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I’m reviewing, chapter-by-chapter, Anthony Esolen’s anti-feminist and anti-gay-marriage book Defending Marriage. This is my post on how Lucinda Williams’ 1998 album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road refutes a silly argument he makes in his third chapter. Defending Marriage, Chapter 3: On Women Singing About Men
This takedown was beautifully brutal without being mean for the sake of it, and it left me wondering why the author of the book is not just a little embarrassed by his strange and provably incorrect claims. I guess it’s a question about your whole blog. I see fantastic writing like yours, and I wonder if your readers are taking in your points at all, and if not, why not, and what you think about that? I have found arguing with the Christian right (Catholic or Protestant) frustrating and fruitless for everyone involved.
In Ireland, a bill has been introduced to criminalise sex workers’ clients. I wrote about what the bill doesn’t do, and what this means: On Frances Fitzgerald’s bill to criminalise clients
I reviewed Nightcrawler: http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/104575025226/nightcrawler-2014 and chose 5 weekend links: http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/104577414216/the-weekend-5
#WhyIStayed/#WhyILeft may have already peaked and passed, but some answers take longer to voice than a hashtag permits. “Safe Words” is my contribution to that conversation, which I tell in the hope that (to borrow words from Roxane Gay) “perhaps by sharing our stories, we will raise a generation who will have no such stories to tell.” [TW for IPV] I also took a look at how stock photos used for domestic violence stories sustain troubling narratives around gender, race, and agency. We must not lose sight of the fact that Black women and girls are also targets of horrific, unjustifiable state violence.
This week’s holiday shopping round-up highlighted businesses owned by black women, feminist gift ideas for kids, and charities that benefit women!
I wrote about something that is extremely important to me but can get very controversial, that Forcing kids to diet is child abuse , CN for discussion of child abuse and eating disorders. Thanks. 🙂
I wrote a proposal for treating educators the way we currently treat police officers and scrutinizing officers the way we currently do teachers.
I started a new blog this week, about coping with my mom’s final months with cancer. All the content notes: death, illness, religion, bad childhood memories and coping. etc etc. Walking to the river The Holiday Wishlist is going around Live Journal. Yuletide Youtube is back for the sixth year at my LJ. Music, pictures, recipes, stores, crafts, etc (rather than link all seven days, this takes you to the tag, which has all 7)
You Are Trans Enough. There is no such thing as not being trans enough. There is such a thing as being trans, and not being trans. Trapped In The Wrong Childhood. I don’t want to be cisgender. I want to be loved.
Looks like something went wrong with my 2nd link. Trapped In The Wrong Childhood. I don’t want to be cisgender. I want to be loved. Sorry for double post.
Last week at Bitch Flicks… Call For Writers: Reality TV Break the Cycle: Cultural Appropriation, Racism, and Kim Kardashian’s ‘Paper’ Magazine Cover Folk Mariology in ‘Jane the Virgin’ Black Actresses Are the Best Thing About ‘Get On Up’ Tropes vs. Princes: Sexism-in-Drag in Modern Disney Princess Films ‘Zero Motivation’: A Female Slacker Comedy Set in the Israeli Army ‘Birdman’ Is ‘Black Swan’ for Boys ‘Little Miss Sunshine’: Masculinity’s Losers
My thoughts on Figuring Out How To Be A White Ally I Never Had to Put My Hands Up for the Police Deshawnda Sanchez, 21 years old, was the most recent trans woman of color to lose her life to violence. Angel Elisha Walker, 20 years old, is a trans woman of color missing in North Carolina since October.
In response to #shirtgate, I sent Dr. Matt Taylor a new shirt. Post includes info about the Kickstarter project #thatothershirt to create a shirt that features real life notable ladies in STEM. Moon Healing Activation! A Moonie Response to #shirtgate