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Archive for January, 2008

I Ain't No Hollaback Girl . . . & God is Brazilian.

Ok, I know that Gwen Stefani is not everyone’s role model, but she is mine right now, because I ain’t no hollaback girl. Right now,  I’m in Rio de Janeiro, conducting thesis research, and there’s so much to see, do, and understand beyond the issue of the postcards with pictures of girls’ butts on them. Same [...]

Good God!: Religious Violence, Imperialist Violence, Violent-Violence.

As the New York Times pointed out recently, U.S. Iraq War Veterans have been killing people. I mean, not just people from another place, but people in our country. Flabbergasting, isn’t it? We train people to kill non-US citizens, and then they kill US citizens. You’d think all people were created equal or something. So [...]

"I Am A Consumer Whore! And How!": Don Hertzfeld's Offbeat Humor

There’s something really awesome about parodies of our commercial culture, like the Don Hertzfeld video “Rejection” after the jump (nod, Nadia). Maybe it’s because it makes it easier to laugh at the consumerism and materialism that chronically infect up our lives, or because we get so many messages that assume that we’re consumer whores that [...]

Are We Having Sex Yet?: Greta Christina & Sex Positivity

So I just stumbled across this wonderful post by Greta Christina, who speaks the truth that this generation grapples with everyday: we don’t know what sex is, or at least we don’t know how to define it.  Is  oral sex sex? Greta Christina’s answer  rocks the boat. Check it out, y’all.

Take A Shot Every Time You Hate Fox News: Drinking Politically

If you have political opinions and drink alcohol, read on. Today’s informative post deals with that most cherished of pastimes: the drinking game. Feministing has made their own, called the Privileged Political Pundit, which includes such caveats as “Take a healthy gulp every time someone describes Obama as “clean” or “articulate,” ” and a warning: [...]

Gloria Steinem On The Clinton-Obama Paradox

I’m too busy reading and writing my thesis and listening to Radiohead’s In Rainbows to write a whole post today. But you should consider reading Gloria Steinem’s piece, Women Are Never Front-Runners, in today’s New York Times’ Op-Ed section, in which she discusses the gender power dynamics being enacted by Democratic presidential candidates Obama (do [...]

Our Masculine Systems: Women's Inequality Under the U.S. Constitution

Back in the day, in 1776, when our Founding Father and future second president John Quincy Adams was helping to draft the constitution, his wife, (Founding Mother?), Abigail Adams, asked him to “Remember the ladies” in that august document. He replied, in a letter, “Depend upon it, We know better than to repeal our Masculine [...]