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Author Archives: Ann Bartow
Interesting Rumination on Single Sex Education
Here, at Viva La Feminista.
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University of Colorado Settles Title IX Case for $2.5 Million, Agrees to Significantly Improve Efforts to Address and Prevent Sexual Harassment
Press release reporting same via the National Women’s Law Center here. More at The Title IX Blog.
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Mass graves possibly containing the bodies of murdered women are being uncovered by forensic teams in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
The BBC reports: Forensic teams in Ciudad Juarez in Mexico are unearthing more than 4,000 bodies buried in common graves. A local government official said DNA samples from the bodies would be compared to those of missing persons. It is … Continue reading
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Where I Will Be This Afternoon
–Ann Bartow UPDATE: NYT coverage of the event here. And, see also. Obama said this the largest audience of his campaign so far. Funniest moment: the look on the face of the Clemson stadium chair toting woman sitting next to … Continue reading
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A new study by Thomas E. Ford of Western Carolina University concludes jokes about blonde’s intelligence and women drivers lead to hostile feelings and discrimination against women
From here via The Situationist: A research project led by a Western Carolina University psychology professor indicates that jokes about blondes and women drivers are not just harmless fun and games; instead, exposure to sexist humor can lead to toleration … Continue reading
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Dick Cheney Accuses Two Male Democratic Pols Of Having Tiny Wieners
And apparently he thinks Nancy Pelosi shrunk them. Below is an excerpt from this article: Most striking were his virtually taunting remarks of two men he described as friends from his own days in the House: Democratic Reps. John Dingell … Continue reading
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“At the end of the day, you can not be in a city-owned facility being subsidized by the taxpayers and not have language in your lease that talks about nondiscrimination.”
So said Philadelphia City Councilman Darrell L. Clarke, as quoted in this NYT article about the Boy Scouts, who have lost a valuable rent free lease because the organization refuses to change its discriminatory policy toward gay people. Hard to … Continue reading
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“I am Constance”
Here. Watch the video, and then read the stories.
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Women and the Sundance Film Festival
The Women & Hollywood blog lists women in the Sundance line-up here (scroll past the paean to Cold Case, or read it too if you like!).
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When I saw this photo montage, my first thought was, “I’m glad they didn’t show Hillary with the corndog.”
The pictures are from this NYT article about food, weight and fitnes on the campaign trail. One trope of Supposedly Liberal Dood bloggers is to eroticize or homoeroticize the consumption of corn dogs as a means of insult, which I … Continue reading
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Frontline’s “Sex Slaves”
Website here. It aired in February of 2006. Overview: “How five women from the struggling countries of Eastern Europe were tricked into sexual slavery, beaten by traffickers and pimps, forced to work to turn a profit — and finally escaped. … Continue reading
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As One Might Have Expected By Now…
The SCSC has scrubbed its website to obfuscate the names of the “secondary bar passers.” Meanwhile, Jim Chen has another post about this scandal here. Below is an excerpt: There really are two South Carolinas. In one, good people urge … Continue reading
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Avoid Spirit Airlines
Here’s why. And, see also. Gee, what island is that exactly? The one that looks like a reclining woman?
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Still More Humorless Feminism
Via Sparkle*Matrix, who is doing Goddess work on this one. Can’t bring myself to copy the picture, sorry. –Ann Bartow
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No Kidding.
“Silence is Golden, But Only for Women”
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The Hosiery Industry Wants Us To Wear Panty Hose Again
So we can probably look forward to more “fashion news reporting” like this: … Katie Couric has been one of the most stalwart and high-profile bare-leggers, bringing her tanned gams into living rooms every day with the TV news. But … Continue reading
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What To Make Of This?
Every once in a while I visit Overheard In Law School. So far, to my great relief, I haven’t read anything familiar there, meaning as far as I can tell, none of the embarrasing comments were mine. But there’s always … Continue reading
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Interview With Hillary Clinton by “Our Bodies, Our Selves”
From the FLP mailbox: Hi — I’m writing to let you know that Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS) has published an interview with Sen. Hillary Clinton about her health care plan, along with the transcript and audio of an in-depth interview … Continue reading
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“Columbia is . . . trying to make me an example to intimidate other women from seeking justice.”
That’s a quote by Economics Prof Graciela Chichilnisky in this WaPo article about her discrimination suit against Columbia University. Via Josie Brown, with thanks.
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Do You Suppose Hello Kitty “Shoulder Massagers” Are Legal In Alabama?
NYT article about them here. Previous post about stupid ass anti-vibrator law in Alabama here. –Ann Bartow
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Good “Feminist Reader” at Feministing
Access it here.
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New Blog: SCBlackPress.com
Check it out here. Via Not Very Bright.
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SC Supreme Court “not off the hook”
New article about the SC Bar scandal here. It notes: … In reversing the grades, the court apparently violated its own order in March banning re-grading after the scores were released by the S.C. Board of Law Examiners, which administers … Continue reading
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“Choices, Consequences, Constraints,” an essay about academia and motherhood that may floor you.
It did me. Read it here at Scatterplot. Via Crooked Timber, where I seem to find a lot of good stuff lately. You might want to avoid the comments thread though – chock full of angry, backlashing men. –Ann Bartow
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“Sex and the College Girl” Circa 1957
From The Atlantic Monthly, via Crooked Timber. Below is an excerpt: … Since so many of us are going to college, a great many of our decisions about our lives have been and are being made on the campuses, and … Continue reading
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“India’s ‘pink’ vigilante women”
From the BBC: They wear pink saris and go after corrupt officials and boorish men with sticks and axes. The several hundred vigilante women of India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state’s Banda area proudly call themselves the “gulabi gang” (pink gang), … Continue reading
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Jasmin Darznik,”Veiled Bestsellers”
In this review essay, Darznik reviews: Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit, By Gillian Whitlock, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007, 216 pp., $20.00, paperback, and Let Me Tell You Where I Have Been: New Writing By Women of the … Continue reading
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“Hillary Hatred Finds Its Misogynistic Voice”
At Newhouse News Service, Jonathan Tilove writes: In the coming months, America will decide whether to elect its first female president. And amid a techno-media landscape where the wall between private vitriol and public debate has been reduced to rubble, … Continue reading
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Jingling All The Way
So I did the “Jingle All The Way 5k” this morning, with bells on, to mixed reviews. Missed my goal of breaking 31 minutes by 40 seconds, but there is always next time. The start of the race was disorganized … Continue reading
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Details, details
Bitch, PhD noted: … I just feel so much better about my feminism now that I know that Details doesn’t approve of breast implants. Whew. The article, if you’re bored shitless and don’t have anything else to read, is here. … Continue reading
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Hey MSM, can you please stop referencing her “secret life as an Internet porn performer” now?
She’s dead. Her body has been recovered. This article notes: Police insisted that Sander’s Internet activity had no connection to her disappearance. “The issue of the Internet and the spinoff of that has been literally crippling our investigation,” Boren said. … Continue reading
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“Jane Austen Must Die!”
That’s the title of a column by Jennifer Armstrong exhorting women to demand more from literature, television and movies than yet another Austen-like story. Here is an excerpt: … God knows we’ve progressed in so many ways, but even though … Continue reading
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Sometimes I Hate YouTube
Like when I see clips like this. Watch through to the end to understand what role YouTube itself may have had in the making of the video.
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A Rumination About The Genders of Food
In the form of this Cat and Girl strip. Via the f word.
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The “Truly bad movie meme”
The rules of the meme are here. And here is where I got tagged with it! I used to watch a lot of movies and I’ve seen some real stinkers, including everything in the Pokemon genre: I have reason to … Continue reading
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All Too Rare Judicial Decency
After Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Barbara Zuniga postponed a hearing on four defense motions in the same case, she explained that she needed”a lot more time”to get ready. Three weeks later, when Zuniga again had to postpone a hearing … Continue reading
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Today, Lambda Legal is proud to annouce the launch of “Of Counsel On Campus”
From the FLP mailbox: Of Counsel On Campus is a bimonthly eNewsletter offering special insight for the busy law student who cares about equality. Of Cousel On Campus is an off-shoot of our eNewsletter Of Counsel, directed towards lawyers and … Continue reading
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A Gesture For Unflipping Someone Off
From here, where the author notes: When the light turned green, the car ahead of me just sat there. I gave it a good five seconds (i.e., 0.5 seconds) and then blasted my horn. “What did you do that for?” … Continue reading
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More About Anonymous Online Bullying
This ABC News article provides a lot of detail about the Myspace “hoax” that contributed to the suicide of 13 year old Megan Meier. Unlike previous accounts, it names the woman who tormented Megan in the guise of a teenaged … Continue reading
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Cover-up of Women Soldiers’ Deaths
On March 8, 2007, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! broadcast the testimony of former Abu Ghraib commander Col. Janis Karpinski as she responded to my questioning at a January 2006 war crimes commission in New York. Karpinski said American women … Continue reading
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“The Rocky Road To The Ivory Tower”
Ann Farmer provides an overview of the law school hiring trend toward disproportionately steering women to nontenure-track positions here. Via Ms.JD.
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Today is “International Women Human Rights Defenders Day”
It’s part of a “16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence“ campaign that you can learn more about here.
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“In a focus group carried out by toy manufacturer Martin Yaffe, where children were invited to put this year’s top Christmas toys through their paces, seven out of 10 girls chose to play with toys designed for boys over the girls’ alternatives.”
That’s the first sentence of this interesting post which references this press release, which states in part: As the countdown to Christmas begins, research reveals that shoppers opting for traditional presents of dolls for girls and skateboards for boys could … Continue reading
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Carnival of Radical Feminists
Here, by Pippa at One Salford Feminist.
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Sex and the Presidential Candidates
Women’s Enews notes: Democrats Joe Biden supports “age-appropriate” and comprehensive sex education but the Delaware senator has also voted to fund abstinence programs. Hillary Clinton has favored abstinence-plus for a decade. In 1996 as first lady she helped launch the … Continue reading
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For the first time, the Wonder Woman “ongoing writer” will be female – meet Gail Simone
NYT story here. I wonder if she will wear bracelets like this while she writes.
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“Norman Mailer wins bad sex award”
And not because he is dead, either, although that can’t have helped matters any. It’s for the “explicit rendition of the incestuous encounter” between Hitler’s parents, as follows: … Mailer, who died of renal failure last month at 84, was … Continue reading
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“The anonymity provided by new technology limits a victim from responding in a way that may ordinarily stop a peer’s aggressive behavior or influence the probability of future acts, which provides an advantage to the perpetrator…”
Article about online bullying of and by teenagers here.
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“Spanish researchers found that after four weeks of drinking two glasses of wine per day, women showed lower levels of certain inflammatory substances in their blood.”
Full (and robust, with hints of oak and undertones of lemon) story here. Picture by Judi Bagnato.
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