Your class is in your skin: What are your experiences?
Sweet Machine muses on dermatology. Below the fold, I muse on my own experiences and open the thread for you to discuss yours. (EDIT: This post got fuxxored as I tried to rearrange a couple bits. If you saw it when it was first published, it may be a slightly different version now — my [...]
...read moreGender Policing Hurts Kids
My good friend recently confessed that she wished her eight-year-old daughter were more interested in ‘fashionable’ shoes, lamenting that little Maria always insists on wearing sneakers- even with skirts. “Some day soon,” my friend comforted herself, “Maria will want to be more like a girl – she’ll want to wear make-up, and shoes that compliment [...]
...read moreThis has not been a good week for woman of color blogging
It’s too bad, because two weeks ago felt like an awesome time, a high point. Jill and I were in a room in Cambridge that was chock-full of smart, amazing women of color bloggers, filled with energy for their writing and for each other. The true soldiers of WOC blogging, sharing wishes for the world, [...]
...read moreThe BBC says: humour “comes from testosterone.”
Holly says: bad reporting “comes from the BBC.”
If you’ve kept track of the scant number of posts I’ve contributed to Feministe over the past half-year, you may have realized that I get very irritated when I come across blatantly misleading “science” reporting. (I guess it must come from being raised by scientists, then working in the media.) So my eyeballs bulged and [...]
...read moreNot in my house!
Attitudes like Sherri Shepherd’s are why there are still so many queer & trans youth out on the streets. At least attitudes like hers in kind, if not in degree. She tried to make some kind of point about how she wouldn’t just go off at her son if he wanted to wear a dress… [...]
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The whole of a woman is genitalia (or, Jewish women in burkas)
I had an interesting conversation yesterday with my roommate Ariel, who is not only a calendar pinup girl but also a Young Jewish Leader of America.TM I mention this because she pointed me to Jameel’s translation at the Muqata, of an article from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. It’s about a small group of haredi (aka [...]
...read moreThe duplicitous female maze
That line comes from an article in today’s New York Times, and no, it’s not a quote from some MRA talking about divorce laws, or Bill O’Reilly sounding off about Hillary. It’s a piece by a woman named Kelly Valen about her brief membership in a sorority in college. Since it’s about a woman’s experience, [...]
...read moreNo one escapes the Baby Inquisition
Beth Ditto sure hasn’t: All that said, as a 26-year-old lesbian, with a not-so-child-friendly career, I sure don’t have a burning desire to reproduce. You might think my circumstances would spare me from the inevitable baby pressure, but no! Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and [...]
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