Thrifty Food Plan, Thermostats, and Lunchboxes
For anyone who has been following this series, Elizabeth’s family has finished one month of the government’s Thrifty Food Plan. (Post one, the one that started it all.) This conversation inspired me to get a few books on how to save money and shop savvy. There are some things on my budget that won’t budge, [...]
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Now featuring fruits and vegetables! And mustard! Feminism: • Considerable pissing matches criticizing the “nice” guy/jerk binary between three notable feminist bloggers and an MRA. See Hugo Schwyzer (the instigator of criticism), Amanda, and Kameron Hurley. • I rediscovered this old post at Rad Geek, Why Libertarians Need Feminism. Great read. • Also at Rad [...]
...read moreXX up for a Koufax
XX is up for a Koufax award for their reframing of the “Where are all the women bloggers?” stupidity. Go vote for them. Lord knows I’m not going to win anything. Again.
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Tired of your musings on parenthood being dismissed as so much fluff? Clancy writes in response to a NYTimes article on parenting blogs for which she was interviewed. I was interviewed for this story because part of my dissertation research focuses on women’s weblogs, many of whom are mothers. When David Hochman was talking to [...]
...read moreThe Dingo Ate My Baby
Nope, not thinking up a title. The Ten Worst Corporations of 2004: Unfortunately the “no-repeat rule forbids otherwise-deserving companies – like Bayer, Boeing, Clear Channel and Halliburton” keep them off this year’s list, where they belong. Arianna Huffington offers the Political Oscars of 2005. I have only seen one single, solitary movie nominated for the [...]
...read moreCoverville
Coverville might be my heaven. I’m listening to Aretha Franklin’s cover of “Eleanor Rigby” until my ears implode, and thus, it’s good to know that Coverville has me, um, covered with Joe Jackson’s version of the song once I’m done with Aretha. Blame it on the lack of sleep. via JC
...read moreWhat I’m Reading Since I’m Not Writing
• Lynn discusses a study on gender and sexuality in great detail: The main thesis of the paper is, of course, what the title would suggest: Both men and women act as if sex is something women supply and men demand. It’s not enough for men and women to trade sex for sex; men need [...]
...read moreThe Illusion of the Third Wave
From the new issue of Ms. Magazine, the generation gap is an illusion: It’s no mystery why the discourse that has developed around the waves is divisive and oppositional. Writers and theorists love oppositional categories — they make things so much easier to talk about. Similarities are much more difficult. So, naturally, much has been [...]
...read moreGender Roles
Today’s featured article in the wikipedia is on Gender Roles. Refresh your memory.
...read moreThursday Feminist Reading Material
• Ayelet of Bad Mother talks about her own 2nd trimester abortion: To be relevant to the contemporary world, to be valid, the pro-choice movement must listen to pregnant women. We must listen to the woman and value her words. A woman who is unwillingly pregnant, whose pregnancy at, say, 10 weeks, is nothing more [...]
...read moreWhat I’m Reading Since I’m Not Writing
Bakerina writes an amazingly entertaining ode to eggs. The incredible, edible kind. My Life As Nothing – On growing up Atheist, or rather, as nothing at all. The moral politics of “Meet the Fockers.” Framing of an article often tells us more about the author and his or her institution than the article itself. This [...]
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