I’m a bad Jew. But given the kinds of things I say about the middle east, I guess neo-cons wouldn’t be surprised, as if they knew or cared about my existence.
I just started a new blog, The Mental Feminist, about feminism and mental health issues. My first post is about childhood trauma leading to psychosis and the debate surrounding that, including the depersonalization of mentally ill patients.
I wrote a little about why I don’t get to pat myself on the back about the ways in which I buck gender norms and how little can be inferred about a feminist’s committment to women’s equality by her personal grooming habits. In the same vein, I wrote a little about how little difference in the big picture my Feminist Statements are going to matter when the world often just doesn’t get it.
Over the last couple of days I have been posting about Flickr because they started their localized versions but not without censorship. Here’s a follow-up and finally a summary. Basically they couldn’t read the German law texts correctly and decided everyone should not be able to turn off safe search. Really illegal stuff (Nazi symbols) are still visible, though. Of course they are censoring in countries like China and Singapore, anyway.
The value of calling an ambulance if you’re showing signs of a stroke. Plus, I attend an ordination held at the Goddess Temple of Orange County. And Brownback’s attempt to promote Marriage Development Accounts (not a takedown but an attempt to figure out what’s up with these – if any of you know more about this than I do, feel free to add your comments).
If you vote for my food blog Coconut & Lime in Culinate’s GrillMe contest, you could send me to Napa Valley and be entered for a chance to win the trip too! I’ve been doing the blog for 3 years and have shared 480 of my original recipes on my blog. I’d love to go to Napa!
I’m trying to be better about posting more regularly to my blog. This week I’m doing a roundup of the most disturbing anti-choice stories. I need to do an entry on casual sexism in text books.
I’ve written my third blog entry ever (oh so new at this), looking at CG surfing penguins and their lack of gender equality.
I wrote this little post called Blue Bags and Pink Bags a bit ago that I really rather like. It’s about being given a small choice when I was a girl that ultimately probably mattered quite a bit.
Wondering about how the sig fig and I look when we’re out on the town, and my favorite sound byte from the recent Massachusetts Constitutional Convention.
Here’s a post about how our society can’t stop blaming women for rape. And here’s one about how even liberals love to fat-shame.
I write about local (Erie, Pennsylvania) politics, childfreedom, my neighbors (especially the drunk next door), and life in general. This is an older post, but it’s one I liked,about the momsrising movement.
Well I laid out the dating situation for single women in Cambodia and on a more serious note blogged on the use of YouTube by hill tribes in Vietnam and Lao to document the human rights abuses they suffer
Just launched a blog that will deal with environmental and feminist issues in books and the media. Will occassionally sidetrack to crafts and cooking. The first post is about gender stereotyping in children’s books and how that really pisses me off. It’s titled Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield, You are Tools of the Patriarchy. Enjoy!
Quiet week for me, but I need more submissions for a Tony Abbott macro challenge. Tigtog’s blogging marriage, and yoghurt ads telling non-skinny women how unfuckable they are.
I made a brief comment about something I saw in a men’s magazine – being sexual is equated with being ‘dirty and having low self-esteem.
Recently, on Red Stapler… I got a new job! I disagree with the Marvel Comics “Outrage of the Week.” And… Something silly!
I made it once, but I had to make a couple of substitutions, because I couldn’t find some ingredients. It turned out great, although it was way too much food for my little household. I took it in to work, and my co-worker from North Carolina claimed that it was very good but not real barbeque. I think that’s about the best one can possibly do with slow cooker pulled pork and a native of North Carolina! I like your blog a lot. The recipes all look great, and you have a real knack for food photography.
I’ve recently helped Dr. Elizabeth Wood, a sociologist from New York, launch a web site devoted to the discussion of sex and gender and their political/social implications. The site is called Sex in the Public Square; we’re still at the point where our new project is just a baby, and not even to the stage where the kid is sleeping all the way through the night, but we’d love to have people swing by and let us know what you think, whether you love it or hate it. The site includes blogs, forums, and calendars, and we’re trying to build a community based on as many different kinds of people as we can get, from vanilla folk to BDSM kinksters. The important thing is to explore how our private lives influence the public sphere, and vice versa.
What a nice thing to do. Thanks! This week, I wrote about privacy in relationships, and the question of whether it’s always good to share everything you’re thinking with your partner. I wrote about giant prehistoric chickens. And I posted a dirty story. (This one is seriously NSFW, and also not safe for people who don’t like dirty stories.)