Archive for 'women'
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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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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Showdown: Chauvinist Humor vs. Racist Rhetoric
There’s some need for discussion about this feminism thing. I mean, contrary to popular belief, feminists don’t necessarily hate all men – or love all women, and equally importantly, feminists have a sense of humor. I mean, as matsu’s blog at MediaGirl (hat tip for the image) points out, “Make a racist joke to a [...]
Posted: October 23rd, 2007 under Civil Rights, Congress, ERA, Equal Rights Amendment, Other, United States, apples, black, candidate, chauvinism, chauvinist, citizens, civil rights act of 1964, color, discrimination, equality, feminism, feminists, gender, hatred, humor, injustice, institutionalized racism, jail, justice, law, men, minority, nation, national origin, oranges, politically correct, race, racial discrimination, racism, racist, rape, rape trial, religion, rhetoric, sense of humor, sex, sexism, sexual assault, slavery, the Other, white men, women, women's movement.
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This is What a Feminist Looks Like: Miranda July
In an interview with our beloved BUST magazine (the magazine “for women with something to get off their chests”), Miranda July, the filmmaker behind the brilliant if unbearably emo “Me, You, and Everyone Else We Know,” answered some questions about feminism. Do you consider yourself a feminist? Yes. That’s so nice to hear. There are [...]
Posted: October 8th, 2007 under Bust, July, Miranda, and everyone else we know, boyfriend, emo, fear, feminism, feminist, labels, magazine, me, women, you.
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Fly Sex… and I was a Twentysomething Feminist
Another reason (here‘s the first) that I quit the biology major came from a lovely misogynist Professor of Biology. This man is not misguided; he is mistaken. He believes that women were born to be objectified. I’m not kidding. When I was a sophomore, I made some bank by TAing the introduction to evolutionary biology [...]
Posted: September 7th, 2007 under Misogyny, T&A, biology, class, counseling, counselor, evolutionary, female, flies, fly, gender, gene, genetics, kidney, little girl, male, mate, professor, rape, rape crisis counselor, reproduce, sex, sexist, sophomore, teaching assistant, women.
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Out of Reach of Children: The Degradation of Women, and Accepting It
So I was talking to my friend about porn the other night. She said that the most successful relationship she ever had was one in which she was “chill” about all of the things that might previously have caused her jealousy: her boyfriend’s tendency to slap her friends’ asses, and his giant porn collection. “I [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2007 under Pornography, ass, behavior, boyfriend, children, culture, degradation, degrading, depression, double standard, eating disorders, gender, jealousy, macho, masculinity, out, porn, rape, sex, sexual, sexuality, women.
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Color Me Beautiful: MakeUp, Fact & Fiction.
So, there’s this thing that I put on my face in the evenings these days, before I go out to shake my thang or down some burrs. The fact that many women feel dependent on this stuff – I have heard countless women explain that they feel incomplete or “naked” without their lipstickeyeshadowmascarafoundationconcealerblush while most [...]
Posted: August 11th, 2007 under Ma$e, Mase, Pippi Longstocking, Pornography, Puff Daddy, abuse, active, airbrushing, alcohol, bitch, blush, concealer, costume, culture, cupcake, disempowerment, dove, drinking, erotica, evolution, eyeshadow, fafi, film, foundation, gender, gender theory, hair removal, high, hippie, hot, identity, inner, lipstick, make up, makeup, marijuana, mascara, masturbation, men, money, movie, murder, naked, objectification, objectification of women, objects, oppression, outer, party, passive, pedicure, pimp, porn, retro, self, self-esteem, sex, sex differences, sex research, sexual abuse, sexual difference, sexual marketplace, sexual objectification, sexuality, shallow, standard of beauty, theory, video, violence, women.
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