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I wrote a review of Gloria Feldt’s latest book, _No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power_.
http://angleboc.blogspot.com/2011/05/no-excuses.html
I wrote about how a new dress code in badminton is sexist and generally horrible. http://stavvers.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/how-to-liven-up-something-dull-with-a-flash-of-knickers/
I also wrote a little something about the British war on choice http://stavvers.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/the-british-war-on-choice-silent-but-deadly/
Oops, I think my second link wasn’t linky. Here it is.
Ability and relevance.
Oh, my first time doing this… I’m almost excited!
The Toronto Star goes on a rampage over… parents refusing to reveal the sex of their youngest child outside of their closest friends, touches off a moral panic over trying to raise children outside of enforced gender norms.
Gotta say, I’m about done with mainstream media for the rest of the season.
I have a blog focusing on women who play guitar. This week I interviewed Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses, 50 Foot Wave). She talks a little about her equipment, her songwriting process, and the tour she just did for her memoir Rat Girl. You can reach here interview at http://guitareste.com/2011/05/24/interview-with-kristin-hersh/ and the blog main page at http://guitareste.com.
How a crappy math teacher can screw you over sooner than you think:
http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/mathochism-changing-focus/
I’ve been off on holiday, so posting’s been light this week, but turns out that fucktacular disablism does not stop just because I’m off on a jolly! Shocking.
And the first didn’t even show up
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practicing feminism: compliments
I’m not sure if this is the kind of thing that is normally done here, but I’ve begun blogging about how to best write on the internet. This post in particular is on the dangers of forgetting that anyone can read the internet and how much worse it is to remove a post once its up. The original ideas were inspired by the Scott Adams mess, though it’s not the example I used.
(Though, if this is not what you all are looking for, feel free to remove this post.)
http://goo.gl/njWHX
…Yeah, I’ve given up.
Parents from Toronto who conceal their child’s sex. Are they right or wrong?
http://clarissasblog.com/2011/05/28/a-child-is-not-a-billboard/
How to create a believable female character?
http://clarissasblog.com/2011/05/27/creating-female-characters/
Does being ‘born-again’ shrink your brain? An MRI study seems to say so, but I wasn’t born yesterday…
A Candidate for the Ig Nobel Prize
Reportedly the hotel maid and her impoverished family have resisted bribes and pressure to drop the charges of sexual assault– but there are other ways that Dominique Strauss-Kahn can make it very costly for her to go forward…
Do You Know Who I Am?
We all know the Japanese are polite, cooperative and trusting authority– maybe not. Angry parents rise up when the government says their little children may be exposed to the maximum dose of radiation that adult workers are allowed in a year…
Protecting Their Children in Fukushima
Why We Need Humane Education: May 21 & the Failed Rapture – http://humaneconnectionblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-we-need-humane-education-may-21-and.html
Watching someone die: failing to live by the MOGO (most good) principle on flight 35 – http://humaneconnectionblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-failure-to-live-by-mogo-principle-on.html
I wrote about the media coverage of the Dominique Strauss Kahn case in a piece entitled “Rape is not an Encounter:”
http://jewishcurrents.org/the-kibbitznik-rape-is-not-an-%E2%80%9Cencounter%E2%80%9D-5534
Classes, My Legs, & My Mat — Being a fat yogi, I sometimes feel not entitled to take up space in a crowded class.
Sarcasm & Triggers (TW for sexual assault and VB-esque reactions) — On using sarcasm as a mechanism to cope with being triggered and how some people don’t understand that.
An asana analysis of warrior III.
And a book review of the first two Cronus Chronicles with a focus on my reaction to Charlotte.
Some thoughts on baby Storm Maybe they should have called the baby Shitstorm
and some more thoughts on the train-wreck Dove thread from earlier this week Of Intent and Isms
http://ablogoftheirown.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/chicks-dig-the-long-haul/
Meet Dolores, the world’s most awesome 94-year-old baseball fan! You don’t have to love the game to want to be just like her when you grow up.
Thanks for the space!
I’ve got a post up about Matriarchy Tropes that can be found in Sci-FI/Fantasy and gaming. It delves into the messages that are sent out by the Evil Matriarchies or Sexy Matriarchies that we see so often in the genre, and how using Matriarchies as a code for ‘evil or alien’ is also really not great either.
Israeli Apartheid? – I continue my series of “Why Becca is a bad Jew’ posts with a look at whether or not Israel is committing acts of apartheid
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – Trans Characters – I kinda love the portrayal of trans characters in this show!
How Obama pissed of Israel – The 1967 ‘borders’ – If I’m going to badmouth Israel, I should at least know what I’m talking about. My attempts to figure out how Obama’s Mideast speech made folks mad
Very busy week on Man Boobz, the misogyny-mocking blog.
Trigger warnings: extreme misogyny, fairly unfiltered comments.
The C*ck blockade
Arnold: Alpha male or girly man?
Unhung Heroes (A penis size debate … with a twist!)
Hating female sexuality: is it normal?
Mutant Illuminati whores?
Also, I’m considering setting up a Man Boobz forum. You can weigh in on that here.
Blog post: Q: Why make such a big deal about birth? A: Feminism. Discussing the links between birth activism and feminism (in case the title didn’t already make that clear, lol!). http://thejugglingmatriarch.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/q-why-make-such-a-big-deal-about-birth-a-feminism/
This may, hopefully, make you laugh. xx
http://cruellablog.blogspot.com/2011/05/not-paranoid-enough-about-your-body.html
Gratuitous Uterus walks the planes, finds a UFO, and becomes a zombie.
Catching up on the last couple weeks, a couple of posts of note:
I started up a post of my own as an extension of Clarisse’s on fighting rape culture, and there are some additional comments that have been made there if anyone didn’t get enough on the original.
I also made a silly little question post to try to keep my writing juices flowing, which apparently worked because right after that I finally finished a post I’ve been writing for about four months now on my ambivalent relationship with the idea of being a feminist.
Err, and that should be “the idea of being called a feminist”, if that distinction makes any sense.
Can the Obama Administration Stop the Planned Parenthood Defunding Domino Effect?
http://prochoicewashington.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/can-the-obama-administration-stop-the-planned-parenthood-defunding-domino-effect-2/
Editing the Vanilla Privilege Checklist: http://somewhatofsomethingother.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/editing-the-vanilla-privilege-checklist/
The original was pretty racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/etc, so I rephrased a lot of it and added a preface at the top. Includes stuff like, “A vanilla person does not have to worry about outsiders perceiving their relationship the vanilla aspects of their relationship as abusive or pathological.”
From the Mouths of Wolves Bellowing Forth: Ask
a zine about being a male-bodied and identified survivor of rape & abuse.
A letter to activists on something that’s bugged me for a while: Please stop comparing your oppression to anti-Semitism
GAH. HTML fail. Here.
Over the years the idea of an all encompassing “Transgender community” has turned into an oppressive ghetto for post-transsexual women.
It prevents our growing into full people and has become a highly abusive relationship.
Many of us are declaring our independence. More of us are asking why we should continue in an abusive relationship.
http://womenborntranssexual.com/2011/05/27/cutting-the-ties-that-bind-breaking-the-chains-that-prevent-post-srs-growth/
http://womenborntranssexual.com/2011/05/28/ding-ding-ding-we-have-a-winner-in-the-contest-to-invent-a-new-slur-for-post-transsexual-women-who-dont-buy-what-the-transgender-cult-is-peddling/
TW for BDSM, issues of non-consent
Trying to navigate the intersections of consensual non-consent relationships and feminism- http://the-r-evolution.tumblr.com/post/5977000328/a-response-from-clarisse-thorn-and-post-by-thomas
(Response to a post by Thomas Millar)
Just published a blog adding to the dialogue over Canadian couple’s decision not to reveal the sex of their child.
A piece on how art historians have created a story of Artemisia Gentileschi as a vengeful woman, creating amazing work merely as a reaction to her rapist. In order to do so historians ignored the system of commissioned work, the popularity of certain subjects in artwork of the time, and even facts in order to fit their views. http://whatistalent.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/women-in-art-artemisia-gentileschi/
Another post on why I’m planning on going to the Chicago Slutwalk and some of the the problematic and offensive posters submitted to their DIY Poster Contest. http://whatistalent.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/why-im-going-to-the-chicago-slutwalk/
Hi everyone, I’ve written Keep Your Bleach, a short and rather angry post about why the recent “Dove” campaign poster is racist and not a question of “sensitivity” (and, of course, thanks for writing about it too, Jill).
The Day In Which I Discover WWASP Schools and the Troubled Teen Industry
Red Shirt is a catchy feminist song about the people I have no sympathy for.
A short 101 post on Everyday Queering.
The plight of women for equality is different in every part of the world. In this piece, I show how gender norms that confine women to household work are detrimental to development in Jordan.
http://roseanon.blogspot.com/2011/05/jordan-gender-norms-that-hinder.html
Sorry for the double post, but I have forgotten to mention my second post: <a href="http://stoptalk.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/get-your-dogma-off-my-cookie-2/"<Get Your Dogma Off My Cookie. It is about fat-shaming, governmentality and the policing of women’s bodies through seemingly innocent remarks, told through the lense of the experience of a friend. Thanks!
HTML fail… *sigh*
“Get Your Dogma Off My Cookie”:
http://stoptalk.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/get-your-dogma-off-my-cookie-2/
“We’re rescuing a girl? Is she hot?” Using this actual line from a LEGO video for the title, this post talks about the gender bias in LEGO video advertising (clips, TV ads on the LEGO website.)
http://www.achilleseffect.com/2011/05/we%E2%80%99re-rescuing-a-girl-is-she-hot%E2%80%94gender-bias-in-lego-advertising/
Kind of a mixed-bag this week, but I wrote about the cancellation of United States of Tara, the deification of My So-Called Life, and said goodbye to Gil Scott-Heron.
At Once Again, to Zelda this week we wrote about the first season of The Wire (http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2011/05/wire-season-one.html); a ridiculous Toronto Star piece about DSK (http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2011/05/et-tu-star.html); Friday Fiction edition featuring books about families (http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2011/05/friday-fiction-family-time.html); and weighed in on the whole genderless baby kerfuffle in Toronto (http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2011/05/world-war-ze.html).
Have a great week, everyone!
This week, I wrote about:
The arrest of Manal Al Sharif for driving in Saudi Arabia
One man’s attempt to murder an abortion provider in Wisconsin
The advantages and disadvantages of the “rape-axe”
Islamic Feminism, in response to Margot Bardan’s book, Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Conversions
I blogged about why we still need Pride, in the Guardian, with relevance to the symbolic handover of a greetings card to Moscow from the LGBT communities of Scotland, to the Russian consulate in Edinburgh, after the failure of Moscow Pride.
This week on GAB we posted a response article with differing views on breast cancer in Saudi Arabia. We also discussed rape and gender bias, genderless parenting, artist Wanda Ewing, and a review of Jessica Yee’s book, Feminism FOR REAL.
Also, check out our Masculinity series, going on today and tomorrow!
on how labeling often hurts worse than an actual physical injury:
http://hillaryrettig.com/2011/05/30/how-much-does-labeling-hurt/
Something that occurred to me after I wrote Prostitution, Hotel Housekeeping Staff, and the Arrogant Entitlement That Arises When Prostitution is Illegal is that the trope that says that everything about prostitution is agentless coercion effectively authorizes doing anything to prostitutes whether they agreed to it or not.
The next couple of entries are potentially triggery: They’re about sexual assault of men and the MRA allegation that feminists never speak out against it.
For Those Who Say Feminists Never Care About Male Rape, Ozymandias Slams the Wedding Crashers.
I’d never paid attention to The Wedding Crashers but prompted by Ozy I took a look and yikes! It’s pretty bluntly assaultive! But here’s the trick: In the Movie The Wedding Crasher Guess Which 10 Important Men Help Hold Down Jeremy Grey So Gloria Cleary Can Rape Him? points out that feminism might take male victimization more seriously if men stopped making a joke out of it.
And while looking (nearly in vain) for any MRA condemnation of The Wedding Crashers I ran into TVTropes.com, a fascinating site that basically catalogs lazy cliches in TV and movie scripts, fanfic and literature, etc. I wrote up their sections on sexual assault as literary device in And Rounding Out The Wedding Crashers Demolition: TVTropes.com is Awesome About Thoughtless and Cliche Uses of Rape in Media
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Totally missed out on the chance to do this when I’d just got my blog started! (Having looked forward to Self-Promotion Sunday each week for a long time, it’s fun to finally join in.)
Anyway. Set out my stall a little with an intro post I did a while back, but as for this week, I geeked out about a phenomenon called gynandromorphism, and what it might say about our understanding of sexual development, and some annoying sneery commentary prompted me into lengthy pondering on the Canadian baby of no specific gender, and the infuriating nature of the gender binary.
(Fingers crossed, this HTML will all work.)
Last week at Global Comment, we had:
Sady Doyle talking about the uses and limits of SlutWalk for activism
Kristin Rawls on the Netanyahu response to Obama’s Palestine speech
Nandini Ramachandran on the gender roles of Hindi soaps
and s.e smith reviewing Chinese writer Su Tong’s collection of short stories Madwoman on the Bridge
In honor of My Nigel’s birthday yesterday, I posted a video of him covering a Britney song on the piano. Definitely check it out, I love it.
In which we shamelessly objectify attractive people and try to make “MILF” less offensive by popularizing “DILF.” Add your submissions!
A thread about the Toronto parents keeping the sex of their child a secret.
Our local paper has this loathsome columnist, Katherine Kersten, who recently wrote a column accusing supporters of same-sex marriage of using intimidation tactics and slurs. Why? Because we call opposers bigots. She has the nerve to claim that people opposed to marriage equality AREN’T bigots, so I explain how it is impossible to oppose same-sex marriage and NOT be a bigot.
JOBS open thread! We’re talking about all the weirdest jobs we’ve had. Fun.
Bema’s ongoing discussion about his avoidance of social networking.
Shockingly, Glenn Beck’s The Blaze is filled with racists.
And I’m posting on Monday, because I just wrote a post today about the films Bridesmaids and Something Borrowed!
Happy Memorial Day!
I have never posted on here but thought I’d give it a shot since people keep landing on my blog by searching for porn!
I wrote something short about the Slutwalk here in Paris.
http://feministslut.com/?p=286
Who is Victoria’s Secret really marketing to? A BiFemme perspective.
http://kaylefay.blogspot.com/2011/05/victorias-not-so-sure-about-her-secret.html
The point of my blog is to offer little mini-actions so we don’t feel so powerless about the things going on around us. Here’s my take on something small you can do in the hope that comments about rape from the UK Conservative Party might not be so problematic in future (to put it mildly).
I know it’s no longer Sunday, but I just finally got around to writing some of my thoughts on two Texas congresswoman who spoke up this week (one about sexism, one about the man), and their different receptions.
http://scrambledmeggs.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/heres-to-texas-congresswomen/
I am just starting to write about women and flamenco and my life in Spain. http://loveandflamenco.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/beauty-vs-reality/
i have a question about the etiquette of the “shameless” threads: can i promote somebody who is not me, but who i think is awesome?