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
- Care Providers vs. "Scare" Providers
- Obama's embrace of Bush terrorism policies is celebrated as "Centrism"
- (title unknown)
– more DADT madness
– missed this last week – SCARY
– “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.”
– Hissy fits from the right – strategic insincerity
Categories: linkfest
The 109th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up! 
The 105th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up! 
Hoyden About Town 
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.
Thanks, Mortisha. That this analysis does not surprise any of us is what is most disturbing.