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  3. My most recent entry, Thoughts From A Spiteful, Callous, Nitpicker is something I didn’t particularly want to write, but felt compelled to. Because it’s a criticism of an article about the tragic story of Rehteah Parsons – an article which otherwise would have been excellent because the other in question takes the time to point out something that’s far too often overlooked in the media – about the role of patriarchy and cultural misogyny and how it affected the outcome – her rape, bullying and ultimate suicide. Unfortunately this journalism student did so by throwing other victims under the bus and making some questionable assertions to make her point. So I had to say something.

  9. I wrote about seven more kickass women on Daily Kickass Female, including:

    Pope Joan, whose cover as a renowned male scholar was blown when she had a baby during a Procession

    and

    Empress Wu Zetian, who followed a ruthless climb to power with a progressive and beneficial reign as the only regent Empress in the Tang dynasty.

    If anyone has a kickass female to nominate for a feature article (anyone who identifies as female counts), please drop me a line!

    1. For a number of rather obvious reasons, I happen to think that treating as historical fact medieval Catholic legends about events for which there is no contemporaneous evidence — or any evidence at all until several hundred years after the supposed events — is an extremely bad idea, no matter how much wishful thinking might want those legends to be true.

      1. Absolutely. For precisely the reasons you refer to, I mark the story of Pope Joan as Legend, subcategory Pseudo-History. As you say, there’s basically no evidence to suggest that she is a real historical figure.

  12. Quite a lot of new things on the blog this week, so apologies for the multiple links! (I’ve left off other stuff that I thought wouldn’t interest people as much, if that’s any mitigation…)

    Shake It Like You Mean It – the scholar and dancer Caitlin McDonald wrote about the complexities of the Harlem Shake as a tool of protest, dance as a space for subversion and the increasing pressures on Egyptian dancers from conservatives.

    O, Negative – why a novel which adds vampires to Jane Austen’s universe is missing the point.

    Lad Culture = Loser Culture – Elizabeth Rogers wrote the last in our series on sexism and misogyny on campus.

  15. I wrote about:
    – And the worst parent of the year award goes to… about Dara-Lynn Weiss, who wrote a book about her attempts to control her young daughter’s weight.
    – On fatkinis and exclusion: Gabi Gregg’s new line of plus size bikinis is exciting, but it leaves the same women who so frequently get left out of plus size lines, those who wear sizes 26+.
    – Want to know how I feel about climate change? I found an essay that got inside my brain so well, and added my own reflections.
    – and my weekly links roundup, where people are welcome to self-promote as well!

  16. Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist school with a long racist history, presents their production of MACBETH with the three witches wearing dreadlocks… I talk about how suspect that hairstyle-choice is when it comes from THEM, since they really do hate witches, and really do hate anyone wearing dreadlocks… this started a controversy over on Facebook, and a couple of them showed up to complain:
    http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2013/04/bob-jones-universitys-macbeth-witches.html

    Anniversary of the Kent State massacre was yesterday:
    http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2013/05/kent-state-remembered.html

  18. I’m working on a series called “Persuasive Writing for Activists.” The first post is here and I’m updating it weekly.

    I’m also working on a series of “Feminist Takes” on the Doctor Who companions. My latest update was me giving up on an analysis of Clara Oswin Oswald, but I also put together a page that links to all of them. Spoilers abound.

  19. My younger son was recognized for excellence in a regional math competition. (OK, it’s an excuse to show off my kids) It was a bit Madame DeFarge of me to sit knitting through the Honor Roll, one stitch per name, though.

    What am I knitting? Why only the Ultimate Geek Craft Project. You can follow the progress on Pinterest.

    The Inkstained Succubus blog (my publishing company) is running a series called “Surfing The Cosmos on an Ironing Board: World Building in SF.” Part 1 and part 2 are up. Part 3 should arrive tomorrow.

    And the Writing Advice post. If you want to be a writer, here’s how.

  20. Here’s my five-part series called “Feminism and ethics.”

    In each part, I talk about a moral philosophy and construct from it a feminist worldview. I do this for five different schools of thought (even an anti-moralist one) to show how feminism can be approached and justified in radically different ways despite all of those variants of feminism being able to reach the same ideas that pervade mainstream feminism.

  26. Over at my blog, delagar, I wrote about the class I taught as a follow-up to The Class: Teaching Our Bodies, Ourselves, in which my students and I talk about why we need birth control and abortion, the history of how and why women’s control of their fertility has been abridged, and what violence against women has to do with all this.

    It got lively, folks.

  30. This week I reviewed The Mongoliad, an interesting alt-history book working from the premise that a group of magically-blessed holy knights are on a secret mission to assassinate the Khan of Khans and save Christendom. It moves a little slowly, but the worldbuilding can be fun.

  32. Since I continued to like Dove’s commercial even as I agreed with all of the people who criticized it, I tried to unpack my reaction a little more, ultimately concluding that I’m happy for what it says about the power of consumers more than the state of marketing.

    For any other teachers out there: I shared my favorite grammar worksheet activity. My community college students were so excited to keep talking about grammar that I had to make them leave when the class ended.

      1. Sorry. I thought I had changed the settings, but got a request for access. When I went back, I realized the cursor kept jumping back to “private” before saving. That`s probably why the settings didn’t change. I think it’s back to public now.

  36. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Get-Horse-Meat-out-of-MY-Food/332248050208793 Feminist-minded page about cute animals with a PSA thrown in for animal rights 😀

  37. Here is an NPR Marketplace piece on sexual harassment in fracking towns in North Dakota. Not shameless self-promotion, unless you count my indignant contribution to the comment section.

    What concerns me is how NPR attributed the behavior of these men to loneliness. Anyone familiar with rape culture theory knows that this behavior is motivated by misogyny, not unmet emotional or sexual needs (if this is not apparent to you, I recommend clicking through the Yes Means Yes blog for awhile). By using that word to describe these men, not only is NPR being factually inaccurate, but they also contribute to prevailing notion that this is a normal and tolerable way for men to behave.

    I think NPR can do better than that. Can we hold them accountable, please?

  38. I know, it’s Monday, but SOMEONE needs to address this anti-choice article:
    The Daily Beast ‏@thedailybeast 1h
    The abortion rights community has become the NRA of the Left http://thebea.st/10dweEH

  39. I am a genderqueer female bodied street medic. I traveled for nine months around the country helping activist organization. I ended up going to NYC to help build free clinics in NYC post-Hurricane Sandy with other street medics.
    I am amazing at researching and analyzing data.
    I write often and excessively, mostly about politics, often about history.

    So, if you’d like a feminist perspective from a non-able bodied class confused Cajun, let me know.

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