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So just to be clear it's not acceptable to call Ron a Fascist or a Nazi, but it is OK…
As someone who went through 9 years of Hebrew School - which consisted, in large part, of Holocaust education and…
Ron, it was a Nazi salute. It was an absolutely faithful reproduction, from beginning to end, of the gesture as…
Yeah, the whole point of The Producers plot was that making a fun movie about Nazis was so far into…
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Category Archives: Gender and the Body
What I’m Reading – Male Lust: Pleasure, Power, and Transformation
This book, Male Lust: Pleasure, Power, and Transformation, has been on my shelf since the early 2000s. Back then, it was at the top of my to-read list, but circumstances intervened and so I am only picking it up now. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Gender and the Body, Sex
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Lines That Didn’t Make The Cut: Remembering Claudia
The revision process leaves every writer with bits and pieces of work that no longer belong to the poem or story or whatever where they first appeared. Sometimes these scraps and fragments grow to become full fledged works on their … Continue reading
Posted in Gender and the Body, Writing
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Why Feminists Shouldn’t Use “Neckbeard”
My newest “Everyday Feminism” cartoon. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON (At the top of the cartoon, large cartoon-style letters spell out “NECKBEARD.” Each letter is growing stubble hairs out of its lowest third.) (Behind all the panels is a large drawing of … Continue reading
What’s So Often Missing from Debates about Routine Infant Penile Circumcision
Over at Feministe, Jill has written a post called “How Intactivists Are Ruining the Debate on Circumcision” in which she complains, quite reasonably, that “Every time female genital cutting is mentioned on Feministe — every time — someone from the ‘intactivist’ community … Continue reading
Posted in Gender and the Body
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Trying To Be an Ally: Thinking About Hejab, Muslim Invisibility, and the Casual Hatred that is Cultural Appropriation (2)
I was inspired to write this series of posts–part 1 is here–after reading The Hijabinist’s post, “Here’s what’s wrong with hijab tourism and your cutesy ‘modesty experiments.’” The post takes note of and criticizes a pattern that the author traces … Continue reading
Trying To Be an Ally: Thinking About Hejab, Muslim Invisibility, and the Casual Hatred that is Cultural Appropriation (1)
In 2008, when my family and I traveled to Iran for my brother-in-law’s wedding, the day after we left Tehran to visit my sister-in-law and her family in Isfahan, the Iranian morality police drove a paddy wagon into Tajrish, a … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Gender and the Body, Iran
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Over a hundred thousand sign petition against Disney’s Merida Makeover
To celebrate Merida of the Pixar film Brave “officially” joining the Disney Princess line, Disney released some new illustrations of her. In the new illustrations, Merida is even thinner than her already-thin movie version (as Alyssa put it, “what appears … Continue reading
Don't forget that we built loopholes into our emissions and fuel economy regulations so car companies could get around the…