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Author Archives: Ann Bartow
“A Struggle to Make Ends Meet: Three residents of Columbia, S.C., do their best to cope with the economic crisis.”
NYT video here.
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“Friday Night Lights and the Teenage Virgin”
That’s the title of this Freakonomics post by Ian Ayres. In it he writes: … I was somewhat concerned that the last senior on the show lost her virginity. The show has reached what the Supreme Court calls the”inexorable zero.”I … Continue reading
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Schick Outdoes Itself
Now public hair is racialized as well as pornified. (For a prior ad, see this post by Bridget): –Ann Bartow
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Race and Racism, Sexism in the Media, Sociolinguistics
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Concurring Opinions is hosting a Symposium on Danielle Citron’s article “Cyber Civil Rights”
Frank Pasquale introduces it here and here. Participants include: David Fagundes, Michael Froomkin, Nathaniel Gleicher, James Grimmelmann, Orin Kerr, Feminist Law Profs Nancy Kim and Susan Kuo, Daithà Mac SÃthigh, Helen Norton, David Post, David Robinson and yours truly. … Continue reading
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“Impossibly Beautiful”
On photo retouching.
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The Univeristy of Michigan Law Review’s lastest issue is almost women free.
Via Concurring Opinions, the ToC: 2009 Survey of Books Related to the Law Foreward Erwin Chemerinsky, Why Write?, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 881 (2009) Classic Revisited Rodney A. Smolla, Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 895 (2009) Reviews Gene … Continue reading
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Some observations about rape.
Here.
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The “Citizen Lawyer” is apparently almost always a dude.
Via Concurring Opinions, the ToC for the most recent issue of the William & Mary Law Review: Symposium: The Citizen Lawyer Paul D. Carrington & Roger C. Cramton, Original Sin and Judicial Independence: Providing Accountability for Justices Lawrence M. Friedman, … Continue reading
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“This job is easy for people who’ve never done it,”Justice Thomas said later.”What I have found in this job is they know more about it than I do, especially if they have the title, law professor.”
Ouch. Those are the concluding words of this article.
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Racial Stereotyping For Jeebus
This is so over the top in terms of the way it portrays race, you’d think (and desperately hope) it was satire, but it probably wasn’t intended to be. Instead, chances are the creators thought they were being open minded … Continue reading
Posted in Race and Racism, Sociolinguistics
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“Why Do Female Tax Profs Do Better in the SSRN Rankings Than Their Nontax Counterparts?”
Paul Caron asks that question in a post here. He observes that in the most recent SSRN rankings, 25% (5) of the faculty in the Top 25 downloads (both all-time and recent) are women, which is wonderful and encouraging. These … Continue reading
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Another reason to avoid Burger King…
Via the f-word blog, which notes: This is Burger King’s new ad for its 99-cents kids meal. Yes, because nothing sells fast food to children better than provocatively-dressed women shaking their asses to a remix of Sir-Mix-a-lot’s”Baby Got Back”: the … Continue reading
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Allied Media Conference, July 16-19, 2009
Information here!
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In Support of Mark Lemley
This blog reports: The National Law Journal reported yesterday that a U.S. District Court is allowing Anthony Ciolli, former Chief Education Director for AutoAdmit, to move ahead with his lawsuit against Stanford Law Professor Mark Lemley and others for wrongful … Continue reading
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Effective or Offensive?
The text of the ads reads: “Protect your valuables.” The press release from the Quebec Coalition Against AIDS (COCQ-Sida) explains: “The campaign focuses on objects highly appreciated by homosexuals, using evocative symbols to offer the target audience a different take … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, LGBT Rights
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“Women and SSRN”
Another “where are the women” post here, with a comments thread that is pretty much what you’d expect. Condensed version: “It’s your own fault you aren’t getting downloaded at the same rates as men, you dumb, lazy, inferior … Continue reading
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A short compendium of sexist magazine ads.
Here, at Stiletto Revolt.
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Media Coverage of the Verdict in Allison Williams v. Advertising Sex LLC
For background, go here. From an account at the HuffPo: … “I struggled every single day to maintain my law school studies, in the face of incredible stress and anxiety,” Williams said in a prepared statement. “Still, I refused to … Continue reading
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The Columbia Business School is having a conference on User Generated Content featuring nineteen speakers. Eighteen are male.
Symposium schedule here. Maybe they should call it User Genderated Content instead?
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Documentary About the Porn Industry to be Offered Free to College Campuses
From the FLP mailbox: CONTACT: Media Education Foundation Dr. Chyng Sun (617)733-8091 | email: cfs1@nyu.edu The way filmmakers Chyng Sun and Miguel Picker see it, the cure for bad speech is more speech. That’s exactly why they’ve come up with … Continue reading
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Texas State Rep. Betty Brown, when talking about the Voter ID bill proposed in the Texas Legislature, suggested the Asian community adopt names that are “easier for Americans to deal with”
Watch it here: The critical interval begins 3:20 in but the whole thing is compelling in its own disturbing way. –Ann Bartow
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The University of South Carolina School of Law’s Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year is: Prof. Danielle Holley-Walker!
Hooray! Proof that our students have excellent judgment and taste.
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Men and Murder
See e.g. this. Between March 10th and April 7th, this newspaper reports that mass shootings have claim 57 lives. Given the limits placed on the count, “mass” and “shootings,” the number almost certainly underestimates the number of people who were … Continue reading
Somewhat of a law student is looking for romance…
Oy. Via.
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Are there any women in U.S. prisons?
You wouldn’t know it from reading the New Yorker article described here.
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Breaking News: 7.2 million dollar verdict for women victimized by pornographers
The 7.2 million jury verdict was handed down this afternoon in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of West Virginia. Former Miss West Virginia, Allison Williams, filed a lawsuit in 2005 against 59 defendants who posted advertisements on pornographic … Continue reading
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Infecting Children With the Bug of Show Business
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“Lessons from the Identity Trail: Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society” by Ian Kerr, Carole Lucock and Valerie Steeves
From the publisher: During the past decade, rapid developments in information and communications technology have transformed key social, commercial and political realities. Within that same time period, working at something less than internet speed, much of the academic and policy … Continue reading
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If you can’t see the blogroll or admin links, it’s because you are using Internet Explorer. Try the Firefox browser!
Will try to correct whatever is wrong, but meanwhile the blog looks just fine with Firefox…
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Race, gender, customer preferences and BFOQs
In Pleener v. NYC Board of Education, ___F.3d___ (2d Cir. Feb. 24, 2009), the Second Circuit affirmed that an employer may never make an employment decision based upon the preferences of clients or customers, because race is never a … Continue reading
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More Politics of Abortion: A Defense of Prof. Dawn Johnsen
Over at Balkinization, Andrew Koppelman writes: Dawn Johnsen, President Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Legal Counsel, has been accused of misrepresenting a position she took in litigation, and I have been cited as authority against Prof. Johnsen. On … Continue reading
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CFP: Special Issue of the International Feminist Journal of Politics: New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights.
International Feminist Journal of Politics seeks manuscripts for a special issue on new directions in feminism and human rights. We invite manuscripts that capture the invocation of human rights strategies and discourses by feminist advocates, activists and grassroots movements for … Continue reading
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Run Like A Mother!
The phrase “Run Like A Mother” adorned the tee shirts of a number of the women who ran the Cooper River Bridge Run yesterday with me and tens of thousands of other people. Here are pictures of the crowd … Continue reading
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This one is going to be controversial: “Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU” by Wendy Kaminer
Product Description What happens when an organization with the express goal of defending individual rights and liberties starts silencing its own board? Lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer has intimate knowledge of such a conflict between individual conscience and group … Continue reading
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“Report: Nobody Cares Anymore When Joe Biden Says Something Crazy”
From here: WASHINGTON:A new report issued this week from the Pew Research Center finds that no one really cares anymore when Vice President Joe Biden says something completely insane. Regarded as a plain-spoken politician from working-class roots, Biden’s”tell it like … Continue reading
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Not a Pleasant Tall Tale
Somebody sent me a link to a funny, innocuous YouTube clip today. After the clip finished I noticed a video recommendation in the sidebar billed as depicting a very tall woman. The clip, which appeared to be some sort of … Continue reading
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“Singled Out”
Scientist and science writer/blogger Sheril Kirshenbaum talks about sexism. Below is a short excerpt: Shortly after entering the blogosphere, there was a period when I stopped posting personal pictures altogether… until I stepped back and thought about why I felt … Continue reading
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“Eco Friendly” and “Fair Trade” are good, but some things should not be recycled!
Ahem.
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Nell Jessup Newton has been appointed Dean of the University of Notre Dame Law School
Press release here. Via Leiter.
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Annals of Bad Academic Job Interviews
Two posts at Historiann document some callback atrocities: here and here, and they are prodigiously supplemented in the appended comments. Here are just a few of the oddball things that happened to me when I interviewed for jobs: 1. A … Continue reading
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“PETA Killed 95 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008” – It’s apparently so busy convincing women to appear naked, it doesn’t have time to find placements for homeless critters.
Note: The source of this info is a pro-meat industry group, but the records appear to be accurate! From here: Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals … Continue reading
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“Still Alice” by Lisa Genova
I bought a copy of this novel at an airport bookstore with low expectations, just looking for something to pass a few hours when yet another flight got delayed. I got drawn into it quickly, and about 100 pages in, … Continue reading
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The Phabulous Phoebe Haddon is to be the U of Maryland School of Law’s Next Top Administrator
Rather a heinous loss for Temple Law, but a great hire for Maryland, which announced (in part): David J. Ramsay, DM, DPhil, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, today announced the appointment of Phoebe A. Haddon, JD, LLM, as … Continue reading
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Race, Gender, and the Recent Presidential Election
Over at What Tami Said is a post that discusses the tensions among feminists that arose during the Democratic primary, which is followed by a fairly pitched discussion in the comments section. In some ways it was hard to read, … Continue reading
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“Are women sexually liberated, or just confused?”
That’s the title of this (U.K.)Times Online article. Two excerpts follow: … Fifty years ago, in The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir described womanhood as a socially constructed activity; today, after several waves of feminism, and a recognised right to … Continue reading
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“Thrift Makes Drift or Why the Crisis in Academe is Bad for Everyone”
Prof Susurro makes some very good points about the ways that certain kind of cuts will hurt students.
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