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  1. Chelsea Lately, Nelsan Ellis and a Whole Lot of Problems : Nelsan Ellis sits down with Lately to discuss the character Lafayette on True Blood and in the process reveals some highly problematic ideas of what he believes gay men are truly like.

    True Blood Season Five, Episode Two: Authority Always Wins : Once again we have some thoughts on the latest episode of True Blood

    Cover Snark: Heroines on their Knees : A writer creates an ass kicking female character, yet somehow they end up on their knees repeatedly on book covers

    Face Off: Werewolf vs Werewolf : We examine why we see werewolves so rarely and question which form they should take when they do appear.

  4. Female Friendships in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Why are there so few of them? Why don’t women talk to each other in SF/F? Are all SF/F heroines under some kind of horrible curse that prevents them from talking to other women?
    Also, recommendations!

    And Final Thoughts on American Idol Season 11 (AKA, the Season of the Robot Women): Racism in the Discussions of runner-up Jessica Sanchez; The White Guy With Guitars Phenomenon and, of course, the continued Robot-ization of Female Fans and Female Contestants.
    Plus, a list of awesome performances! (because talking about racism and misogyny made me sad, so I watched all the awesome performances again)

  8. I’ve been loving everyone’s responses to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article in The Atlantic — my own take imagines how the editors conceived to frame the piece and ask those “hard” questions about whether feminists sold young women a bill of goods.

    Let’s blame feminism, version 984,026

    And on a very different note: in light of the film Brave, why do all these American children’s films feature characters with Scottish accents (even when they’re about Vikings, for example)?

  9. After finally reading that Wurtzel piece (after Jill’s post piqued my interest), I wrote a couple posts in response:
    “Children: They’re People, You Know?”
    “Well, I Guess I’m Not a Feminist After All”

    I also wrote a post on finding time to do creative work when you have children.

    And I’ve got a post on how the commenters who didn’t see the big deal about those Adidas shackle shoes aren’t taking the neutral stance they think they are. If you are silencing people who are offended by racism, you’re supporting racism.

  11. I started a personal journal recently in which I discuss everything from anti-feminist fallacies to political ideas and a few things about me: http://mellowness.dreamwidth.org/

    In the most recent entry, I talk about the application of an anarchist idea. You might find it intriguing, even if you disagree with anarchist principles.

  12. This week I wrote about the particular isolation of male rape survivors:

    http://www.nerdyfeminist.com/2012/06/isolation-of-boys-another-sexism-hurts.html?m=1

    Tackled some fat shame at the comments of Jezebel:

    http://www.nerdyfeminist.com/2012/06/were-you-in-need-of-your-daily-dose-of.html?m=1

    And added Snow White and the Huntsman to my series on the gender of this summer’s Blockbusters:

    http://www.nerdyfeminist.com/2012/06/snow-white-and-old-hag-who-should-step.html?m=1

  15. To wrap up pride month, a couple LGBT and genderqueer reading and link lists. (Note: the second link on my post isn’t mine, but another Tumblr blogger’s list, though it’s a far more comprehensive one than I could provide — I hope this is okay.)

  31. This week on Kiss My Wonder Woman:

    Ninety Pounds of Girlie Evil
    BBC Merlin’s Morgana often gets a bad rap as the villain of the show, but is there actually something legitimate to her side of the story?

    Guest Post: Buffy Virgin Watches Season One
    I didn’t know there were any people this unfamiliar with Buffy left, but our guest writer, Elizabeth Kobayashi, took the time to get into a show she’s never seen.

    Leave John Carter Alone!
    John Carter may have flopped at the box office, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad portrayal of women. Actually, in some places, it’s pretty awesome.

    The Importance of Being Lily Erickson
    Lily and Barney on How I Met Your Mother represent two different sides of a surprisingly healthy view on sex, and how sex should be presented on television.

    Check us out this week when we talk about Portal, Loki’s gender identity, and more!

  32. This week at The Provider Project….

    Kelly writes about how “Midwifery Care Is a Human Right” in response to a recent New York Times article on the midwife as “status symbol.”

    Amy discusses how the struggle of a group of migrant workers is related to reproductive justice in “Another Kind of Reproductive Justice Struggle.”

    And just in case you missed it…check out Lily’s post on “HBO’s ‘Girls’ and Missed Opportunities for Sexual Health Education.”

  38. I’ve written 2 posts this week [TW: rape culture, sexism]

    Victimhood Theatre – on Julian Assange fleeing to Ecuador’s embassy in London and asking for political asylum to avoid being questioned in Stockholm about the sexual assaults he has not even been charged with, and choosing World Refugee Day for this charade… Yuck!

    Sciene in Heels – on the European Commission’s new campaign “Science: It’s A Girl Thing!” that aims at encouraging girls* and women* to pursue scientific careers and yet, employs every sexist stereotype in the book (and lots and lots of pink, of course).

    And I also loved this post on Womanist Musings: It’s Not Hard for Privileged People to Pretend to be Marginalized.

  41. This week at re:Cycling, the blog of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, David followed up on his previous analysis of the Instead Softcup’s advertising campaign that appears at first to be positive about menstrual sex; Kati Bicknell joins our team with her first post, writing about the pleasures of menstrual charting and building a smartphone charting app; and Heather wrote about how in her efforts to make anticipating menstruation positive for her young daughter, she now must explain to her disappointed preschool son that he will not get to have “the good blood”. And as always, we’ve got an assortment of recommended weekend reading, including a place to find amazing life-size models of menstruating and non-menstruating uteruses.

  43. #7 on my 30 Things to Do Before I’m 30 is to “master a new language.” Here’s my take on why I want to master Russian.

    On God’s Fatherhood vs. Earthly Patriarchy. A new take on the complementarianism/egalitarianism debate.

    Kat contributes to The Last Name Project on why she took her husband’s name, then hyphenated, and then went back to her name of origin.

    A compilation of some of the best articles and blog posts I’ve read this week: What I Read.

  44. Two great pieces on Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona’s blog this week:

    What’s the Difference Between Generic and Brand-Name Birth Control?: Generics can save you money, but are they the same in terms of potency, side effects, and more? This is a really interesting article that illuminates aspects of pharmacology I hadn’t thought about much before. Read the piece and thank a pro-choice pharmacist for writing it!

    Becoming a Woman: The newest member of our blogging team shares her experience as a trans woman, connecting her relationship to the concept of the “vagina” to the recent controversy over the use of the word in Michigan.

  48. I have two pieces up on the SFWeekly site this week:

    Models at a prominent BDSM website are protesting an abrupt change in payment policy that puts them on straight commission with no minimum payment. One model claims that she was given the boot by management when she began circulating a letter for models to sign in protest of the policy.

    Also, for Pride, a look back at the homophobia of yesteryear: specifically, a very ugly “educational” film called “Boys Beware” intended to warn teenage boys about predatory homosexuals.

  50. At the beginning of last week, I launched Breakthrough: The Gender Stereotypes Project in the UK.

    This is a two-week pilot programme in a school in central London that explores the influence of gender stereotypes. Click on the website front page to sign up to updates. Week 2 is about to begin!

    Breakthrough follows the successful Hamleys campaign which I led last December which resulted in the toyshop scrapping its gender signs.

    I wrote about Breakthrough in the Huffington Post.

  51. An interview with me was published on the “Science” website this week, called Equality for Quality.

    And I’m jumping into the #sciencegirlthing debate. I was on the “gender expert” panel and don’t see our recommendations reflected at all in the teaser video that was a viral fiasco this week. I’m sitting here right now writing on this for the Guardian Science. Keep an eye on my blog — where I write a lot about gender balance issues in higher ed — at http://curt-rice.com

  54. Review: Pixar’s Brave is Braver Than it Looks
    On what I think was actually revolutionary about Brave, despite some of the traditional princess tropes.

    Dear Evangelicals: Stop Talking About a “Culture of Death”
    On the problems of anti-choice rhetoric.

    The Incredible Helplessness of Men: Lust Edition
    About the Rielle Hunter/John Edwards affair and the media’s fixation on Hunter’s body.
    and Epilogue
    About evil internet commenters.

    Modesty, Body Policing, and Empowerment: The Hijab (Pt 1)
    Modesty, Body Policing and Empowerment: The Hijab (Pt 2)
    A response to Nadiya Takolia’s article in The Guardian about how she considers wearing hijab an empowering, political feminist choice.

  55. Stuff I’ve written lately:

    Women who don’t like sexual aggression from strangers are prudish children. Or childish prudes. Or something. : On how a story about being made uncomfortable sexually was turned by a psychologist into an opportunity to mock sexual harassment

    Video games are like porn : On identifying with a video game character and what that means when the character is threatened with rape

    Gender identification in video games, part 2 : A much more thorough consideration of gender in terms of identifying with your video game character, with three very different video games considered

    I didn’t tell him not to murder, that it would assuredly land him on death row…that would be mean. : On the creative ways some Baptist ministers have found to condemn recent condemnations of homosexuality without giving up their own view that it’s still a sin

    Don’t tell me to smile : Guys…don’t tell a woman she looks angry or order her to smile. Just don’t.

    What’s wrong with “Don’t rape” : Why I have a problem with telling men not to rape

    Am I too hard on Psychology Today? : My response to a prominent psychologist’s suggestion that I’m just too unforgiving of the magazine.

  65. @ Sierra-

    Color me unsurprised that you lumped Gen X in with Boomers. We are the Lost Generation, after all. Evidently, we’re still lost because you don’t even know who we are. Not hard to accept disappointment when you expect it.

    Gen x’ers never told anyone they were special. We learned at in kindergarten there’s no such thing, we learned it when we ended up being latch key kids because our boomer parents were out fulfilling themselves (until they settled down and had you later in life. Discarded toys? Yeah. Tell us about it.) and we were the *first* generation in history to work twice as hard as previous generations for half as much, and no chance to ever breach the gap. The first to not own homes. The first to have no assets. Investments? Ha. The first to know SS is a rug that will be pulled from under us. You’re the lazy electronic generation- we were the lazy MTV generation.Thanks for noticing. You’re Echo Boomers though, so we didn’t really expect to be noticed. Sure don’t expect you to know we went through it before you. We’d have to actually count for that to happen.

  67. @pheenobarbidoll

    I included Gen X only because the original speech was addressed to 17-year-olds, who are more likely the grandchildren than children of the Boomers.

  69. I don’t know where to put this, but maybe someone can tell me – why are comments closed on all the old Hunger Games threads? They’re not that old, and most other threads around that age still have open comments. I just finished the book and wanted to discuss it… :-(. I’m not sure I’m going to bother to read the next book, so if those threads are open, that’s not helpful. I wanted to discuss how the world-building in the book fails to take into account anything about human reproduction (what happens if a 15 year old girl chosen as a tribute is pregnant?) and sexual violence (don’t tell me that a game that can lead to sadistically cutting someone’s face before you kill them never leads to rape), so I particularly wanted to discuss on a feminist website, not just any discussion place. Can anyone recommend a good one?

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