Have you heard about Gisella Perl? If not, you really need to. Please read this great and important post. We should not forget heroes like Gisella Perl.
A great blogger is asking for help.
A funny anecdote about teaching.
And this is how Canadians shop for food, at least in Toronto. Warning: this post should not be read on an empty stomach.
For teachers and public speakers: how to preserve vocal health.
A very insightful post on how to discover what it is you really want to be doing.
Does modernity cause autism? This is probably the most profound post I have read about autism in a while.
How to write an article over the winter break. Useful, insightful practical advice.
Striking clothes a woman in Russia makes for herself. The text is in Russian, but don’t mind that. Just look at the photos. This is all hand-made, including the hats and the coats.
It’s so great to find out that I’m not the only person who drops everything and starts making wishes while staring intently at the clock when 11:11 strikes. How come such superstitions transcend all possible borders?
This is the most offensive, nasty piece of garbage anybody could have come up with in response to the Sandusky rape allegations. I strongly suspect that the person who wrote this article is being paid to discredit the cause of feminism. Surely, nobody can really be that dense?
Toothless feminism: I kept yelling “yes” to every word of this post, which made my husband suspect I was watching porn instead of reading posts on feminism.
Well-deserved ridicule for Russia’s ridiculous election-time propaganda.
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thanks for the link love
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The Penn State post is exactly backwards. People take sexaul assault of little girls FAR MORE SERIOUSLY than that of little boys.
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That’s exactly why I was so appalled! How can anybody be so willfully careless with the facts? And for what purpose?
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It’s a hypothetical scenario, and as such, isn’t restricted to any notion of reality or evidence.
“What if” games are exceedingly dangerous to play – there are no natural parameters.
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That Jezebel article irritated me too, although for slightly different reasons, and it’s something that seems to be affecting me in general at the moment. I keep reading comments /articles / papers and thinking ffs, WHAT is your point???? And also, huh, you’re using THAT to support your thesis? And wait, if you wanted to write about that then WHY don’t you WRITE ABOUT THAT?
I liked the two nominatissima posts because they had a point, and said so, cogently. Possibly I’m just going through a grumpy phase, or it might have something to do with all the reading I’m doing for uni.
Anyway, what bothered me about the Jezebel article was that they had a valid point inasmuch as we don’t talk about sexual assault of girls in quite the same way as we do of boys. But as others I’m sure will note, that’s partly because we in general, don’t talk about it happening to boys, or when we do it’s in the context of older female/young male assault and not necessarily in disapproving tones. (Which is every bit as icky as the standard form victim blaming talk.) They’re right, it would be nice if we as a society could summon the completely condemnatory tone to talk about all sexual assault, not just that of little boys by older men (which anyway I think is less condemnation of sexual assault and rejection of rape culture and more coded homophobia, nemmind that actual homosexuals are not into children), but of all forms of sexual assault; however by focusing on that point they didn’t just miss, they erased the elephant in the room. I really hate the co-opting of a valid point to serve a larger agenda that it’s not necessarily connected to – it bothers me as much when the left side does it as the right; possibly more. I think perhaps because it feels disrespectful of the victim’s trauma to make their harm a sideshow.
Not that I think the iceberg of male sexual assault is something that feminism shouldn’t be concerned with – I see the silence on it as part of the general toxic myths around gender essentialism, and so dismantling it is and should be a feminist issue; but not in the narrow way presented in that article.
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I only have this to contribute: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Hl0zR7WbadY/SSKS3cRZqdI/AAAAAAAAAyY/iFOOwpsuhGI/s1600-h/PIC0006.JPG
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Hee hee hee. I was told by a professor on the basis of my research on identity that I’m schizoid, so this really speaks to me.
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It’s from a really funny story by Marechera (once again, considered not at all so funny from the narrow perspective of contemporary identity politics, but nonetheless really funny.)
It’s about the protagonist’s (actually, Marechera’s) inability to “cross the threshold” into sexual adulthood, because he didn’t know what his identity was.
So, he becomes in turn (I’m not sure if I have the correct order) somehow who goes into a coma and wakes up to find shit spread everywhere in his house, including on the ceiling. He also becomes a European aristocratic gentleman, waking up to find he’s painted his body with whitewash. In the other instance, he’s an evil father Christmas, sending Christmas cards with strange messages or insults.
This all happens as a backdrop to the idea of fusing in unity with his feminine side, in the river.
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I like schizoid!
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Also, I’d like to read your research on identity. Please send it to me.
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Thank you for the interest! It will soon come out as an article and I will post it for general perusal then. 🙂
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Ok.
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Old people, sparring: http://youtu.be/DmYfvWinnuU
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