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  1. Lauren has a brilliant post about why women, including teenagers, have babies under “less than optimal circumstances,” and argues that it’s largely a pragmatic and clear-sighted decision, not evidence that the glories of a proper middle class existence are beyond their abilities.

    Lily at Formal Dressage Required has a superb on post on the meaning of street harassment and how this meaning is revealed in the response to Muslim women wearing the veil.

  10. Not the greatest thing I’ve ever written, but Feministe readers may be interested in a post I wrote about a “pro-life” group that’s using pretty shady (and downright cruel) means to convince women not to have abortions.

  17. I wrote a post talking about an article I found on healthy eating and feminism. The article claims that eating local is anti-feminst because it makes cooking harder for women. I claim that cooking does not automatically = women and that men are as capable of cooking and caring for the home as women. Is eating healthy anti-feminist?

  22. exholt, thanks for completing the job. I debated in vain with the white male Japanophile a while ago in the previous post linked there.

  23. What I forgot to say in Samhita’s earlier post is profuse apologies went to sex slaves from the Netherlands but never to Chinese and Korean sex slaves.

  26. Donna Darko,

    Thank you for your acknowlegements. From my discussion with the “White Japanophile” (Flashheart?), he seems to be operating from genuine ignorance of the history. From reading his background on his page, his education was concentrated in physics and statistics. I hope with further time in Japan and a deeper study of the history and culture, that he will come around. While irritating, his form of Japanophilia is quite mild compared to the ones I’ve encountered in college. At least he is willing to discuss the issues without descending into defensive fanboy speak and flaming accusations of “Japan bashing” common among White and Asian-American Japanophiles at my college.

    Fortunately, their presense was nearly non-existant in the East Asian studies department beyond enrolling in an introductory Japanese language course for one or two semesters. Not surprisingly, they were reviled by students and faculty within the department.

  27. He’s above the “otakus” I read about at Reappropriate. But his quotes of the profuse apologies towards sex slaves were only towards sex slaves from the Netherlands and never Korea and China. It’s only on account of their whiteness they received the most sincere apologies. ARGH.

  28. Donna Darko,

    Unfortunately, “otakus” and other Asiaphiles give those who have a genuine desire learn more about a given Asian society’s history, society, and culture a very bad name. It is one reason why those of us who were East Asian studies majors/minors regarded them with such antipathy. I cannot count the times we cursed them out for their oversimplistic orientalizing of Asian culture for their leisurely amusement and for painting themselves as “Asia experts” when they were nothing of the kind.

    Moreover, their noxious presence was such that the Asian international students group that I and a few working-class AAs were a part of held meetings at the beginning of each academic year to warn new students of these “exoticizers” and to warn American students, including AAs, that such behaviors would result in the offender’s immediate expulsion from the group.

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