Archive for November, 2007
ONSLAUGHT: the campaign against women's self esteem
Following Dove’s “Evolution” campaign, they’ve come out with this new ad that points to the effects of the objectification of women on the self-esteem of girls and women. (Hat tip to Cathy for the link.) Interestingly, they call attention to the fact that the style of
Posted: November 7th, 2007 under Bust, Female Sexuality, Neil Strauss, The Game, affirmation, assholes, backhanded, beauty, bullshit, cellulite, compliments, conglomerate, cream, destiny, fat, girls, humor, integrity, intelligence, low self esteem, objectification, pick up artists, power, seduction community, self-esteem, sexuality, standard of beauty, women.
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You Have the Right to Fewer Choices.
Right. So I said I’d take a break, and I haven’t slept in a while, but this bears repeating: They’re passing a TRAP law in Wisconsin (curtsy to Pandagon ). Basically, this means that women who are trying to get abortions and abortion providers will both need to jump through more hoops to “prevent women [...]
Posted: November 7th, 2007 under ACLU, Carhart, Justice Kennedy, Louise Melling, Misogyny, Pandagon, Supreme Court, abortion, abortion providers, abuse, anti-choice, birth, bullshit, carhart vs. gonzales, childbirth, coercion, consent, danger, dark humor, domestic violence, feminist, freedom, government, gynecologist, gynecology, health care, human rights, informed consent, insult, joke, justice, law, legislation, mandatory wait periods, motherhood, power, rape, stupid, terrorism, terrorists, trap law, waiting period, wisconsin, women, women's rights.
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Hoody Hoo…. I'm Still Alive, But Mostly To Ponder My Thesis.
Despite requests to the contrary, I’m going chthonic. See y’all in a few days.
Posted: November 6th, 2007 under blog, burrowing owl, cthonic, lame excuses, meta, thesis.
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When The Personal Was Revolutionary, 0r He's Not My Precedent
Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Liturature. You’re saying, duh, this is not news. And so is she. According to Pheobe Connelly the American Prospect, after being informed that she had won the prize, Lessing shrugged and said, “”Oh Christ. It’s been going on now for 30 years; one can’t get more excited than [...]
Posted: November 4th, 2007 under New York Review of Books, New York Times, binary, camera, christ, connelly, contemporary, craft, doris, experience, female, feminine, feminism, feminists, gender, gender role, humility, identity, identity politics, inequality, lady, lessing, literature, men, misogynist, misogynists, motherhood, nobel, personal, personal experience, pheobe, philosophy, political, politics, prize, racist, racists, religion, sexuality, social construction, society, the small personal voice, women, writer, writing.
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