Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday July 29, 2007 Jill You know the drill: Link to a post you’ve written, and give us a short explanation. I think we need a Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday graphic. Anyone out there bored on Sunday afternoon and feel like designing one?
Graphics are not my strong point, alas, so I’m just self-promoting. Queer as Hero, wherein I’m surprised and pleased to see a gay character on Spike TV’s drama, The Kill Point, is portrayed as a hero *because* of his sexuality.
I have to go to work so I don’t have time to make up a graphic. I don’t think what I make would be very good anyway. I’m not so good in Photoshop and the like. For the week, I think this is probably my favorite post on my blog as far as my own writing goes. It’s a 1951 Sid Davis movie about the horrible dangers of reefer and the handbasket in which our nation’s youth were headed to hell. I really love today’s Spidey / Planned Parenthood post, but that’s mostly just lifted from another blog.
First post is about a billboard in my community that is getting criticized— you know — for damaging the children. I say it’s offensive for how it portrays women. http://tobestalks.blogspot.com/2007/07/billboard-debate.html *Second post is about my job as a crisis advocate and my first trip to the E.R. to deal with a male rape victim http://tobestalks.blogspot.com/2007/07/unexpected.html Comments on both are interesting…
Who hates to hear they look great? A post on invisible chronic illnesses and a recent survey showing the conversational trip-ups that drive the ill crazy. Self included.
Guess that didn’t work. Here are a couple images. http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b134/kangaroootis/?action=view¤t=feministe2.jpg http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b134/kangaroootis/?action=view¤t=feministe.jpg
Umm, those images are hot Elaine. I’ve been tres lazy all week but here is my Harry Potter post-mortem/analysis and here‘s my YouTube debate round-up– plus an embedded Joe Biden clip. Everybody loves a Joe Biden clip.
This week on Red Stapler…h I talk about what a great time I’ve had at this year’s San Diego Comic Con!
Here’s a post about the question that most pissed me off during the YouTube debates, and why I think that all those who claim it was a legitimate question are wrong. Also, the Democrats are having a crisis of faith on abortion. The what, the how and the why. And, as always, my opinion.
This week on Red Stapler… I talk about what a great time I’ve had at this year’s San Diego Comic Con!
Most people have come over to Feminist Gamers for the death kitty this week, but more on-topic is a post about how Mitt Romney used fear of videogames to agitate for a return to obscenity laws — you know, the stuff they used to use to ban birth control and we also use a post from Feministe as a reference on our Friday Open Thread when we talk about our experiences being confused for a member of the opposite sex.
There’s a series of kids’ books about a kindergartener named Junie B. Jones. Some parents are up in arms because Junie B. narrates the books in a (stylized) kindergartener’s voice, complete with grammatical and usage errors. After reading a NYT article about the controversy, I got the first book in the series out of the library, and read it with my kid. We didn’t mind the language issues, but it did kind of bother us that Junie B. is a total asshole. Oh, and I’ve got a new month’s resolution. I’m going to leave a comment at at least one other person’s SPS post every single week.
I’m reading and reacting to Jennifer Baumgardner’s Look Both Ways: Bisexual politics over on my Live Journal
I’m reading and reacting to Jennifer Baumgardner’s Look Both Ways: Bisexual politics over on my Live Journal.
Over at my site: I realized just how many shit-tastic appointees Bush has made, I wonder why is Guitar Hero so very white, and I discuss how I think HP7 drops the ball on race/species issues
I criticized the Pussycat Dolls (which is really too easy) and msn (which is really WAY too easy) and also promoted a feminist discussion group for women in Cleveland.