Items of feminist, political and scientific interest found recently in my RSS feed
- DO YOU THINK THE U.S. SUPPORTS DEMOCRACY IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES?
- I Repeat-Quit Using ‘Tranny” To Insult Cisgender Women
- Attack of the feminist bridezilla!
- Oprah and Tyra talk domestic violence
- I Am Now in a Permanent State of Creeped Out
- The Intergenerational Feminist Conversation Continues…
- Thoughts on Castration for Sex Offenders
- And while we're on the topic of marriage:
- “Mary Wollstonecraft rocks” – more on raising feminists
- Five Domestic Abuse Myths
- Adventures in Victorian Literature: Kelly Clarkson Version
- Seeking Objective Definitions Of Rape
- The problem with ‘prostitot’
- Dead to Your Brethren
- I Don’t Find This Funny
- You Know What I'm Sick Of?
March 14, 2009 – quote: People in Muslim countries don’t think so
March 14, 2009 – quote: But I and many transwomen have a major problem with peeps ignorantly calling cisgender women ‘trannies’ to be insulting.
March 14, 2009 – quote: “I think the people who take issue with feminists like Jessica getting married are the same people whose perception of feminism is completely warped,” said Leibovich, a former Salon editor…In this skewed view, of course Valenti is a hypocrite, because they haven’t the slightest clue what she stands for in the first place.
March 14, 2009 – quote: the rumor that Rihanna hit Brown first. When one high schooler mentioned it during the show, Tyra quickly pointed out that, if it’s true, Brown should have been allowed to defend himself without using excessive force. (emphasis mine)
March 14, 2009 – quote: Every quote, every link leads to either a new bucket ‘o squick, or something to outrage anyone that doesn’t think a woman should be permanently pregnant with a vacuum cleaner grafted to her hand.
March 14, 2009 – quote: Basically the whole thing grew out of Deborah Siegel and I talking about the implications of her awesome book, Sisterhood Interrupted, in which she looks at the ways in which the mainstream media tends to frame women disagreeing as a cat fight, while men get to, well, disagree. We decided to reclaim the frame and create this panel of women from four different generations hashing it out on stage respectfully and with the shared goal of strengthening feminism.
March 14, 2009 – quote: To conflate rape with testosterone production is even more dangerous. It portrays rape as an inherent part of being a man, and an urge which they must control by their nature. It says that rape is a crime that we cannot stop without also stopping both heterosexual sex and what many (falsely) perceive to be what makes a man really a man. This is false, and giving far too easy of a pass to rapists.
March 14, 2009 – quote: I get that this is “tradition”, but I see it as glaring evidence that our society’s attitudes about women are still. fucked. up.
March 14, 2009 – quote: I’ve taught university students who have been incapable of assessing a person in the context of their own times.
March 14, 2009 – quote: Kelley’s takedown of the evo-psych bullshit that women are genetically disposed to return to abusive relationships.
March 14, 2009 – bwahahahahaha
March 14, 2009 – quote: Many of those who focus on objectivity seek to dismiss certain behaviors at a mechanical level unless those physical movements are always a crime.
March 14, 2009 – quote: who exactly is that term criticising? The company that sells the merchandise, the culture which popularises porn-chic, the men who get off on it? I think not.
March 14, 2009 – quote: Your typical business executive would rather let the world burn, or see his children fed to a pack of wild boars, then see a union form at his firm.
March 14, 2009 – quote: Meanwhile, a clever dickweed like this gets covered in the newspaper like some kind of urban hero for abusing wage workers.
March 14, 2009 – quote: I’m not saying the phenomenon of “threatened masculinity” isn’t real, or that people shouldn’t be discussing it or even studying it. But to accept the premise that men have a built-in sense of masculinity, from birth, that precludes them from finding self-worth separate from their identity as breadwinner is just all kinds of lazy
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Re: feminist bridezilla – The comments on the article are making me want to start throwing things. Trigger warnings for those with sensitive stomachs. :p
yep, and obviously not reading the article in full before regurgitating the crap from Ace of Spades. Hello, if she never wrote that she is against marriage then she is NOT a hypocrite for deciding to be married. Duh.
An additional link: Disability Carnival #54
I’m enjoying these daily reading lists, Tigtog.
Good to hear, Deborah. I’m very much not in a writing headspace at the moment, and it’s silly to have all these posts marked on my FeedReader without highlighting them properly.
So far the main problem is that the auto-publish function seems to want to put out multiple posts, so I then have to go and delete the duplicates. ’tis a small cross to bear for the convenience, and I’ll probably manage to debug that in the plug-in’s support forums, so no biggie.
Thanks for the shout-out, tigtog!
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