Shameless Self-Promotion Monday July 16, 2007 Jill I know this was supposed to happen yesterday, but since comments were down it seemed a little silly to put it up. So we’re a day late. Post a link to something you’ve written, and a short description.
After 8 1/2 months of hounding the County, I finally have a lift installed on my porch so that I can get my scooter in and out. With video and a picture of the cute guy who installed it!
I take on David Brooks’ taking on Pink, Carrie Underwood, and Avril Lavigne, and complain about limited options for women in pop music.
A couple of articles this week in Feminist Gamers … It’s not about the videogames, it’s about the feminism It’s not about the videogames, it’s about the guns and on a lighter note: We talk about the worst ways to die in a videogame
After six years a comedic short film made by myself and two friends our senior year of high school has reached the tubes and can be viewed here.
A study came out showing that women supposedly have the bargaining power in marriage. Here’s why I think that’s bullshit. Also, Psychology Today published a really offensive articled called “Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature.” Except that none of them are true. And that really pisses me off.
You’ve got to see the photos on my “A Dog for Romney” post. I normally write about weightier issues, but the topic of Romney’s dog appeared in the media just a day before the photos of my brother’s dog appeared in my inbox. It seemed like fate.
This week I mused over the Grand Dominatrix Phenomenon that afflicts many a female video game villain.
A more (well, actually less) serious post on the slaughter of innocents. Menstruation is murder an’ all that.
Well I didn’t write much – just copied and pasted – but I made a post about Troy Davis Some here may enjoy seething at this post showcasing a fifties video on technological innovations in housekeeping that make life easier for “the little woman.”
Here’s are some blogs of mine that I though might be interesting enough to share And a piece of artwork that I made that someone might find interesting.
I’ve got a post up asking for advice regarding IUDs. There’s also a disjointed commentary review of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which I’ve seen twice and don’t intend to see again until DVD. More seriously, I found a post on craigslist that illustrates the concept of “sexist societies think women aren’t human” so distressingly well that it warranted a post of its own.
“Wrote” might not be exactly the word–although all the copy on the site is mine. Just launched my first website. It’s aimed at helping gamers find local people play with. Right now the male to female ratio of members is sad, but I promise I’m working on it….Spielerz.com
These quotes say women of color tend to blame themselves for everything and find it difficult and embarrassing to tell their stories. Women of color should say what they think and feel in public or people will tell them what they think and feel and write their histories for them.
I’ve just started my own site (I’ve been blogging on myspace/blogspot for several years, but launched out on my own recently). Right now I’m just focusing on getting something up every day. I swear a lot, which is fun. Also, I’m trying to tailor things to take a more “Getting Out of the Bubble” approach, as my background is extrememly conservative (my father is a Baptist minister), and I feel like having had to take the steps I have to “get out”, I can help people in their quest/journey/coin flipping. Anyway, head on over…there’s a few posts and more come. Read the “about” section to get a little background on me/the site. Thanks.
The first link didn’t work http://leftistlooneylunch.blogspot.com/2007/07/woc-blame-themselves-for-their-own.html
I’m going to shamelessly promote friends’ posts. OldMayCoyote has a great, well-thought out post comparing anti-choicers to islamic fundies (And before all you radical anti-choicers get your Jack Bauer underoos in a bunch and accuse me of comparing you to terrorists, let me clarify: I am absolutely comparing you to Al Qaeda. If the neo-fascist anti-democratic one-God-fits-all theocratic shoe fits…) and tanzaniajue introduces Girls Gone Wired, our new group blog of women writing about technology and other Web geekdom.
People seemed to like my two quotes so here’s the third quote by the same author: “It is my conviction that the only way to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past is to openly discuss them. Whether in nations, families or individuals, the practice of being on speaking terms with your past lives is the only thing that makes it possible to trust yourself or anybody else. Freedom, liberation, happiness and fulfillment don’t come “naturally.” Rather they must be struggled for, moment by moment, against the tide of institutionalization, commodification and repression.” Women of color (or women for that matter) have to talk about their experiences in their families to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.