Women’s Glib has been mostly links this week, but I did write about a pregnant high school athlete in Texas who was discriminated against and humiliated by her coach.
“Three Examples of Rape Culture in Nice Guy(tm) Breast Cancer Activism”: I didn’t think it was going to get worse than “Save Second Base” – but it did. “Girls Gone Wild or Wild Women? or: We Never Had Nasty Sluts When I Were A Lad”
Feminism is not a dirty word but it is exclusionary: Looking at the limits of feminist organizing and why so people refuse to identify as feminist. Disliking Tiger Woods Is Not A Reason To Laugh At Domestic Violence: Looking at the ways that Domestic violence is treated as fodder for comedy when the potential victim is male. Something has to women only: Looking at the difficulties of living in an all male household. When Black Men and White Men Partner in Sexism: Despite racial tendencies to the two can be trusted to always defend masculinity. Finally this weeks Sunday Shame: Favorite Movie Lines edition: Pop buy and admit the big box movie line that you like the best.
I am going to try to use the .html codes and probably fail… This week, I wrote about finding an antichoice ad on the bulletin board outside my office, a health care encounter as a privileged patient, and also commented on my professor’s incessant mispronunciation of the word “vaginal”.
For the sake of fairness – a post about how because the 1967 Abortion Act doesn’t extend to Ulster, women who live there must travel to mainland UK to get an abortion – and, unlike women from any other part of the UK, aren’t allowed to make use of the NHS when they do. (If you’re a UK citizen, you can sign the petition to the Prime Minister to remedy this injustice.) Also This is what Republicans think of families – tying together how the “family values” politicians reject some families as too poor or too gay to be valued.
Inertia — It’s easy to understand why it’s difficult to start moving from a state of rest. It’s harder to understand why it’s so difficult to come to rest from a state of motion… (chronic pain/disability) I have the right to avoid people who cause me harm. Including people who are respected within communities I am a part of. I have no obligation to explain why I am avoiding this person or “prove” to anyone that my avoidance is justified. It is my decision, and my right, and no one but me has any say in it.
On Gretchen Carlson and anti-intellectualism Plus, um, are you aware of just how fucking weird monotremes are?
Merry War on Christmas, Heathens: On going home for the holidays and watching my otherwise liberal-minded parents refuse to acknowledge their own privilege. The Worst Thing About Sam Schulman: A conservative columnist tries to come up with a secular argument against gay marriage; fails spectacularly. Mockery ensues.
This week at re:Cycling, the blog of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, we wrote about SNL’s tired ideas about the hilarity of feminine hygiene products, the re-naming of the hymen as the vaginal corona, a progesterone smuggler, altering tampons to reduce the risk of TSS, the science behind the early menarche-late menopause-breast cancer connection, news about Garadasil and gene patents, and the New York Times’ coverage of how Wyeth marketed menopause as an estrogen deficiency disease.
This week on Yes Means Yes Blog: How To Be Part Of The Problem, about a commenter who started off with understandable critiques of the methodology of surveys of undetected rapists, but veered badly into rape-supportive commentary. Mr. Jetton, We Are Not Your Human Shield, about a conservative politician who votes against sexual minorities; drugs, rapes and abuses women; and then uses the hard-won modicum of social acceptance that BDSM has to try to excuse his actions. The silver lining may be that it isn’t working: he was charged with a felony. The Perfect Scandal, a mediation on sex scandals, the hegemony of monogamy and teaching moments.
I wrote posts: Yeah, you could have., about Justin Timberlake lamenting the 2004 Super Bowl situation with Janet Jackson. “In case you couldn’t tell . . . I’m a character.”, about the Characters Unite movement on the USA network. Enjoy.
Certain crazy conservatives worry about the “Homosexual Agenda” and the “War on Christmas”. Neither of those things happen to exist, but it does not stop me from using humour to make fun of wingnuts’ belief in them.
Jenny Sanford files for divorce Why is domestic violence against men funny? War is over, if you want it Boiled Peanuts recipe! Disability and Aging: A Response
We’ve started a new blog to chronicle our clinic escorting in Los Angeles. This week: The holiday spirit, brought to you by anti-choicers.
The Ugly things people say about FSD **Trigger warning** – A list of some of the most terrible quotes I’ve read about female sexual dysfunction within the last few weeks. I believe that attitudes which claim that FSD isn’t real and attitudes that contribute to a mystique surrounding sexual health contribute to these sorts of conversations. I felt bad about leaving such a negative post on my front page so I followed up by posting Pictures of candy that sort of look like vulvas. Because candy makes everything better.
Kissiegrrrl writes about Meredith Baxter coming out, and the potential positive implications that coming out can have. Cacophonies is too broke to go out for Bloody Marys this weekend, so she buys some cheap vodka and mix and adds some of her own ingredients and rates her own concoction. Quaker groups in MN have stopped certifying marriage certificated for heterosexual couples until gay marriage is legal in MN.
She told me that Jesus had sent me. She didn’t know I was a witch. We had both fallen into a moment of grace, in the middle of a blizzard, on a snow day… http://kmareka.com/2008/12/22/snow-day/
It’s been a rough week. On a personal front, my erotic gay disabled pagan inspiration romance novel has been garnering good reviews. And I’ve been running a Yuletide Youtube feature at my Livejournal. You never know if it’s going to be the Monkees, Cthulhu carols or animation. Another Unreal American fighting the War on Christmas
I made a glorious return to blogging at HappyBodies with a roundup post about all the things I’d been reading while I wasn’t blogging. Becky wrote about climate change and the COP15 summit. And I wrote about autism, ableism, and why Autism Speaks completely fails as an organization.
This week in Evil Slutopia: ~We discussed the media coverage of Ron’s Livingston’s lawsuit against an anonymous internet user for impersonating him online and claiming that he’s gay. ~We created a new store because we’re bummed about the state of gay rights here in NY and elsewhere: All I Want for Christmas is Equality ~If you’re a fan of Glee, you love blogging, or both, you’ve got to listen to Don’t Rain On My Tirade by The Bloggess. ~We did two posts on the American Family Association’s inconsistent and inaccurate Christmas retailer boycott: Our Long National Nightmare is Over: The AFA’s Gap/Old Navy Boycott Ends and Debunking the AFA’s Christmas Boycott: Starbucks
Sigh. I am failing hardcore with this html thing. I wrote on a recent encounter with the health care system: http://angryfeministdoc.blogspot.com/2009/12/reflections-on-access-and-privilege.html and on my reaction to finding a misleading antichoice (redundant, sorry) ad on a bulletin board outside my office: http://angryfeministdoc.blogspot.com/2009/12/i-would-tear-it-down-again. and commented briefly on my biochem professor’s incessant mispronunciation of the word “vaginal”.
I wrote about the language we use to describe person who has been through a terrible ordeal. Is that person a victim or a survivor or both? http://jennyknopinski.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/victims-vs-survivors/
I had some thoughts about my own internalized transphobia this week. Also, Trans Form, the solo show I did this weekend about my experience as a trans woman, received a some solid press this week.
At my YA book review blog, I reviewed Goth Girl Rising where the multi-faceted protagonist explicitly identifies as feminist, which started a conversation in the comments about why so few YA books feature feminist-identified characters, and why so many YA sci fi and fantasy stories have feminist themes.
Daisy, I certainly don’t believe that anyone has banned you — the fact that your last comment got through is evidence of that! — Shameless Self Promotion Sunday comments are just more likely to go to the spam queue than others, because comments that are entirely links, or that contain 5 or more links, are rather likely to go to the spam queue. (A comment filled entirely with links to porn sites, spyware, etc., is a common spam tactic, so the filter can easily get confused.) I just let yours out with Erica’s which was also there … Erica, I think that I fixed the html for you to make it look how you wanted it to, but I think there was supposed to be a third link there that was just missing!
Lincoln University’s requirement that fat students take a mandatory gym class was wrong in so many ways. Let me count them… http://kmareka.com/2009/12/09/lose-weight-to-graduate/
Actually, I think any comment with more than two links is automatically sent to mod, which is why the Shameless Self-Promotion links are unlikely to show up immediately unless we get to them right away.
I wrote: Is the mixing of personal and professional a creative class luxury? And from a couple of weeks ago (but forgot to post): “Few teenagers of either sex are glossy, dewy sex-bombs. So why the obsession with barely legal – and flat out illegal – flesh?“
Thanks for letting me know, Cara–I thought I had just messed up the html stuff and that’s why it hadn’t gone through. Thanks for fixing it for me, too–I’m so inept. đ
An early alert for anti-ableism television: “Dancing on Wheels” starts in February A couple of thoughts about the BBC’s How many people can live on Planet Earth? documentary.
I criticised a journalist who believes the death of Meredith Kercher was because of society’s liberal attitude to sexuality and the ‘official grab a boob day’.
I found the actual origin of the term “rape-culture“, had to complain when Tiger was called a slavery enabler thought about the privilege of reputation. How being jaded is a good thing, about sex workers advocates being silenced in media. Wrote a bit about powerful women and unpowerful women.
Some thoughts on the partial conviction of a local police officer on sexual assault under the color of authority. He was convicted on one charge, acquitted on a second and the jury deadlocked on a third and also convicted on a related petty theft charge. The defense said it had to do with problems the jury had with the credibility of the victims but I think it might be the application of the written penal law in these cases. And the question of what constitutes “force of authority” by a police officer is an important one, legally and otherwise.
I’ve got a coupla posts on the controversy over how best to screen for breast cancer – one debunking some myths on the new mammogram guidelines, and another speculating on the potential of ultrasound and the possible perils of radiation. That second post is intended to raise more questions than it answers. Also, a couple weeks back, before I disappeared on vacation, I cooked up the idea that Carrie Prejean might consider a new career as a sex educator. Srsly!
A post by Kittyburger on Questioning Transphobia got me to thinking about the myths and misconceptions regarding transsexualism and how people with transsexualism were treated in the not so distant past. It also reminds me of the importance of “people’s history and how it is often different from both the collective wwisdom and the academic version. http://womenborntranssexual.com/2009/12/12/myths-and-misconceptions-part-i/
Still fightiing for minimum safety for my son with autism…. http://spectrumbeach.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/mama_bea/#comments He was hit twice in the last couple of weeks… http://spectrumbeach.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/reviewing-the-video/ and http://spectrumbeach.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/again-really/ and http://spectrumbeach.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/bully_repellen/
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I ran into the viciously anti-trans RadFem blog FabMatters. It is a strange mix of bigotry and intelligent critique. It inspired me to try to start a dialog with Radical Feminist about MAAB Inclusion In Lesbian Spaces http://bit.ly/8Q8aWY
Hey all! Here’s what’s been going on at Gender Across Borders: Clothing, the Newest Weapon Against Assault about a research project at MIT to develop sensor-studded clothing for women. Wife intentionally infected with HIV Women to join NBA soon? About the commissioner of the NBA, David Stern, saying that women will join the NBA in the next 10 years. Mugabe the Rapist Also, our series on Women, Art, & War is this Thursday and Friday (December 17 & 18)! Read, discuss, and comment on the articles! More info about the series is here. Don’t forget to leave your links in our weekly Global Feminist Link Love, which runs every Monday at 1pm CST!
R. Kelly Needs Condoms: His new song is so bad I want to believe it is a parody of himself, sadly its not, so I gave you a chaser. Modern Day Mad Men Channel Pete Campell: My thoughts on the infamous Method commercial.
Feminist Charitable Giving Guide: Grassroots & Global: If you can survive without whatever new stuff-and-things your family or friends may have in mind to buy you, consider asking them to donate those dollars in your name to sustain the organizations helping girls and women survive worldwide. Stark, appalling, and heartbreaking are all words that came to mind when I viewed Every F—ing Day of My Life. The film depicts a womanâs last four days of freedom before being sentenced to ten years in prison for murdering her brutally abusive husband. It also bears witness to the resiliency of women and children who must survive within these dysfunctional unions. Whoâs Your Daddy? documents the adventures and challenges of queer parents, including the parenting experiences of single, partnered, co-parenting and polyamorous parents. Essays from more than thirty contributors detail recent aspects of queer parenting history, including legal victories and challenges in the United States and Canada, the experiences of queer spawn (look it up) as well as the personal parenting experiences of single and partnered individuals including transgender women and men, lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer mothers, parents, and fathers.
The Price of Jumping Class An Angle of Vision, edited by Vanderbilt University Associate Professor of English Lorraine M. Lopez, is a collection of essays from women writers who grew up in the poor and working classes. The contributors to this book — including Sandra Cisneros, Dorothy Allison, Joy Harjo, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Bich Minh Nguyen and Joy Castro — explore the complex love-hate relationships they have with their current workplaces, what they learned from work they’ve done in the past and how both serve as a kind of binding liberation. The sentiment present in these works remains grounded in the reality that “making it” comes with a price: “dual class citizenship” or an outsider status whereby they do not fully belong to one class or another.
Nothing too interesting at my blogspot, but at Tor.com I have a review of Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters!
This is Why I Love Prostitutes In response to their local representatives’ attempt to thwart a potential bump in business, the Sex Workers Interest Group (SIO) has co-opted the postcards as a marketing tool by announcing that anyone who brings one to the group along with their COP15 ID badge will get to indulge in sex workers’ services for free! Why Lady Gaga is Important for Gay Women As an incredible gay advocate and in the public eye in a huge way, Lady Gaga’s mere mentioning of bisexuality and embracing of living as openly queer is a great form of visibility. Notre Dame Hires Pro-Choice Catholic as New Football Coach The University of Notre Dame has hired Brian Kelly away from the University of Cincinnati to be its new football coach. Kelly, a pro-choice Catholic with extraordinary coaching skill and success, takes the job just six months after the a strong segment of the Notre Dame community protested President Obama’s commencement address at the premiere Catholic university, citing Obama’s pro-choice beliefs as its point of discontent. Constructing Feminist Motherhood Although the topic being explored is not a new one, Meera uses her professional training to craft a work that offers a distinct vantage point through which to view this particular struggle. Building the self isn’t so different than building a literal, physical structure, and everything constructed needs a solid foundation from which to grow.
Female Athletes Are Dreaming About Equality For Women! As a Vancouver-based organization, The Antigone Foundation wanted to do something special to commemorate the historic 2010 year and to honour Canadian and U.S. female athletes competing in our city. For the 2010 Dreams for Women calendar, The Antigone Foundation asked these female athletes to contribute by creating a postcard with their Dreams for Women on it: Rachel Armstrong, Canada Womenâs Volleyball Julia Clukey, U.S. Womenâs Luge First Nations Snowboard Team Erin Hamlin, U.S. Womenâs Luge First Nations Snowboard Team Kirsten Manley-Casimir, Canada Womenâs Volleyball Cathy Priestner Allinger, Canada Womenâs Speed Skating Sara Renner, Canada Womenâs Cross Country Michelle Roark, U.S. Womenâs Freestyle Skiing Angela Ruggiero, U.S. Womenâs Hockey Robbi Weldon, Canada Womenâs Para-Nordic Skiing Ashley Wagner, U.S. Womenâs Figure Skating Katie Willis, Canada Womenâs Ski Jumpers Price: Only $20 (for 1-6 calendars) and $10 (for more than 7 calendars!). http://antigonemagazine.wordpress.com/2010-dreams-for-women-calendar-featuring-2010-athletes/
My latest at Change: This Just In: Sex Isn’t Going to Destroy You! On how any feminist minded person could have told you what the University of Minnesota found out, without a fancy study. Military Just Another in a Long Line of Victim Blamers Instead of protecting her from threats of harm in the first place, the military wastes resources trying to extradite a deserter from Canada. Nolite Umquam Oblivisci is a picture tribute to those who lost their lives at the attack on Pearl Harbor. What Pictures Can’t Tell You You can’t always tell from a picture what a person’s racial identity is. Thoughts on being bi-racial. (photo possibly NSFW) The Power of a Lie is some random babble about how Words Mean Things, and how some will twist them to their own purposes, and that sometimes our best reaction is to sit quietly and wait for the the truth to will out. Because it will. Hope everyone has a wonderful week!
Ugh, I should have noted that the last three are not at Change, but at random babble…, my regular home blog. Wev.
Also new at ethecofem: Brooklyn Hipsters at war with Hasidic Jews over bicycle lanes… How do you feel about the Obama Administration not prosecuting the Bush administration for torture?
OMG, totally not trying to spam, but I just made a poll that I really want people to take: Do you feel that there is a significant level of misogyny at work in your heterosexual relationships? I won’t post anymore links until next week đ
Check out our recent post on consumerism, Christmas, and “Teen Talk Barbie” at: http://pink-scare.blogspot.com/2009/12/adorno-on-free-time.html
This isn’t self-promotion; I just couldn’t find any other reasonable place on this website to suggest that Feministe should link to this feminism-and-technology blog I recently stumbled across: http://www.differenceengines.com. Not the most active, but thoughtful.