I’m giving up my favorite brand of deodorant, because they market with messages like this:
“If you convinced her the photos are for your private collection, you’re a Mitchum Man”
“If you’re the only one who knows which remote controls what, you’re a Mitchum Man”
and so on and so forth. I just can’t identify with that kind [...]
Posts Tagged ‘feminism’
I am no longer a Mitchum Man
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged feminism, marketing, mitchum, nonconsensual on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Choices”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bristol, bristol palin, choice, election, feminism, palin, sarah palin on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What choice did Bristol Palin have? I keep seeing on conservative blogs and in the rhetoric of people close to the campaign that they celebrate her choice to keep the baby and to marry the father of the baby. She’s the daughter of the republican VP candidate. Her choice was made for her by people [...]
Makes a great headline, but…
Posted in feminism, politics, relationships, science, sex, tagged birth control, choice, feminism, pill, science, sex, sexuality on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pill Users Choose ‘Wrong’ Sex Partners
And it’s not just the awful headline, folks. It’s the whole article. Yes, this is the worst of so-called science reporting by the mainstream media, none other than CBS News this time. This study has been going around the feminist and sex-positive webs for a little while now.
It’s a small [...]
In Which the Seething Exasperation nearly short-circuits my brain
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged feminism, it's not a pissing game, patriarchy on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This might come out a bit ranty, because the title of this post is entirely appropriate and there is just too much wrong in this article to unpack it completely. To begin with, the author posits: “Are men the new women?” Now, this had me confused in the way that most thinking people would be, [...]
The Bechdel Test: Kiki’s Delivery Service
Posted in feminism, reviews, tagged bechdel rule, feminism, movies, reviews on August 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been idly trying to find movies that pass the Bechdel Test: that rule that says that at some point in the movie, two women should be able to talk to each other, and the conversation shouldn’t revolve around any of the men in the movie. I’ve stumbled upon one, or rather re-discovered one that [...]
Following up on Girls=Boys @ Math
Posted in feminism, science, tagged feminism, math, science, women in math, women in science on July 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Economic Woman writes up an excellent post bringing up some important points in the recent University of Wisconsin study about the vanishing difference between women and men in math.
I’m not sure, personally, what to make of the difference at the 99th percentile, where the marginal effect in variance between men and women plays a [...]
Miscellaneous Patriarchy Pwnage
Posted in feminism, politics, relationships, tagged feminism, gender, patriarchy, personal-as-political, relationships on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A piece of conversation from last weekend (for context, we were playing a drinking game and I had just lost):
Male Friend 1: You have to chug it.
Me: I’ll drink this beer, but you are crazy if you think I’m chugging a Sam Adam’s
MF1: (following some unsubtle hints at how I am not awesome and reasoning [...]
Girls = Boys @ Math
Posted in feminism, science, tagged feminism, gender gap, mathematics, women in math, women in science on July 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A massive new study has found that women and men have the exact same mathematics abilities.
That’s the headline for the day. Tomorrow’s edition of Science will have the actual results posted, however the highlights look to be that the message that has been the norm for 18 years will have even more support as of [...]
The Brass Ceiling, broken
Posted in feminism, tagged feminism, generals, glass ceiling, military on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ann Dunwoody will be the United States’ first Four Star General. She will be the commander of the Army Matereil Command, giving her the ultimate responsibility over provisioning and maintenance of all the Army’s machinery, weapons, and vehicles.
Congratulations, Ann!
Greenspun and Feministe talk in different directions about the Ivory Ceiling
Posted in feminism, tagged academics, feminism, ivory ceiling, science, women in science, women in technology on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Phillip Greenspun has an interesting perspective. The article’s old, but I’ve seen worse arguments. He’s not trying to make an argument per se, but put forth a hypothesis he’s not got the time to test. I think there’s been a lot of research recently that has said that there’s more to it than the mere [...]
