August 29th, 2008
An open letter to the writers of my “summer reading” mysteries
Dear Tools,
Stop with the female murderers already. I get it, you think it makes your book edgy and gives it a “twist” ending, because since women commit hardly any of the violent crimes in the world, no one would EVER guess that the murderer is female! But you know what? Since […]
Filed under: cranky, fluff and musings, media/culture criticism, rants by Amy's Brain Today
August 26th, 2008
There’s more at stake than what’s between yer thighs
(mAndrea said this comment ought to be a post so I have edited and expanded it, hoping for clarity.)
Feminism is not primarily a movement to make women happy. It is a movement to free us from sexist oppression. Come the revolution, some women will still be unhappy, because the things that are making them so […]
Filed under: fat politics, feminism as politics, internet drama, lesbian feminism, links, media/culture criticism, medicine/science criticism, racism, resistance, transgender by Amy's Brain Today
August 23rd, 2008
Naomi Wolfe on the pursuit of thinness
Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one. Researchers S.C. Wooley and O.W. Wooley confirmed what most women know too well–that concern with weight leads to ‘a virtual collapse of self-esteem and sense of effectiveness.’ Researchers J. Polivy and C.P. Herman found that […]
Filed under: fat politics, media/culture criticism, medicine/science criticism, personal is political, words from women by Amy's Brain Today
August 21st, 2008
Another man gives birth, and the media’s right on it
“Ricky Martin becomes a father: The singer had identical twin boys, announces his publicist.”
Oh wait.
“Who’s the mother?”
Oh, right, a surrogate (who isn’t even important enough to have her name mentioned for carrying Ricky’s babies).
Okay, move along. No medical miracle, nothing to see here. Because for all their tryin’, men still can’t have […]
Filed under: cranky, media/culture criticism by Amy's Brain Today
August 15th, 2008
Guest Blogger: “Learning to fight back changed my life”
As part of the ongoing series on self-defense and Fight Back! here at Feminist Reprise, I asked my friend Mel to write about her recent experiences with Shotokan Karate. Here is what she had to say, in her own words.
I’ve always been interested in the martial arts for as long as I can remember. […]
Filed under: guest blogger, personal is political, resistance, words from women by Amy's Brain Today
August 11th, 2008
A Fat Women’s Problem-Solving Group: Radical Change
We are a group of fat women who met in a weekly problem-solving group for one year. The group’s facilitators were two fat members of the Los Angeles Radical Feminist Therapy Collective (L.A.R.F.T.C.). The group was a fat liberation group. We wanted to develop self-respect as fat women; to take back our […]
Filed under: activism/organizing, fat politics, feminism as politics, personal is political, words from women by Amy's Brain Today
August 10th, 2008
I really didn’t like this…
From the local alternative weekly catbox liner.
So I made my own version:
For the same concepts expressed in vegan meat substitute, see this post by atheist woman.
Descriptions of the cartoons for anyone who can’t read them after the break.
Filed under: feminism as politics, graphics, photographic mischief by Amy's Brain Today
Donna Allegra, “Butch on the Streets”
For me to live in this man’s world, I need some kind of pain killer, something I can pull out at a moment’s notice and put between me and the men on the street, because sometimes, I could really kill ‘em. They’re the foulest beasts walking on two feet and they’re always in packs, […]
