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The first-world problem of not subscribing to HBO…but still being addicted to the shows.
http://greyskiesnyc.blogspot.com/2012/06/idiot-box.html
-Meredith L.
Religion And Bodily Integrity – a post about a German district court’s recent decision declaring the circumcision of boys to be assault if it is not medically indicated, and the outrage this ensued.
A post I loved this week: How To Be A Reverse Racist: An Actual Step By Step List For Oppressing White People, by Black Girl Dangerous.
This week at Nursing Clio:
http://nursingclio.wordpress.com/
Designing Women: Midwives, Class, and Choice
The evolution of the modern toilet, the history of preserving body parts, and the mystery of Stonewall Jackson’s arm – all this and much, much more in Sunday Morning Medicine.
Flirting With The Voters – my piece on why dating and sex metaphors in politics are damaging
Does “Merlin” Have A Misogyny Problem? – I’ve been recapping the fantasy show, and trying to get to grips with its attitude to women.
I wrote about what it means to be a note-book carrying writer.
Why do women find it so hard to value their own desires: http://clarissasblog.com/2012/06/28/whats-wrong-with-me/
When a “Nice Guy” is a bad guy: http://clarissasblog.com/2012/06/29/when-a-good-guy-is-a-bad-guy/
Should men “help” around the house?
http://clarissasblog.com/2012/06/27/mystified-by-feminist-websites/
On the political future of American conservatism: http://clarissasblog.com/2012/06/29/on-the-political-future-of-the-american-conservatism/
My post this week is about how annoying Weight Watchers is, especially now that they are marketing to new moms.
http://guerrillamom.blogspot.com/2012/06/weight-watchers-leave-new-moms-alone.html
In light of her death earlier this week, I wrote a short post about Nora Ephron and the much ridiculed “chick flick” genre.
We wrote so many good things this week at Mama Nervosa, but likely of most interest to feministers:
- A bunch of bronies got worked up over an old post of Lauren’s about My Little Pony — read a sum up at “Dear bronies, I don’t hate your show, but I am also not a cunt.”
- Lauren critiques the alt-ac movement in which Humanities scholars pursue “alternative” careers in higher ed.
- Jen posts about camping with kids, which is just gutsy.
Lara Croft and Rape-Revenge Cinema
Fans have complained about Lara Croft’s new backstory; I explore it in context of the rape-revenge genre of exploitation cinema. TW: discussing rape in a general sense and, while no vivid descriptions, also discusses the sexualisation of rape in such movies
(Hi, I’m new here :) Fans of feminist film analysis might be interested in older posts analysing the Roman Polanski case and an article on the Bechdel Test, arguing why it matters and pre-empting a host of counter arguments)
It’s Arizona; I’m straight-up frying. ;)
Anyway, I have my first picture post up for Everyday Yoga. I’m way impressed by the different photos participants have sent in for their centering seats. (There’s also a current call for submissions for the next installment of the project.)
In less happy posting, I wrote Hating Gym: Square Dancing Edition about my experiences with square dancing, sexual harassment, and victim blaming in high school PE.
Finally, I wrote a piece at the Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona blog about the 20th anniversary of Planned Parenthood v. Casey. (I link this one because it gives me an excuse to post gratuitous pictures of my dog, Casey.)
The Problem with GLBT Representation in True Blood and Lost Girl : Despite being hailed for being inclusive, both shows have real problems when it comes to their GLBT characters
Face Off: No, I don’t believe it! : Looking at some of the ridiculous ways we are asked to suspend belief or simple common sense in urban fantasy
Thoughts on True Blood Season Five, Episode Three: Whatever I Am, You Made Me
Cover Snark: The Eyes Have It : Apparently if you have a female protagonist she better have eyes larger than saucers.
I got so annoyed by all the sexist stuff I would come across during my normal Internet goofing off that I started a Tumblr.
http://damnthatissexist.tumblr.com/
I’m not certain how I feel about it yet. It may be too overwhelming.
I took a week off the internet, so therefore cannot shamelessly self-promote. HOWEVER! I can, in fact, shamelessly promote this brilliant/hilarious post by a friend of mine:
Pokemon for All: A rant about the gender roles McDonalds sells to children with its Happy Meals.
It is so brilliant/hilarious that I wish I had written it.
A cheesy but heartfelt monologue about social change:
http://mellowness.dreamwidth.org/1241.html
A close look at fallacy that many anti-feminists tend to commit in their arguments against feminism:
http://mellowness.dreamwidth.org/1719.html
Why Islamic sexual modesty isn’t nearly as benign as many people think:
http://mellowness.dreamwidth.org/1935.html
This week I rant about the “is she gay?” conversation about Merida, the heroine of Brave.
Also: I post a vintage self-portrait. Not really, but the photo of silent film star Charlotte Greenwood (six feet tall and so adroit at doing the splits she liked to say she could kick a giraffe in the eye).
I reflect on the self-expression of Pride Day in Fabulous at any speed.
Keep it real: demand more is my day-late contribution to the Keep It Real campaign.
And in Adventures in urgent care, I am rescued from my own foolish operation of a mandoline slicer by “socialized medicine.”
This week on the Jewish Currents Blog I wrote a piece called Some Things Shouldn’t Be Sacred, about how a certain Reform rabbi’s commemoration of Israel’s independence day as a religious holiday (complete with a use of Israel’s declaration of independence as a “sacred text”) is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard.
This week at re:Cycling, Paula discusses the “Choosing Wisely” campaign; a guest post from Leslie Botha and Janny Stokvis looks at the growing data about adverse effects of the HPV vaccine: “When One Less Becomes One More”; guest Chella Quint parodies the UK FemFresh ad; Laura celebrates body literacy, the term and the concept; and our weekend links offer nail polish to mark menstruation, halakhica infertility, purse pads, and more.
“Cultural fetishisation of interchangeable generic ‘oriental’ cultures LOLZ!!” is, I think, my favourite post title ever.
In other news, following on from conversations with anti-choice campaigners, I wondered whether there was any argument or evidence which would change my pro-choice views.
I’ve posted a new recipe for Roasted Strawberry Vinaigrette. I tossed it with romaine and scallions, and topped that with goat cheese, candied almonds, and roast chicken.
In response to Ball Park’s latest commercial: “Men. Easier fed than understood.”
Shock and dismay over male gamers playing female characters.
A note on the “having it all” housework discussions.
To celebrate my 67th birthday in two weeks, I am finally integrating bursting out of the closet. Both to hide my manic depression and to pacify my embarrassed family, I have used pseudonyms, principally Redstocking Grandma. Cassandra Woolf wrote about my experiences as a manic depressive psychiatric survivor. Most of the time, I deleted her posts and made her blog private. But hers is the most important voice. Because I can give voice to the voiceless, I need to speak for all the children given lifelong psychiatric diagnoses and drugged into obedience to a society unfit for children and all living things.
I was born Mary Joan Koch. Naming your baby after the Mother of God and Joan of Arc is a baptism into manic depression:) I was born the day after Trinity, the first atom bomb test. My first husband, a radiation physicist, boasted I was his “Personal Manhattan Project.”
Introducing Manic Magical Mystery Tour Shrinks, Meds, Loony Bins, Stigma
I try to laugh my tears, but some of my experiences could be a trigger for anyone who has sampled loony bin hospitality. I do wish my performances as Dancing Nonviolent Radical in the Loony Bin has been videotaped. I was often mistaken for a psychiatrist. Wear your most professional wardrobe to the loony bin.
I know it is my moral obligation to give voice to the voiceless–the millions of US children who are being given lifelong psychiatric diagnoses and drugged into obedience because they cannot adjust to our inhumane society. Thank God I was only diagnosed at age 40, after I had had four brilliant daughters. My life became difficult only after I was treated.
Here I speak for the children and tell amusing stories about my 4 disobedient daughters, called by their friends The Fearsome Foursome. My 5 grandchildren are the first ones to take their measure.
Drugging Children Into Obedience
Redstocking Grandma’s blog is Family Friendly Revolution
You might enjoy the letter I wrote to my oldest daughter on her 23th birthday in 1986 I said something right. Look how the former toddler terror of the Upper West Side and Chelsea turned out. Vanessa (Emma) should have been born with a printout: “You will only win 5 battles with this child. Chose them carefully.”
This week, I wrote in my .02 about the Oppression Olympics
Pageant Queens That Have Made A Difference
A reblog on How To Tell If You’re A Troll
This week I get annoyed with the continual attempts to try to “fix” my body and think a little bit about infidelity.
I made a top 10 list of the best female-centered horror films:
http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/26206490520/top-10-best-female-centered-horror
You are kindly invited to disagree with me on the comments section! :)
No, we had a cool front move in so it’s only 96 today.
Why is it that so many women hate having their picture taken because all they see is their flaws? And how can having a disabling illness from childhood make that so much worse?
http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/ra-diaries-not-hideous-after-all/
I’m a feminist Wiccan, recently ordained as a priestess after more than a year of study, and Virginia refuses to recognize me as clergy.
http://worksofliterata.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/virginia-refuses-to-recognize-me-as-clergy/
I wrote about seeing the movie Magic Mike and what I think it says about gender norms: http://thingsthatexist.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/a-movie-about-male-strippers/
I’ve only written two posts this past week. Really need to step up my game!
It’s very simple, really. Really : On why conferences are way more fun, not less, if you have a sexual harassment policy (duh, right? But not everybody gets this)
Template for my reaction to discussion threads on sexism : Self-explanatory
Today I looked at a double standard within Jill’s “Feminism + Housewifery” post.
On Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona’s blog this week:
20 Years Since Planned Parenthood v. Casey: Friday was the anniversary of this Supreme Court decision, which upheld Roe v. Wade but also introduced the ability for states to restrict access to abortion. Our wonderful new blogger Tori reflects on the concept of “undue burdens” and makes connections between the personal and the political. This is a great piece!
The Supreme Court Ruling on the Affordable Care Act – A Victory for Women: Planned Parenthood Arizona’s President & CEO contributes a blog post in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act. He talks about the importance of family planning and preventive health care.
Also, if anyone here lives in Tucson, Yuma, Flagstaff, or Prescott Valley, you might be interested in learning about the summer specials offered at select PPAZ locations, including free pregnancy testing and discounted STD screening.
Money is needed to make the first-ever documentary about the wage gap. Please consider donating here: https://www.artspire.org/DirectoryDetail/tabid/95/id/1201/Default.aspx
Thank you.
That whole male clergy thing? You know, churches with only male ushers, etc? Well, that finally bothered me.
Not my blog but my daughters have in the past identified Photoshopped pics as having an effect on their self-esteem regarding their body images. So here’s the Photoshop Hall of Shame on Beauty Redefined (“taking back beauty for females everywhere”):
http://www.beautyredefined.net/photoshop-phoniness-hall-of-shame/
I got the link through a blog by Gemma Wilson who blogs against forced prostitution, people-trafficking and internet porn:
http://gemmaruthwilson.com/
Wrote a piece about The Atlantic’s ‘Why Women Still Can’t Have It All’ article in light of Slaughter’s clarifications on Friday. Think there’re some important questions of victim-blaming here:
http://showmethehegemony.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/slaughtering-the-debate-the-death-of-have-it-all-discourse/
A moment of real and tangible body love and why My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is the best thing that’s happened to TV in a long time.
This week on Kiss My Wonder Woman, we talked about:
Loki’s Just One of the Girls
Not only is the Loki of Norse mythology pretty genderbent, Marvel kept his shapeshifting and ambiguous sexuality when they translated him into the comics, even going so far as to portray him as a woman sometimes. And that’s pretty cool.
Michelle Rodriguez Dies a Lot
She’s made an open commitment to only ever playing strong female characters developed in their own right. So why does Michelle Rodriguez seem to die in every one of her movies?
GlaDOS and Chell Pass the Bechdel Test
The videogame Portal was hailed as an amazing achievement in gaming, but it’s also one of the most feminist games I’ve ever seen. Then again, how do you pass the Bechdel Test when one of your characters is mute, and the other one is a robot?
This week on KMWW, we’re talking about Dark Angel, another look at werewolves, and hopefully a review of Brave. Check us out!
A late addition: Why, when talking about minorities in gaming, you talk about WoW
A “Brave” Review, Or Being A Princess Is Booorrring!
Definitely melting; the coolest it was where I live was still well over 100.
The Stories Project: I posted a few short pieces about a new project, one that would showcase the human stories behind the statistics in terms of anti-LGBT hate crimes. If you are interested, I am looking for submissions.
I also put up the first one I received, from a classmate of Rebecca Wight’s.
Today I had a guest post over at Musing Momma as part of her series spotlighting interracial families.
I also wrote a post as part of the #KeepItReal campaign asking magazines to promise one unaltered photo per issue. My post asks who media is for–audience or advertisers?
After I shared a picture on Facebook (an awesome picture, by the way) without realizing that it linked back to an adamantly pro-life group, I had to take a step back and sift through my own reaction.
Inspired by a post I saw on SSP last week by a Buffy virgin, I write a little about just starting to watch the series for the first time.
Finally, I was reading online reviews of sports bras and found some really gendered language in the way we talk about fitness.
Why I’m not comfortable calling myself a sex-positive feminist anymore:
Sex-positivity, compulsory sexuality and intersecting identities
Please! Please! Please! ( You said shameless…) Check out my blog/diary (literally!) on being a black queer activist.
diaryofablackactivist.blogspot.com
Thank you so much.
As part of the Feminist Odyssey Blog Carnival on female friendships this month, I wrote about how my friendships suffered in college after I got engaged and became more vocal about my feminism.
I raised a question that has been weighing on me more heavily as the Christian community continues to wage the egalitarian vs. complementarian battle: Does Patriarchy Cause Violence Against Women?
Avital (The Mamafesto) contributed her story to The Last Name Project on what she did with her last name when getting married.
On the delicate balance between being a Christian and a feminist when considering parenting styles such as attachment parenting and crunchier, “natural” childbirth and parenting.
My husband and I celebrated our first anniversary this past week and I wrote a guest post on how we met here.
A compilation on What I Read this week, including some great follow-up articles to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic article, as well as some more lighthearted posts on types of parenting styles and vintage fashion.
“Vagina” is Not a Four-Letter Word–http://brutereason.net/2012/06/25/vagina-is-not-a-four-letter-word/
I Read the Texas Republican Party Platform So You Wouldn’t Have To–http://brutereason.net/2012/06/27/i-read-the-texas-republican-party-platform-so-you-wouldnt-have-to/
In Which I Infiltrate a Socialist Conference–http://brutereason.net/2012/06/30/fck-the-bourgeoisie-in-which-i-infiltrate-a-socialist-gathering/
In Defense of Cynicism–http://brutereason.net/2012/06/27/in-defense-of-cynicism/
GAH I don’t know why the links didn’t link themselves. Sorry about that. :(
my take on the right wing explanation that the reason Roberts upheld Obamacare was because he was mentally impaired:
must be the medication
At Muslimah Media Watch this week:
I reviewed a dance performance at the Montreal Fringe Festival that first drew my attention because of the sexualised pictures of women in niqab.
Merium reviewed a new book about U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, and talked about why it’s problematic to ignore gender in that analysis.
Nicole wrote about a Swiss politician who posted a tweet advocating a Muslim Kristallnacht, in response to a hate crimes trial of a Muslim public figure who said that domestic violence is okay.
And Diana reviewed “Words of Witness,” a film about Egyptian women journalists during the revolution.
I looked at a new report commissioned by the City of Oslo into violence against sex workers since the introduction of Norway’s sex purchase ban: The Oslo report on violence against sex workers.
A differant tune to other blogs working with wild animals and volunteering abroad…http://wildhorseproject.blogspot.co.nz/
And
http://girlsgreatescapes.blogspot.co.nz/
Misreading Feminism & Women’s Rights in Tehran: Beyond Chadors, Ninjabis, & Secular Fantasies
http://ajammc.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/misreading-feminism-in-tehran-beyond-chadors-ninjabis-secular-fantasies/
“…Narratives of weak or militant Iranian women are not just dishonest; they also fuel a political narrative whereby Islamism is equated with backwardness and the ability of women to reconcile Islamic ideals with feminist goals is entirely obfuscated. Both Western conservatives and many secular feminists often participate in this obfuscation, effectively trying to either hide Iranian women’s successes in order to demonize Iran or by ignoring the ideologies of liberation they have formulated in order to preserve the status of secular feminism as the only path to women’s liberation. As a result, Western conservatives and some secular feminists link arms with the same misogynist Iranian men who are trying their hardest to keep Iranian women down.”
I found this awesome essay by Diamond Sharp about the alienation she felt from the feminist groups at Wellesley:
Make Space for Your Siblings
Raising girls in a beauty obsessed world. I tell my girls I am beautiful, every day.
http://www.lastmomonearth.com/2012/03/i-am-beautiful-girls.html
I am really struggling right now to raise the money I’ve pledged for Special Olympics of Massachusetts, and I need help! Please come on over to my blog and learn about it — I have a disabled cousin who is fortunate enough to live in the UK with free health acre, and I shudder to think about how his life – and those of my other family members – would be so different if he were living in the US. Come on feministers!
http://www.theepicadventurer.com/2012/06/im-going-over-edge.html
Candlelight vigil against hate crimes (for GLBT pride month)
http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2012/06/occupy-human-rights-candlelight-vigil.html
I’ve been blogging FIVE years:
http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2012/06/happy-bloggiversary-to-me.html
this week I wrote about ‘a short history of the sexy music video’ and the role of the female singer.
http://canbebitter.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/a-short-history-of-the-sexy-music-video/
107 two days running and 103 before that. Not nice.
10 tips for talking with loved ones about global issues: http://humaneconnectionblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/10-tips-for-talking-with-loved-ones.html
My critique of the EC’s new campaign — from the perspective of one of the advisors! — appeared in The Guardian as “Science: it’s a girl thing! A viral fiasco“
This week on MsBehaved.Com:
Cat Marnell, Anita Sarkeesian, and the ways that drama and trolling drives profits in the blogosphere: http://msbehaved.com/2012/06/27/drama-driven-profit-and-other-sad-realities-of-the-feminist-blogosphere/
Memoirs of working at a Bethesda, MD sex shop run by elderly swingers by Rashaun Ellis: http://msbehaved.com/2012/06/28/sex-shop-stories-working-for-lifestylers/
Style Icon Melissa Genova: Pin Up girl swank for petite women:
http://msbehaved.com/2012/06/28/ms-behaved-style-icon-melissa-genova/
Interview with Sexperts Susie and Aretha Bright, and an excerpt from their new book “Mother/Daughter Sex Advice:
http://msbehaved.com/2012/06/28/preview-excerpt-from-susie-and-aretha-brights-motherdaughter-sex-advice-excerpt-nsfw/
http://msbehaved.com/2012/06/29/motherdaughter-sex-advice-interview-with-susie-and-aretha-bright/
Career Interview with Chicago Feminist Sex Toy Shop “Early To Bed” owner Searah Deysach:
http://msbehaved.com/2012/07/02/work-it-searah-deysach/
I’m late to the party, but I wrote about the US Supreme Court upholding the PPACA and how important that decision was to me.
I also wrote about my body image issues as a part of the Keep it Real campaign.
Bonus! I received an email back from my state representative regarding the horrible anti-choice bill that passed the Michigan State House earlier this summer and she agrees with me on how important it is to stop this legislation in the Senate.