Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday February 14, 2010 Chally Link us up with posts you’ve written this past week. Include a short description and don’t just link to your whole blog. Have a most fabulous day!
My take on the Dodge Charger Superbowl ad, including rage-inducing comments from a Slate article on the subject. An accompanying post about the gendering of Superbowl snacks.
Lori Gottleib’s new book advises women to ‘settle’. I want to know, where are these swarms of men just dying to be some woman’s second best? And will Gottleib take her own advice? Should we congratulate the lucky groom, or wonder what’s wrong with him? http://kmareka.com/2010/02/08/who-are-these-guys/
This week on Eugenia de Altura, I discuss how the Bolivian press condones acts of brutal violence against women.
Danny wrote about TV and movie violence, and gender; N links to an article about Alan Touring in re: to ending DADT; I wrote about Superbowl commercials I actually appreciated.
After all the fuss about the ‘R’ word being thrown around in political fights, a father speaks out for simple decency. Consider this, history may show that Trig Palin, even in his infancy, has served his country well. See why… http://kmareka.com/2010/02/10/simple-decency/
This week at re:Cycling, we’ve got a book review of The Modern Period; guest post from Evil Slutopia “When Mirena Meets Mommybloggers”; video clips from last fall’s Vulvagraphics: An Intervention in Honor of Female Genital Diversity; guest post from David Linton about how the misheard tampon joke of 1993 continues to dog Prince Charles (which received a snotty pingback from one of the offenders); men featured prominently in maxi-pad advertisements; a recipe for all-natural, DIY lube; a computer mouse shaped like a woman’s vulva; and some recommended weekend reading.
In honour of Valentines Day, this week’s Sunday Shame is about calling out our partners irritating little habits. For those that aren’t partnered please feel free to share your pet peeves as well. You’re already teaching kids sex education: Looking at the ways that it is ignored that heterosexuality is taught to children all the while complaining that we cannot include the GLBT community in our sex education. Nelson Mandela Whose Hero Is He: A Critical look at Mandela’s work after his release from Robbin Island. A Facial For Your Vagina: Exactly What You Never Knew Your Lady Bits Needed: That right now we the vajicial, 60 dollars apparently every woman needs to spend. This is what a feminist vampire looks like: musings on the Gilda stories Activism Round Here: Looking at the way that activism has become passive.
FSD news from the NVA and the DSM – those acronyms translate to “The National Vulvodynia Association put out a new newsletter and the Diagnostic Statistical Manual put out a draft which includes guidelines for female sexual dysfunction.” And also there’s Valentine’s Sex Fest (or not) – My response to Dave Hingsburger’s recruitment call for disability bloggers to talk about sexuality on or around Valentine’s Day.
I wrote posts! “Who’s that?”, about my favorite Super Bowl commercials from this year. Musings from a Black Woman: Classy People on VH1, about Fantasia and Pepa on Black History Month. “I think the world would be better off if I stopped doing interviews.”, about John Mayer’s special brand of crazy. and my most special post this week, on Mahlena’s Guide to Life: You know I believe it., about the pain of finding what I am looking for. Enjoy!
Hi! I’ve been reading for a very long time, but never posted in one of these. I just started a new blog called Solve for i and any insight/advice would be much appreciated! This week, I wrote about Science increasing spirituality and The decision to kill Americans abroad And that’s about it. I’ll try to have more relevant tidbits up later. Thanks for reading!
Have I mentioned that health is a social construction? At 3rf and FWD/Forward. And just in case there are any other feminist hockey fans out there I haven’t found already, here‘s some eye candy for you – my “boyfriend” Marc Andre Fleury, in honor of my birthday.
My look at the David Letterman sex scandal in light of the Super Bowl spot featuring Oprah: http://thefemspot.com/2010/02/12/oprah-how-could-you/
My most-read post this week was “When Sexual Orientation *Is* a Choice.” I argued that defending non-normative sexualities on the basis of innate orientations will only take us so far. Ultimately, society needs to embrace and celebrate the full range of possible sexualities, including fluid/queer ones. In response to the NYT fluff piece bemoaning the bad dating scene for women at female-dominated colleges, I suggested more substantive reasons – including feminist ones – for seeking gender balance on campus. I posted my reflections on the killings at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, where a good friend of mine works. She’s okay, but my thoughts are very much with everyone whose lives were shattered by the violence.
An exploration of the various “isms” and how some think we’re in a post-racial society where evaluation of supremacy isn’t necessary http://actsoffaithblog.com/just-because-theyre-not-burning-crosses-doesnt-mean-someone-isnt-racist An evaluation of the musician’s inherent sexism & racism and how it manifests itself http://actsoffaithblog.com/john-mayer-is-a-douche-bag-but-you-knew-that-already Jenny Sanford may or may not deserve the accolades of “wronged woman” if she chose a low-quality mate to begin with http://actsoffaithblog.com/jenny-sanfords-book-tour-of-obfuscation Did you feel as if you got punked about the great anti-choice ad that wasn’t? http://actsoffaithblog.com/focus-on-the-family-cbs-created-a-fake-abortion-controversy-for-profit
America _ Me: Reality tv turns 18 this month, meaning contestants on shows have, like as not, never lived in a world without the option. Taking it! Personally: In which I overidentify with Secret Life of the American Teenager Teenagers with a dead parent. The Biggest Love of All: We Love Big Love! Maybe more than anything else on tv.
Why don’t we call it what it is?: on rape culture in the show 24. My analysis of this week’s episodes of Lost. The Fake Face of the Olympics: I love the Olympics, but… Where would I be?: on teaching feminism and women’s studies in grade school.
This week at Happy Bodies: Getting it right: Sexual Violence Prevention in media.: So many times sexual violence prevention campaigns get it SO WRONG, that it’s time to celebrate when a large scale ad campaign gets it right! Congolese Women’s Campaign Against Sexual Violence in the DRC: My awe for the powerful women of the DRC, and some background on the crisis they are surviving. C’mon get happy: our on campus ad campaign!
I haven’t responded in awhile. Oops! Copy Edit Craigslist Tuesday is still going strong, with what my friend and colleague called the oddest week yet. It includes stalking! http://winsomeicarus.blogspot.com/2010/02/copy-edit-craigslist-tuesday-week-six.html In the personal, and poorly written, files I wrote about how my health insurance premium went up because I had hives two months ago, and not because I was hit by a car and am held together by plates, screws, nails, and pins: http://winsomeicarus.blogspot.com/2010/02/add-this-to-alanis-morissettes-1996.html I write an “educational” blog with technology and pop culture “lessons” for Old People (out of touch–I think it serves my sister best, and she’s in her early 30s) and have been working on a timeline of John Mayer’s behavior for some time. I decided to finish it this week, and since I took the month off, I posted it on my personal blog. I definitely don’t add anything to the conversation, other than my outright disdain and loathing for the expletive expletive expletive: http://winsomeicarus.blogspot.com/2010/02/john-mayer-tool-preview.html
Also this week at Happy Bodies: I wrote about the ways in which we capitulate to society’s expectations. And about the mercifully ungendered nature of Playmobil toys and advertising. Nko wrote about the awful invention of baby wigs, because you wouldn’t want your little girl to be mistaken for a boy.
This week at SAFER’s blog, Change Happens, we wrote about how a good campus sexual misconduct policy fights oppression, and about Hiram Monserrate’s expulsion from the NY State Senate over domestic assault. We are also currently looking for submissions for the next Feminist Blog Carnival which will be hosted on our site. The theme is: Social Justice Organizing. Please nominate a post of yours or one you think should be includes!
On fantasy and the fashion industry: Sorry, that dress/jacket/pair of skinny jeans won’t turn you into Chloe Sevigny/Mary-Kate Olsen/Rachel Bilson/whoever the glossies are pushing this week. “But women don’t rape!”: sexual pressure, rejection and the male sex drive discourse. This post got an incredible response on my native Tumblr last week. Bewarned, though – there are some potentially triggering stories of female-on-male sexual assault in the comments. Great Sexpectations: an excerpt from my essay in the current issue of Vogue.
Over on femonomics: In honor of Valentine’s Day, Mad Dr has the goods on safe sex toys for you…partner optional We discuss Lori Gottlieb’s shameful fat-shaming and offer up a point/counterpoint on Gottlieb’s suggestion to settle. Mad Dr has a powerful piece on the inherent lack of consent in Mackenzie Phillip’s relationship with her father. For the “economics” part of our name, I wondered whether economists were venturing too far outside their field, and Just a State School Girl challenged whether school choice gave options to the most in need. We also discuss women and math, the Pam Tebow story, and whether men are falling behind. Come check it out!
This week at Radical Bookworm: The Crowd Goes Frakking Wild: In which I profess my love for Caprica, but wish it lived up to the standards Battlestar Galactica set for gender equality and awesome female characters.
I wrote about impostor syndrome getting worse in the second semester, mused about health and personal responsibility, and posted a very brief reflection on my first shift on the labor and delivery ward.
Writing about research on gender and toy choices, I delve into what has been discovered about the color pink and tout a new podcast which reflects that diversity of choice is far more appreciated amongst young women. Does It Mean A Thing If It ‘Ain’t Got Pink Bling? Gender Differences, Toys And The Psychology Of Color
A couple Jewish perspectives on Valentine’s Day, as well as a discussion of the need for Feminism to be taught in classrooms
This week at f/law our contributor examines why having women in Parliament and making laws is important. http://canadianwomenandthelaw.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-having-women-making-law-matters.html
More of you than usual are getting caught in spam this week, and some of that is because of HTML that went a bit awry. Here’s a refresher on how to do that if you like, otherwise don’t forget it’s okay to just cut and paste the URL like so http://www.echoecho.com/htmllinks01.htm. 🙂 No worries if it doesn’t work out, I’ll try and fish you out of the spam queue!
Trans feminism and transfeminism, possible distinctions, and a rambling attempt to come to a personal formulation of the latter. http://sophias-choices.blogspot.com/2010/02/transfeminist-trans-feminist-gender-1-2.html
I wrote about a little bit of transphobia I experienced, and generalized to transphobia as part of a larger system of gender policing: In which I am apparently a boy in a skirt
http://thatneedstogo.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/in-light-of-john-mayers-douchebaggery-lets-talk-for-a-second-about-political-correctness/ …on John Mayer and Political Correctness
(So i didnt technically write this but…) i posted the daily show clip showing the notes Sara Pain wrote on her hand during the tea part convention and Robert Gibbs poking fun at the situation but i think its really important that, as we cover her shenanigans, we also not forget the reason she was there in the first place, the tea party conference. I posted the amazing video Al Jazeera did on the Tea Part Movement and some of the radical white power groups in america that have begun to creep into our discussions and our politics. http://thatneedstogo.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/oh-sarah-7th-grade-notes-edition/
Over at Care2 I tackled some pretty disturbing issues this week: Facebook Fail: Group Calls For Murder of Hookers In The Name of Family Honor: Girl Buried Alive for Talking to Boys Would love to hear your thoughts over at Care2! Happy Valentine’s Day!!
I’ve been blogging on a hit and run accident by my city’s police chief which has apparently been covered up or so I heard. Or was, until it blew up and he was medically retired. First updates One car accident leads to too many questions. Police Chief retires White wash investigation
Two weeks ago, I skewered a ridiculously racist article published in one of the campus newspapers at Texas A&M. After catching some shit for being “hypocritical” and rude, or something, I wrote another post this week about why it’s important (and constructive!) to blog about racism.
Escaping into books – What are your mindless-pleasure reads? Escaping an angry photograph – Reconciling pre- and post-transition life is harder than I thought it would be Family can surprise you – My dad made a really sweet offer this past week
At Stemming.org, the community for women/girls interested in the STEM fields (science, tech, engineering, and math), I wrote about mansplaining and how it affects women in these fields: http://stemming.org/posts/mansplaining
Hey all, Happy Valentine’s day! Below are some links from Gender Across Borders: Women sommeliers and the old boys club about women in the wine business and semi-related to that post: Vineyard Worker Sexually Harassed Chivalry or Common Courtesy: The Etiquette of Romance, Or, What Does a Feminist Relationship Look Like? a Valentine’s day post A Choice Isn’t a Privilege: The Ability to Choose Is about lifestyle choices Remember to check back at GAB tomorrow for our weekly Global Feminist Link Love, every Monday at 1pm CST! We include posts from around the global feminist blogosphere and where you can self-promote what you’ve been writing from the past week.
My post on the trials of dating as escort might intrigue Feministe readers: http://www.texasgoldengirl.com/afterhours/dating-as-an-escort/ Feminism from a bit different angle. XX
This week I wrote about my daughter’s class assignment about the olympics, and am looking for opinions on what aspects of my own opinion to talk to her about. http://ms-marx.blogspot.com/2010/02/olympics-and-grade-2-class-assignment.html
At good girls don’t, I talked about white privilege and sex work, had a funny sex injury, and ranted about screening.
Long time no see, Feministe-ers. I squeaked in on Sunday. I came out, identity wise, and came up with a stand in character, my imaginary cousin Susan, to represent people who I use as examples on my blog. I put up a link to my med school research day presentation. I talked about domestic abuse and reproductive coercion. I link to Renee’s blog post about the billboards in Atlanta that shame black women for getting abortions. And, finally, I ask for advice for a new mom-to-be.
Do you like what you’ve been reading on Feminist Review? After three years of quality content and steady growth, FR now needs your help to stick around. Read more about the I ♥ FR campaign! This book may be aimed at younger girls in the hopes that it will get them thinking about their own generation of musical trends, and inspire them to look more critically at the media. Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music shows a lot of promise for spurring conversations between feminists of different generations, but for anyone born past 1990, Meltzer could leave you feeling bitter and jaded. Then again, maybe it’s just me. My Baby Rides the Short Bus is an anthology of articles written by parents about their firsthand experiences of raising children with disabilities. In addition to their common identity as parents of disabled children, the contributors also share another trait: all of them find themselves outside of the mainstream by virtue of identity or political perspective. Together the articles make up a lively collection of authentic voices that speak to the joys and challenges of being marginalized and/or subcultural parents raising special-needs children.
A post on masculinity and race in Lost, asking if this might be the season POC get to rule the island. Find it here: http://wp.me/pg5Xf-cT Worry about the cultural exploitation and appropriation of the Quileute people? Me too! Check out my post on the topic here: http://wp.me/pBzlT-42
Americans and their Servants in India : A post about the Domestic Workers Registry attached to the American Embassy in Delhi as described in a book about Delhi.
Just a little bit of my disapointment with anti- sex ed groups at my new blog femmetimes.blogspot.com
We reviewed David Mamet’s new play, Race, this week at ColorLines. An excerpt: Race has been marketed as a play about “racial misunderstandings,” and perhaps true to its content, the production misunderstands race, offering sweeping claims such as “all whites have guilt” and “all Blacks have shame” in place of honest critique. The dress becomes the prop around which these racial misunderstandings are exposed. Keep reading Don’t Rush for David Mamet’s Race.
I recently had my readers fill out a survey with various demographic information. While looking at the results, I noticed a couple of really interesting differences between my male and female readers. Thought that may be something people here would be interested in.
i haven’t self-promoted here before- my blog is more of my own personal exercise in screaming into the night- a very, very small voice in the crowd. i’m just thankful for the opportunity to read all of your great voices! this week i wrote a bit about Mona Eltahawy’s essay about FGM: http://csween.blogspot.com/2010/02/refusing-to-be-ignored.html
From the Dodge ad, to the Teen Mom reunion, to Lori Gottlieb’s article on settling, the state of hetero relationships has gone sour! I write about how I’m glad to be single this year at NotaDirtyWord.net.
Posted with pic how those snowed in up north should not move to FL as state has no jobs, no $ and no prospects. http://empireofdirt77.blogspot.com/2010/02/winter-blues.html
I responded to a newspaper article about student loans (from the perspective of a single mother), as numerous readers seemed to think that students did not deserve a proper diet http://ms-marx.blogspot.com/2010/03/osap-and-toronto-sun.html I commented on a facebook status update about how good mothers sacrifice everything for their children http://ms-marx.blogspot.com/2010/03/motherhood-and-facebook-status.html and I commented on a morning news story and book about feeding men and boys http://ms-marx.blogspot.com/2010/03/man-hungry.html