Category Archives: Feminism, sexism, etc

My Daughter's Vagina, Part 4

Posted on September 1, 2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 At eleven, I’m the youngest of eight boys lined up along one row of lockers in the otherwise empty men’s locker room at the swimming pool to which the day camp I am attending … Continue reading →

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Teacher's on strike

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Maia

I have very fond memories of teachers’ pay negotiations. My sixth form maths teacher was a staunch unionist and also very distractable. We could get a good half hour off calculus with a well-timed question like “What’s happening with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Feminism, sexism, etc | 95 Comments

Money and Blood

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Maia

What I mind, of course, is that my time is getting short, that I won’t see my youngest grandchild grow up — those things that you’re gonna miss. I remember my father feeling like that. I have a poem about … Continue reading →

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My Daughter's Vagina, Part 3

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

If you haven’t already, I urge you to read Part 1 and Part 2. (If you haven’t read Part 2, or haven’t read it in a while, you might want to read it before reading Part 3, if only because the last paragraph … Continue reading →

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A Few Random Comments About the God's Warriors Series

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Rachel S.

I’m going to organize this as bullet points for each episode.  Gods Jewish Warriors I thought this was the best one of the series.  It was balanced in showing both the extremist settlers, and the more mainstream Jews who were … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-feminists and their pals, Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Elections and politics, Feminism, sexism, etc, Homophobic zaniness/more LGBTQ issues, International issues, Media criticism, Palestine & Israel | 4 Comments

Feminism and prisons

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Maia

There’s a really interesting post at Feministe on tensions between feminist attitudes towards violence against women and a radical (or liberal, or progressive) analysis of the prison system. It’s certainly been a tension I’ve felt as I’ve cheered some men … Continue reading →

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What could be more of a challenge?

Posted on August 18, 2007 by Maia

Project Runway has got everything you’d want in a reality show, interesting challenges, weird people and a look at a different world. In the most recent episode here in NZ the challenge was to design for another contestant’s mother or … Continue reading →

Posted in Fat, fat and more fat, Feminism, sexism, etc, Gender and the Body | 15 Comments

Spot the Liar!

Posted on August 17, 2007 by Mandolin

One of these things is not like the other, One of these things is not the same… Can you guess which one? Oh, I take it back. They’re all hilarious.

Posted in Anti-Semitism, Feminism, sexism, etc, Mind-blowing Miscellania and other Neat Stuff, Popular (and unpopular) culture | 1 Comment

My Daughter's Vagina, Part 2

Posted on August 13, 2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

To read Part 1, go here. You have to wonder what kind of research he did and how he did it. Did he interview women? Create a list of all the possibilities he could imagine and ask them to check … Continue reading →

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My Daughter's Vagina, Part 1

Posted on August 8, 2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

“My Daughter’s Vagina” is the title of an essay I wrote about five years ago that was published online here but that I have never really felt comfortable with as a finished piece. Not too long ago, I came up … Continue reading →

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