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  3. A professor at the Naval War College uses a graphic rape metaphor to make a point in a lecture. He ends up on YouTube, then on administrative leave. A slap on the wrist for him, but maybe vindication for the female students he casually made acceptable targets for insults and violence.

    Some Are More Equal

  9. I wrote a post about female body hair, with a specific focus on an experience I had this week of being “checked out” until he saw my hairy legs.

    I posted a compilation of videos and non-mainstream news sites about the recent police tactics at the G20 and the demand for a public inquiry.

    I also posted an interesting picture comparing a hockey riot with the G20 protests which reflects that the excessive force used was not a normal tactic in this type of situation, but was very political.

  12. This week at femonomics:

    We talk about a meta conversation in the feminist blogosphere about whether we lose something when we divide things into “subversive” and “repressive,” “good” and “bad,” “feminist” and “unfeminist.”

    Mongoos6 discusses why men can’t wear a simple bag designed to carry things over their shoulders…you know, a purse. (With helpful illustrations!)

    I do a link roundup of racism on the web, and implore Chris Brown to please just go away.

    Oh, and I’ve gathered all of Mark Bittman’s “101” lists in one place, so we can stop promising to use them and actually use them this summer!

  16. I requested that the law requiring two doctors to sign for procurement of an abortion in the UK be removed from the statute books as part of the Your Freedom initiative.

    If you live in the UK, please vote on the issue.
    Here

  20. This week in Evil Slutopia:

    We went to NYC PrideFest and brought along 10-year-old Lil’ Lilith. According to the AFA, this could be considered child abuse, because indoctrinating kids isn’t okay unless they’re the ones doing it.

    We loved some of the stuff Helen Mirren said in her New York interview, but were disappointed by the media’s reactions to her photo shoot. In other news, the One Million Moms are still complaining about The Secret Life, The Gates is still not as good as True Blood … Cosmo is still missing the mark on why girls kiss girls.

    Also, it’s not too late to keep voting for us for “Most Provocative” blog in BlogLuxe Awards! You can vote once a day until July 12.

  21. Naomi Campbell’s Bald Spot Speaks Volumes: Looking at the same aimed at Campbell for going bald even though it is the result of her conformity to White beauty standards.

    Questions Not to Ask People with Chronic Conditions: Looking at why questioning someone’s disability is damaging.

    I am not Defending Tyler Perry But…..: Looking at the way that sexuality was used to attack Tyler Perry on The Boondocks.

    The Ladies No.1 Detective Agency: The Comfort of Blackness: Looking at what this show means to Black women and why many are so hopeful for its return.

    Sunday Shame: Feminist Cat Betrayal: Yet another brave feminist breaks the hold of the kitty collective.

  24. This week on Yes Means Yes Blog:

    Lies Our Bodies Tell. Arousal is not consent. This is not a debatable point. We are not our bodies. This was a reaction to the calamity that was the Jesus Cockblocker post here at Feministe.

    Every Story Gets Attacked is my reaction to something Amanda Hess posted at The Sexist, about responses to the woman who has made allegations against Al Gore. Some folks are saying that her story is implausible because she preserved evidence. But it’s always something, isn’t it? The story is always either too perfect or too bizarre, the survivor’s behavior either too rational or too irrational.

    Tracking Shit On The Carpets, about entitled assholes ruining the atmosphere in kinky communities by bringing creepy, predatory attitudes into kinky spaces.

    Gore: Anatomy of a Non-Denial Denial analyzes the AP wire on Gore’s denial, which is meaningless, updated with later material from Talking Points Memo.

    In Consent to Nebulous, or Yes! Now What Was the Question? I explore one of the many underlying assumptions to the social structure of “asking for it,” in particular the idea that there is such a thing as consent to an “it”, that sex is one thing that once consented to necessarily implies consent to a certain group of acts.

  28. This week at From Austin to A&M:

    We have two guest posts! In the first, Have I hugged a Christian today?, Adrienne responds to a self-aggrandizing blog post by a Christian who attended a Pride parade. In the second, Ryan discusses feminism, anarchy, and their overlap.

    In other places, I was interviewed by The Sexist’s Amanda Hess on being feminist and a geek. In part two, I give some advice on making “your dude-dominated subculture more accessible to women.”

  38. Last week I wrote up Adult Toy Store Review – Lovers Package [NSFW] which is, as the title says, probably NSFW because it has 1 picture of stuff I bought and frank descriptions of what’s inside the store. I feel comfortable describing it as a woman-oriented sex positive retail shop. I wanted to write about it because I’ve heard of Babeland, and Goodvibes, and some other online shops… but I like to write about stuff that people don’t usually hear about, and I’d never heard of this store before visiting in person.

    And there’s also the Weekly Blog Link Roundup which contains quite a few sexual dysfunction related links this time!

    I haven’t decided what to post about this week. There’s like 3 different directions I’m trying to decide which to go down first.

  39. Amanda Hess liked The Social and Verbal Problems With “Sufficient” Equality, and the Expected Benefits of Actual, Complete Equality

    I talked about the way gender assumptions… color our understanding of anatomy in The No-Sex Class and Sex Hormones: By Misogynist Logic Male Erections are Useless Because…

    And finally, fairly early in my blogging career I wrote a fairly straightforward but also mildly salacious post called “How to find someone’s clitoris (if you don’t already know.)” In the years since it’s been, by far, the most frequently searched-for post on my site. While playing around with my server logs I got an idea just how popular the question was, and documented it in Since It’s a Holiday Weekend, Here From My Server Logs are 500 Ways People Search to Find My Most Popular Post. (That’s just the first 500!) The spelling’s terrible, the cluelessness is often worse, the intentionality is sometimes questionable, and as Sungold said in comments “There’s also an awful lot of pathos in the list.” But you can’t say nobody’s interested — the most commonly-used key-phrase link (for “how to find the clitoris”) is also nearly 500 hits deep in Google! 20 pages in! That’s persistence!

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  40. I didn’t get a chance to do this last week, so this will cover both weeks works at The Jaded Hippy.

    Things I have been thinking about… A rather hard post to write.

    Johannes Mehserle Trial – Jury Has Begun Deliberating. Since the post was written they have recessed for the holiday weekend, but there is somewhat of a recap for those not familiar with what happened to Oscar Grant and the city of Oakland a year and a half ago.

    Lastly…words I always find meaningful on the 4th of July.

  43. His Own Where, first published in 1971 and recently reissued by The Feminist Press, is something of a departure for Jordan, who wrote very little fiction. One of her earliest books, the novel was a finalist for the National Book Award and offered considerable evidence that Jordan would go on to be, as the poet Sapphire notes in the book’s new introduction, “a political essayist without peer.” But His Own Where is even more remarkable for the purity of its language, its sheer exuberant beauty, and the distinct and brilliantly original craftsmanship in every sentence.

    One of the greatest complaints about Knight and Day is that there is a device used to take us from scene to scene wherein Cameron Diaz’s character is drugged, meaning we miss out on some of the action of how they get from point A to point B. As a feminist, it would’ve bothered me for its potential date rape allusions, but after the first time, Diaz’s character asks to be drugged, so that pretty much solved my problem of her having her free will taken away.

    In Adam Sandler movies from years past, women were typically just there to serve beer in a bikini or reward him with sexual activity for academic or sports-related progress; here they get to be actual people with a more three-dimensional and emotional story. Though Grown-Ups is definitely a movie written by and made for men (nothing wrong with that), one senses that Sandler and company are genuinely trying to be more respectful and inclusive of their female characters. They don’t always hit the mark with that intended change, but their effort seems sincere.

    Bella Swan has never been a character I’ve related to. She’s frustratingly timid, overwhelmingly insecure, and apparently has no interests or hobbies aside from her obsession with Edward Cullen. Sure, she’s had her redeeming moments, and yes, it was Bella who saved Edward from exposing himself to the Volturi in New Moon. But it wasn’t until the final moments of Eclipse that Bella became someone I can respect, and even admire.

  44. I experimented with cooking. Homemade cinnamon rum-raisin ice cream is a thing of joy.

    I got a nice write up in The Memphis Flyer, our local free weekly. Very excited about that and about getting picked up for the Queer Zombie anthology. (no link, as that was the whole post there)

    Julnawrimo is upon us, so most of my posts are word count and content-less.

    But I managed to get my rant on about Dancing While White and how ugly stereotypes are ugly stereotypes no matter the group.

  50. My links are apparently all wrong above; I’m not sure how that happened. Hopefully they are correct here.

    This week on Yes Means Yes Blog:

    Lies Our Bodies Tell. Arousal is not consent. This is not a debatable point. We are not our bodies. This was a reaction to the calamity that was the Jesus Cockblocker post here at Feministe.

    Every Story Gets Attacked is my reaction to something Amanda Hess posted at The Sexist, about responses to the woman who has made allegations against Al Gore. Some folks are saying that her story is implausible because she preserved evidence. But it’s always something, isn’t it? The story is always either too perfect or too bizarre, the survivor’s behavior either too rational or too irrational.

    Tracking Shit On The Carpets, about entitled assholes ruining the atmosphere in kinky communities by bringing creepy, predatory attitudes into kinky spaces.

    Gore: Anatomy of a Non-Denial Denial analyzes the AP wire on Gore’s denial, which is meaningless, updated with later material from Talking Points Memo.

    In Consent to Nebulous, or Yes! Now What Was the Question? I explore one of the many underlying assumptions to the social structure of “asking for it,” in particular the idea that there is such a thing as consent to an “it”, that sex is one thing that once consented to necessarily implies consent to a certain group of acts.

  55. –PETITION–

    American women need a Minister (or Secretary) for Women and Equalities in the White House who will ensure that women’s issues remain front and center until such time as parity is fully accomplished. Large disparities in services and opportunities continue to exist in the US which cause women to be disenfranchised socially, politically and economically. The UK has had such a position since 2007…..

    Read Full-page Petition Here & Pass it On!
    http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/minister-for-women-equalities-in-usa

  56. Not mine, but what happens when a novel gets as commercialized as possible?

    the very fabric of the novel is for sale. You can change the plot, change the characters, add your own details. All you have to do to participate in literary history is donate the most on a day when we post.

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