November 2010
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The Limitations Of Tim Wise
(via Womanist Musings)
I have been very critical of Tim Wise for quite sometime now. To be honest, I must admit that much of my judgment of his work was based solely on interviews that I had seen, as well as reading various posts on his website. I recently decided that perhaps my judgment of him was a bit strong, and so I set about to challenge this understanding by reading, White Like Me:...
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makeitthroughthis asked: I have to say, reading your statement about trigger warnings and general warnings was interesting.
I recognize and appreciate the point of personal responsibility. However, when it comes to trigger warnings--and I am by no means always great at figuring out what to put warnings on, so I hope this doesn't come off as proselytizing or anything--I don't know that I...
I recognize and appreciate the point of personal responsibility. However, when it comes to trigger warnings--and I am by no means always great at figuring out what to put warnings on, so I hope this doesn't come off as proselytizing or anything--I don't know that I...
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Trigger Warning?
I posted this at our primary site, SexGenderBody.com, in response to questions raised over warnings for content posted. -a
I was recently asked to provide trigger warnings for some images and links we posted on the SexGenderBody Tumblr and Twitter feeds.
This is a topic that I have struggled with since we started this site. We don’t get many requests for this, but when we do - I...
Anonymous asked: I understand that the point of your tumblr is to post stuff relating to sex/gender and body stuff, but surely I'm not the only one who would appreciate that the graphic pictures (kink, junk piercing, etc.) be somehow filtered with a description so we at least have a choice about seeing it? Some of it can be triggering, especially the S&M type stuff. Also, not everyone likes to see...
Anonymous asked: I love your site, but do you have to post so much? Sometimes its well over 100 posts a day! Can you feasibly post the same cool stuff, but in smaller doses? I can never read it all and it overloads my feed.
- jen
- jen
fuckyeahgenderstudies asked: Now a question; i just would have appreciated a trigger warning and/or jump on that last post about blood play with the graphic and triggering picture.
mischasbrainfarts asked: Thanks for linking to pieces on Man Boobz. It's a fantastic site and I've added it to my reader.
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Andrea Dworkin And Queer Theory, Part 1
(Via Below The Belt)
“The object is cultural transformation. The object is the development of a new kind of human being and a new kind of human community.” - Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating (192) About a decade ago, philosopher Martha Nussbaum wrote a searing critique of Judith Butler, titled “The Professor of Parody,” in which she argued that Butler’s work barely brought anything new or...
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The Cross And Male Violence
(Via Are Women Human?)
I’m doing some reading for a discussion on different ways in which the masculinity of Jesus is or has been constructed and presented in various Christian contexts. A couple of the articles I’m reading are about how depictions of Jesus in popular art and other media have been read as gendered, and how Christians have read such depictions as being either in line or in...
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Ladies We Know What Your Problem Is! You Don't...
(Via This Ain’t Livin’)
‘Women Don’t Negotiate’
by s.e. smith
Every few months, it seems like I come across another article informing readers that the reason we have a wage gap is because women can’t negotiate. These articles inform me that men have no compunction about pushing for what they’re worth and they usually get it, while women languish in the low-salaried trenches, unable...
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Why is it so darn hard to call a Vagina a Vagina?
(via Discourse)
I’ve had AMAZING bloggers block this week. It might be due to the fact that I’ve started a new job (SQUEEE!!) and have been a bit busy settling in and getting to know everyone.
But this morning the drought is over. All because of one little made up word.
Someone had linked me to an article about the sexualisation of women, which had totally misused the word “slutty”. But there...
Complicated PTSD →
Granted I have other more bodily related issues too, but the below article (cut and pasted) is a large part of what I am dealing with…“garden variety” complicated PTSD.
I sent the below to my…
Mørbid Ħistøry: Some Thanksgiving Day Facts →
batwithbutterflywings:
malefeminist:morbidhistory:
When the Europeans arrived in the fifteenth century, the Native Americans numbered in the millions
By the 1900s, the numbered a mere 250,000
Christopher Columbus first called them “Indians” because he thought he landed in India
Not until 1924 were Native Americans entitled to citizenship
Columbus installed himself as Governor of the...
Things we do to innocent people to prevent... →
azspot:
Here’s a non-comprehensive list of things innocent people have suffered in order to prevent terrorist attacks on America:
Monitored them on closed circuit television.
Asked them to present photo ID at the airport.
Required them to walk through a metal detector in order to go to the gate.
Required them to empty their pockets.
Required them to take their laptop out of its bag.
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Let's talk about sex differences. Again | Carol... →
sexismandthecity:
But if biology itself is not the enemy in the study of gender, biological reductionism still is. The latest version even has a name, “neurosexism”, the use of new technology or the language of neuroscience to support old prejudices and stereotypes. I’ve been following the studies of sex differences in the brain for two decades now, and have yet to be persuaded that they...
Pakistan: Repeal Blasphemy Law →
rightsandhumanity:
(New York) - Pakistan’s government should immediately introduce legislation to repeal the country’s blasphemy law and other discriminatory legislation, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should also take legal action against Islamist militant groups responsible for threats and violence against minorities and other vulnerable groups, Human Rights Watch said.
While...
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Surly Women Oppress Men By Being Surly And Doing...
(Via Manboobz)
The oppression of men by mean, evil, surly women continues apace. Today: the verbal and psychological abuse heaped upon men by — brace yourself — female sales clerks. We turn to The Spearhead forums for evidence of this perfidy. Kinetic opened up the discussion with a tale of a recent shopping excursion. It started out innocently enough with a trip to a tobacconist....
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Tyler Perry And Misplaced Emotions: The Saga...
(Via the Crunk Feminist Collective)
An open letter to my students, my close friend, and my mother:
When I left the movie theater after watching Tyler Perry Presents For Colored Girls I felt like Tyler Perry took something from me. I went to see the film with a close friend and I was ready to feel some of the complexity of black womanhood that I had experienced as a child seeing the play with...
Operation: Tranny Freedom →
I wrote this article as an account of the events that transpired just over a week ago now. It hasn’t really been edited, so if you see any typo’s or mis-spellings, please bear with me?
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Ramzy Baroud: Who Decides How the Oppressed Should... →
redguard:
Whether in subtle or overt ways, armed resistance in Palestine is always condemned. Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah government repeatedly referred to it as “futile.” Some insist it is a counterproductive strategy. Others find it morally indefensible.
The problem with the nonviolence bandwagon is that it is grossly misrepresentative of the reality on the ground. It also takes the focus away...
WatchKlaxons: Twin Flames
Transgender: an MtF poem
transpride:
I am two bodies trapped in one. André answers but Alyssa does all the thinking.
André fights to be normal; Alyssa just wants to be heard.
I am hir. Not her, nor him; hir. I am a girl on the inside, But a boy on the outside.
Alyssa struggles to be heard, André struggles to be understood.
I am her, I am him.
When you combine them together you get: hir. Which is who I am. ...
Where in the World Can Women Feel Safe? →
Last spring, I stumbled across information about the Third International Conference on Women’s Safety: Building Inclusive Cities which is taking place this week. Street harassment activism and working on solutions for ending it is my passion, and I immediately contacted the organizers to find out more.
Once I confirmed that the conference would be exactly relevant to my work interestsand that I...
Mitaku Oyasin ♥ We are all related.: Genocide - Of... →
mitakuoyasin:
Genocidal Results of the Failed American Indian Policies of the United States Government:
MORTALITY:
Lakotah men have a life expectancy of less than 44 years, lowest of any country in the World (excluding AIDS) including Haiti.
Lakotah death rate is the highest in the United States.
The Lakotah infant mortality rate is 300% more than the U.S. Average.
One out of every four...
20 MINUTES AGO
tabularasae:
I just had a very, very interesting conversation (okay, it wasn’t that interesting) with my friend-ish (Hi, Sam) and his friends about race. He’s been reading my blog lately and it’s caused him to think about issues surrounding white privilege, male privilege, and race in general. The conversation was really one-sided (on my part), but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
The...
Erika Lust’s BLOG » Unsa Haus / Our House – a new...
Erika Lust’s BLOG » Unsa Haus / Our House – a new children’s book
Children’s books are not only one of the first media contacts of a human being in life nowadays, but it’s also one of the first advocates of social norms in society. Children’s books explain norms of class, race and gender, how to handle inner- or interpersonal conflicts and feelings, and they do it appropriately for...
Embracing LGBT-Inclusive Bullying Rules Not Just... →
pansexualpride:
The simmering culture war appears to be evolving into a full scale battle up in Minnesota.
With the election of an emboldened Republican majority, state lawmakers are again looking to ban same-sex marriage. And it’s against this backdrop that the Minnesota School Board Association this week waded into another controversial topic — LGBT bullying — by urging its 335-member...
Fucking and Feminism →
Ladies, be warned: Your pussies are causing the downfall of society. If we keep posing for nude photos, sucking cock (and enjoying it), and getting Brazilian bikini waxes, our hard-won feminist gains will disappear, according to the latest generation of scolds and alarmists, writers like Ariel Levy (Female Chauvinist Pigs), reality show rabbi Shmuley Boteach (Hating Women: America’s Hostile...
The pope and condoms – a new dawn? →
“…a first step in the direction of a moralization, a first assumption of responsibility”
The pope has reportedly said that the use of condoms to prevent HIV infection is acceptable in…
The Year In Bullying: A Horrific Timeline →
pansexualpride:
Defense lawyers now say Tyler Clementi’s bullying wasn’t as bad as it seemed — but the invasion of his privacy was still a standout in a year that’s been rife with bullying incidents. After the jump, a timeline.
Many of the teens and young adults below were bullied for their sexual orientation, but not all. Their injuries and deaths should remind us that for too many young...
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New Update From The Complementarian Church:...
(Via Are Women Human?)
Christmas is around the corner, which for Mark Driscoll, apparently means yet another opportunity to bully men into being just like him. Driscoll, an extra unique complementarian snowflake about who’s certain to come up more on this blog, is the senior pastor and bully-in-chief of Mars Hill Church, a Seattle megachurch (and the biggest church in the city). Driscoll’s...
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Start The Day A La MRA: "Women Are..." Edition Of...
(via Manboobz)
Today in “Women Are …”: Horrible generalizations about women from The Spearhead. Spearhead readers have the option to upvote comments they like, and downvote those they don’t. The comments these quotes are taken from all got a lot of upvotes and only a tiny handful of downvotes, if any. Women are: Dumb as bricks For all their degrees, today’s women are dumb...
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Male Gaze Anyone?
A Roomful Of Women With Men’s Eyes
[TMI warning for family: I talk about a pole dance class and enjoying/experiencing my sexuality through dance. You may or may not want to hear about this.] I love the art of pole dance. Vertical dance. Vertical gymnastics. Whatever you want to call it. I love the flexibility of the dancers, the incredible way they can hold their entire bodies off...
