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

"DoubleX" Writer: No Sexism in Wikipedia

Posted on February 16, 2011
Oh the irony of a writer for Slate's "DoubleX" blog, which purports to give the lady view of stuff as opposed to the implicitly sex neutral view that Regular Slate presents, who uses that forum to slam feminist criticisms of gender imbalances in the media...

Some Men Say Men Aren't Violent, Make Threats To Make Point

Posted on February 15, 2011
[TW: threats, harassment, reference to sexual assault] And so we have another example of how, in rape culture, observing how men and boys are taught to be aggressive and violent is actually worse than men being aggressive and violent. I first read about this last week, right after posting my "On Threats" article...

Dan Savage: Please Stop

Posted on February 14, 2011
[Trigger warning for fat hatred, fat shaming, dehumanization, bullying, suicide, and child abuse.]In September 2010, Dan Savage founded the It Gets Better Project in response to the recent suicides of gay youth who had been bullied. About founding this project, Savage wrote:"I wish I could have talked to this kid for five minutes...

I Agree With Sarah Palin

Posted on February 14, 2011
Rick "man on dog" Santorum is a "knuckle-dragging Neanderthal." Not that I'd put it quite like that, of course. Sexist would probably be more appropriate. Speaking of Palin's absence from the Conservative Political Action Conference this past weekend, Santorum opined, ?I don't live in Alaska and I'm not the mother to all these kids and I don't have other responsibilities that she has...

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Women: Wikipedia Wants You!

Posted on February 11, 2011
Via The New York Times, less than 15% of the contributors to Wikipedia are women. As a frequent browser of and sometimes-contributor to Wikipedia, this number does not surprise me. Every now and then, I make it part of my feminist agenda to edit articles that present men as the default human being or that are obviously written from an anti-feminist perspective...

Blogger Accuses Time of Anti-Woman Bias

Posted on February 10, 2011
[TW: Sexual assault; discussions of domestic violence] From Time: "Despite its high levels of gender equality in the workplace and political sphere, the country has by the far the highest level of reported rape in Europe and one of the lowest conviction rates, a fact that has led to criticism from Amnesty International and the UN...

On Threats

Posted on February 09, 2011
[TW: Threats; Harassment; Apologism; Sexual Assault]I pulled this from the neverending-comment-thread because I think it deserves highlighting for purposes of making a larger point. Commenter EDB5fold aptly noted:For a frightening number of people (mostly men, who are more often than women socialized to respond to things they don't like with violence), identifying yourself as a feminist, or saying something that's ideologically in line with some part of feminism, is considered sufficient grounds for threatening your life...

"Kids' weight rises the longer mom works, study finds"

Posted on February 08, 2011
Or, you know, if both parents work. Which is how the headline also could have been framed, since the lead researcher in the above-referenced study emphasized that this weight increase was a "family balance issue" rather than a "maternal employment" one...

Internet

Posted on February 07, 2011
Those of you in Generation Z may especially appreciate this video:Description/Rough transcript: In a news clip from 1994, Katie Couric, Bryant Gumbel, and another newscaster (who I'm not familiar with) try to make sense of the newfangled internets. First, they speculate on how to pronounce the "@" symbol...

What He Knows

Posted on February 04, 2011
I don't particularly care what Christian pa$tor Joel Osteen's views about anything are. But, because he undoubtedly influences millions of Americans, I will address his recent statements regarding homosexuality. When asked whether it was a sin, he responded: ?'Yes, I?ve always believed it,' stated the megachurch pastor...

News of the Not-Helpful

Posted on February 03, 2011
I like to think I maintain a healthy sense of skepticism. Not for the sake of being contrarian, but because what is thought of as "conventional wisdom" is sometimes neither.My skepticism of different ways of understanding the world, generally, is sort of a sliding scale...

Gallagher: Abortion Leads To Hetero Anal Sex

Posted on February 02, 2011
In a way, I agree with anti-equality activist Maggie Gallagher's latest. The sexual revolution led to increased male sexual access to women and a "porn-saturated culture" that "empowers young males" while disempowering women. Where I think she's wrong is in framing abortion as the cause of this sexual revolution and, consequently, the cause of men coercing women into having anal sex...

No On 3

Posted on February 01, 2011
[TW: Sexual assault]Via Mother Jones:"Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law.For years, federal laws restricting the use of government funds to pay for abortions have included exemptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest...

Because That Helps?

Posted on February 01, 2011
[TW: Violence; Anti-gay hatred] Uganda has been mulling over a bill that would, under certain conditions, mandate life imprisonment or the death penalty for people engaging in same-sex sexual behavior and/or same-sex marriage. US Christian evangelicals have been instrumental in advocating for this legislation, indeed some even believe the execution of gays would be an "exemplary" policy for the US to implement too...

Quote of the Day

Posted on January 31, 2011
"Pink or blue? Which is intended for boys and which for girls? ... There has been a great diversity of opinion on this subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy; while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl...

Fannie's Helpful Hints

Posted on January 28, 2011
Every day on my way home from work I see a parked SUV with a bumper sticker advertising that its owner is an "Orgasm Donor."Every day, when I see that, I think, "If you feel compelled to advertise that message, you're probably not."That's all. I know, deep thoughts...

And Another Thing! An Anti-Feminist Rant

Posted on January 27, 2011
Another hater of feminism has succeeeded in exposing, primarily, his ignorance of that which he hates. Calling feminists "now amongst the most obnoxious bigots," Conservative MP Dominic Raab bemoans the plight of men in the UK. His proof of feminist bigotry...

Attention Non-Men: New Rule About Vigilance

Posted on January 26, 2011
[TW: Sexual assault, child abuse] Lenore Skenazy, writing in the Wall Street Journal, is upset that children and caregivers utilize a self-preservation technique of viewing men as potential predators. In fact, without evidence, she (or whoever wrote her headline) claims that doing so "doesn't make our kids safer...

The Ignorance of Non-Feminists, Part Whatever

Posted on January 25, 2011
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, James Taranto has a go at explaining "the left's deranged hatred" of Sarah Palin. First off, he uses the royal we throughout his piece, and that annoys me. He is the only author in the byline, so it's not clear who else he is speaking for...

Picking and Choosing, Again

Posted on January 23, 2011
[TW: Sexual prejudice] Oh. Fun. Another one of these articles. From a Christian blogger: "For the Christian, there has to be nothing more painful than knowing that a family member is struggling with or living defiantly in a lifestyle contrary to God?s moral laws...

Because Going Without Make-up Is Only Natural For Men

Posted on January 21, 2011
Confession time: I subscribe to the WorldNetDaily email alerts. Wahoo! What can I say, I like to be apprised of the conspiracy theories and gold-buying schemes the far right is buying into these days. Check out a section of one recent email alert: That's right...

Odds 'N Ends

Posted on January 20, 2011
1. Writing in The New York Times, Nicole Hardy recounts her travails as an "independent woman" within Mormonism. Namely, the combination of her desire to not have children, to have a professional life, and to remain chaste until marriage in accordance with Mormon doctrine left her "trapped in an adolescence...

Lessons In Feminism From Non-Feminists

Posted on January 19, 2011
Within an article about some women who are nostalgic for a pre-second wave era in which they didn't live, one woman who has chosen to live a semi-retro lifestyle explains: "I also think it's OK to be sexy for your husband and bake a cake, though I know a lot of women will hate me for saying it...

The Meaning of Marriage: It Can Be An Art Project

Posted on January 18, 2011
A gay man and a heterosexual woman have married, as part of a "university art project." Despite their nuptials, they both say they will continue to date other people. I highlight cases like these, where people subvert the marriage-exists-for-procreation argument, from time to time to point out how mendacious it is for "marriage defenders" to claim that marriage is and always has been an institution for one man and one woman to create and then raise their biological children together...

Revelations

Posted on January 17, 2011
A fellow named Dusty has exposed the core values of a certain strain of MRA-ism. Yes, it's true that his strange article purports to explain to his brethren "The Core Values of Feminism," but it is apparent upon inspection that, like many an anti-feminist, patriarchy-serving claim, this article is one ginormous reversal...

United They Stand

Posted on January 14, 2011
[TW: Sexual assault, harassment]Feminism and "women's issues," in case you had any doubt, are seen by many men within politics as special interests that drag down their male-dominated movements. This is true of the left and the right. (And also the "center," however that happens to be defined at any given moment in time...

Gold Rings and Hand Grenades

Posted on January 13, 2011
[TW: Violence]Now, this article, entitled "'Feminism' in Gaza: Women Train as Suicide Bombers," is bizarre. It begins: "'Terrorist feminists' in Hamas-controlled Gaza are training to be suicide bombers and to shoot machine guns to kill Israelis." While also disturbing, I say this article is bizarre because the article uses quotations to call these women "terrorist feminists," but nowhere does the journalist indicate who is calling them that or why their actions are particularly "feminist...

Arizona

Posted on January 12, 2011
[TW: Violence]Some say that if we cannot improve upon silence, we should not speak.It is difficult for me to know what to say during times of great tragedies. I inevitably feel incredible sadness, anger, and fear. I struggle between walking the middle path of not speaking when I am feeling these emotions while also not completely disconnecting from these emotions, compartmentalizing them, and then tucking them away where I don't have to feel them...

Just A Marriage Advocacy Group

Posted on January 11, 2011
In an article about the dimmed prospect of LGBT progress now that Republicans have taken control of the House, look how a recent Boston Globe article presented one of the nation's most virulently anti-gay organizations: "Americans for Truth, an Illinois-based advocacy group for heterosexual marriage, is hailing the new Republican majority control in the House as a huge victory that it hopes will put the brakes on further progress toward what it calls 'taxpayer-funded homosexuality...

Not Curious Enough

Posted on January 10, 2011
[TW: Somewhat graphic discussion of sexual assault laws and hypothetical scenarios involving children] In the UK, a 15-year-old boy, without his parent's knowledge, donated his sperm to his aunt's same-sex partner. Elizabeth Marquardt, hyperventilating at the Family Scholars Blog, seems to want the lesbians prosecuted for child rape...

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