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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

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  1. Oh, my first time doing this… I’m almost excited!

    The Toronto Star goes on a rampage over… parents refusing to reveal the sex of their youngest child outside of their closest friends, touches off a moral panic over trying to raise children outside of enforced gender norms.

    Gotta say, I’m about done with mainstream media for the rest of the season.

  2. I’m not sure if this is the kind of thing that is normally done here, but I’ve begun blogging about how to best write on the internet. This post in particular is on the dangers of forgetting that anyone can read the internet and how much worse it is to remove a post once its up. The original ideas were inspired by the Scott Adams mess, though it’s not the example I used.

    (Though, if this is not what you all are looking for, feel free to remove this post.)

    http://goo.gl/njWHX

  3. Does being ‘born-again’ shrink your brain? An MRI study seems to say so, but I wasn’t born yesterday…

    A Candidate for the Ig Nobel Prize

    Reportedly the hotel maid and her impoverished family have resisted bribes and pressure to drop the charges of sexual assault– but there are other ways that Dominique Strauss-Kahn can make it very costly for her to go forward…

    Do You Know Who I Am?

    We all know the Japanese are polite, cooperative and trusting authority– maybe not. Angry parents rise up when the government says their little children may be exposed to the maximum dose of radiation that adult workers are allowed in a year…

    Protecting Their Children in Fukushima

  4. I’ve got a post up about Matriarchy Tropes that can be found in Sci-FI/Fantasy and gaming. It delves into the messages that are sent out by the Evil Matriarchies or Sexy Matriarchies that we see so often in the genre, and how using Matriarchies as a code for ‘evil or alien’ is also really not great either.

  5. Israeli Apartheid? – I continue my series of “Why Becca is a bad Jew’ posts with a look at whether or not Israel is committing acts of apartheid

    It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – Trans Characters – I kinda love the portrayal of trans characters in this show!

    How Obama pissed of Israel – The 1967 ‘borders’ – If I’m going to badmouth Israel, I should at least know what I’m talking about. My attempts to figure out how Obama’s Mideast speech made folks mad

  6. Catching up on the last couple weeks, a couple of posts of note:

    I started up a post of my own as an extension of Clarisse’s on fighting rape culture, and there are some additional comments that have been made there if anyone didn’t get enough on the original.

    I also made a silly little question post to try to keep my writing juices flowing, which apparently worked because right after that I finally finished a post I’ve been writing for about four months now on my ambivalent relationship with the idea of being a feminist.

  7. Over the years the idea of an all encompassing “Transgender community” has turned into an oppressive ghetto for post-transsexual women.

    It prevents our growing into full people and has become a highly abusive relationship.

    Many of us are declaring our independence. More of us are asking why we should continue in an abusive relationship.

    http://womenborntranssexual.com/2011/05/27/cutting-the-ties-that-bind-breaking-the-chains-that-prevent-post-srs-growth/

    http://womenborntranssexual.com/2011/05/28/ding-ding-ding-we-have-a-winner-in-the-contest-to-invent-a-new-slur-for-post-transsexual-women-who-dont-buy-what-the-transgender-cult-is-peddling/

  8. A piece on how art historians have created a story of Artemisia Gentileschi as a vengeful woman, creating amazing work merely as a reaction to her rapist. In order to do so historians ignored the system of commissioned work, the popularity of certain subjects in artwork of the time, and even facts in order to fit their views. http://whatistalent.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/women-in-art-artemisia-gentileschi/

    Another post on why I’m planning on going to the Chicago Slutwalk and some of the the problematic and offensive posters submitted to their DIY Poster Contest. http://whatistalent.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/why-im-going-to-the-chicago-slutwalk/

  9. Hi everyone, I’ve written Keep Your Bleach, a short and rather angry post about why the recent “Dove” campaign poster is racist and not a question of “sensitivity” (and, of course, thanks for writing about it too, Jill).

  10. At Once Again, to Zelda this week we wrote about the first season of The Wire (http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2011/05/wire-season-one.html); a ridiculous Toronto Star piece about DSK (http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2011/05/et-tu-star.html); Friday Fiction edition featuring books about families (http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2011/05/friday-fiction-family-time.html); and weighed in on the whole genderless baby kerfuffle in Toronto (http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2011/05/world-war-ze.html).

    Have a great week, everyone!

  11. Something that occurred to me after I wrote Prostitution, Hotel Housekeeping Staff, and the Arrogant Entitlement That Arises When Prostitution is Illegal is that the trope that says that everything about prostitution is agentless coercion effectively authorizes doing anything to prostitutes whether they agreed to it or not.

    The next couple of entries are potentially triggery: They’re about sexual assault of men and the MRA allegation that feminists never speak out against it.

    For Those Who Say Feminists Never Care About Male Rape, Ozymandias Slams the Wedding Crashers.

    I’d never paid attention to The Wedding Crashers but prompted by Ozy I took a look and yikes! It’s pretty bluntly assaultive! But here’s the trick: In the Movie The Wedding Crasher Guess Which 10 Important Men Help Hold Down Jeremy Grey So Gloria Cleary Can Rape Him? points out that feminism might take male victimization more seriously if men stopped making a joke out of it.

    And while looking (nearly in vain) for any MRA condemnation of The Wedding Crashers I ran into TVTropes.com, a fascinating site that basically catalogs lazy cliches in TV and movie scripts, fanfic and literature, etc. I wrote up their sections on sexual assault as literary device in And Rounding Out The Wedding Crashers Demolition: TVTropes.com is Awesome About Thoughtless and Cliche Uses of Rape in Media

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  12. Totally missed out on the chance to do this when I’d just got my blog started! (Having looked forward to Self-Promotion Sunday each week for a long time, it’s fun to finally join in.)

    Anyway. Set out my stall a little with an intro post I did a while back, but as for this week, I geeked out about a phenomenon called gynandromorphism, and what it might say about our understanding of sexual development, and some annoying sneery commentary prompted me into lengthy pondering on the Canadian baby of no specific gender, and the infuriating nature of the gender binary.

    (Fingers crossed, this HTML will all work.)

  13. In honor of My Nigel’s birthday yesterday, I posted a video of him covering a Britney song on the piano. Definitely check it out, I love it.

    In which we shamelessly objectify attractive people and try to make “MILF” less offensive by popularizing “DILF.” Add your submissions!

    A thread about the Toronto parents keeping the sex of their child a secret.

    Our local paper has this loathsome columnist, Katherine Kersten, who recently wrote a column accusing supporters of same-sex marriage of using intimidation tactics and slurs. Why? Because we call opposers bigots. She has the nerve to claim that people opposed to marriage equality AREN’T bigots, so I explain how it is impossible to oppose same-sex marriage and NOT be a bigot.

    JOBS open thread! We’re talking about all the weirdest jobs we’ve had. Fun.

    Bema’s ongoing discussion about his avoidance of social networking.

    Shockingly, Glenn Beck’s The Blaze is filled with racists.

  14. And I’m posting on Monday, because I just wrote a post today about the films Bridesmaids and Something Borrowed!

    Happy Memorial Day!

  15. i have a question about the etiquette of the “shameless” threads: can i promote somebody who is not me, but who i think is awesome?

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