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  5. The Double R Diner started off the week serious with a guest post from Dr. Justin Diedrich An Open Letter to KV Pharmaceuticals, responding to the 100x price increase of a drug to prevent pre-term labor.

    Then we dived deep into the pop culture analysis that is our bread and butter with a statistical analysis of Total Film’s 100 Greatest Female characters. Did you know there were more non-humans on the list than women of color? Sigh. We followed-up with selected sexist quotations from Total Film’s story to refute the notion that the list fails to pass feminist scrutiny because of the lack of good roles for women. Pour another cup of coffee and enjoy!

  17. This week at Musings of an Inappropriate Woman…

    Kids today, they don’t know how slutty they are!:

    As a researcher who talks to young-ish people (18 to 29-year-olds) about sex, one of the things I find most consistently – and most consistently amusing – is that almost everyone I interview thinks that other people are more promiscuous than they are.

    Lily Allen on the price of being a ‘Chanel girl’:

    “I was on the cover of every magazine, with them saying, ‘Lily is looking amazing – look how much weight she’s lost… People who are famous and successful and live in this mad world tend to die really early, or kill themselves, or die of a drug overdose. I’d rather not, so I figure I’ll go and eat.”

  30. It’s About Power: The “men’s rights activists” who argue about the downsides of being a man versus the downsides of being a woman are missing the point entirely. It’s not about upsides or downsides, it’s about power.

    On Black People Being Held To A Special Standard Of Goodness: A Message To White People: If you see a black woman responding to racist harassment and your first impulse is to judge her rather than to empathize with her, you’re being racist.

  32. Reflections on Japan & Our Lives – We can’t (and shouldn’t) ignore the suffering around us, so let’s do something about it: http://humaneconnectionblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/reflections-on-japan-and-our-lives.html

    “Love One Another” Includes Ourselves – Our work to love and help others will be hampered if we don’t include ourselves in our circle of love and compassion: http://humaneconnectionblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/love-one-another-includes-us.html

  35. These span a bit more than a week, as I’ve barely had the time to blog lately, and haven’t managed to catch the more recent SSPSs (boy, have I got a lot of reading to catch up on!)

    Falling In Love With My Hairy Body: Getting to the point where I love my body hair in all its dark, wiry glory.

    My Labels: Expanding on what I call myself: essentially straight, more-or-less cisgender, slutty, weird, nerdy, and butch-ish.

    Examining My Demons; Part 1.5 [Trigger warning for referencing child abuse, violence reminiscent of abuse towards peers, and mention of sexual harassment.]: A post touching on my violent tendencies, and focusing on the early stages of working past them.

    Insomnia: Me and my insomnia.

  42. I’ve been rather busy writing lately:

    My comment on the unisex insurance law in Europe:
    http://disciplineandanarchy.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/european-court-of-justice-rules-against-gender-based-insurance-rates/

    The European refugee crisis intensifies, so what the hell is France’s right-wing superstar Marine Le Pen doing in Lampedusa?
    http://disciplineandanarchy.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/europes-refugee-crisis-tightens-as-north-africa-remains-in-turmoil/

    The scandalous treatment of a young Iraqi woman in Germany:
    http://disciplineandanarchy.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/german-court-suggests-iraqi-woman-has-her-hymen-restored-in-order-to-prevent-honor-killing/

    And finally, I had the honor to write about what feminist activism means to me for the Young Feminist Wire:
    http://yfa.awid.org/2011/03/what-it-means-to-be-a-feminist-activist-today/

  67. I’ve been at the super-sized International Studies Association all week. I gave a paper on The Monstrous Masculine (channelling some Barbara Creed) and the charge of ‘imperial feminism’, alongside a lot of other very interesting panels and discussions on academic feminism (International Relations branch).

  68. Afternoon, my dears!

    Over at wee Flâneur in the City, follow-up to the NY Times debacle, and a look cringe-inducing comments on ThinkProgress. (Trigger warnings for rape and “jokes” concerning rape.)

    The Two Paths: an awesome vintage picture circling the web this past week on which path a girl should choose.
    Good Girls: Obedience, virtue and devotion.
    Bad Girls: Bad literature, flirting, and dissipation.
    Guess which one I’m rooting for?

    In other shocking news, sexist Facebook is sexist! You’re shocked, I know.

    And to clear the palate, as it were, pictures of Ireland for St. Paddy’s.

    Enjoy!

  71. Three things to mention this week:

    The UK blog “The F-Word Blog” linked a blog post by Ursula Le Guin, in which the famous author complained about the ubiquity of the four-letter f-word in modern fiction. This inspired me to two posts, firstly about my own expletive vocabulary (and asking readers for their favourite/most obscure obscenities that they like to use). Secondly, about how I feel about various terms I could recall for “to have sex”.

    In other news, I got riled up by some Positive Mental Attitude slogans someone posted in Tumblr, and argued back that actually, “impossible” is *something*.

  76. Womyn Warrior is a feminist self defense blog. Our goal is to empower you as the active agent in your personal safety. We strive to cover current news and research in the fields of sexual assault prevention and self defense training, to highlight the work of violence prevention activists, & to critically examine the stories we tell as a society that serve to condone gender-based violence and perpetuate victim blaming.

    Here’s links to our most recent posts (thanks for reading!):

    Advocating Self Defense = Victim Blaming ?

    “When I first announced my intention to begin a blog about self defense and sexual assault prevention (on a Pandora’s Aquarium message board), I was surprised by the push-back I received from fellow survivors. Over the next few weeks, I’d like to take the time to share with you the concerns which have been raised, as well as my response, hopefully breaking down a few self defense myths in the process. The first self defense myth I’d like to address is that advocating for self defense training = victim blaming.”

    The Decision To Fight

    “Perhaps the most difficult fight to prepare for is the fight with a person we had not expected. Fighting back could mean leaving the physical area, setting a boundary, yelling NO, delivering an eye strike or knocking out the attacker. Your response will depend on the situation and how threatened you feel. What you do in that moment is your decision, but it’s good to think about when you will fight back or not.”

  79. I little late this week because of Spring Break, but there is a new episode of the Not Your Mama’s Gamer podcast that talks about gamers and intesectionality and a post that talks about gaming as a Mama. Good stuff!

  80. A moderately mean post about my raucous seatmate during last week’s trip home to Hamburg, and how she made me rethink my decision to be Betsy-no-fun.

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