Posts tagged “Equality”
Monday feminism
I really enjoy gender performance and the butch/femme dynamic, but a lot of people see butch/femme as a reenactment of sexist heterosexual relationship roles. So I was excited to read Sublime Femme’s post The Feminist Fairytale about Butch/Femme. Of course, I wasn’t disappointed. It’s absolutely fantastic. I tried to excerpt it here, but ended up […]
What I’ve Noticed
Indexed expresses a little anger with an awesome Venn diagram. Hollywood’s five saddest attempts at feminism. [via Feministing] Lays out how those “strong” female characters are so very disappointing. Some Iraqi’s have no hope left: do you know that your tomorrow has no tomorrow? that your blood is the ink of new maps? Unsurprising news […]
What I’ve Noticed (belatedly)
Georgia: even more of a backwater than you thought. Read a book, plant a tree. I need a lot of these. You don’t believe in evolution. You just believe it. To believe in something takes faith, trust, effort, strength. I need none of these things to believe evolution. It just is. My health is better […]
What I’ve Noticed
A woman fights off a man who assaults her and is assaulted by bystanders in retribution, via Feministing. The Pill Kills – a new campaign of the American Life League. That $600 isn’t going to help our economy and it certainly won’t help people who really need it. 7.2 million families holding sub-prime mortgages, disproportionately […]
What I’ve Noticed
Temperatures are expected to be a bit cooler in the next decade due to natural cycles, but after that, the current too-fast rate of warming will continue. Hopefully people pay attention to articles like this instead of saying “well it’s been really cold the last few years so global warming can’t be a problem.” Some […]
What I’ve noticed (more than last week)
Sara Robinson writes about John McCain’s betrayal of the troops and how he’s paving the way for an army no one wants to see at Campaign for America’s Future. Drive by botany in New South Wales at The Reluctant Botanist. A short report on breast ironing in Cameroon at current tv. How drunk do you […]
What i’ve noticed (not much this week)
This incredible bug, via Seeds Aside This beautiful violin over at No seeds, no fruits, no flowers: no problem. How badly the US treats brown people. Pearl Cornioley: another reason women not being allowed to serve in the special forces is stupid, via Majikthise. In May 1944, she assumed control of 1,500 Resistance members and […]