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Category Archives: Feminism and Culture
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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“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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“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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“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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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 Hypocrisy of Unilever, Illustrated
When it is pushing Dove products through its Campaign For Real Beauty, Unilever is all about female empowerment and sisterhood, as in this ad entitled “evolution”, and this ad, “onslaught.” (NB: There is a decent parody of “evolution” here.) But … Continue reading
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Hollywood Skips Around the Word”Abortion”
But the box office draw is always on the corporate moguls’s minds. See this article for commentary from the (UK) Guardian on films like “Juno” and “Knocked Up.” -Ralph Michael Stein
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On Being an Academic and a Mother
Via Feminist Philosophers, this essay entitled: “Making a Place for the Other: A Letter to My Daughter” by Janet A. Kourany of the University of Notre Dame, via the Fall 2007 APA Newsletter. Below is an excerpt: … I have … Continue reading
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Not With The Band
Every year I buy season’s tickets to the men’s basketball games, and reside in the nosebleed section, the faculty and staff seats where none of the rich fans would ever consider sitting. Tonight a better connected friend gave me his … Continue reading
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Really, McCain – That’s An “Excellent Question”!?
Not sure what’s worse: (1) that this question was asked; (2) McCain’s insulting response; or (3) that 67% of poll respondents (when I cast my vote) think he did a “good job” handling it. -Kathleen A. Bergin
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Much Ado About Pronouns . . .
In Connection Distributing v. Keisler, the Sixth Circuit struck down on First Amendment overbreadth grounds certain record keeping requirements of the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act. I’m struck not by the specific ruling in the case, but by three … Continue reading
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Well I Suppose This Was Inevitable
You can read all about them here. Via Arse Poetica, who notes: “Maybe I’ll use them for dog poop or something equally fitting.” –Ann Bartow
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Creepiest Wonderbra Commercial Yet
Here. Other contenders for the title include this and this and this.
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“Hefner expresses a mixture of bewilderment and bitterness about feminists’ longtime criticism of his magazine, adult-only networks, Web entertainment, videos and Playboy Clubs staffed by women in revealing costumes.”
That’s a sentence from this article about Playboy’s 50th Anniversary. Here is a longer excerpt: … At the same time that the company is adding harder-core material to its TV networks and Web sites, the anniversary issue trumpets the Playboy … Continue reading
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“Manufacturing Dissent,” A Documentary About Michael Moore
Movie website here. Interview with Co-Director Debbie Melnyk in two parts, here and here, chock full of feminist critique.
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From the Department of Life Is Strange: The Documentary Filmmaker Who Pornified Torture is Now Criticizing Fox For Pornifying the News
Via The Garance, Robert Greenwald, who via Brave New Films produced this rather disgusting spectacle, has produced this video clip, which “argues that all FOX shows use gratuitous sexual images : mainly women in bikinis, from the look of it, … Continue reading
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“The In-Between Woman” by Cathleen Schine, a review of “Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories,” by Katha Pollitt
In the NY Review of Books. The review is an interesting read, and I learned of it via the terrific Nancy McClernan, who astutely writes: … I’m a long-time fan of Pollitt but one thing that tends to annoy me … Continue reading
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Pippa Will Make You Laugh About A Bumpersticker That Might Otherwise Make You Cry
Here. For a humorless feminist, she sure is funny.
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“How many lesbians does it take to sell a t-shirt?”
Joanna Whitehead published an essay with this title at the f-word. Below is an excerpt: … Femme-tastic girl-on-girl action is a staple of made-for-men porn, graces the covers of most of the ‘lads’ weeklies and is frequently practiced by adolescent … Continue reading
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Porn Star v. Television Anchor
Over at Bitch, Ph.D. guest blogger M. LeBlanc contemplates this horrible “quiz.” Update: Watch a supposedly liberal dood television anchor treat a colleague in a sexist manner here. Could he be confused about what her job is, for some reason?
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Books Banned for “Homosexual Content”
An editorial in the CollegiateTimes.com reports that schools in Bedford County, VA have removed Totally Joe from elementary school libraries after a parent complained of inappropriate content. The book is reportedly not available in any county school or … Continue reading
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The “French Maid” Halloween Costume for Girls
Halloween is almost upon us. Costumes sell big-time and many kids love to go out bedecked in all manner of disguise. What isn’t good, what is very offensive is putting”French Maid”outfits on prepubescent girls. For whose enjoyment … Continue reading
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Karen Finley’s Wake Up!
In her new performance,”Wake Up!,”culture-war survivor Karen Finley presents her two-part show, comprised of”The Dreams of Laura Bush”and”The Passion of Terri Schiavo.” The genius here is connecting these two women who define the perils for feminism and women … Continue reading
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Susan Faludi, “The Terror Dream”
Michiko Kautani’s review of this book in the NYT starts out: “This, sadly, is the sort of tendentious, self-important, sloppily reasoned book that gives feminism a bad name.” Dang, and I thought it was the humorlessness and comfortable shoes that … Continue reading
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“Persepolis” Will Be The Basis Of A Movie
Graphic novel “Persepolis,” which I blogged about here, is being turned into a movie. –Ann Bartow
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“On Charity”
One Salford Feminist makes an observation that sadly holds true in the United States.
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Odd Mixture of Messages Here
Via Josie Brown
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Itty Bitty Titty Committee – Theatrical Release Trailer
Here. Movie production company website here.
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Breast Cancer T-Shirt Sale Banned
No sense of humor; no sense of priorities; a school bans sales of a t-shirt with an eye-catching message about breast cancer. The story is here. -Ralph Michael Stein P.S. The linked story by cnn doesn’t mention … Continue reading
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I Think She Answered It Really Well…
See if you concur… –Ann Bartow
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Two Links About Crones
Evolution Depends on Crones The Grandmother Hypothesis: Part 1
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Hillary/Elizabeth
This week saw the release of “Elizabeth: The Golden Age.” Quick on the heels of the imprimatur of the solidly conservative Economist stating that the 2008 election is Hillary’s to lose, the film gives life to our culture’s fascination … Continue reading
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MRAs 101
Shakespeare’s Sister writes: A few days ago, one of my readers emailed me asking what an MRA is. Given that the term tends to get thrown around at Shakes without much explanation, I asked Shakes contributor Jeff Fecke — a … Continue reading
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Lolita Buckner Inniss, “A ‘Ho New World: Raced and Gendered Insult as Ersatz Carnival and the Corruption of Freedom of Expression Norms”
The abstract: Carnivalization, a concept developed by literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin and later employed in broad social and cultural contexts, is the tearing down of social norms, the elimination of boundaries and the inversion of established hierarchies. It is the … Continue reading
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It’s National Coming Out Day!
The Human Rights Campaign has a topical video here.
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Wow, a Nobel for Doris Lessing!
NYT story here. Like so many women, The Golden Notebook made a profound impression on me when I was in college. A much more recent book, Love, Again, was terrific too. I didn’t like The Sweetest Dream so much, the … Continue reading
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“Pink guns for girls”
From Ananova: Firearms shops in the US are stocking pink rifles and shotguns to encourage girls to get into shooting. A report in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel says the Gander Mountain hunting store in Waukesha stocks several pink guns. They include … Continue reading
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“Women, Our Books, Our History”
A nostalgic post about women’s bookstores at “a little red hen.”
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“Girls’s Costume Warehouse”
A faux commercial satirizing mass market Halloween costumes for women, with expletives aplenty. On the same topic, see also this, this, this and this.
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Al Sharpton Calls for Boycott of Knicks
From wnyc.org, New York local public radio: Al Sharpton is vowing to lead protests against Madison Square Garden, unless Knicks coach Isiah Thomas apologizes for suggesting that blacks and whites should be held to different standards when it comes to … Continue reading
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Wooden Logo Puzzle For Children
The distributor’s blurb: “Because it’s never too early to learn what’s important in life.” Ugh. Via Counterfeit Chic. –Ann Bartow
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“Modern Bionic Woman, Retrograde Feminism”
Annalee Newitz has a column with this title up at Alternet. Below is an excerpt: … Now ultimate women’s lib heroine Sommers is back, all spruced up for the 2000s, and the results are rather strange. Thirty years have passed, … Continue reading
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BMI Categories, Illustrated
By Kate Harding.
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The Quicksand of Facebook
Last week I received an invitation to join facebook from someone 15 years my senior (I’m late 30’s; he’s mid-50’s). The invitation came from a person I will call Mr. X, an alumnus of my college with whom I … Continue reading
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