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Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Unless it is actually 6.30 Monday morning where you are and you’re about to embark on exams! Not that I’m projecting!

63 thoughts on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

  2. The vampire Diaries: Masquerade: Looking at last week’s episode with a critical eye on race, and gender.

    “African” Inspired Clothing: Once again Gwen Stefanni is the center of a controversy regarding the appropriation of culture using clothing.

    Southern Rap Takes A New Low With Wheelchair Shawty: Looking at a song called Wheelchair Shawty and how the disabled are mocked for the purposes of entertainment.

    KKK Costume Wins First Prize in Royal Canadian Legion Halloween Costume Contest: Apparently the costume wearer was tired of Blacks whining about racism and so he decided the best way to fight that was to dress up as KKK for Halloween.

    “Glee” Gets Naughty for GQ: Even though the show is suppsedly about questioning norms the stars had no problem posing like sexy little school girls. How is this subversive?

    Apple “Tranny” App Is an Epic Fail: Though Apple claims to be selective they recently approved of an app that inserted a “tranny” into your photos. Somehow no one thought that this was transphobic.

    Who Speaks for Muslims?: Looking at the fact that the voices that the media chooses to represent Muslims taints our vision of who practices that faith.

  3. From this past week at Man Boobz, my anti-Men’s Rights movement blog:

    A collection of truly vile, misogynist blog posts from Men’s Rights activists:
    http://manboobz.blogspot.com/2010/11/further-reading-worst-of-mens-rights.html

    My take on Esther Vilar’s The Manipulated Man, a 1970s book much loved by MRAs that’s basically one long attack on women. And, perhaps, cats.
    http://manboobz.blogspot.com/2010/11/esther-vilar-crazy-catty-lady.html

    A post on some amusingly stupid comments from MRAs:
    http://manboobz.blogspot.com/2010/11/discussion-of-day-feminist-chair-drag.html

    A look at some international Men’s Rights sites, with the not-always-helpful help of Google Translate:
    http://manboobz.blogspot.com/2010/11/around-world-in-google-translated-daze.html

  4. This week at SexGenderBody:

    Olga Wolstenholme talks about heroes, in In Praise of Visibility.

    Christina Engela talks about neocons and the pink community, in Yes, He Can.

    jaded16 observes the transmission of oppression from mother to daughter, in Unveiling Hued Bodies; shares the family impact of gender roles, in The Business of Selling Voices and offers her latest Weekly Textual Sexual Reader.

    Jack Molay adds two more well researched considerations of gender, sexuality, appearance and identity, in Why do crossdreamers dream of shemales? and The crossdreamer dream of shemales.

    James Turnbull looks at marketing campaigns that focus on nostalgia and the gender definitions that brings, in Vintage Gender Socialization? and a look at celebrity impact on gender & sexuality norms, in Korean Sociological Image #52: Are Celebrities Removing the Stigma of Lingerie Modelling?

    lilith land examines honesty, communication and expecation in relationships, in Why Women Fake Orgasms.

    Alex Karydi considers the structure of viable relationships, in Lesbian Relationships: How do I make it work?.

  6. Hi everyone!

    My friend and I have started a blog specific to animation and 3G-heavy film/commercial/TV representations of women, female directors/animators, as well as what we are doing as animators for our thesis.

    We have had two posts the past week:

    One is about my observations within gender and main character within our animation department:

    http://animadams.blogspot.com/2010/11/gender-identification.html

    and my friend Alyssa discussed the female character in Tron:

    http://animadams.blogspot.com/2010/11/trons-lady-legacy.html

  11. The bank I work for is suing the Fed over new rules regarding what merchants pay them to accept debit cards. I think they’re full of shit, and because I put in my notice last Monday, I don’t care if they get pissed about how I don’t think too highly of them:
    http://ethecofem.com/2010/11/02/bank-suing-the-fed-over-durbin-amendment-to-financial-reform-act/

    Danny writes about the “Circle of Passwords” most companies need employees to create over a long period of time:
    http://ethecofem.com/2010/11/01/echoes-from-the-computer-room-circle-of-passwords/

    Obligatory Election Day post:
    http://ethecofem.com/2010/11/03/election-day/

    Where I list all of the annoying but still frequently-said things that people say, and go into detail about why they’re not productive, accurate, or even sensical:
    http://ethecofem.com/2010/11/04/the-very-irritating-things-people-say/

    “Feminism” is the only equal rights group with a specific identifier (“feminist”) that people can adopt. Does this hurt or hinder the movement?
    http://ethecofem.com/2010/11/07/do-labels-hurt-us-more-than-we-realize/

    Also, please take the poll at the end of the post: When people ask if you’re a feminist, what do you say?
    http://bit.ly/cbdlKn

    San Fransisco recently decided to stop allowing restaurants to give toys to children with meals that don’t meet certain nutritional requirements. Of course, many people are crying “socialism!!1!” about it, and unnecessarily:
    http://ethecofem.com/2010/11/06/san-fransisco-is-a-socialist/

    I get another one of those ridiculous Facebook messages telling me to write some lewd status update to confuse my male Facebook friends. This one is supposed to make boys think we’re announcing what we do with the semen that gets in our mouth after giving a blowjob. Please tell me this has nothing to do with breast cancer awareness.
    http://ethecofem.com/2010/11/05/gals-on-facebook-still-not-over-confusing-dudes-with-sexual-innuendo-in-their-status-updates/

    James Landrith writes a guest post about gendering rape, and using the “statistics defense” to make it all about women as victims, rendering male victims — especially when a female was the rapist — invisible.
    http://ethecofem.com/2010/11/04/on-gendering-rape-the-statistics-defense/

  15. A call for black women to be just as supportive of each other as they are of other people and their causes.
    Let’s Help The “Sista” Out For A Change! http://bit.ly/a10cvM

    Why a critical evaluation of Obama is necessary.
    How’s That Election Thing Working Out For Ya?! http://bit.ly/bmv5SE

    Why the blanket praise for Tyler Perry is detrimental to the image of black women.
    Don’t Support The Hustlers Who Rob Black Women Of Their Diginity: Just Say NO to Tyler Perry! http://bit.ly/9aKB93

  16. We have some great posts up on Elysium Avenue this week:
    Natalie writes about taking up a new craft New Project Acquired

    Colette guests with a wonderful post on creating a one of a kind job for yourself, using talents you already have Bad Books Are Good

    Arial writes, in her new segment, about Old Fashioned Cocktails in The Little Red Book

    I write more about atheism in On Becoming an Atheist: Halloween

    Natasha gets out the vote with Vote For

    and of course George Takei lays the smackdown with his awesome video (in case you missed it) reposted here

  32. This week, I wrote about the recent episode of Private Practice here Charlotte was sexually assaulted. It was a hard episode for me to watch, but I was expected more from it as far as breaking down stereotypes about who are the the victims and perpetrators of rape.

    I also wrote about prize winning halloween costumes at a legion, where two white men were dressed in what is probably the single most inappropriate costume I have ever seen.

    Lastly, I posted the SPARK summit video that discusses sexualizing girls in the media, which was overall really good, but did come across as somewhat opposed to sex more generally.

  37. The Czech is a place for commentary and criticism from a social justice standpoint.

    This past week, I wrote about whether there really are significant differences between democrats & republicans (in the US context), and if voting can even be considered a rational activity for marginalized people in America who want to create real social change. I am very interested in hearing the voices of others, so I encourage you to comment with your opinion!
    To Vote or Not To Vote

  44. At Men Dare Do! I’ve had a few posts this week:

    Some commentary on a recent NYT article about Sisters making people happier: http://mendaredo.com/2010/10/31/sisters-make-you-happier-why-not-brothers/

    A post about moving towards positive constructions of masculinity and not just critiques of the present masculinity: http://mendaredo.com/2010/11/02/towards-positive-masculinities/

    A post on how sexual assault and rape prosecution warp men’s conceptions of those crimes by how they’re portrayed in the media: http://mendaredo.com/2010/11/04/sexual-assault-and-the-law/

    And for #3 in my series “So You Think You’re a Male Feminist?” a post on homophobia and fighting it: http://mendaredo.com/2010/11/07/acknowledge-homophobia-and-try-to-stop-it/

    Thanks and I hope you enjoy the reads!

  57. My post on the announcement of the “Demons of Adoption awards” and on the creation of “Rohnor’s Angels,” an archive of children murdered by those who adopted them.

    Hallows may be over, but the Demons have arrived, just in time for National Adoption Awareness Month

    Kids in Foster Care discovering upon aging out of the system that their credit has been destroyed by those entrusted with their personal information through the system, preventing them from attending college or making their way through life.

    Foster care and identity theft: kids credit scores decimated before they can even age out

    An article on government secrecy and closed door city council meetings in Columbus Ohio and how exceptions to the sunshine laws affect adoptee rights & a second article on how corporate interests, particularly energy lobbyists utilize the congressional coalition on adoption’s annual awards as an opportunity to shmooze up federal politicians behind closed doors.

    Two thoughtful and important reads very pertinent to National Adoption Awareness Month

    More in my ongoing series of posts about Haiti and how the U.S. refusal to live up to its aid pledges are affecting those simply attempting to survive, (a huge portion of the country being kids, often on their own.)

    Haiti- Tomas approaches

    A piece about the export of American children into adoptions aborad and the inter-country adoption market crash.

    Outflow- the United States as an adoption “sending country,” (while adoption imports near 6 year low)

    An call to activism and the construction of a counter narrative to the adoption industry’s “national adoption awareness month” marketing ploy.

    Let your words and actions speak loud and clear & hashtag it #NAdoptAM in November

    And finally a terribly important story about an Adopted woman who was a victim of child trafficking and sexual abuse, deported to India that President Obama will not be meeting on his Indian trade trip.

    Welcome to India President Obama. NOW, can we finally talk adoptee deportations?

  59. @Colin: haha, I was in the mood for some creepy-ass shit and those comments on the Stanek article sure did the trick!

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