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Political, Social, and Homo Writings for Which the First Amendment May or May Not Have Been Intended
By Fannie

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Last Entry: October 26, 2020 at 10:02:01

The Opressed Gay Male Oppressor

Posted on March 17, 2010
I used to think there weren't many monologues less appropriate than a bunch of heterosexual men writing manifestos against abortion and same-sex marriage, two issues that uniquely affect the rights of women and gay people.I was wrong.That honor would belong to groups of gay men, humans who are neither capable of pregnancy nor who regularly impregnate women, who demonstrate a willingness to throw the reproductive rights of women under the bus if in doing so, they can advance their own gay rights agenda...

School Cancels Prom Rather Than Endure Lesbian Tux-Wearer

Posted on March 16, 2010
Quick, somebody call the gender police!Perhaps you've heard of the Mississippi high school student who wanted to take her girlfriend to prom whilst wearing a tux. Since she doesn't have a penis, the school board decided to take its prom and go home.In a way, it is fitting that the school would choose to cancel prom instead of allowing this gender crime...

Men Who Get It, Part II

Posted on March 15, 2010
[Trigger warning: Sexual Assault]A couple of weeks ago we met homo-fem-tastic (yet hetero male) Hudson Taylor. I recognize male allies because, even though their arguments are similar to the arguments that many feminists, women, and/or LGBT people make, their words carry more weight by virtue of their hetero male privilege...

Sports Ladies Behaving Badly- Winter Olympics Edition

Posted on March 12, 2010
I love the photos of the gold-medal Canadian hockey team celebrating after their win.Although, apparently it was a Very Bad Thing for these lady athletes to have been drinking champagne and smoking cigars on the ice after fans had left the building, like how male athletes drink champagne and smoke cigars after they win big sporting events all the fucking time...

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The Intersections of Feminism and LGBT Advocacy

Posted on March 11, 2010
[Cross-posted at A World of Progress and My Big Gayborhood]For a couple of reasons, I tend to write quite a bit about both feminism and LGBT rights. One, as a woman and a lesbian, both movements have been incredibly important in helping me put words to my lived experiences in a patriarchal, heterosexist society...

Review of a Review: Precious

Posted on March 10, 2010
I came across this... interesting review of the movie Precious. I use the word interesting not because the reviewer, Josh Tyler, has a particularly interesting reason for disliking the movie. Indeed, he claims that the movie "isn't worth your time" essentially because it's not inspiring or uplifting...

Performing Gender in Sports

Posted on March 09, 2010
Previously, I wrote this post about Lady Bowler Kelly Kulick's historic win over male bowling champs in the Tournament of Champions and then this post about male sports fans who commented that bowling wasn't a real sport anyway.Patriarchy tells us that women, by nature, are weak and passive...

Evolutionary Psychologist Mansplains Feminism To Be Unnecessary For Women

Posted on March 08, 2010
Some folks use evolutionary psychology as though it's patriarchy's secular religion. Indeed, evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa over at his aptly-titled The Scientific Fundamentalist blog has written a post entitled "Why modern feminism is illogical, unnecessary, and evil...

Men Who Get It: Hudson Taylor

Posted on March 07, 2010
Let's end this week on a positive note, eh?I first heard of feminist, pro-LGBT college wrestler Hudson Taylor via shakesville. Male athletics is known for being pervasively homophobic, which makes Taylor's admission to being pro-gay and feminist courageous...

Anti-Feminist Unwittingly Becomes Partial Feminist Ally!

Posted on March 04, 2010
Anti-equality, anti-feminist blogger Playful Walrus has discovered something that feminists have been saying for years. Namely, that media portrayals of men can also be negative. It's not just women that the media portrays poorly. He doesn't give examples or flesh out the ways that media portrayals are harmful, but he does offer a list of what he views as negative media influences...

Mary Daly Quotes of the Week: On Female Complicity

Posted on March 03, 2010
From The Church and the Second Sex:"The New York Times, in the context of an article concerning the pope's visit to the Netherlands in Belgium, featured an Associated Press photo of a middle-aged woman in Brussels kneeling at the feet of the pope, her gaze turned upward, her hand clutching the sleeve of his immaculate white robe...

Reporter: Fundamentalist Mormon Culture Actually a Matriarchy

Posted on March 02, 2010
The February 2010 issue of National Geographic ran an article on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church), a fundamentalist Mormon denomination that continues to practice polygyny.Polygyny is where one man takes multiple wives...

More False TEACHING GAY SEX Claims

Posted on March 01, 2010
Writing an opinion column for the Hamilton Mountain News, Mark Cripps plays devil's advocate for the local school board's adoption of a new equity policy that contains "a component on sexual orientation."This component on sexual orientation is an "anti-homophobia curriculum" that is intended to foster an environment free of discrimination...

The Lezzy Awards

Posted on February 26, 2010
Hello readers,You may have noticed by the button on my sidebar (that sounds dirty), that Fannie's Room is a finalist in the feminist/political category of the Lesbian Lifestyle's Lezzy Awards. Now, I don't put very much effort into promoting my blog or entering awards contests, mostly because this is a one-woman operation and I don't have the time...

Washington Archdiocese Chooses Discrimination Over Foster Kids

Posted on February 25, 2010
Back in November, the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington threatened to stop taking taxpayer money to provide social services if DC's same-sex marriage law passed.Despite this threat, the law passed.Making good on its promise, the Washington Archdiocese has recently chosen to get rid of its foster care program, because the same-sex marriage law requires contractors with DC to facilitate adoption of foster care children to same-sex couples...

Feminism's Fun New Brand!

Posted on February 24, 2010
Sometimes, my Google Alert for "feminism" sends me the darndest things. In addition to regularly including "men's rights" blogposts informing the world that Men Are Very Angry And Feminism Is A Failed Little Experiment That Has Nonetheless Managed To Ruin Everything, I occasionally receive bizarre articles like this one, in which a dude college student explains that he's a "self-identified feminist who enjoys watching gang-bang porn...

Manhattan Declaration Signees Go After Lawmakers

Posted on February 23, 2010
Not too long ago, we saw how the group of Christian heterosexual (mostly) males got together to create the Manhattan Declaration Mansplanation, whereby we were all informed that it is "god's" ultimate truth that abortion and same-sex marriage are wrong...

Riane Eisler Quote of the Week- The World's Woman Problem

Posted on February 22, 2010
From The Chalice and the Blade:"[T]hose who would reimpose strongman rule over both women and men see so-called women's issues like reproductive freedom of choice and equal rights under the law as primary issues. Indeed, if we look at rightist actions- from the American New Right to their counterparts in both West and East- we see that to them the return of women to their traditional subservient place is a top priority...

Nancy Elliot's Bizarre Statements

Posted on February 19, 2010
You may have heard that last week New Hampshire state legislator Nancy Elliot claimed that, as part of classroom instruction, grade school students were being shown pictures of naked men and taught how to engage in anal sex. Her words exactly, were:"I heard yesterday from a mother that in fifth grade in Nashua, they were given as part of their classroom instruction naked pictures of two men showing a presentation of anal sex...

Average Joe Fails To See Rape Culture, Doesn't Like "Tone" of Women Who Do

Posted on February 18, 2010
[Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault]Over at her situs in hell, PF posted one of those Rape Prevention lists that "explains" what makes women particularly "easy targets" for sexual assault. Because this list excluded the single most important "tip" that it's the presence of a rapist that makes women "easy targets" for sexual assault, PF rightly took issue with much of the victim-blamey advice...

Artificial Gender Distinctions in Sports

Posted on February 17, 2010
While reading this article, critiquing a guy who argued that women's hockey should be banned from the Olympics because a few countries tend to dominate the other teams, I came across an interesting distinction between women's and men's hockey. Namely, that unlike in the men's game, women's hockey does not allow body checking...

Book Review: The Church and the Second Sex

Posted on February 16, 2010
My biggest take-away upon re-reading feminist theologian Mary Daly's The Church and the Second Sex was how tame her critiques therein were regarding the Catholic Church. The Daly of 1968, when The Church and the Second Sex was first published, was not the Daly of 1973, when her more radical Beyond God the Father was published...

Football: A Patriarchal American Metaphor

Posted on February 15, 2010
Last week, I wrote about how that American holiday that is Super Bowl Sunday is alienating to many women, relegating them as it does to the marginal roles of sex object, mommy-wife, or fetal incubator.Yet, it is also valuable to think, for serious, about the men...

Gender Complementarity Myth: Harmful To Men Too

Posted on February 12, 2010
To say that patriarchy hurts men, as well as women, is to make a statement of the obvious to anyone paying attention. Under the ideology of gender complementarity, which posits that men and women constitute two halves of humanity that, when put together, comprise a special whole, masculinity is the normed superior mode of being, with femininity basically defined as Not Male...

Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act: Checking In

Posted on February 11, 2010
[Cross-posted at A World of Progress]President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Act into law on October 28, 2009. This law expanded federal hate crimes legislation to include gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability...

Religion With God the Father Not Manly Enough

Posted on February 10, 2010
Apparently, some Christian men don't think Christianity is manly enough. Thus, via shakesville, a growing number of Christian churches are using mixed martial arts- "a sport with a reputation for violence and blood that combines kickboxing, wrestling and other fighting styles"- as a recruitment strategy aimed at young men...

Anti-Equality Blogger: Trendy Gay Non-Monogamy Will Spread To Straights

Posted on February 09, 2010
Anti-equality blogger Playful Walrus has been doing a little reading about sexual practices among gay men and lesbians that has led him to opine on yet another way the gays will destroy marriage. In an article exploring non-monogamy among same-sex couples, Walrus argues that the push for marriage equality is part of a "concerted, misleading public relations campaign" to "change the sociology of marriage" by removing the expectation of monogamy from marriage...

Odds 'N Ends

Posted on February 08, 2010
1) Math Is(n't) Hard For Girls!From ScienceDaily:"Girls around the world are not worse at math than boys, even though boys are more confident in their math abilities, and girls from countries where gender equity is more prevalent are more likely to perform better on mathematics assessment tests, according to a new analysis of international research...

The Tebow Ad: Ruining Fun on the Super Bowlz

Posted on February 05, 2010
Although I have not written about it, I have been following some of the controversy surrounding Focus on the [Hetero Patriarchal] Family's Tim Tebow anti-abortion ad that is set to air during this weekend's Super Bowl. For some brief background, Tebow is a football star whose mother Pam was advised, for health reasons, to have an abortion while pregnant with him...

Dude Mansplains the Lesbian Life Experience

Posted on February 04, 2010
In a bizarre article at Details, Ian Daly explains the "lure of dating an ex lesbian." This article is bursting with the potential to explore the fluidity of sexual identity in a meaningful way, yet Daly remains trapped in dichotomous thinking that insists that if one is not heterosexual, then one is gay...

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