Femmostroppo Reader – May 22, 2009

by tigtog on May 22, 2009

in blogging

Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

Curb-Stomping Our Warriors

- more DADT madness

Care Providers vs. "Scare" Providers

- missed this last week – SCARY

Obama's embrace of Bush terrorism policies is celebrated as "Centrism"

- “What is most damaging about all of this is exactly what Goldsmith celebrated: that Obama’s political skills, combined with his status as a Democrat, is strengthening Bush/Cheney terrorism policies and solidifying them further.”

(title unknown)

- Hissy fits from the right – strategic insincerity

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1 Mortisha May 22, 2009 at 1:21 pm: another link that is interesting but not surprising

Rae Taylor, “Slain and Slandered, A Content Analysis of the Portrayal of Femicide in Crime News,” Homicide Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1, 21-49 (2009) DOI: 10.1177/1088767908326679

The present study is a content analysis of crime news to determine how femicide victims are portrayed by a Florida metropolitan newspaper. The analysis consisted of 292 domestic homicide-related articles published by one newspaper from 1995 to 2000. The data were analyzed to determine effects on newsworthiness, context revealed, and patterns of victim blame. A dichotomy concerning victim blame emerged from the analysis, suggesting victims are blamed directly and indirectly for their own femicides. Direct tactics include using negative language to describe the victim, highlighting her choices not to report past incidences, and portraying her actions with other men as contributing to her murder. Indirect tactics include using sympathetic language to describe the perpetrator; emphasizing the perpetrator’s mental, physical, emotional, and financial problems; highlighting the victim’s mental or physical problems; and describing domestic violence in terms that assign equal blame to both partners.
2 tigtog May 22, 2009 at 10:31 pm: Thanks, Mortisha. That this analysis does not surprise any of us is what is most disturbing.