Two posts about what I’ve been reading: http://goldennotebooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/poetry-corner-dedication.html http://goldennotebooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/reading-for-plot.html
Why it is wrong to condescend to Eastern European women: http://clarissasblog.com/2011/09/23/and-yet-another-blogger-pitying-russian-women/ Yet another bunch of myths about male sexuality: http://clarissasblog.com/2011/09/21/yet-another-bunch-of-myths-about-male-sexual-desire/ Why are some people so fixated on Sarah Palin’s pregnancy? http://clarissasblog.com/2011/09/25/why-are-some-people-so-fixated-on-sarah-palins-pregnancy/ Is the expression “white trash” racist?
I’ve been working on a project called Creatrixes of Awesome, which profiles people doing interesting things with their lives as well as a how-to from each person. It’s stalled for the moment but I would love to have more people participate. http://creatrixesofawesome.tumblr.com
Here’s my favorite things I wrote this week! A woman at church came up to me and asked, ‘Do they let the girls fence sabre?” Some thoughts on Troy Davis and ‘closure’ And finally, the Associated Press says I’ll probably be unemployed and living in my parents’ basement. when I grow up. (My dad says I can keep an upstairs room, the basement is his.)
Banned Books Week, Masturbation, and Deenie — What the title says. Psoas… So What? — The structure and function of the psoas muscles and their relationship to pelvic pain. Aesthetics — How ideas about aesthetics influence exercise and fitness. Thoughts on a Word: Fetching — My reaction to the term. (Involves cute dog stories!) And 24 — Since I posted my list of endo pet peeves last week, I thought I needed to post my list of appreciation this week. Also some odds and ends: a couple of teacher anecdotes and an open thread/call for guest bloggers.
Abortion, sex work, stigma and sin… Check out our amazing series, Tsk Tsk: Stigma, Shame, and Sexuality, cross-posted with RH Reality Check in partnership with Ipas. Also this week: An interview with filmmaker Pratibha Parmar, who is making a film about Alice Walker.
A post on the Pharaoh Hatshepsut. Why was a female king often depicted as a man in ancient Egyptian artwork? Some thoughts on male dominance of art world auction houses. When buyers describe the event as “an extremely satisfying, macho act” requiring an “alpha-male mentality” is it creating a space hostile towards women?
Here’s a little “checklist” I whipped up for bad anti-choice arguments. Basically, it contains some of the most faulty contentions taken up by anti-choice advocates and that almost always appear in their attempts to explain why abortion is wrong/should be illegal.
It’s been a bit since my last self-promtion, but I’ve only gotten two blogs up: The first is a mini-rant about Booth Babes at Pax. Not really focusing on the models themselves, but on how gaming companies refuse to listen to feedback on this topic that calls out their sexism. Secondly, I get really annoyed with Theory of a Deadman’s new song on the radio, “The Bitch Came Back”, and take a few moments to break down the misogyny in the song.
What happens when CA Inmates try to give: http://voicesfromthecracks.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/inmates-raise-2500-for-backbacks-cdcr-school-district-say-cash-only/ How the state of Maine is trying to silence inmates: http://voicesfromthecracks.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/systemic-silencing-maine-state-prison-inmates-in-danger-for-publishing-on-voices/
I’m also going back to the nineteenth century and investigating the Alice Mitchell case. Mitchell was a nineteen-year-old white society girl who killed her former lover. Hardly anyone believed she was really queer, and trying to figure out her “real” motivation became a lot more important to the US public than the murder itself. Whiteness is no blank slate: What exactly is whiteness? And why do white bodies get positioned as normal? When resistance looks like capitulation: Performing femininity as a feminist act. People don’t need solutions, be they Pacific, Malaysia, or Nauru: Australia is presently having some horrific debates regarding asylum seekers. I explore the language around it in this post.
If you can’t take no for an answer, stay away from me. And if you can’t accept that you didn’t get a space in math class, don’t harass the professor: http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/mathochism-setting-limits/ How failure can psych you out to possibly fail again: http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/mathochism-avoiding-the-yips/
About the need of some Slutwalk supporters and organizers to promote the meme that male rape survivors do not get victim-blamed, shamed or otherwise minimized in a manner similar to female rape survivors. In other words, promotion of survivor hierarchies (again): Again, With The Male vs. Female Survivors Thing…Ugh http://jameslandrith.com/content/view/3825/79/
What We Owe: “To benefit from all of this richness, and then to say that others don’t deserve our help and compassion, is beyond hypocritical: it’s entirely blind, like a fish insisting that it doesn’t use water.” Thoughts for Food: cooperative living, cooking, and economy of time
On gray/asexual invisibility: Zombies: Better Than Sex Spoons out! AlterNet’s Ableist Language God Is A Radical Your handy guide to Fall TV: 2011 Edition
I wrote a blog post from my ongoing travels, about my journey from Leipzig to Barcelona and reminiscing about Edinburgh: https://abyssiniahenry.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/isnt-grey-hair-just-the-first-light-of-a-new-dawn/ And the link to Clarissa’s post Is The Expression ‘White Trash’ Racist? didn’t show up, so here it is: http://clarissasblog.com/2011/09/19/is-the-expression-white-trash-racist/ Gonna read it now. Thanks!
This week I looked at Stay at Home Daughters and wrote two posts on Purity Balls: Your Dad Has Nothing to Do With It Purity Balls and Girls’ Self Confidence
I lamented the rise of teaching stupidity (and bigotry) sponsored by the US government, and I decried the fact that Janet Porter wants me to die. In good news, I celebrated the end of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” in the US military and explained why this change will significantly contribute to decreasing QUILTBAG-phobia among the populations where it has remained most rampant.
Pat Robertson’s advice to a husband of a woman with dementia has it backwards. Here’s a pagan nurse’s advice. Don’t get divorced–commit adultery– here’s why… Divorce, Alzheimers and Pat Robertson Ron Paul complains it’s getting ugly. Here’s seven ugly questions from an angry nurse… Ugly Questions for Ron Paul Ron Paul’s most radical statement went completely under the radar– regulation is the problem. What did we do before doctors had credentials? We took Dr.Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, fortified with alcohol and opium… Ron Paul’s Answer– Unlicensed Doctors for Uninsured Patients
This week, I have been busy on my blog! In order of decreasing seriousness: I wrote about discovering a personal connection to the issue of the use of the A-bomb against Japan in WW2, and thought about the ethical considerations of that act. I developed a theme of discussing dating issues during the later part of the week, most of which can be found under the “pick-up updates” tag. But I want to self-promote two in particular: My take on who pays for a date, and A thought experiment on dating and availability. I celebrated what I felt was the positive representation of women as NFL fans by the sponsors of Channel 4’s live coverage/feed of the Sunday night game. Finally, I also wrote about some of the card and board games I have been enjoying socially for the past few months.
Not much of seriousness. We celebrated Talk Like a Pirate Day in honor of our fictional ancestor. The frivolity includes full text of a bittersweet gay romance. I’m also selling guest appearances in one of my forthcoming novels, to help some friends make rent, since his employer is refusing to pay the money owed.
Why do we have such a lack of positive images of independent, married women in pop culture? Also, Gen X Women Succed at Work and Have Fewer Kids – is that really because they worked too hard and forgot about having kids?
First, and most importantly (to me) is that I am looking for help/advice on transphobia comments on my facebook wall, in response to a news story about a trans woman getting fired from a farmer’s market. I have not been posting in a while, so I will begin this with a link to my, post on why I have not been blogging! I wrote about how annoyed I get when people so often tell me to smile, victim blaming on a feminist blogg regarding hacked celebrity nude photos, and I also reposted a bisexuality comic that I saw online. This summer, I have also written a few other posts that were not linked here (for reasons explained in the first post) that I think should be mentioned, including my first toronto pride. Please browse the main site to see what you may have missed!
Doctors debate dyspareunia part 4: The debate continues – The conclusion (for now) to a series in which I explore how doctors talk to each other about how they each think painful sex should be addressed – is it primarily a pain problem, or is it really a sex problem? The results remain inconclusive and at times contradictory.
Here’s something I wrote about the Dirty Girl Ministries, partly because one of my female friends, who is shy enough as it is, read about it and got freaked out about what she’s been doing, but mostly because, when I mentioned it to another friend, she thought it was some kind of kinky lesbian sex club. Enjoy: http://callita.livejournal.com/133178.html
Um, didn’t see this until now, hope it’s not too late – and I don’t ordinarily post here, as I don’t feel I’ve written anything pertinent – except this week I wrote a post about my own experiences in college and a friend struggling with a medically serious weight issue. http://quipstravailsandbraisedoxtails.blogspot.com/2011/09/policy-point-wednesday-personal-take-on.html There are some weight-triggers. I would also ask that anyone who disagrees with what I said (and I’m new to this) please post comments on my linked blog and not on my friend’s blog that I linked within the article. I do, on occasion, also write about food security issues.
This week I discussed the problems with Zooey Deschanel’s new show, New Girl, and talked a little about the lack of female record collectors.
Hello there! We had a guest-post last week about finding more affordable mental health care in the US and Canada that some readers here might find useful. Since advice columnists are always saying “get therapy,” it made sense to answer the question “How do I get therapy, especially since I can’t really afford it?”
At re:Cycling this week, Laura wrote about the possible connection between vitamin D deficiency and early menstruation and I wrote about the menopause episode of Roseanne’s Nuts (it’s awesome). We’ve also got some great stuff in our weekend links.
Hi hi! Haven’t posted to my blog here in a while so I’m going to go back a couple weeks. I wrote about New Girl, the new Zooey Deschanel show (http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2011/09/40-comments-on-series-premier-of-new.html), spoiler alert: didn’t like it; about a really funny parody claiming a couple wanted to petition Toronto to make a neighbourhood “child-free” (http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2011/09/some-people-are-terrible.html) so spot on, people were really outraged/in agreement; a Friday Fiction compiling a list of books which retell ancient stories/myths (http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2011/09/friday-fiction-ancient-texts-modern.html); this amazing blog, Black Coffee Poet, which is dedicated to writers of colour, writers who identify as LGBTIQ, and drawing attention to social justice and violence against women (http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2011/09/blogs-you-should-be-reading.html); this documentary called Field of Hope about a Congolese rape survivor who runs a home for other survivors and their children (http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2011/09/you-survived-where-other-women-died.html) and how against all odds they are thriving; and there is this story about how our friend’s wallet was stolen by a raccoon (http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2011/09/real-talk-raccoon-stole-my-wallet.html). We’ve also decided to change our blog name from Once Again, to Zelda to What Fresh Hell is This? (http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2011/08/change-this-way-comes-what-fresh-hell.html) Have a great week everyone and thanks for all the great links!
Check out my review of Charlie’s Angels (hint: it’s not good): http://hld6.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/the-new-charlies-angels-being-bad-doesnt-make-you-badass/ In other news, here’s 24 offensive Facebook pages that advocate or make light of violence against women: http://hld6.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/factchecking-facebook/ Sign the petition to get them removed!
2 Things recently from Happy Bodies: I wrote a post aboutmilitarism and global sexual violence focusing particularly on new reports of sexual trafficking in Haiti and Iraq. In the post I drew heavily on the work of scholar Cyntihia Enloe, and we decided to do a bookclub on her book Bananas Beaches and Bases. We hope you’ll join us!
My thoughts on Batwoman #1: http://tinyurl.com/3zskvup Making a Commitment to Lifelong Learning: http://tinyurl.com/6jtphxb
My first comic strip: http://50ftfeminist.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/the-pink-strip-1-the-unbearable-pinkness-of-being/ In Canada a judge ruled a recent case as infanticide. Some anti-abortion sites are now claiming that Canada allows fourth trimester abortions: http://50ftfeminist.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/the-dissemination-of-misinformation/ A bit outdated now but my thoughts on the American Apparel XL model search: http://50ftfeminist.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/big-objectification/
A few new posts this week. One is a response to a post I read about bi-invisibility: Bi-Invisibility I get comments! I’d love more comments. A brief update on stuff in my life: People Read This And, last but not least, feeling like a slut: Slutty Slut
kind of an all-over-the-place post covering misinformation and stupid Facebook rumours, Doucherock, where Disney actually went right for once and why you don’t fuck with the prairies. Disinformation, Disney, Douchebags and Why You Shouldn’t Fuck with Saskatchewan