Welcome to my blog. Feel free to poke around, I have my best (and probably most radical feminists posts) in the sidebar under favourites. I'm a bit overwhelmed and having disability and health issues lately that I really don't have the time to sort the posts by topic. I guess this just means you'll have to read them all. *grin*
Also, if I missed any of your posts or didn't give you a detailed intro it's just because my health problems have been kicking my ass and I'm struggling to keep up with my 300/400 level math and physics classes. You all deserve better intros, but I just don't have the time or energy. Needless to say, there are a lot of really rad posts that I got to read for this carnival, and it's wonderful to be introduced to new radical voices. Thank you for this oppurtunity, you all should host once! It's amazing.
So, for my entry I reviewed Full Frontal Feminism and the inanity of the new "sexy feminism" and how this book buys into the corporate media's tactic of selling everything with sex. Oh, and I didn't get to write about it yet since I just heard about it but there's a new movie called Lars and the real girl about a guy and his real doll whose tagline is "The search for true love begins outside the box." and is called, i kid you not, a "heartfelt comedy" *puke* Thanks for normalising and glorifying Real Dolls. If you can stand it you can watch the trailer here. *blech*
Tracee Sioux muses about the devaluation of motherhood and its relation to the devaluation of women in Devaluation of Motherhood posted at So Sioux Me. She also interviews a woman and her family about a fellowship that required her to leave them for a year in So Sioux Me: Long Distance Mothering.
Ann Bartow talks about even when filtered through two judges prostitution is still as depressing as ever in Prostitution In Atlanta, As Described By the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals posted at Feminist Law Professors.
The Ghost of Dr. Violet Socks talks about the misogynistic bullshit of evopsych in her post Reclusive Leftist In which Dr. Socks becomes so disgusted with the casual ineptitude of the ev-psychos that she descends to name-calling and cursing posted at Reclusive Leftist.
Holly Ord brings talks about Love Your Body day and how hard it is for us to feel positive about ourselves in Love Your Body posted at Menstrual Poetry. She also hits home with The Truth About Planned Parenthood which has been an argument that I have been having with a lindyhopping friend recently. She also talks about the epidemic ofRape in Congo – A Weapon of War Becomes a Way of Life posted at Woman Tribune.
Heather Corinna talks about how all of sexuality and sex studies have been conducted with one group in mind, and not surprisingly that group is men in Disorders of Desire posted at heather corinna: pure as the driven slush. She also talks about how our sexuality is demonised still in One ring to rule them all | Scarleteen at Scarleteen Newswire.
Portly Dyke talks about Sexual Consent in A Modest Proposal: The Thorny Issue of Sexual Consent.
Womensspace presents a Radical Feminist Response to the proposed trans-inclusive addition to ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act) in ENDA and “Gender Identity”: A Feminist, Woman-Centered Response. Also there is a post on the way Ken Burns completely ignored the "comfort women" in his 15-part special on World War II Where in gods name are the comfort women: an open letter to Ken Burns. Also she wants justice in Blog and website banners for the "Free the New Jersey 4" campaign.
Ginmar on a judge's ruling that the rape of a prostitute is a "theft of services" rape of a prostitute is a "theft of services". The ghost of Dr Socks also weighs in on this topic.
Two posts on sexual harrassment: one from Professor Zero and one from Kitty Glendower
River at Baghdad Burning writes about being a refugee from Iraq and her new life in Syria.
Marcella Chester points out the flaws in attacks which claim that focusing on men's violence against women proves feminist chick hypocrisy. Misunderstanding Of Gender In Sexual Violence posted at abyss2hope: A rape survivor's zigzag journey into the open. She also talks about teachers as sexual predators in Teacher predators and Resistance.
Debs talks about the importance of language in Wife, Mother, Sister, Daughter or Goddess? posted at Feminist Fire.
One Tenacious Baby Mama talks about homogeneity in political movements in Reloaded V & Don't ever, EVER assume we're all the same and don't try to force it, either....
Beautiful Also are the Souls of My Black Sisters writes about Black Women in White America.
Leisha on why it is important that "Take Back the Night" be a woman-only event.
Laurelin on "objectivity".
Eeni B. Bella Stinggrose on taking back Halloween and the sexism in mainstream children's costumes.
Maggie Jochild presents "THE WAR", OURS AND THEIRS -- PROPAGANDA AS BRAIN DAMAGE posted at Meta Watershed. She also wants you to read an excerpt from her novel at "THE WAR" -- EXCERPT FROM "GINNY BATES" and she talks about war in WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME AGAIN . I suggest you read her entire blog as she submitted a lot of things to me and they're all worth a read. (sorry Maggie that I didn't put them all in.)
The Goddess speculates on Condoleeza Rice's sexual orientation and why it matters.
La Doctorita on sexism in her med school classes.
Madeleine Begun Kane points out the insanity of thinking that women only want to shoot "cute" guns in Not Tickled Pink About Girlish Pink Guns posted at Mad Kane's Political Madness.
And to end on a happy note:
In awesome news SecondWaver talks about a movie that I really want to see in The Gendercator by Catherine Crouch
They just gravitate to me, I guess
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12 comments:
Wow, great carnival! I can't wait till I have more time this evening and I'm going to sit and enjoy all of those posts. :D x
Fabulous carnival LC! As ususal, it'll keep me going for days :)
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What a great variety of posts. Thanks for including me in such thought filled company.
Yippee! Thanks so much, Burrow, what a GREAT job!
I love starting the work week out with a Carnival of Radical Feminists. :D
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Great work! Thanks for doing this for us all!
Just to clarify on Lars and the Real Girl(which you have summarily judged prior to release, tisk tisk). Watching the trailer will reveal that Lars(Ryan Gosling) is perceived as anything but normal for carting around a real doll. His family and friends want him in therapy, to take the doll away, to normalize his social interactions. Further, the real doll is used to comic effect by not using it a sexual object. Lars imbues it with personality, a career, etc, etc. This sort of control of a woman, even a fake one, could be perceived as anti-feminist, and might even be so(I haven't seen the movie), but I doubt it. Even if it is, the rest of the characters don't want this sort of situation for Lars, they want it stopped.
Mithel:
Well
a) I judged Shallow Hal and Showgirls before they came out and I wasn't wrong about those.
and
b) The fact that everyone acts as though she's real is bullshit (even people in the church!) and if you watched the Real Dolls documentary you'll see that all real doll owners give their dolls a personality, career, etc. And the fact that one of the snippets in the preview is a man saying "I wish I had a woman who couldn't talk" to the approval of his coworkers. If you had watched the doc on these dolls you would see how fucked up and misogynistic these guys are.
Hi! thanks for including me in the carnival--it's dense reading & packed with good thinking & writing. I am pleased! But that link to mine is funky, for some reason ... so try this:
http://secondwaver.blogspot.com/2007/10/gendercator-by-catherine-crouch.html#links
That's because I did yours backwards, I had the title of the piece for the link. ;)
All fixed now.
Woo-hoo! :-D
Great reading. Thanks, Burrow.
Thanks so much for having me be part of this! Have been enjoying the reading for days already.
Thank you so much for including all of the posts I submitted.
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