Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
- Huge Pre-Stonehenge Complex Found via "Crop Circles"
- UK Officials Assigned to Fight Rape Actually Promote Rape Myths
- War on Terror Training Domestic Terrorists
- Happily ever after
- What Is Funny?
- Salon Says Your Disabling Pain is Imaginary
- Over a quarter of men in South Africa admit to rape
- Iran Election 2009: Iran Elections & Twitter
- Breasts and Hair
– some silly subediting on a discovery that’s v. exciting for archeologists
– “at the Home Office violence against women consultation in the east of England in May, a rape champion for one of the police forces in the east of England stated openly that “everyone knows most women and girls who report rape can’t be believed”.”
– Three years ago, there was already news of Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad and evidence that white supremacist leaders were encouraging their members to enlist “to get training for a race war.”
– Fallen Princesses – gorgeous
– ingroup and outgroup identification, class/status markers and how humour works between them
– Cara takes down a heartless wanker
– 😦
– “Using Twitter – Using #iranelection and #gr88 Hashtags
It is imperative that ACCURATE and verified information gets out from Iran. You can help by doing the following:”
– “I feel strongly about covering hair because I see it as a way to dehumanize women. Hair lends character to a face. It’s a huge way for many women to express their personalities and sense of style. It’s also a source of physical vanity, which I don’t discount. When you make women look sort-of the same, it’s easier to dehumanize them as individual humans.”
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Wow, there is some real fail in that Happily Ever After photo spread.
Obviously Not So Little = Fat = eats junk food constantly.
Obviously the fastest way to a Very Important Lessons About Princesses is to make the only “Middle Eastern” one is in a war zone. What did that have to do with Jasmine’s story?
And I’m not really up to parsing yet another image that tells us that the worst thing that can happen if one is diagnosed with Cancer is losing one’s hair.
The photography is lovely, but the subject matter is not as edgy as the photography thinks it is.
Good points. In challenging the Happy Ever After cliche, she’s simply exchanged easy cliches about what constitutes bad/unhappy situations for women, where especially the Not So Little Riding Hood is a massive FAIL. Perhaps she simply couldn’t think of something else bad to happen Hairwise for Rapunzel.
That said, I thought the idea that Jasmine would take up arms in a war zone was entirely consistent with her character, but agreed it’s a too-easy trope.