February 14th, 2007
Yet more Joanna
What seem to me really ominous are two signs often taken as positive: that the caricaturing of feminism and feminists has significantly lessened in the past few years (as of this writing), and that more and more women are willing to call themselves feminists, even if their position on the issues certainly doesn’t match […]
Filed under: feminism as politics, words from women by Amy's Brain Today
February 13th, 2007
Meat.
Last week I went to see “Our Daily Bread.” This German film about modern food production methods has no soundtrack; there is no emotional appeal through music, and no attempt to influence the viewer’s opinion by scripted narration. The sounds you hear are the sounds of the actions you are seeing. I […]
Filed under: animals, environment, feminism as politics, media/culture criticism by Amy's Brain Today
February 9th, 2007
Yer daily Joanna
Women who live in patriarchies are draftees, as a class, into the lifelong job of making men happy without the power to do the job and without enough emotional, sexual, and material reciprocity for themselves. Often they (like the men) blame the nature of their relationships or their own defective psychology for the sheer […]
Filed under: feminism as politics, words from women by Amy's Brain Today
Friday Cat Blogging
Filed under: cats by Amy's Brain Today
February 8th, 2007
Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful
Just this morning I was fussing and fuming over this ad. “Anna Nicole hotter than ever,” it reads, “after losing 69 lbs and keeping it off for over 3 years. While ANNA achieved ’smokin’-hot-status,’ please do not expect your results to be as amazing.” And the tagline, “Be Envied.” I […]
Filed under: fat politics, feminism as politics, media/culture criticism by Amy's Brain Today
Normal-weight woman to fat-hating doc: “Eat a bag of dicks.”
Must-read: Mimi Smartypants’ hilarious post demonstrates how far misogynistic medical fat-hating and the dieting craze have progressed.
Filed under: blogging, fat politics, links by Amy's Brain Today
February 7th, 2007
Mangled sentence du jour
“He is married, with a wife not in prison.”
Filed under: work by Amy's Brain Today
Random Roundup
Rain and Thunder wants your writing! Their current call for contributions is on Women’s Writing and Literature–deadline March 5, 2007. For more information, see their writers’ guidelines and contributions page.
Accessing Alliances: Disability Studies Across the Curriculum, a conference at George Washington University in Washington, DC, February 22-23, 2007. (Thanks to J.Ha for […]
Filed under: ability, activism/organizing, feminism as politics, words from women by Amy's Brain Today
February 5th, 2007
Joanna Russ, again
What do you do when you feel that somehow your favorable historical moment has passed, that people don’t like you any more, that your friends now consider your “obsessions” passé, that attacks are hitting you not only personally but economically (and this at a time when jobs are scarce and money tight), and that the […]
