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Scary Health News: Soy Edition

Posted on April 28, 2010
Sometimes, I am just so amused by "news" source WorldNetDaily. Thanks to commenter Sarah, who passed along this article about the dangers of soy I was more amused than usual.Jim Rutz begins:"There's a slow poison out there that's severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture...

Protesting Privilege

Posted on April 27, 2010
[Trigger Warning: Dehumanization of LGBT people]From anti-racist writer Tim Wise:"Protest is only seen as fundamentally American when those who have long had the luxury of seeing themselves as prototypically American engage in it. When the dangerous and dark 'other' does so, however, it isn?t viewed as normal or natural, let alone patriotic...

Nike's Woman Problem

Posted on April 26, 2010
[Trigger Warning: Sexual assault]In a surprising editorial, surprising because it's in the mainstream non-feminist Times, Timothy Egan takes Nike to task for its continued backing of Superstar Athlete Ben Roethlisberger, who three women have now accused of sexual assault...

An Ounce of Anti-Gay With a Dollop of Rape Culture

Posted on April 23, 2010
The evangelical Christian magazine Christianity Today recently posted an interview with musician Jennifer Knapp, a former Christian musician, who has come out as being in a same-sex relationship. Much of the interview discusses this "lifestyle choice" and is fairly unremarkable aside from Knapp's apparent painful journey in reconciling her homosexuality with her Christian faith...

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Odds 'n Ends: Gendered Clothing Edition

Posted on April 22, 2010
Via Feminist Law Professors, Katherine Franke recounts an outraged mom who is concerned that her son will be humiliated if he complies with a Women's History Month school assignment studying "how women's fashion has changed over time." Specifically, the children were asked to come to school dressed in clothing that women wore during some time period...

Field Witch Gets Another Chance

Posted on April 21, 2010
A month ago, Time magazine gave us a gender-fail of headline and story about a female Navy leader who allegedly verbally abused her subordinates and who lost her rank because of it. This story was entitled the "The Sea Witch" and went on to suggest that her actions were explained by her gender and that it was political correctness/affirmative action that kept her around for far too long...

Arkansas Adoption Ban Ruled Unconstitutional

Posted on April 20, 2010
Back in 2008, Arkansas voters passed a law banning unmarried cohabitating couples from adopting children or being foster parents. Although the text of the law states that it is to apply "equally to cohabitating opposite-sex [sic*] and same-sex individuals [sic**]," in reality a primary goal of the law, as the Family Council Action Committee admitted, was to prevent same-sex couples from adopting or fostering children...

Odds 'N Ends

Posted on April 19, 2010
1) On "Girl" Bisexuals and LesbiansAfter citing statistics indicating that percentages of female bisexuality and lesbianism have grown to 15% over the years, while rates of male bisexuality and homosexuality remain at around 5%, psychologist Leonard Sax speculates on a possible reason...

Riane Eisler Quote of the Week

Posted on April 16, 2010
From The Chalice and the Blade:"Insects...have bodies that are imprisoned in hard outer skeletons, or shells. Their minds too are imprisoned, in miniscule brains with little room for the memory storage or the complex information processing that is the basis of learning...

Male Sports Star Accused of Rape Again, Will Not Be Prosecuted

Posted on April 15, 2010
[Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault]Since March of this year, star NFL quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has been investigated for sexual assault for the second time in two years. If you don't remember, back in July of 2009, a hotel employee accused Roethlisberger of rape...

More Compulsory Femininity in Lady Sports: Basketball Edition

Posted on April 14, 2010
Writing for Slate, Hanna Rosin observes the sports industry's obsessive agenda with marking female athletes as sufficiently feminine. During the NCAA tournament, ESPN played "get-to-know-you" segments that went something like this:"Each bio clip unfolds like fairy-tale dress-up: A player appears in her daytime clothes, and then?with the help of some presto twirl magic?in her basketball uniform...

LGBT and Allied Critiques on Marriage

Posted on April 13, 2010
[Cross-posted at A World of Progress and Our Big Gayborhood]Although those opposed to LGBT rights tend to portray the LGBT advocacy community as a monolithic political movement, many of us within the community know that diversity of thought, opinion, and ideology exists within it...

Book Review: The Handmaid's Tale

Posted on April 12, 2010
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is a classic work of feminist speculative fiction, portraying a dystopian future wherein patriarchy is taken to an extreme, yet logical, conclusion.The premise, in short, is that a fundamentalist religious dictatorship has overthrown the US government and created the Republic of Gilead, gradually instituting strict gender, racial, and class roles for all people...

On Female Complicity, Again

Posted on April 09, 2010
What I took away as the most important theme in Margaret Atwood's classic, The Handmaid's Tale, is its portrayal of the importance of female complicity in perpetuating patriarchy:"As the architects of Gilead knew, to institute an effective totalitarian system or indeed any system at all you must offer some benefits and freedoms, at least to a privileged few, in return for those you remove...

Women Are What You Frak, Not Who You Dorm With

Posted on April 08, 2010
[Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault]One of the aspects I appreciated about Battlestar Galactica (2004) was that it created an (arguable) sex-blind society. On the Galactica military spaceship, male and female military personnel live together in integrated barracks, use the same restrooms, and change in the same locker rooms...

The Heterosexist Agenda: Separate and Inferior

Posted on April 07, 2010
It is so common for those opposed to LGBT equality to make paranoid accusations about a so-called Gay Agenda that the accusation itself has lost much of its meaning. While many of these conspiracy-minded folks insist that homosexuality is a "choice" and that LGBT people therefore can and should opt for heterosexuality, they simultaneously portray us in stereotypical fashion as inherently very different from Normal People...

Worst Supreme Court Cases for Women #4: Missouri v. Celia

Posted on April 06, 2010
Hello humans and ladies, this post is part of my running series on Worst Supreme Court Cases For Women. I started this series because, while some try to convince us that the judicial system is or should be an objective arbiter of the law, the reality is that it has rarely, if ever, lived up to that ideal...

Sports Fans Comment on NBA's Girl Dancers

Posted on April 05, 2010
Being the diligent radical leftist gender warrior that I am, the first item of note I noticed about a recent Roller Derby bout that I attended was its subversion of stereotypical gender roles. Thousands of people attended this bout wherein female athletes engaged in a sporty, aggressive contest that was refereed by both male and female officials...

Book Review: The Marien Revelation

Posted on April 02, 2010
Miguel Santana's latest book, which he simultaneously wrote in both English and Spanish, is not your Sunday School version of the Gospels. In The Marien Revelation, which makes its official premier today, the reader picks up on that almost immediately, when confronted with the two verses preceding the Prologue, regarding the evening before Jesus was arrested:"Jesus told him what to doand in the evening the youth comes to him, wearing a linen cloth over his naked body...

Thursday Reading

Posted on April 01, 2010
The latest Carnival of Feminists is up over at Beauty Schooled. Check it out for some good reads on beauty, from feminist perspectives. Although not beauty-related, my post on "The Oppressed Gay Male Oppressor" was featured.Over at Feministe, Thomas wrote a long, very well-done post on the Predator Theory:"Though the stranger rape remains entrenched as the paradigm of 'real' rape, of rape that is recognized as such, it is not actually the norm...

Priorities and Reversals of the Godly Males

Posted on March 31, 2010
[Trigger warning: rape, child abuse]From The New York Times:"Top Vatican officials ? including the future Pope Benedict XVI ? did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly unearthed as part of a lawsuit...

Am I a Secret Homophobe?

Posted on March 30, 2010
I will preface this post by acknowledging that I'm not a mental health professional. Anyone out there who is, I'm particularly interested in what you think about the contents of this post.Recently, I came across Project Implicit, a study that allows participants to study their own hidden biases...

The Pro-Prop 8 Pseudo-Monopoly on Truth

Posted on March 29, 2010
The defenders of California's ban on same-sex marriage, in reference to the pending judicial decision regarding the constitutionality of the ban, are now complaining that "there should not have been a trial."That's an interesting claim, given the clear constitutional issue at stake...

Odds 'n Ends

Posted on March 26, 2010
1) Counterproductive TraditionalismWriting in the Christian Science Monitor, law professors Naomi Cahn and June Carbone note an interesting divide between "red" and "blue" families:"A new 'blue' family paradigm has handsomely rewarded those who invest in women?s as well as men?s education and defer childbearing until the couple is better established...

Rape Culture: For Men Who Still Don't Get It

Posted on March 25, 2010
(Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault)A few weeks ago, I wrote this post about rape culture's Average Joe Response to women who dare to show anger at Rape Prevention Tips that place the onus for rape prevention on women, as opposed to perpetrators and the larger society...

A Christian Message on the Importance of Fathers

Posted on March 24, 2010
It's my favorite when anti-gay, anti-feminist heterosexual men who worship a male god nonetheless insist that both men and women are very important to relationships- especially the marital one! Some folks are just okay with some genders being more important-er than others...

Time Magazine's Latest Gender Fail: The Sinking of "The Sea Witch"

Posted on March 23, 2010
It's not often that Time magazine writes entire articles devoted to female military personnel. I've been subscribing to the magazine (thanks to a gift from a relative), for several years and I can't remember a single article about a female soldier or officer that comes anywhere close to the masturbatory articles written about male military leaders...

Godly Males Mock Women Who Oppose Them On Issue Uniquely Affecting Women

Posted on March 22, 2010
Via shakesville, a group of Catholic nuns broke rank with the dudely bishops who, for anti-choice reasons, oppose the health care bill. For some background, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops opposes the bill because it doesn't "do enough to block federal money from being used to fund abortions...

Today's Deep Thought

Posted on March 19, 2010
Today I present a recently-remembered conversation that occurred at a local independent comic book store where I purchased some of the Y: The Last Man volumes. In case you aren't a geek, this particular graphic novel is, as I've written before, a speculation on what the world would look like if all of the human beings who had a Y chromosome simultaneously died...

Book Review: Gate To Women's Country

Posted on March 18, 2010
I recently finished the feminist science fiction/fantasy novel Gate to Women's Country, by Sheri S. Tepper. In general, it's an interesting take on the dominator and partnership models as articulated by Riane Eisler. (All quotes taken from Gate to Women's Country...

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