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Sarah Palin dumps Todd Akin, but as mayor of Wasilla, AK she let rape victims get billed for their own forensic exams. What is this really all about? The ‘morning after’ pill.
Circular Firing Squad
[content note: fascism, racism, victim blaming]
In “Normalcy, Part 2,” I wrote on the 20th anniversary of the fascist pogroms in the german community of Rostock-Lichtenhagen (and other cities), and a related article by one of germany’s biggest daily newspapers yesterday justifying the racist violence by stating that it was a means of social modernization that led to a “necessary” (further) restriction of immigration
On how the anti-sicentific stance helps to promote the sexist, woman-hating agenda: http://clarissasblog.com/2012/08/24/the-agony-is-painful-to-watch/
Has the American university changed for the worse? Or do sexism, classism and racism make us think it has? http://clarissasblog.com/2012/08/21/has-the-american-university-changed-for-the-worse/
My readers and I always welcome bloggers who want to promote their interesting blogs in this thread: http://clarissasblog.com/2012/08/25/sunday-link-encyclopedia-and-self-promotion-42/
Why do male scientists still uphold anti-feminist beliefs? http://clarissasblog.com/2012/08/22/when-scientists-are-stupid/
This week I wrote about
…the motivations behind narrowly defining rape
…when “thin is in”
…and the dumb dad stereotype.
I’ve had a long talk with myself. We decided that sex is great. We also decided that insistence on asexual socio-economic representation is misguided. After all, it IS all about sex, isn’t it?
I also dissected in my own terms why Akin’s ignorance is endemic of the GOP and what it would really mean for women. (What Does the GOP Know About Rape?)
Also, Pat Robertson is a racist douche bag.
I was wondering why buying expensive bras seems empowering, and how feminine performance (and money) relates to maturity. Plus, I curse a lot.
The Grown Ass Woman
The newest installment of my STD Awareness series focuses on the effect sexually transmitted diseases can have on pregnancy. The take-home message is that many STDs can be cured, and if caught in time can drastically reduce risk for complications with pregnancy. And even STDs that can’t be cured can still be treated to minimize risk. Screening for you and your partner is important.
Our blogger Stacey also put together a pretty extensive collection of links to the latest news stories that might be of interest to fans of reproductive justice. Unfortunately, they’re mostly pretty depressing/angering! On the plus side, when I was readying the post for publication I had trouble finding a suitable image to illustrate it, and ended up making My First Macro Ever — Todd Akin meets the “Hey Girl” oeuvre. A very special time for me!
The math studies are beginning again, but after a bad experience, how easy is it to get back into it?
http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/mathochism-rationally-confident-emotionally-terrified/
This week’s contribution.
In which I do my best to illustrate the point that Todd Akin’s problem is one or rhetoric, not substance, for the Republicans who are calling on him to quit. He’s spilled the beans about GOP misogyny, and now candidates across the country have to prove that though they believe what Akin does, they’re not also jerks.
My reactions to a couple of recent comments on my clothing choices:
Yoga Pants All the Time — The real reason I wear them so often has nothing to do with how they make my butt look.
I Can Dress Myself — On running in just a sports bra. (And shorts and shoes, I mean.)
And Bobsled — Nothing to do with clothes, everything to do with my sister and I becoming backyard daredevils.
I’m pretty new to feminism (and to blogging…), and I’m trying to work through it all. I wrote a post about why sometimes I feel like a bad feminist.
If you are a pastor, preacher, minister, or priest in any Christian tradition, would you consider helping me finish my summer project on Paul by responding to a ten-question survey? If you’re not, but you know someone who is, would you please forward them this link? I’m hoping to round out my library research with some information from folks who actually preach this stuff. Thank you!
I wrote about those -oo verbs in Greek and whether we can determine what Paul meant by “justify” from etymological means.
I spent part of my summer vacation at bible storytelling camp, which was both fun and informative.
A bit late, but I was so impressed by the Readercon concom’s apology: This is how it’s done.
I’m in preproduction on a horror film based partially on my years as a phone sex worker. It’s about things like how sex and gender intertwine with economics and emotional violence and abusive power dynamics in the service industry, explored through (hopefully fun and entertaining) horror tropes. If this sounds like a film you’d like to see, you can pledge through Kickstarter here. I have $13,000 to raise in a little over a month if I’m going to actually shoot this thing.
Good luck!
Why Abortion (at ANY time) is an Inalienable Right
http://thefatalfeminist.com/2012/08/26/abortion-is-a-right-at-any-and-all-times-american-principles-101/
I don’t know whether people who can give birth have *any* idea how *much* they’ve been cheated of their basic rights…
Great video of 2 young women performing a spoken word poem about “hipster racism”: http://humaneconnectionblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/humane-educators-toolbox-spoken-word.html
It’s time to stop giving evil a pass: http://humaneconnectionblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/its-time-to-stop-giving-evil-pass.html
The importance of persistence: http://humaneconnectionblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-importance-of-persistence.html
I get a little angry about reactions to the Todd Akin issue in Arkansas, here
http://delagar.blogspot.com/2012/08/further-ruminations-on-rape.html
and here
http://delagar.blogspot.com/2012/08/ruminations-on-rape.html
Why I refuse to talk about politics with most people:
http://greyskiesnyc.blogspot.com/2012/08/real-oclock-politics.html
-Meredith L.
I had a guest post over at from two to one about how the cultural role of marriage is changing, and our wedding humor isn’t keeping up.
I wrote a post on how exposing ourselves to diverse opinions matters more than we might think–in everything from politics to charity.
A recent article discusses how women in academia are opting out of high-pressure tenure-track jobs because it interferes with marriage and having children. The author says these women are depriving the world of their talents. Is she talking about me?
I teach at a community college where many of my students are older adults (50+) going to college for the first time. I’m also the mother of a toddler. Here I reflect on some lessons about learning that I see in both.
New job, so I’ve only had time to write one post:
Thanks for the confirmation : A couple of weeks ago, I criticized a post which claimed that the wank-fest over that GIF of hurdler Michelle Jenneke was a sign of male non-attraction to feminists, and the author made a new post calling me ugly and autistic. This is my reply.
I wrote about my bewilderment at how banning abortions with no exceptions whatsoever has become a “mainstream” political stance in the U.S.
And with that, I think I might tune out the entire U.S. election runup, because I just can’t deal with this crap any more. (Hello, Quebec provincial election!)
Some of the recent stuff we’ve been discussing on Man Boobz:
The notion of the Alpha male is based on myths about wolves, according to a real wolf expert
National Review: Hey, ladies! Romney’s a total rich guy alpha. Why aren’t you lining up for some of that?
Pickup artist guru Heartiste: Women athletes are mannish and ugly because “women’s natural bodies are not evolutionarily designed to run, throw, fight or lift optimally.”
The whole world is watching … A Voice for Men “activists” making asses of themselves (Bonus: Terrible MRA posters.)
Being a Missouri resident, I wrote a couple posts about Todd Akin’s “legitimate” rape comments.
I also talked a little about Pitchfork’s recent readers’ poll and is lack of female artists, and female participants.
31 States
(trigger warning for rape) The number of states where a rapist can seek custody of a a child conceived through rape.
http://canadianheathen.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/31-states/
Atheism Plus. Where Atheism and Feminism Meet – Part II
Why a new, inclusive wave was so badly needed in the secular movement.
http://canadianheathen.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/atheism-plus-where-atheism-and-feminism-meet-part-ii/
Mythic Mondays – Legitimate Rape
My write up on the Todd Akin debacle
http://canadianheathen.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/mythic-mondays-legitimate-rape/
This week, I wrote about how body-shaming has personally affected me and why I abhor fashion-policing.
Say, feminism, you know the best way to help survivors of domestic violence deal with their experiences? Tell them off for expressing their feelings!
Also: Accusing Assange of rape is not an effective way of getting him to shut up. FOR REAL.
I started my coverage of the fantasy festival here in Berlin:
Day 1: http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/29957075828/fantasy-festival-day-1
Day 2: http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/30033446769/fantasy-festival-day-2
There will be more coming soon!
BEWARE THE FEMME FATALE!!
Over at Care2.com, I continue my series about Teaching Feminism:
Bedtime Story Problems
Victory for GSA in Florida
At the Provider Project this week, Amy reported on the shuttering of a Tennessee abortion clinic. Lily wrote about her Misogyny and Everything Fatigue.
I’ve a new recipe posted for lamb burgers with capicola and cucumber-goat cheese spread, and a rant about why I despise the MN State Fair.
Race on the Falling Skies : Now that the second season of Falling Skies is complete we decided it was time to examine it’s treatment of people of colour.
Cover Snark: Who is this woman? : Kim Harrison the New York Times best selling author of The Hollows series recently released the cover of her up coming book but unfortunately it’s kind of unrecognizable.
Alphas: The Problem with Doctor Rosen : Though Rosen is essentially set up to be Alpha’s version X Men’s Charles Xavier and therefore the moral center of the show, we contend that he is actually manipulative and abusive.
Review of Grimm: Season 2, Episode 2: The Kiss
How anti-feminists make waste through hate
Why constant little reminders of patriarchy are good for us
An abuse victims’ charity in the UK, Wearside Women in Need, is arranging an event burning the Fifty Shades of Grey books, resulting in an uproar. As a feminist who also likes BDSM, I read the book, (ugh) and share my thoughts, on the book as well as the burning.
Also, a little meme modification to show what I think of ladies’ nights.
I’m working on a film entitled; Who Owns My Body, about women that explores the idea of ownership and the female body. Reproductive justice, body image and sexuality are the central themes of the film.
http://provakative.blogspot.com/2012/08/my-documentary-who-owns-my-body.html
I also made a video inspired by the recent comments from Todd Aiken and Daniel Tosh
http://provakative.blogspot.com/2012/08/i-dont-like-remix.html
This is a little something that I’ve been working on.
This is part two.
This week at Nursing Clio:
http://nursingclio.wordpress.com/
- “Mom Shaming: America’s Favorite Pastime”
- “Yes, Virginia, You Can Get Pregnant From Being Raped”
I live in the reddest of the red states, so I have been printing a lot of Ayn Rand’s attacks on Christianity… yes, ulterior motives!
http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2012/08/letter-from-ayn-rand.html
Short review of “Another Earth” (film)
http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2012/08/another-earth.html
Religion, Warthogs, Republicans… more or less in that order. Includes adorable photo of warthog mama and baby! :)
http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2012/08/religion-warthogs-and-republicans.html
Excerpt of old interview (1991) with Jimmy Breslin, concentrating on racism. 21 years later and still pertinent:
http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2012/08/color-fear.html
This was written last Sunday, but lots of people liked it, so here it is again… titled “And When the Sky was opened”–meditation on aging and death:
http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2012/08/and-when-sky-was-opened.html
At Muslimah Media Watch this week:
Ramadan is over, and so is our sharing of our own Ramadan experiences, but I posted a collection of some of the other reflections on Ramadan that popped up elsewhere throughout the month.
Safiyyah reviewed Sa’diyya Shaikh’s new book, Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality.
Eman looked at the rampant sexism found on Egyptian television during Ramadan.
And Nicole examined the latest news about burqa checks in France.
I’m back with another review, this time of Unwind by Neal Shusterman. It’s trying to be profound about the abortion debate but does so in *odd* ways.
It’s been a busy week. I’ve managed one shareable post:
Money CAN buy happiness.
http://valarltd.livejournal.com/1621540.html
Hello! My sister and I are new to blogging, but so far so good! I offer you our most popular posts on Fifty Shades and Lupe Fiasco’s latest single “Bitch Bad”
Thanks for looking!
In Liberal gadfly, I plug Feministe and discuss various and sundry feminisms.
Everybody talks about it isn’t a feminist view of the weather. It’s just about weather.
Here’s what I wrote this week!
“Legitimate Rape” Does Cause Pregnancy
These Streets Are Mine: On Street Harassment
Why Do We Keep Talking About Akin? A response to conservatives
Rape and Activism Are Not Mutually Exclusive: The Case Against Assange
My response to a Facebook page called “Most Beautiful Teenager”
I wrote about the three simple steps it takes to get your life together.
Late to the party today, but here is my review of Bride Wars.
In Australia, two men have been shocked to encounter discrimination based on their gender. Will this be a salutary learning experience for them, and the equally shocked men in the media comments threads?
I wrote about the ridiculous and offensive notion that the rape accusations against Julian Assange are part of a conspiracy, it’s a bit rant-y and rage-y but holy smokes, am I ever tired of his uncritical supporters who are doing nothing but reinforcing rape culture /end rant
I wrote a new post called Music and Memory-La Vie En Rose. Stop by, read and listen to some music by Edith Piaf.
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