This week on Red Stapler… I join the proud ranks of feminist comic book bloggers! I take on an asshat at Jane Galt.
From a bird and a bottle: I’m wondering why it is that we’re turning to men to be the voice of abortion rights advocacy. …and I’m happy to see a glimmer of hope for striking down bad repro rights legislation in state courts. But a small glimmer.
I’ve written a ton on my blog The Curvature this week (so feel free to browse!). Here are two of my favorite posts: A post on a whole range of issues revolving around Hillary Clinton’s treatment by the media and the media’s portrayal of their own treament: “On the Harsh Treatment of Female Candidates” A post on one of the many, many unhealthy standards set by the beauty industry: “Does a “Healthy” Tan Exist?”
Oooh! I have three posts this week! When Dead White Men were really Dead White Women and other historic things that interest me, which is about women dressing as men historically. My Deliberately Barren Self is Having Issues, which attempts to take the BBC to task for the way they reported about the Australian politician who said his “deliberately barren” coworker couldn’t be a good politician because she didn’t understand family life. And my co-blogger (finally) wrote Down with Queer Lit, where she makes a list of demands for Queer Lit that I found quite enjoyable. Comments include recs of Queer Lit. And now, I’m off to work – wacky time-zone hyjinks and all that.
Ack, no! My comment is moderated! *sobs* Ah well. I will shamelessly just say that there are three posts over at Feminists Don’t Bake Bread.
This week I have been mostly photoshopping fainting-couches. [extra] My co-blogger Lauredhel did two great pieces – one on invisible disability issues, and one on a google-tool that analyses s/he ratios on websites.
Anna, who was that jazz musician who died a few years ago and was discovered during the autopsy to actually be a woman? Was it Billy Tipton?
I’m going to shamelessly promote my post trying to track down the background of some of the statistics disputed by the Youtube PSA What Black Men Think, in hopes that maybe someone will have further references for me (feel free to suggest them in my comments if you do).
I’m annoyed when women are accused of “objectifying themselves.” Also, I don’t think that a drug that enhanced libido and suppressed appetite would enslave women into the sexbot army.
Nezua, aka The Unapologetic Mexican, has an important post on the police brutality at an LA May Day rally (about which the MSM and most bloggers have been silent). And a length follow-up here. One of my favorite bloggers (but one who, so far as I can tell, is relatively lesser known), Lily at Formal Dressage Required, has a brilliant post critiquing/analyzing an anti-feminist troll.
There’s been comment about Bill “deliberately barren” Heffernan, but I wrote a bit about a follow-up column in an Aussie paper that managed to offend in equal quantity at the blog of me
When things get too ugly in the rest of the world, stop by my photostream on Flickr to refresh your spirit. http://flickr.com/photos/ambitious_wench Photos of Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada.
I’m looking for feminist-blogger volunteers for a research project. Also, Australia discovers that having a panic about ‘teh obesity epidemic’ might well be driving an increase in eating disorders.
Well this week I blogged on two girls “asking for it“, freedom of the press day (not all that free in Cambodia) and on evictions in Cambodia turn violent. All in all, a week of variety
Yay, this is always so fun and eclectic!! I Fucking Hate You, Judd Apatow. An open letter about how Judd Apatow & Co.’s “harmless” comedy is really based in a deep, abject fear of women. Did ya know in the comic masterpiece Knocked Up one of the MALE characters cannot even say the word “abortion” but instead refers to it as “shmashmortion.” No, really. And this is just the tip of the iceberg…
I nominated half of a cabinet for the administration in 2009. I might be getting a little ahead of myself.
I’d really like some suggestions or even help (publicizing this to get it noticed by the powers-that-be, and by the powers-that-want-to-be so that the changes that need to happen to protect women’s health DO happen, for instance) regarding this more personal matter which affects all women to some degree or another.
I put up a post on Roger Ebert’s face and the decision to make visible disabilities really visible. Later that day I drew some parallels with a friend’s bad experience breastfeeding her toddler in the park, which sparked a couple of knock-down drag-outs in comments.
I offer a way ‘non-science’ bloggers can combat the ignorance that leads to three out of ten Republican candidates publicly admitting that they did not believe in evolution .
Better late than never… The Sopranos as a radical critique of American notions of manhood. http://unpretentiouslitcrit.blogspot.com/2007/05/sopranos-critique-of-american-man.html
My shameless plug for my lefty political blog… The madam who may bring her clients rather than their dates to their knees.
one more — I’m pretty happy with a post I wrote this morning about virtual rape and real-world consequences.
Zuzu — I just want to let you know how much I like reading the stuff people post here, what a great idea these self-promotion Sundays’ are! 😀
Inspired by the governor of Oregon’s experiment in shopping for a week’s worth of groceries on $21 worth of foodstamps, I’m keeping track of all my foodstamp expenses through the month of May. The series is called Foodstamp Chronicles, and so far is the bulk of May’s blogging. As you’ll see, when you’re poor AND disabled, getting to the food is sometimes half the battle. So, starting here, and going on, the Foodstamp Chronicles.
Ditto on what Mighty Ponygirl said – I really get a kick out of reading all of these links every week.
Well this would have been better in the thread about Garance’s op-ed on raising the age on porn but I thought I had a better idea to give the women who want to do Girls Gone Girl some space to make their choice. And there’s better legal options besides raising consent laws to 21 to achieve a similar kind of result (or at least a greater level of protection from bottom-feeders like Francis). How about changing the law on getting signed consent forms? You could stipulate that for any filming that involves nudity, a legal consent form can only be signed 48 hours after filming. Meaning that the producer can only get a valid consent release form after giving the subject two days to reconsider her decision to let him film her. (Or to sober up). Not a retroactive, you have two-days-to-retract-given-consent. You have to be reapproached by the filmmaker after 48 hours have passed since filming and only then does a consent form give you legal protection from being sued.
I don’t have one of my own, but I highly recommend a friend’s post about abortion and the myth of the irresponsible woman.
i’m ditto-ing mighty ponygirl and revena. i always get pointed to some great posts i would otherwise have missed.
Better late than never? I thought I didn’t have a good “feministe” post this week, but I think the one on Katha Pollitt’s birth dearth is worth a read – especially her article at the link: Pollitt
I don’t mind shamelessly plugging my own site: A post about some of the terms that google asks “Did you mean: he” about. -and- A post critical of Wonder Woman’s costume, and how it could be better.
NOT self promotion. More like an idea for a post which I have no other way to communicate to Feministe writers: Who besides myDD blogger David Kowalski noticed how much gender seems to have playe a roll both in Republican lossess and Democratic wins in Novembers congressional elections? http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/5/9/22413/26715