The past five Vassar Students Association Presidents have been men. But today we wake up to a female president! Here’s to Caitlin! Hope she’s cool.
Archive for April, 2009
FEMALE VSA PREZ!!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged vassar on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hamell on Trial, no Righteous Babe
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ani DiFranco, comedy, gendered insults, Hammel on Trial, misogyny, music, objectification, raunch culture on April 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
So last night Irene and I went to go see Ani DiFranco (which was super great especially the super cute/talented drummer) but unfortunately we found ourselves stuck listening to the opener, Hamell on Trial. Hamell on Trial sang poorly, had mediocre guitar skills, but worse than that he was incredibly offensive. Literally everything that came [...]
Something to chew on.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged media, misogyny on April 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Hope Hilton did an interesting photography exhibit where she took pictures of women wearing graphic rap lyrics. I thought it was interesting. And disturbing. Here are the rest: http://www.dospestaneos.com/hilton/raplyrics4.html What do you think?
media again
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged media, objectification, sexism on April 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
the media…never our ally
misogyny in comedy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comedy, gender, media, misogyny, sexism on April 10, 2009 | 14 Comments »
ive noticed that so much comedy is anti-feminist. SO MUCH. lucie wrote about this a whole ago, so im adding onto that thread. ive been watching this show, “30 rock”. when i first saw it, i thought it sucked. the main character, liz lemon, is this total mess. i personally dont see what’s so messy [...]
BMI Project and self lovin’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bmi, body image, cultural shame, fatphobia, feminism, media, patriarchy, Shapely Prose, vassar on April 10, 2009 | 8 Comments »
It ain’t easy being “obese” on a campus where the trend is to be a skinny hipster. A place like Vassar should have so many happy wonderful women, and yet hardly a day goes by when I don’t hear some sort of comment come out of my mouth or a friend’s that has some self-hating [...]
I’m back!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged patriarchy on April 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I’m really, really grateful that people actually want me on this blog…I felt like I was being a dick to people, and I felt like I was not contributing positively to the discussion, so I withdrew myself. I would love to continue contributing to the discussion, though, and thank you for being so generous in [...]
Lady whachoo talkin bout
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged employment, imperialism, racism, workplace on April 5, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So recently I went to this learn how to network post graduation thing. I won’t say exactly who it was I talked to because I don’t want to jeopardize my career in case someone wants to find this and use it against me. It was a group of older women. The older women at my [...]
LIVE BLOGGING!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, media, public relations, revival on April 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By “Live Blogging” I mean not that I will be blogging live on some event. I mean that our blog is ALIVE! Though it’s been kind of sick for the past few weeks. Reasons for why the blog was sick: 1. Maybe it’s that fight me and Ben had. I hope you come back Ben! [...]
