Farewell, Feministers!
This is my last post. Sob. I know you are all in mourning, what with my charm, sweetness, and sparkling personality. I thought I’d leave a list of books that I’ve enjoyed (or that I’m currently enjoying). As I have jury duty this week, I’m doing this as a shameless way to get people to [...]
...read moreJ.C. Penney walks away from workers who were injured making their products
I’m going to shamelessly cut, paste and link from the change.org site. Please sign the petition in support of Bangladeshi workers. On December 14, 2010, 30 Bangladeshi factory workers were burned alive [link Sheelzebub's] when an easily preventable fire broke out in the unsafe, multi-story sweatshop in which they were working. These men and women [...]
...read moreYou can just. . .
Via Karnythia’s tumblr, I found this post that summarizes Chef Karl Wilder’s attempts to feed his family for two months on the allotment a family gets on food stamps. Wilder, who did this as part of an awareness campaign for the San Francisco Food Bank, documented his and his family’s experience on his blog. Now [...]
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I will post this week
Just catching up after Irene, which is why I’ve been MIA. No serious damage in my town, but power outages and annoyance abound. However, I will say this: I’m going to kick the next jackass who whines that the storm was overhyped. (It actually wasn’t, it was a category 2 and category 1 hurricane in [...]
...read moreAn appetite for moral panics
Anthony Bourdain has had freakouts over Rachel Ray, Sandra Lee, Alice Waters, Guy Fieri, and now Paula Deen. The most recent pissiness–the carping on Deen–was because (he said) she is beholden to corporate interests and she features foods (southern foods, by the way) on her show that are “fucking bad for you” (both true, by [...]
...read moreMore on The Help and Romantic Hindsight
. . .though not by me. In the comments on Jill’s post about The Help, Angel H linked to an excellent, hard-hitting essay by Dr. Bernestine Singley that covered the reality of being a Black woman who worked as a maid. She also puts to rest the bullshit lines that a family’s maid loved them [...]
...read moreNot liking The Help that much
(I know Jill posted on the movie. I read the book and I have thoughts, which I was finally able to edit today.) I haven’t seen the movie The Help, but I did read the book. I wasn’t impressed. First, I am sick to the teeth of feel-good, revisionist fiction. I am really fed up [...]
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Class war? Or one-sided attack?
If I don’t have it, why should you? It’s the basis of the resentment I hear and see on the part of people who snarl about those unions (who get so! much!) those striking Verizon workers, those students on the J-1 visa, teachers, public service workers, and others. Instead of thinking, “Hey, that’s fucked. We [...]
...read moreYour definition of foreign exchange is not like mine.
“Their experience of America is America within the four walls of a factory in a subcontracted company and in the heart of a company town, and that’s not the America they came to experience. . .These student workers are actually on strike for their neighbors, Pennsylvanians, demanding these jobs be turned into living wage jobs [...]
...read moreGreetings, Feministers.
Hello, everyone! Sheelzebub here. I am thrilled to be posting at Feministe as a guest blogger again. I used to have my own joint–Pinko Feminist Hellcat–but shut the blog down for a variety of personal reaons (the biggest one being time). I had also posted for a while on Pandagon. I’m a pinko atheist who [...]
...read moreWhy fix the problem when we can push for a feel-good policy that won’t work?
Apparently, there’s still a horrible crisis in education. And the answer according to some pundits is to go back to single sex schools.
...read moreAdvocates of single-sex education for girls believe that, in general, many girls thrive when educated apart from boys. Research concerning the academic achievement of girls suggests that in coeducational classrooms they often defer to boys, are called on less frequently than boys, receive significantly less teacher attention than boys, and are less likely than boys to study mathematics and science. Evidence suggests that attending single-sex schools improves many girls’ academic performance and attitude toward less traditional school subjects for girls while encouraging them to assume non-traditional career paths.
But boys will be boys, and they’re just having fun! Stop feminizing them!
Out of Australia comes a case that’s eerily similar to the egregious home made snuff porn of the Orange County Rape Case here . [Trigger warning.]
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