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Racialicious presents The 10th Erase Racism Carnival!
New To The Blogroll: Feminism 101
How Many Of The 50 States Can You Name In Ten Minutes?
Thanks, Bean!
RighteousBabe: Disability vs. Defect And Democrats
This “Kos” diary by a disabled rights activist is one of the best posts I’ve read in the last few weeks (gotta remember this one when it comes time for Koufax Awards); curtsy to a few people, including Blue, Charles, and Brownfemipower.
The Gimp Parade: How I Only Barely Escaped Being Killed By Institutionalization
Another one that deserves a Koufax nomination. After you’ve read it, if you want more background on this subject, I highly recommend Harriet Johnson’s essay The Disability Gulag.
LA Times: The Glass Ceiling Is Alive And Well
There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about women leaving corporate America, unwilling to make the sacrifices necessary to advance. Maybe. But college-educated women still earn just 75 cents for every dollar their male peers take home, and corporate women are twice as likely as men to have staff jobs rather than the operating jobs that give them the experience to rise. Yet women are starting businesses at twice the rate of men, and those businesses are growing at twice the rate of all firms. Given those statistics, it seems far more likely that women are leaving corporations because they are not allowed into corridors of real power even after they’ve made the sacrifices. [Curtsy: Feministe.]
Neatorama: The Ten Most Magnificent Trees In The World
Sara Speaking: Behold The Awesome Fridge Against Privilege!
Muttering In A Corner: The Internets And I Muse At Great Length On The Topic Of Rape
An excellent gathering of links and quotes, with further thoughts added by Defenestrated.
Tikun Olam: Analysis of Obama’s speech to AIPAC
A lot of progressives have expressed disappointment with Obama’s speech to AIPAC, but there are bright spots as well.
Zingerella: What Is The Patriarchy, Anyway?
Feministing: Children Benefit When Dads Take Time Off From Work
A report published today by the Equal Opportunities Commission and based on research tracking 19,000 children born in 2000 and 2001 found emotional and behavioural problems were more common by the time youngsters reached the age of three if their fathers had not taken time off work when they were born, or had not used flexible working to have a more positive role in their upbringing. [Curtsy: Trinifar]
Hugo Schweitzer Schwyzer: “Architects Of Our Own Adversity”
A meditation about men, complicity and suffering set off by a recent post on “Alas.”
Tim Wise Rebuts “The Color Of Crime”
Criticism of the claim that there is an epidemic of anti-white crime by blacks. (For many examples of this claim, read through the astonishingly numerous and racist comments to this blog post.)
The London Review of Books: The similarities between Iraq and Darfur are remarkable.
Liberal Catnip: The Politics Of Powerlessness
It seems that unless you have a large, visible wound or a tumour you can flash on an x-ray, they simply cannot accept that you might actually suffer from pain and other equally annoying symptoms every day. And, even if we did have those things to show them, they seem to always come up with a story – either theirs (which is not similar) or someone else’s (like Lance Armstrong’s amazing feats, for examples) as proof that you should just get over it, rise up and live a normal life. You’re either a loser or a hero.
ArtNet: White Walls, Glass Ceilings
Excellent article about the ongoing sexism keeping many female artists out of art galleries.
Union of Concerned Scientists: Existing, On-The-Road Technology Can Create Greenhouse-Friendly Minivans and SUVs
The big auto companies are suing, claiming that it’s not possible to create vehicles that can mee the new emissions standards of some states; the UCS proves that not only is it possible, but the technology is already being made and sold by the auto companies. Curtsy: How To Save The World.
Ebogjonson: Time-Lapse Photo Of A “Tempest” Game Session
Yet Another Study Linking Age And Opposition To Marriage Equality
De Novo: Why It’s Wrong For A Women’s Music Festival To Exclude Transwomen
An extremely well-argued piece. Curtsy: The Debate Link.
Femniste: Why A Health Exemption Isn’t Good Enough
Jill posts about a Polish case in which a woman went mostly blind for lack of an abortion; doctors refused to perform the procedure, even though it was legal. For what it’s worth, this woman has just won a lawsuit in the European Court of Human Rights. (She was awarded $33,000 from the Polish government. Doesn’t seem like nearly enough, does it?) (I blogged about this and other cases of “abortion ban overreach” a couple of years ago).
Magic Kitty: Lindey Lohan Upskirt, Britney Crotch Shots!
Brilliant. Make sure to click through on some of the links. Curtsy: Ilyka.
Screw Bronze: Lesbian goth, gothic self harmers, cutters & a love story
My baby-goth tendencies came out a few years later when I became a “biter”; of those kids who when pushed over the edge tends to bite. I, however, only ever tried to bite one place; the jugular. Many was the time my older brother, having teased and tormented me just one too many times would have his mocking laughter turn to screams for my parents as he held my arcing body back while I twisted and strained closer and closer to his neck. My parents always reached us in time. They tried to get me a stuffed animal to rip the throat out instead. “It’s not the same.” I told them after a few bites.
Salon: Soros and others to fund alternative Jewish lobbyist group
Although most Jews in the US are liberal or lefty, the biggest Jewish lobbying groups — especially AIPAC — have been right-wing, so this could be a good development, if it doesn’t fall through.
The Nietzsche Family Circus
Thanks to Neal Skorpen for the tip.
McSweeney’s: An Open Letter To Mr. James Thatcher, Brand Manager, Procter & Gamble, Regarding Always Maxi Pads
Curtsy: Sufficient Scruples
Boing Boing: Man Tricks Nigerian Email Scammers Into Re-enacting Monty Python Sketch.
World Changing: Interesting article/photo essay describing a free kitchen in Dehli
An article about “the Gurdwara Bangla Sahib kitchen, a Sikh temple which serves [free] meals to around 10,000 people every single day.” Curtsy: Boing Boing.
Media Matters: Even with Dems controlling Congress, Sunday News Shows Still Favor Conservatives
A year ago, the four major news networks excused bringing on more Conservatives than Liberals as guests by saying that they had to interview the party in power more often. But since the 2006 elections, we’ve had a split government, and yet 3 of the 4 networks have continued to overwhelmingly favor conservatives as guests.
Indexed is brilliant.
I can’t even begin to describe it, but Jessica Hagy is clearly some sort of genius.
CCFinlay: Winners of the contest to make the word “scrotum” more acceptable through poetry.
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Indexed stretches my brain every day.
Another Web comic recommendation: LucidTV.
Random pickyness–Hugo’s name is SchwYzer, not SchwEITzer. (It’s confusing because of Albert Schweitzer.)
[Thanks, Sam — correction made. –Amp]
There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about women leaving corporate America, unwilling to make the sacrifices necessary to advance. Maybe. But college-educated women still earn just 75 cents for every dollar their male peers take home, and corporate women are twice as likely as men to have staff jobs rather than the operating jobs that give them the experience to rise. Yet women are starting businesses at twice the rate of men, and those businesses are growing at twice the rate of all firms. Given those statistics, it seems far more likely that women are leaving corporations because they are not allowed into corridors of real power even after they’ve made the sacrifices.
The implicit connection here is that women join corporations, don’t get promoted, and then quit and start their own businesses. But that connection is not clear. A lot of people who start their own businesses either never worked for a corporation or only did so for a short time. Now, what would help actually prove this case would be to actually poll both male and female enterpreneurs. Get their job histories, and ask them why they started their own businesses. I’m not saying tht this op-ed is wrong, but I am saying that they may well be drawing a conclusion that is not supported by the evidence they have presented so far.
Analysis of Obama’s Speech:
Sen. Obama spent two terms (I believe) in the Illinois Senate, where most seats are “safe” and where very few have had to engage in an actual contested election. Illinois politics are such that the two parties have pretty much carved out the state as far as which party controls which seats, and even the primaries are rarely strongly contested as the party leaders anoint candidates and control political contributions. Yes, there are some seats that are up for grabs, but not too many.
Sen. Obama then managed to win election as Senator when the various other credible candidates and their parties shot themselves in the foot, reloaded and shot again, and then went and got another gun when they ran out of bullets. He ended up running against a native of Maryland that even I will readily grant is a “right-wing nutcase”.
Now he’s finding himself in a real election. Mr. Clean is going to have to get some calluses on his hands to win this election. We’ll see if he can handle it.
The comments on Magic Kitty’s site are a riot. The one guy who was SO UPSET about not getting to see the porn intended and the resulting insults and disjointed sentences that spew from his fingers are entertaining.
In re: glass ceilings:
http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8871935
via rebecca blood.
Just honored to get the above “curtsy”! My relatively young blog is about population pressure, sustainability, and growing consumption in our finite world. A large part of the response to that has to be worldwide improvement in education, economic opportunity, and equal rights for women.
From the CT post:
Seriously? I’m supposed to consider the US to be just a step above Madagascar because employers are allowed to replace workers who won’t do their jobs with ones who will?
Thanks for the spelling change as well as the link; thanks to Sam for pointing it out.
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Oh my lord, the trees.
So awesome a link.
Who drives into the only tree in a 250 mile radius? How could anyone hold their head up in society ever again?! TREE KILLER. Harumph.
While in complete agreement with the idea that it’s one of the more moronic messages one could put on any commercial product (and I really can’t think of anything you could put on a Maxi-Pad that wouldn’t be moronic), I see a problem right here:
there will never be anything “happy” about a day in which you have to jack yourself up on Motrin and Kahlúa and lock yourself in your house just so you don’t march down to the local Walgreens armed with a hunting rifle and a sketchy plan to end your life in a blaze of glory.
First, let me suggest switching to hashish and Bushmills (preferably the 10-year old single malt or better, although Black Bush is a fine blended whiskey). Your day will go MUCH more smoothly. Secondly, get yourself a membership in the local hunt club and go skeet shooting. If you do decide to turn on your colleagues, both the powder load and the pellets are small enough that you are unlikely to do any permanent damage to anyone more than 20 feet away.
Wow, those are some magnificent trees. Here’s an article on the poor Tenere tree. The Baobabs make me think of The Little Prince
And thanks for the link! :D
Uh, no Amp. The Britney Spears crotch shot thing was a radfem project which created a huge blogosphere brouhaha back in February. I find it impossible to believe you didn’t know that.
Google blogs, “Britney Spear Crotch Shot.” My post is still fourth or fifth on the list. A bunch of us participated in this.
Your link here is just dishonest. I don’t care whether you approve this comment, I just care that you get called out on it and that I know you did.
Heart
Thanks for the link to De Novo!
I’ll TMI-confess that never having been afflicted with more than cramps when I’m on the rag, I don’t understand how someone can deem the hormonal shifts associated with having one’s period to be likely to cause a woman to “march down to the local Walgreens armed with a hunting rifle and a sketchy plan to end your life in a blaze of glory.” Frankly, this sounds like the kind of depiction of women as the crazy irrational body-driven Other (in contrast to sane, rational, brain-driven Men) that one hears from people like Rush Limbaugh, who claims to be willing to have women in combat if it’s while they’re PMSing so they will be sufficiently angry and homicidal (’cause that’s what we need in modern, post-Berserker warfare…).
Where’s the dishonesty, Heart? Because he saw it via someone other than your righteous self?
Heart,
when a lot of people do a meme, there are still some who do it better than others and some who have more entertaining comments threads than others. Is there a rule that only the originator of a meme should be linked to?
MagicKitty gave full credit to the other bloggers she saw who did the meme. She may well have not followed the chain right back to your early efforts though. Should she have been obliged to?
Anyway, follow the link and let your mouse hover over the links to see why hers is a bit different. She also has the most entertainingly obtuse pro-porn commenter dancing around in comments. The link is worth following for him alone.
Oh, and on the States, I got 45 before I cheated and looked at a map.
PS. Thanks for the link to Feminism 101, Amp.
33, but I am a Brit.
45 before I just sat there grumbling at the screen for a few minutes; 48 by the time the ten minutes were up (no cheating, honest, just mulling!). Colorado and Delaware – I have an ex-roommate and a former social studies teacher who are somewhere out there shaking their fists at me.
That’s brilliant.
I got all the states in 6 minutes, but Alabama and Wyoming took me about 2 minutes to remember.
I did really badly in Africa, where I missed 23 countries (including Angola and Zimbabwe!), and better in Europe where I missed 10 countries (all really tiny except Switzerland, Lithuania, and Albania). In both cases, there were several I would have gotten if I could have remembered how to spell them. European capitals I did the worst on, getting only 18 out of 44.
Well, here’s as good an excuse as any to delurk after three years: Elizabeth Bear’s Subterranean Press article “Dear Patriarchy,” wherein she speaks eloquent on being a feminist writer in genre markets. It had me all but standing up and cheering, and deserves wider attention.
There is a 1000 year old cypress in Japan at the Seichoji Temple on Mt. Kiyosumi in the town of Kominatsu on the Chiba penninsula in Japan that I got to see while I was touring there in 2004 with the Scouts. Here’s a picture. The picture does not do it justice; I’ll look for one taken by my group and post it if I can.
This apparently was the temple where some people believe Nichiren Shonin became a Boddhisatva (and please forgive me if I messed that up), and is where he promulgated his teachings from.
Got all the European countries but Bosnia.
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