoolstuff.net/2009/09/namoli-brennet.html
Eve Trombley of Atom & Eve Design specializes in unique handmade wall graphics in addition to stylized art for the home. I personally have a piece of her art hanging in my house, and I absolutely adore it! http://www.suchcoolstuff.net/2009/09/atom-eve-design.html
I’ve been blogging my notes of talks at a conference on depression and bipolar disorder. Here, for example, is my post on The “Nature v. Nurture” Debate: Overcoming Guilt & Stigma, by Jehannine Austin, Ph.D.. Or, if you prefer something lighter, I have posts on remembering Mary Travers and responding to DoubleX about What Women Want from Don Draper.
Another way-too-busy week, but…
*The UN finally adopted a resolution to create a new women’s organization headed by a USG. Good on ‘em.
*Some fundamental issues with American high schools, as viewed in the one in which I’ve been working.
*A nasty country song of unbelievable proportions.
This week on Gender Across Borders:
Race, Class, and Serena’s “Outburst”
Recycling Feminism–Lilith Fair Returns With Plaid Shirts and Environmentalism on the Coattails of a Nineties Revival — bring back Lilith!
Film Review: Inside the Koran
…and more posts including transgender people in Iran, feminist coloring books, and going to jail for having an abortion.
On elder abuse: my grandpa is being verbally abused by my grandma, and it’s just a whole miserable situation…
Fuzz Therapy. a week is not complete without kitty pics.
Filthy movie reviews: 9: SPOILER ALERT. my quick review of the movie 9.
A guy who comes from a very different social camp showed up at a party I went to, and everyone thought he was super nice. I write about how he actually isn’t.
White Girl Beat Up On School Bus–
That was me in 1969. We were all white and Richard Nixon was president.
The problem is school bullying, and no one is teaching kids better. But hate radio is grabbing on to this and yelling, ‘fight, fight!’
http://kmareka.com/2009/09/16/white-girl-beat-up-on-the-bus-by-white-girls/
On my ambivalent relationship with womanhood: What It Means To Be A Woman and What It Means To Be A Woman, Part 2.
Wear a Girdle and Reject Modern Medicine, or You’re Gonna Be a Fatty: This week I took the Daily Mail’s lovely fat-shaming to task. If they are so shocked (shocked!) that British women have gained a few inches in the last 50 years, they might want to think about the changes in health and clothing that might affect it.
Your Friday Awesome: After a week of willful ignorance of systemic oppression and white privilege, I decided that from now on each week needs to end on something awesome.
Blue Jello Daze–about my experience moving my child from a relatively poor neighborhood public school to an affluent one.
In Your Facial: Queer Feminist Pornographers, two of North America’s leading ladies of lasciviousness engage in a discussion that is pro-porn, pro-queer, and pro-feminist.
Whole Foods Tells Me What I Need, What does good health have to do with $$$? Whole Foods knows!
Man Pad, Is the Tampax campaign transphobic, sexist, subversive, or–somehow–all of the above?
A Hook-Up Deferred–Shameless Tales of Reconnecting with High School Crushes, in which we explore what Time Magazine dubs “the retrosexual”
In Which I Gingerly Criticize Jon Stewart, every once in awhile, his show displays all the symptoms of having been written by Liberal Dudes Who Don’t Quite Get It – It usually being women, or women’s rights, or women’s issues.
The A Case of Olive Jade Filigree Earrings mentally transport me to the time I sat in front of the tomb of voodoo priestess Marie Laveau in New Orleans studying the repeated trio of black X’s, cigarettes, coins, and candy left on her final resting place. (For those of you who haven’t been there, imagine something out of Kate Hudson’s The Skeleton Key.)
Though this unconventional romance is the main focus of An Education , the film’s issues become much broader when, in the wake of her seventeenth birthday, Jenny turns to her parents and asks, “What if I got married instead of going to college?” It is here that the film takes a sharp turn from intimate coming of age tale to rumination on the M.R.S. degree syndrome of the ‘50s and ‘60s.
Reverend Jen Miller—artist, troll museum proprietor, elf-ear wearer, and reverend in the Universal Life Church—reprints and adapts the essays she wrote during her two-year stint as the writer for Nerve.com’s “I Did it for Science” column in Live Nude Elf: The Sexperiments of Reverend Jen. Experiments include becoming a “dude for a day,” attending fellatio school, watching a Sex and the City marathon, experiencing female ejaculation, babysitting (babies being the outcome of sex), and holding a sex toy Olympics.
On the night that I attended, the audience ate up such irreverence, cheering openly when Lizzie spattered her parents’ blood all over the white backdrop upstage. As with Rocky Horror, though, Lizzie Borden isn’t just about the gimmick; the music is fantastic too.
Sin and the City: A Q&A With Not That Kind of Girl Author Carlene Bauer, Ingrained from an evangelical upbringing in New Jersey, Carlene Bauer’s religious leanings kept her from living an unexamined life of artistic debauchery in New York City. Not That Kind of Girl isn’t simply a tale of how the “good girl” lost her faith through drinking at raucous parties and romps with unfamiliar men, though you will find a bit of that here. Instead, it’s a thoughtful memoir about a young woman’s slow and arduous attempts to break up with God, a task at which she finally succeeds with a little help from the city.
While The Smiths, Jane Austin, and Søren Kierkegaard provide Bauer with much fodder for questioning the righteousness of the Lord, the final, ahem, nail in His coffin actually comes from the Bible itself. (How Marx!) Unable to resolve the Good Book’s many irreconcilable contradictions, in the end Bauer chooses to opt out of the flock and join her fellow city dwellers in the realm of the spiritually unknown.
I posted a news roundup in the attempt to give the blog a bit of a poke. Among the items discussed: more Republicanism, Michelle Bachmann WTF, marriage equality fights, and Gordon Brown’s apology to Alan Turing.
I made a post about all the racist/sexist shit I found while I was shopping at a Halloween store and toys r us
http://skeptifem.blogspot.com/2009/09/adventures-in-shopping.html
and if anyone cares, a huge long investigation of anti-vaccination claims about gardisil
http://skeptifem.blogspot.com/2009/08/vaccine-craziness-long-post.html
Just a couple this week:
My letter to Green MEP Caroline Lucas concerning sex worker policy.
Funny and infuriating stories from UK news
http://sassyfrasscircus.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/responding-to-a-feministing-post/
… in which I email Michael Pollan to say that if I can’t be fat to it, it’s not my revolution.
This week I discussed the student reaction to Obama coming to A&M’s campus, regarding race and the protest which is planned.
http://austintotamu.blogspot.com/2009/09/mail-call.html
Economic Woman is back, with several posts in the last week or so. I’ve posted twice about family policy and fertility in Germany. I spent some quality time with a great data visualization that shows women’s progress (and lack thereof, depending on the section) into the world of work. Finally, I posted briefly about a study showing that female judges with masculine names get a professional edge, and that post has gotten the most attention, though it’s pretty old news.
Happy Bodies blogger Jill made two amazing posts this week:
One addresses the threat of harassment women always face in going out, and efforts to change it. The other responds to the media fixation on false accusations of rape, and why it’s part of the problem.
Is it feminist to take a man’s name when you get married?
http://clarissasbox.blogspot.com/2009/10/feminism-and-taking-mans-name.html