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I talk about the reality of poverty and how rich people don’t seem to understand it.
This week in Evil Slutopia:
~There was some controversy in the blogosphere and on twitter this week when Nestle invited some mom bloggers on an all-expenses-paid trip to their headquarters, and some critics took the opportunity to raise questions about Nestle’s unethical business practices around the world. Our take on the conversation: Getting to the Point of #nestlefamily
~We loved the latest installment of That’s Gay from Infomania on the way TV handles coming out moments.
~We “review” the new show Vampire Diaries…by comparing it to True Blood. Yep, we’re obsessed.
~Babyproofing is scary stuff.
~Highlighting some dumb things guys text.
~Apparently the One Million Moms think that Saturday Night Live is a show for kids.
Movie Review: Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate – I watched an older documentary on (male) sexual dysfunction and sexual surrogacy and reviewed/analyzed it. I’m still dealing with some FSD myself so it was of particular interest to me, but there’s still a lot of questions I have about surrogacy & what it can do for women.
My review of the (amazing) premiere of Dollhouse last week.
Domestic Violence in Music Videos: a look at Lady Gaga’s music video for “Paparazzi” and the fetishization of domestic violence.
The Women of Eastwick: a show that could possibly be about female empowerment has been filled with sexist stereotypes and gender norms.
Sexual Television: apparently some people think Glee is too sexual — have these people seen any other television lately?
My weekly reviews of Glee, Bones, and Dollhouse.
Objectifying Women’s Bodies Month: I’m all about breast cancer research, not so much about the awareness month.
An Open Letter to Feministing: my act of co-signing and supporting meloukhia’s letter to Feministing calling them out on their ableist language.
A sporadic series of posts on my journal quoting from the Gude Cause songbook about the Gude Cause march planned in Scotland to mark the 100th anniversary of the march for women’s suffrage that took place in Edinburgh on 10th October 1909.
The Gude Cause march (named for one of the banners on the 1909 march, A Gude Cause Maks (makes) A Strong Arm) is worth shamelessly promoting all by itself – it’s a major feminist/historical event that promises to be a fantastic occasion.
It’s worth remembering: feminism is the longest most successful most peaceful revolutionary movement the world has ever seen.
Posting was a little light this week since I was busy celebrating my 30th(!) birthday – which of course requires more than one day to celebrate. :)
All I Will Say About Roman Polanski: I tried to limit how much I thought about this disgustingness, but I had to say a few things.
Banned Books Week: There is nothing more threatening than teenage agency and gay penguins…
This is Daisy Bond — I’m going by just my surname now.
1. A Yellow Canary, This Box Of Bricks: some thoughts on sexism and butch identity.
2. Confidence, Not Caveats: butch, femme, and tearing down sexist stereotypes.
A reflective piece on privilege
http://mzbitca.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/processing-my-privilege/
Hooray!
Open letter to white male TV writers, about incorporating blackface into your programming.
“Where does it not suck to be born a woman?”, about author Sheryl WuDunn’s appearance on The Colbert Report.
“I’m sorry I got sexually assaulted”?, about the disappointing film remake of Fame.
“That’s one counter-example.”, about changing your name to be societally acceptable.
Enjoy!
News The Czech hopes you don’t miss!
Misogyny, Pennsylvania style
Violent mobs attack poor shack dwellers in South Africa. They had the audacity to organize for housing reform!
I’ve got a quick post on the American Girl doll, Gwen, who’s homeless, a post about being out at work, and some musing on “boy books” vs. “girl books.”
If you think that disability is a feminist issue and ableist language has no place in feminist discourse, please cosign my Open Letter to Feministing.
There’s also a lively debate going on at my post about breast cancer awareness campaigns which use tactics which could be viewed as exclusionary. This Is My Body That You Are Talking About appears to have struck a nerve among some folks.
I also wrote about The Bystander Effect and how it applies to social justice advocacy.
Is 13 the magic number for child molesters? Why are so many in LALA Land willing to give Polanski (R Kelly, Woody Allen ,etc) a pass. I’m naming names of those who signed that petition or have publicly supported him.
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/10/raping-13-year-old-doesnt-count-because.html
Is something in the water this week? Letterman is also guilty of abusing women by creating a sexual exploitative work environment
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/10/letterman-extortion-focus-ignores-his.html
To lighten the mood from such heavy topics here;s a little Old School video tribute to Barry White
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/10/old-school-friday-cant-get-enough-of.html
Defining Reciprocity and how black women are still getting the short end of the stick
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/10/defining-reciprocity-black-women-are.html
Why I am horrified that Chris Rock is using black women to prop his career at our expense by pretending to care about sensitive issues.
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/10/black-women-hair-angst-should-not-be.html
How women can learn to take risks while living their best lives
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/when-stumbling-out-of-dbr-matrix-these.html
Reality star Ruby discusses her jounrey to reclaiming her life
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/reality-star-ruby-discusses-her-life.html
Light posting week, but I really enjoyed this interview with artist dulleadsinker. All of her masks and jewelry are made with upcycled materials! http://www.suchcoolstuff.net/2009/09/labelle-maverique.html
1. I was a boy, I was a girl – Thoughts on being trans, identifying and living as a woman, and yet having all these memories and artifacts of having grown up as a boy.
2. Sex, and the effects of hormones, part 2 and part 3 – How have hormones changed my experiences of being sexual? Posts on sensation and orgasms! Woo! Go here for info on how to get the passwords for the posts.
3. Feeling overly sensitive – Feeling very queer and othered lately…
4. TV Tropes about gender, sex, and trans topics – TV Tropes is amazing and consuming my life
Um…what?: the new halls refresh commercial leaves me feeling icky.
Fuzz Therapy: featuring MommyGrandeur’s fluffy contributions.
Michigan woman “violating law” for baby-sitting neighbors’ children
Hollywood FAIL: more complaining about hollywood’s eagerness to support a child rapist.
Cute Overload FAIL: it seems even cute sites are joining the sexist bandwagon
Spurred by the case of the Swedish parents who are trying to raise their child free of gender, <a href="http://kittywampus.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/enforcing-gender-as-child-abuse/"I asked if the enforcement of gender might constitute a form of child abuse. It’s a serious post but it comes with footage of a young Michael Jackson appearing on “Free to Be, You and Me.”
And because I just can’t seem to stop worrying the healthcare issue, I argued that despite the fuss over “taxpayer subsidies for abortion,” the federal government is already subsidizing for them. The catch? The subsidy only goes to women whose employer already provides insurance with coverage for abortion.
Oh rats, I botched the first link of mine. I’m sure missing the preview feature!
So, one more try: “Is the enforcement of gender a form of child abuse?
My blogging this week:
Stay on the safe side:
http://animeg.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-agree-with-this-lady.html
Social networking and women’s stages:
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-dont-get-many-sales-from-artfire.html
and Civilization 4 and race
http://addtheater.blogspot.com/2009/10/slavery-civilization-and-complaining.html
I have a new podcast about my new book Cyber Racism, available here:
http://contexts.org/podcast/2009/10/04/racism-online/
The discussion there doesn’t get into gender, but the book does address a number of issues about gender and feminism of interest to readers here.
I wrote about the importance of listening to adult adoptees voices
And the power dynamics hidden in positive Adoption language
This week at Yes Means Yes Blog:
My take on the Roman Polanski discussion — that of the many things going on, one is the continuing refusal to recognize anything except a stranger jumping out of a hedge or passing van as “real” rape.
A short piece on Rihanna and see-through clothing: after she’s had to live with the whole world looking at pictures of her battered and bruised face, if she’d rather be seen in see-through outfits that’s an expression of her autonomy.
A short reaction on Lauren’s personal story, about how rape is the rapist’s fault but rape culture is everyone’s fault.
Plugging the Fifth Carnival of Feminists over at my place…
… and the 17th Down Under Feminists Carnival at Ideologically Impure.
This week I celebrated the birthday I didn’t think would happen. Swing by and help me celebrate.
GAB has added some new editors to our editorial board! Read more about them on our editorial board page.
This week on Gender Across Borders:
The Superagency – Recent U.N. Decisions Bear New Hope For Womankind
Love Shouldn’t Feel Like a Battlefield (A Battlefield, A Battlefieeeld) about popular songs have racist and/or sexist themes.
The Women of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Modern Wing
The Hair Affair — about the waxing business
I went through the advertising of October’s Glow Magazine.
Reviewed a romance novel. And Ponyo.
Mused about feminism and the relation to children.
I’m afraid I said nothing else new though.
Bright Star, Jane Campion’s newest film, chronicles the Romance (with a capital “R”) between Keats and Brawne from its budding first impressions until its final consumptive breath. Playing the doomed young lovers, Australian Abbie Cornish and period-piece laden Ben Whishaw embody the very essence of cinematic enchantment, and their performances will leave you breathless.
Starstruck: An Interview with Jane Campion: After seeing Bright Star, which is based on the love affair between the poet John Keats and his neighbor Fanny Brawne, I jumped for joy when the opportunity to talk with Campion about the film, her career, and a special feminist moment she experienced recently.
Freshwater Pearl and Blue Topaz Earrings: I’m going to my first Indian wedding this December, a celebration I am enormously excited about because of the sheer enormity of this type of event. Indian weddings are multi-day festivities filled with family, friends, fun, and (best of all) food. The wedding I will attend will be a particularly exciting culinary event; it is sure to include a sampler of delicacies from West Bengal, the Punjab, and Burma, a feast that is a reflection of the multiple and overlapping ethnicities of the bride and groom. Now, I’m not a wedding kind of gal. I didn’t have one myself, and I’ve deftly avoided being in them, but this is an altogether different kind of affair than the cookie cutter wedding industrial complex in the States.
Explaining why anti-trafficking ad rhetoric makes me uncomfortable, posting comics about beards.
I’m really proud of the two entries I wrote this week.
First is all the details you’d ever need when picking out a strap on :http://sexetcetc.blogspot.com/2009/09/strapping-it-on-part-1-picking-strap-on.html
Then I did a review of the Feeldoe, the strapless strap on: http://sexetcetc.blogspot.com/2009/10/review-feeldoe.html
I wrote a post that plays on the “feminists hate men” trope, showing 3 articles from CNN.com that manage to directly insult women and indirectly insult men
http://skeptifem.blogspot.com/2009/10/cnn-hates-men.html
there were 3 in a week so I couldn’t not post.
Oh, oh I got one more! I SeE GhEy PEOplE. The Pennsylvania Rep. Daryl Metcalfe story.
Why are so many fast food restaurants and food brands marketing so aggressively to one gender or another?
http://sirensmag.com/2009/10/feminoshing-what-i-won’t-do-for-a-klondike-bar/
I wrote about how annoying it is when strange men order me to SMILE! or CHEER UP! when I’m in public:
http://adriftandawake.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/men-are-the-boss-of-feelings-even-yours/
And I also wrote about the West’s obsession with the hijab, and Western men’s hypocrisy when it comes to violence against women:
http://adriftandawake.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/the-veil-and-western-men-get-off-your-high-horse/
Glee rocks, but I have concerns about the presentation that women you are dating/married to are the worst.
Over at Happy Bodies:
The intersections of class, race, and food:
http://happybodies.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/class-race-food/
Who gets to decide what’s discrimination in America?
http://happybodies.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/who-gets-to-decide-whats-discrimination/
Body positivity in ESPN Magazine’s Body Issue!
http://happybodies.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/the-body-issue/
old navy’s newest ad campaign, “the supermodelquins” offends…almost everyone.
http://factcheckme.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/new-old-navy-commercials/
Female sex offender returns to teaching at all boys school
My review of Roman Polanski’s REPULSION–the film that most reflects his rapist sensibility
My Uncle Used to Love Me but She Died–some music from the Sweetback Sisters.
Dead Air Church: Uncle Pen –some observations about Uncle Pen and bluegrass.
Real Housewives of Atlanta thread! –don’t be tardy for the party!
Not as accomplished as you folks, but starting up a site with a few posts. Comments are currently being built.
Anyway, this post is on feminism and how, hey, more folks should see through the stereotypes and embrace it in all its truly positive glory.
Check it.
Check out my blog Left of College Station: a liberal voice in a conservative community. Find out what it is like for a liberal at Texas A&M. This month I am focusing on reproductive rights issues in response to the 40 Days for Life campaign (that began in College Station), and this week I am giving special focus to GLBT issues for “Coming Out Week” at Texas A&M.
Spreading this as far and wide as I can: ASAN’s press release countering “Autism Speaks” ad campaign
I also have a problem with the lack of sex-positive feminist speakers at the Feminism in London event next weekend, especially as they’re having a number of workshops relating to sex work – you’d think maybe that some sex workers who are also feminists might have liked to have some input on that!
From more than a week ago, but I missed posting it last time around: Meet the meat shield, about a particular type of role in activism or debate.
Finally, I have written more on the Cyborg Sleeps story, which is starting to develop a theme based around discrimination, being different and being marginalised. Also, if you read it and like it (or even if you don’t like it) I would really love some feedback!
A little spot for me to complain more in depth than Facebook lets me. There’s also a listening project I’ve started.
First couple of posts worried about language and politics. Stop by and see why Hypatia’s Girl is Angry!
Damn, I can’t use HTML – make that http://hypatiasgirl.blogspot.com
Language, politics, philosophy, kitties and what’s on my iTunes.
Hypatia’s Girl is Angry.
Drew Barrymore makes some really off-putting comments in the wake of “Whip It.”
Roman Polanski, his defenders, and the misogynistic, abusive “artiste” archetype.
Enjoy!
Drew and Ellen’s girl crush kiss in Marie Claire: Why???
Hi, I’m angry Anna this week. FEAR ME.
Anti-Oppression Link Spam in response to the latest in a long line of “Please, Feministing, stop with the ablism”.
Oh dear, late again!
Extry! Read all about it! Times On Line journo discovers sexism!
I wonder if approaching feminism from a “micro” standpoint rather than a “macro” one might benefit the cause, if not speed it along.
Heh, I’m a bit late for this!
I wanted to promote my organisations website though. A Gender Agenda is a Canberra (Australia) based transgender rights organisation.
We’ve recently migrated to a new domain, but we’re starting to get some useful info up.
Http://www.genderrights.org.au/
We also have a blog at:
http://www.genderrights.org.au/blog/
well, it’s not Sunday, but I can still be shameless. Please check out
the period fairy.
http://www.periodfairy.com
she’s the one thing every woman has in common without regard to race, creed or political affiliation. and she’s funny. she’s good for a little laugh
thanks.