Category Archives: Feminism and Culture

The website for the Third Annual Ms. Magazine Cruise is here. And here is a video critique, and a fairly angry one at that. From this site. Just links at this post today, no commentary implied or intended.

At Women’s eNews, Paula J. Caplan argues in an op-ed that: “women are over-diagnosed with psychiatric syndromes and symptoms. Many problems, she writes, are not inside women’s heads. They are in external conditions crying out for remedy.” Here is an … Continue reading →

Anne Applebaum says it is in the WaPo. First she (astutely) observed: …anyone who lives a real life in the real world knows that most women make choices about working and not working on a non-ideological basis. Many with children … Continue reading →

Here’s an excerpt from a 5/1/06 NYT article by Julie Bosman, entitled “Beer Ads That Ditch the Bikinis, but Add Threads of Thought”: If Miller Brewing is to be believed, the days of beer commercials stocked exclusively with brainless party … Continue reading →

A documentary looking at Chinese stereotypes in North America. Via Reappropriate.

She tried to get pregnant. When that seemed impossible, she hoped to adopt. Then she just wanted to stay alive. That didn’t work out, either. She was a wonderful writer. She called her blog, “Cancer, Baby.” She died last friday.

Read In Honor of Mother’s Day and Mother’s Day is a Pinko Feminist Holiday, both at Pinko Feminist Hellcat.

Before Bush began the Iraq war, when many people naively thought there might be a way to prevent it, people who opposed the war used a variety of approaches to draw attention to their messages, inluding nudity. Here are just … Continue reading →

At Unfogged, in a post called “Live my glamorous NYC life vicariously through me, please.”

According to this NYT article, it is Toni Morrison’s “Beloved.” Most of the runners up were by white guys. The only other book by a woman, “Housekeeping” by Marilynne Robinson, seems to be the only one on the list that … Continue reading →

From this column at “Sequential Tart” we learn more about female comic book characters, to wit: Rule Number Two discusses a simple concept: exaggerate the breasts by putting them atop a disproportionately thin waist. The subject is the female spinal … Continue reading →

From here. –Ann Bartow

According to this CNN article: An estimated 2 million babies die within their first 24 hours each year worldwide and the United States has the second worst newborn mortality rate in the developed world, according to a new report. American … Continue reading →

Since DC Comics will use this drawing on the cover of “All Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder #5” (July 2006): Karen at Oddity Collector wonders if we will also be seeing comic book covers like this anytime soon: … Continue reading →

At Center of Gravitas, Gayprof writes: …According to anonymous testimony from one of his graduate students, this particular professor has been starting his classes by telling his women students,”In my class, you check your vaginas at the door.” I don’t … Continue reading →

While unwinding after a weekend full of empirical research, I saw a new commercial for Heineken Light, which involved sexualizing a beer bottle and playing a song by the Pussycat Dolls with the refrain ‘Don’t you wish your girlfriend was … Continue reading →

Blogging under a pseudonym is appropriate and understandable in many circumstances, especially if the blog engages with controversial issues, and the blogger has reason to fear for her personal safety and well being. Lobbing nasty personal insults from behind a … Continue reading →

Geena Davis founded an organization called “See Jane” with this mission statement: See Jane seeks to engage professionals and parents in a call to dramatically increase the percentages of female characters — and to reduce gender stereotyping — in media … Continue reading →

“The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex and Feminism” was written by Carrie Lukas, who works for the Independent Women’s Forum. She says she wrote the book in part to keep feminists from deliberately misleading women about their fertility. Nope, … Continue reading →

“Sadly Normal” is a website for adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Learned about it via Angela Shelton. Angela Shelton made this documentary.

Where to begin with Flanagan’s doofy Time article? I am a 44-year-old woman who grew up in Berkeley who has never once voted for a Republican, or crossed a picket line, or failed to send in a small check when … Continue reading →

According to this article in the Guardian: They mature more quickly, are said to be more responsible and do better at school. Now media-savvy girls are putting another one over the boys by leading the digital communications revolution. After one … Continue reading →

Nine years after becoming one of the NBA’s first female referees, Violet Palmer is set to break another barrier by becoming the first woman to officiate an NBA playoff game. For Palmer, 33, working the playoffs is a goal she … Continue reading →

Jane Hamsher at firedoglake writes: …when liberals like TBogg or Gavin M. or SZ or Roy Edroso or any other of the wits of the liberal blogosphere sit down behind their keyboards and start tapping out daggers, slicing up the … Continue reading →

“Students Trade Bibles for Porn” A group of atheists at the University of Texas at San Antonio is putting a novel twist on the toys-for-guns programs run by many urban police departments. But instead of toys, they are handing out … Continue reading →

There is a website called “The Saddest Thing I Own,” where people are invited: “…to share the saddest thing they own. What are these sad things? What makes things sad? Do things start off sad? Do some sad things begin … Continue reading →

Aspazia has a very thoughtful, and also quite provocative, post up here in which she argues that “feminism needs a serious PR job.”

Watch this animation: “The 32%” – Warning: Adult Language and Poor Spelling Ahead.” The homepage for “Peace takes Courage” is here. You can watch more animations here or here (see sidebar). Oh, by the way, Peace Takes Courage: “is a … Continue reading →

The passing of Jane Jacobs, urban expert, social activist, and author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities has been noted throughout the blogosphere. See e.g. Dean Dad’s post at Bitch, Ph.D. and Siva Vaidhyanathan’s post at Sivacracy.net. … Continue reading →

A lot has been said about this topic, but Kameron Hurley is such a wonderful writer she adds fresh perspectives. Below is her opening paragraph in a post called “Let’s Talk About Sex”: I take a perverse delight in watching … Continue reading →

Kelly Calabrese, a massage therapist for the Padres, is the only woman working full time on a major league training staff. Hernandez:”I know I made some strong statements that she didn’t belong in the dugout. I stand by those statements. … Continue reading →

Have you ever had a man explain to you, in your “best interest” and with great sincerity, how you could be a better feminist? Tell you that if you would only make yourself a little prettier, and act a little … Continue reading →

Within the last few weeks, my neighbors were victims of an armed robbery while walking their dogs, one of my law prof colleagues was knocked to the ground and mugged in his neighborhood not too far away, and another, very … Continue reading →

That’s the title of this article, which touts Maureen Dowd as a “feminist authority.” (See also this). The author, Nathan Tabor “is a conservative political activist based in Kernersville, North Carolina.” And I feel like driving up there and toilet-papering … Continue reading →

From this Science Daily article: New research from Tufts University indicates that diverse groups perform better than homogenous groups when it comes to decision making and that this is due largely to dramatic differences in the way whites behave in … Continue reading →

Public Citizen and United for a Fair Economy released a report today claiming that the 10-year effort to repeal the estate tax has been financed and coordinated by just 18 families. According to this press release: The multimillion-dollar lobbying effort … Continue reading →

“Gayprof” blogs at Center of Gravitas, and yesterday he noted: Over the past few days, the inevitable occurred. Two colleagues from my university found my little bloggy and deduced the true identity of GayProf. Perhaps I should not have worn … Continue reading →

Here is a cartoon that opposes heteronormativity, produced by the South Carolina Equality Coalition. My goodness the narrator has an unusual Southern accent!

I’m having a few issues with WordPress this morning, two posts eaten and frustrations rising. Go to Blackademic and start following the alphabetical links. Hopefully by the time you get to “F” I’ll get the post up and the stream … Continue reading →

As discussed here, when Annalee Newitz got an article published at Slashdot, she was perturbed to find that rather than discussing her ideas, a lot of commenters instead engaged in a colloquy about whether they found her personally attractive. She … Continue reading →

Feminivist is hosting links here to many blog posts related to sexual assault as part of a “Blog to Raise Awareness About Sexual Assault” project. It’s a worthy undertaking, and a difficult one. I tried a couple of times to … Continue reading →

You be the judge.

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