I would like to alert everyone to this Interesting post on “Kyriarchy”
Archive for August, 2009
Define: kyriarchy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged kyriarchy, patriarchy, power on August 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Colbert Strikes Again
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This time on gender roles…and Archie comics. http://www.amplifyyourvoice.org/u/dandaman6007/2009/8/19/Stephen-Colberts-ArchieTypes-and-brilliant-commentary-on-feminism-and-gender-roles
Lady Kisses
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Much thanks to Feministing for bringing my attention to this one! Bryan Safi has some pretty funny stuffs on current. I recommend Marriage is Gay and Commercials.
Lose the blubber? More like lose the douchebaggery.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advertising, animal rights, beauty, body image, fatphobia, gendered insults, media, objectification, PETA, sexism, shaming, vegetarianism on August 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Dear PETA: Sometimes you have pretty cool campaigns. Sometimes you miss the mark entirely and produce crap like this. I don’t know who thought “YES, this is a great idea! Let’s use one of the most derogatory words for fat women and put it on a HUGE billboard and imply that women are whales that [...]
oh lord not again
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cultural imperialism, media, new york times on August 22, 2009 | 8 Comments »
i cant believe i used to read and believe in this crap kind of article. cultural imperialism chillin in its favorite hang out spot: the NYT.
Score Dumb Broads With Twix
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged media, objectification on August 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Thank God for Mars Candy! Their commercials have really tapped into an emerging social problem: women with self respect. More and more women are attempting to engage with men about political issues. Don’t they know how detrimental this is to their attractiveness? And when a man suggests, very reasonably, that they should shut those moving [...]
Darling, it is no joke. this is lycanthropy, or killing the Sodini in my head
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged lycanthropy, misogyny, pittsburgh, sodini, vassar on August 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Sodini scares me. A lot. I read his blog. I read it weeks ago. It reminded me of a number of things: The Game, het-cissie boys at my school, and my high school livejournal acount. Strangely all the things connecting the things it reminded me of are connected by Vassar. Neil Strauss was a Vassar [...]
A Conversation About George Sodini
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged sex, violence, violence against women on August 17, 2009 | 13 Comments »
I just had a debate with a friend about George Sodini. It was prompted by an article he linked to his profile, with a caption saying “you might find this disturbing. or thought-provoking.” It was a short but good conversation and I hope you’ll give your take on it, and on the George Sodini incident [...]
a take on women’s rights in arab societies
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arab, change, education, employment, Islam, modernity on August 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is a really long excerpt from Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi’s book, Beyond the Veil, first published in 1975, later edited in 1987. I read the whole thing and it gave me a better understanding of male-female dynamics in modern Muslim society. Islam’s basically positive attitude toward sexuality is more conducive to healthy perspectives of [...]
White and Black Feminisms
Posted in Uncategorized on August 15, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I don’t know about you all, but I can remember pretty clearly learning about the Seneca Falls Convention in middle school and high school. For a brief review, it took place in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. It was a meeting of white suffragettes, such as Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. [...]
