Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday October 17, 2009 Jill GO! [EDIT to say, wow, it’s Saturday isn’t it? WTF is wrong with me?]
Here are some feminist answers to common questions. (I’ll take self-promotion Saturday! It’s Sunday here, anyhow.)
Word to Chally – Saturday or Sunday, self-promotion rocks. What’s new on Women’s Glib… Staceyann Chin is incredible. Roman Polanski didn’t “have sex” with Samantha Geimer: part one and part two. Eight common myths about rape. Ruth’s play-by-play of her sociology midterm essays.
i wrote a guest post this week: stuff white people do: hate sagging, especially when white guys do it. Fuzz Therapy. OMG PUMPKINS!!!: I share pics of pumpkins I’ve carved. Will someone plz think of teh children??: on the judge who turns away interracial couples. But I don’t want to be sexy!!!: discussing Halloween costumes for women, and how privilege plays into them…
1. Good Advice – What not to do at the HRC national dinner 2. I Wish I Could Go Back To College and Queer as in Other – In which I mope about transitioning 3. Where are the Wild Things? – Thinking about seeing Where the Wild Things Are? Think no longer: You should see it.
See, here I was thinking that either Jill was having the world’s worst week from hell, or she scheduled the post and accidentally put the wrong date in. But now I realize, thanks to Chally, that all along she was simply accommodating our Australian friends, and trying to challenge U.S.-centric viewpoints. Don’t I feel silly! 😉
I wrote about how the A&E show The Cleaner heroicizes someone who’s shown committing crimes against others, up to and including kidnapping, and violating their civil rights, and how it’s justified to the viewer b/c the victims are drug users.
Steps to prevent rape poster is my response to rape prevention posters which blame victims or put the responsibility for prevention on to them. PA superior court overturns troubling ruling on alleged victim competency looks at a lower court ruling which would have required an adult victim to undergo an involuntary psychiatric evaluation because the victim had been on prescription drugs and drinking the night she was raped. Blunders and excellence in sexual assault cases looks at serial rape cases where police mistakes allowed more victims to be harmed and compares that to another serial rape cases where victims praise the police.
After a week off, I came back with a few posts. First, I discussed Obama’s speech on gay rights last Saturday, critiquing his lack of action: Obama continues to disappoint Jamelle over at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen critiqued my post, to which I responded: More on Obama and Gay Rights (this post includes an awesome picture from last week’s march from some students from my alma mater)
I also discuss race, Michael Steel, and the newly launched GOP.com: What up?! And, a post on Rush Limbaugh, his bid to buy an NFL team, and the civic engagement of the professional athletes that objected: Republicans wear sneakers, too
I wrote about the Conservative Bible Project, an organized effort to create a “conservative-friendly” version of the bible, and discussed why it’s so ridiculous in Values Voters Minus the Values.
Here are a couple articles I wrote this week at feministsforchoice. Female Sergeant Victimized by Department of Veteran Affairs. http://feministsforchoice.com/female-sergeant-victimized-by-department-of-veteran-affairs.htm Coming Out: Rupturing Heteronormativity & Opening Possibilities for Resistance. http://feministsforchoice.com/coming-out-rupturing-heteronormativity-opening-possibilities-for-resistance.htm DADT – A Story of Discrimination in the U.S. Air Force Academy http://feministsforchoice.com/dadt-a-story-of-discrimination-in-the-us-air-force-academy.htm
Mmm, cinnamon steamers. For when a hot cup of coffee or tea just won’t do it for you. http://cookandhook.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/steamers/
After all the date-rape-drug nuttiness this week, I told my own story and what I think of the drug-testers on the market: http://holdenarchive.tumblr.com/post/213527536/daterapedrugs
I don’t usually post here because I don’t usually write about issues that I think have wider appeal. But over the past week-ish, NPR did a series on health care costs in the U.S., and I did end up writing about that: Health Care: Recommended Reading But I *Like* Being a Medical Consumer And I Didn’t Even Mention Viagra
Hmm, maybe this is caught up in moderation. I’ll try again, apologies if this is a double post: My review of Where the Wild Things Are
What does your gender mean to you? Some discussion questions about gender identity, performance and presentation. Come share your answers!
This week I only have one post to put up. Over at Yes Means Yes Blog, last week I posted a link to Shroedinger’s Rapist And The Imagined Right To Intrude. That post was a meditation on Phaedra Starling’s guest-post as Shapely Prose (link from my post), and I focused on approaching a strange woman on public transit as an issue of boundaries. That produced the longest discussion thread we’ve had at Yes Means Yes. I said that it might be part one of two, and it turned out it was. On Monday, I posted Part II, Boundaries. I bring the thought full circle to the similarities between respecting boundaries in public spaces and the way Andrea Dworkin talks about boundaries in Chapter 7 of Intercourse. Since the latter is one of the more controversial and incendiary pieces of writing in feminist history, when I cross-posted to Feministing Community it produced some rather pointed discussion of the text.
Whoops, I posted to my blog instead of the actual post. http://johnnykaje.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/anonymity-gender-experiments-and-animal-masks/
Hi! First time posting. Here I’m talking about the Louisiana marriage debacle: http://snarkyleigh.blogspot.com/2009/10/you-would-think-things-have-changed-in.html
I pondered the bizarreness of the Karl Lagerfeld/Lily Allen connection in ‘Everything’s cool as long as I’m getting thinner’: how Karl de-fanged Lily Allen‘.
This week in Evil Slutopia: ~We weighed in on the Cupcakes for Life project. ~We responded to the Concerned Women for America’s protest of the Navy’s plans to consider allowing women to start serving on submarines. ~We rounded up some recent ESC Reviews. ~For Blog Action Day we took a look at climate change as a feminist issue. ~Yep, we’re still reading Cosmo: Well Played, Cosmo and Cosmo Quickies for November ~In response to the recent twitter “controversy” involving Meghan McCain: Meghan McCain Has Breasts – Get Over It.
Haven’t been around much because I’m dealing with some big questions. I explore one a little bit later today. Anyone with thoughts, please weigh in.
Castration: Justice, or Nazi Revival? about voluntary castration and criminals of rape I loved making collages when I was little, however this is about a higher art: The Remarkably Modern Practice of Victorian Photocollage A review of the Chris Rock’s film Good Hair and the Co-Opting of Women’s Voices Check it out: October’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Report is on Maternal Mortality. An analysis of an anti-rape poster from Ireland that implies that rape is the victim’s fault: What Passes for Prevention in Rape Culture
Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same-Sex Desire and Contemporary African-American Culture Stefanie Dunning takes the scalpel of reason to the twin sores of misogyny and homophobia that sometimes stain traditional notions of a black nationalist consciousness. Dunning effectively answers a question that I, as a young black gay man, frequently ask: is it possible to be fully black, fully gay, and satisfy normative perceptions of traditional black masculinity simultaneously? Contest: Beautiful Disaster owner Christie Lowe says, “Women have something to say and we are not afraid to tell you and the days of biting our tongues and being sorry if it offends you are long gone.” This month Feminist Review is giving one of our readers a chance to win a self-selected tee from this woman-run company. The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and Complex World Simply put, boys are not girls. We cannot successfully raise both genders from the same perspective. Boys tend to lag behind girls in skills acquisition, particularly language. Unfortunately, developmental expectations are lumped in somewhat generic lists of milestones, and herein lies the beginning of the unintentional assault on development in male children. It is the profound difference in thought process combined with the imperative need to expend energy that makes raising and educating boys much more challenging.
Kia ora, my first post on your wonderful shameless Sunday! (and it is Sunday here in Aotearoa). Thank you for the opportunity. A short while ago I attended a public meeting and http://or1noco.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/sexism-rant/ wondered on the sexist goings on there Today I’m having a spaz at facebook’s biggest feminist group. http://or1noco.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/facebook-feminist/ Should I really expect any better?
As a woman with a transsexual medical history I have been involved in discussion groups aimed at removing “Gender Identity Disorder” from the DSM. One such group has been taken over by several people making fantastic claims to being intersex and victimized by infant surgical procedures that the person they claim performed these procedures couldn’t have, wouldn’t have done because they were psychologists not surgeons and lived on the opposite side of the planet. I personally noted on said list how the sincerity of the people making thes claims resembled the alien abductees. And expanded that comment on my blog. http://womenborntranssexual.com/2009/10/14/alien-abductions-and-claims-of-improbable/
I wrote an angry letter about a sexist commercial: http://jennyknopinski.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/angry-letter-to-amc/ I also watched the movie The Girlfriend Experience, which got me wondering about the nature of sex work: http://jennyknopinski.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/what-makes-sex-work-different-from-other-work/
I wrote about Amber Duick, who is sueing Toyota over a fake-stalking marketing campaign, and the CEO of the advertising company responsible. Specifically about his marketing concept of something he calls a “Lovemark” which he describes on his site using especially stalky language. IMO “Lovemarks reach your heart as well as your mind, creating an intimate, emotional connection that you just can’t live without. Ever.” http://happilybitter.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/toyota-and-stalking-and-stuff/
Need a Halloween Costume Dress Up As Octomom:It is suggested a cheap Halloween costume but it is racist and demeans motherhood. French Vogue Embraces Black Face: Of course a Black model could not be found so they just decided to paint a White model Black. Karl Lagerfeld No One Wants To See Round Models: Fat hatred in the fashion industry, is anyone surprised. The Slut Shaming of Meghan McCain: Looking at why Shaming McCain for wearing a top is sexist. Yes women have breasts get over it. Louisiana Inter-racial couple denied Marriage License:Yep in 2009 people are concerned about the children when it comes to race mixing. What do you do that drives your household up the wall: Drop by and admit your shame
Even President Obama is supporting nuclear power. It’s commonly claimed that no American ever died in a nuclear accident– but that’s not true. Rhode Island’s United Nuclear plant suffered a critical incident in the 1960’s, poisoning a worker, contaminating an ambulance, exposing an emergency room and leaving a radioactive mess that took years to clean up. See, Rhode Island’s Nuclear Fatality, Part I– http://kmareka.com/2008/07/25/rhode-island%E2%80%99s-nuclear-fatality%E2%80%93part-i/
Post on the second season of Dollhouse, focusing on episode 3. http://mzbitca.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/the-return-of-dollhouse/
Like Chally, I thought you just caught up w/ us Future-ites! Wheee! Welcome to the Other Hemisphere! This week: This Moment’s WTF. I observed some things while perusing the book section at the PX. I believe that it’s about time that women were on the side of women (in what might be a new series entitled “Shut Up Elaine Donnelly!). Finally, Iraq Veteran’s Asked to Seek Treatment. If you or anyone you know fits this, please go to the nearest VA and check in. Enjoy your re-Sunday!
Why the story of Banita Jacks should be a warning to all unsupported and overworked mothers. http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/10/revisiting-tale-of-banita-jacks-how.html Why this rush to forgiveness for predators like Mike Tyson should be on pause! http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/10/regarding-tyson-confessions-on-national.html Since when are hetero marriages under attack? If they’re interracial involving blacks. http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/10/since-when-are-hetero-marriages-under.html
If you buy a house with your significant other make sure you’re name’s on the deed and title! http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/10/couple-discusses-1st-time-homebuyer.html Why this sudden “explosion” of cases involving teen violence like in the Dunbar Village case is par for the course of this society. http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/10/dunbar-village-miscreants-get-life.html
Will players now be motivated to be politically active after the Limbaugh situation? http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/10/will-perceived-threat-of-limbaugh-as.html Follow-up to “Good Hair” – Still Mocked & Why Did Anybody Pay to See It?! http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/10/follow-up-to-good-hair-still-being.html
Maria Shriver on “Meet the Press” to discuss a report on women’s status in the US nowadays – http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33247001/
I wrote a blog entry on strap on sex http://sexetcetc.blogspot.com/2009/10/strapping-it-on-part-2-doin-deed.html And I got to have dinner with the fabulous Ms. Kate Bornstein after her performance at Giovanni’s Room in Philly last night!
On gender disappointment, a new and disturbing trend: http://clarissasbox.blogspot.com/2009/10/gender-disappointment.html On male infantilization: http://clarissasbox.blogspot.com/2009/10/infantilizing-men.html On gender and housework: http://clarissasbox.blogspot.com/2009/10/gender-and-housework.html
Hello good people! “Is that the show with the black guy?”, about how my mother describes TV shows. “The temperature is 54. Yes!”, about the new TNT series, Men of a Certain Age. I agree, Amanda., about Chris Rock’s new movie, Good Hair. My main problem with Republicans, about the 30 Republican senators who voted to protect gang rape. Enjoy!
I’m pretty sure this doesn’t qualify as self-promotion, but I emailed the site admins last week about a problem with spam links having been hidden in the Feministe pages via an ad network problem or the site being cracked. If you view just about any page here with javascript turned off or look at the source you’ll see a few screenfuls of links to a typical scam site. Hopefully this comment will be moderated, but I hate to think that Google might deindex such a great site automatically… as well as that a bunch of slime like that are abusing it. Sorry again for this, I just couldn’t spot another non-email contact method here. (a horribly embarrassed) Kate
Kate, don’t be embarrassed. We’re working on it and some other issues that developed after the hack. It will probably be another week or two before we get everything figured out.
WTF, Louboutin?: Barbie has cankles? my review of Squirrel Nut Zippers and Southern Culture on the Skids on the music blog I contribute to.
Awesome feminist singer Nellie McKay releases Doris Day tribute album. Here’s the review you want to read.
A model’s pelvis is photoshopped out because it made her look fat. Nurses discuss ‘shaved mons’. There’s no such thing as ‘natural beauty’ http://kmareka.com/2009/10/17/no-such-thing-as-natural-beauty/
Inspired by a remark by consciousness science researcher Dan Dennett, a post about translation errors Some things I did and discussed on my 24-hr vacation with my parents, including family history discoveries and a visit to a preserved and restored 14th Century house.
Well, late for this week or maybe just really early for next, I just finished a post about the anomaly of early age of marriage in the 1950s with a reconsideration of the whole of the 1950s from the conservative notion of the epitome of normative tradition to a, more accurate I think, view of the 1950s as a “positive” emergency — nice coming after years of Great Depression and war but nevertheless a social disruption. The Fallacy of the 50’s as the Height of “Tradition” and Not a Singular Event figleaf
The Demise of Off Our Backs–about the recent hard times of the longest running feminist newspaper in the USA… riffs over racism tear the collective apart. (Beware, it’s LOOONG and self indulgent, sorry about that) Lindsey Graham (almost) gets his ass handed to him–my right wing senator is not right wing enough for some people… which is how he keeps getting elected. Old time radio racism Yes we can get out of Afghanistan –graphic to reproduce and distribute widely, please.
Blogging about hate crimes legislation after viewing The Laramie Project: 10 years later, and cartooning about depression and superhero alteregos.
For my first ever shamelessness I will link to one of my own recent commentaries: Incrementalism & Assimilation: http://www.dyssonance.com/?p=838 Be marginally gentle, I’m feeling all vulnerable and stuffs of late.
I wrote about the history behind Black Wednesday in South Africa; I wrote about how strange it feels to call a woman a ‘woman’; and I wrote that your lifestyle choice should not affect my budget
This week I talked about the abstinence-only website Sense and Sexuality, as well as the connections between a purity culture and rape culture. http://austintotamu.blogspot.com/2009/10/sense-and-sexuality.html Next week I’ll be discussing in more depth how the abstinence-only movement uses Jane Austen to do a certain kind of work.
this is not a feminist analysis, but something that made me LOL. its about the new miracle-whip commericals…ALMOST stupid beyond words, but (luckily for me i suppose) not quite! http://factcheckme.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/new-miracle-whip-commerials-wtf/
Hi Jill, I write about the obligation of government funded abortion and I argue that a soldier whose life is threatened because of her sexuality should be granted asylum in Canada. Both posts are at ThePolitic.com, which is quite conservative, so part of my motivation was to make a little mischief.
Lauren, is that the reason Feministe was de-ranked for some time? I noticed it didn’t show up in a Google search for a while.