It’s another open thread! Say what you want, be what you want. Be-in! Be-in! It’s a hippie thread! Free love! Peace! Beads! Men in luxurious long flowing skirts! Gimmie a head with hair! Etc.<\/p>\n
Anyhow, some of what I’ve read lately:<\/p>\n
VeganKid: Big Fat Carnival #3<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Fabulosa Mujer: Fifth Radical Women of Color Carnival<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Official Shrub.com: Carnival of Empty Cages 2<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Mombian: Blogging for LGBT Families Day!<\/strong><\/a> Abyss2Hope: First Carnival Against Sexual Violence<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Blac(k)ademic Goes To Washington!<\/strong><\/a> New Blog: Feminist Allies<\/strong><\/a> Political Sapphire: The lessons of Malcolm X (aka El Hajj Malik el-Shabazz).<\/strong><\/a> Fetch Me My Axe: On Temping For A Worthless Gob of Swine Smegma<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n DeviousDiva: Jewish Rights In Greece<\/strong><\/a> Ballastexistenz: On Underlying Content, Being Unable To Send “I Am Nice” Signals, And Super-Waggy Dogs<\/strong><\/a> Bitch|Lab: The Slut As A Scab In The Economy of Sex<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Being Amber Rhea: My Slut-Baiting Days<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n At least the girls who were called sluts were getting some attention. At least the boys recognized them as sexual beings. Sure, the boys may have been treating them in a disrespectful or downright dehumanizing way – but to my rattled young brain, it didn’t matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Trash Talks Back: Random Thoughts on Fuckability, Date-ability, and Trophy-ability<\/strong><\/a> The Primary Contradiction: Report on 1898 Massacre by North Carolina White Supremacists Released<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Paleofeminist: I was so relieved when I finally ditched the whole “pretty” lifestyle.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n My Amusement Park: On Lists, Winners and Favorites<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n So, we, as individuals (scholars, viewers, bloggers, writers, listeners, readers, etc) tend to construct or exhibit our identities through lists (which are often counter-lists to Big Lists, to begin with) and to develop and change these lists as a way of tracing our respective critical evolutions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Jay Sennett Jaywalks: Finding Common Ground With People We Might Otherwise Despise<\/strong><\/a> My Amusement Park: In Defense Of Cultural Appropriation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Modern Feminist: Awesome vlog criticizing sexism in the vlogosphere.<\/strong><\/a> Taking Place: Washington Post Series on Black Men Gets Off To Racist Start<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The New York Times<\/em>: The War On Food<\/strong><\/a> I don’t know if PunkAssBlog is joking or has bad taste, but I for one love the Beatles.<\/strong><\/a> Being Amber Rhea: Really interesting debate about libertarianism in the comments<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n NPR Audio: Roundtable Discussion of Sexual Media Images of Black Women<\/strong><\/a> Smackdog Chronicles: When Arundhati Roy Speaks, People Should Listen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n IrrationalPoint: On the Kenyan reform of rape law<\/strong><\/a> Capitalism Bad; Tree Pretty: Bodies and the Validation of Personal Experiences<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n I find it really hard to read material about pre-menstrual syndrome, particularly that from a feminist perspective. Unless it begins “Pre-menstrual problems can be horribly severe and hard to deal with” I get angry, because I feel like they’re denying my experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A Womb of One’s Own: Chicken\/Egg Question Definitively Answered<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Noli Irritare Leones: Porn, Prostitution, Sexual Harassment<\/strong><\/a> Why Am I Not Surprised: Who’s Gonna Liberate America?<\/strong><\/a> The Record: Larry Flynt, Free Speech, and the Right to Refuse Debate<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Granny Gets a Vibrator: An Open Letter to the Mother of Two Small, Loud Children on the Airplane<\/strong><\/a> Interesting debate at PunkAssBlog and Shades of Grey over the never-ending topic of men’s place in feminism.<\/strong> PunkAssBlog: Marc Watches Sienfeld Episodes In His Sleep<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Beat the Press: Immigrant Labor, “Shortage of Workers” and Supply & Demand<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n There is no more a shortage of workers for low-paid jobs than there is a shortage of workers for higher paid jobs. The difference is simply that the workers who perform less-skilled work have less political power to protect themselves against the efforts of employers to get low cost immigrant labor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Hugo Schwyzer: On The Accusation of Feminist Double-Standards<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Quiz: Should You Be Male or Female?<\/strong><\/a> Doctor Science Knows: Housework, Fleas, and Evolution<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Doctor Science Knows: How to Solve The Everest Mortality Problem and the Everest Pollution Problem At The Same Time<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Kung Fu Monkey on Why and How To Get Rid of the Electoral College<\/strong><\/a> BlackProf: Is X-Men III a Story about Race and Sexuality?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The Happy Feminist: Why “Feminist” Instead of “Gender Egalitarian”?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n I would love a world in which merely professing a belief in “human rights” were sufficient to convey that both women’s and men’s interest in justice. Unfortunately, history has shown that unless women make some noise and draw some focus onto our rights or equality, women’s rights and equality will not be seen as important. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s another open thread! Say what you want, be what you want. Be-in! Be-in! It’s a hippie thread! Free love! Peace! Beads! Men in luxurious long flowing skirts! Gimmie a head with hair! Etc. Anyhow, some of what I’ve read … Continue reading
\nLots of great family-friendly links! Check it out!<\/p>\n
\nWell, she’d like <\/em>to go to Washington for a political conference she’s been invited to (cool!), but she needs folks to hit her tip jar to make it happen.<\/p>\n
\nGroupblog for feminist (or pro-feminist, if you prefer) men. The first post has info on joining.<\/p>\n
\nFantastic, very long and interesting post about Malcolm X – less about his life than about him as a political thinker, and why the US (including the left) has ignored him in favor of MLK Jr.. I definitely want to remember this post come Koufax nomination time.<\/p>\n
\nDid you know that the Greek government pays the salaries of priests and imams – but not rabbis? That to build a new synagogue requires permission from a high-ranking priest? I didn’t, either. Holy crap.<\/p>\n
\nIf you haven’t been reading Ballastexistenz, you should give it a try – one of the best writers in the blogosphere, in my opinion.<\/p>\n
\nCurtsy: Women’s Space<\/a><\/p>\n
\nWhen we let bigots hurt us, is it only because we haven’t uprooted our own self-hatred? It’s sounds a bit too hippie to me, but at the same time I’m thinking on a recent experience with being flamed and to some degree it rings true. Exceptionally thought-provoking post.<\/p>\n
\nIn case you don’t know (I didn’t) “vlog” refers to video blogs. She’s a good speaker – I especially enjoyed her closing in this one. Vblogging is entirely new to me, but it’s an interesting format. I wonder how many fat vbloggers there are?<\/p>\n
\nCurtsy: My Amusement Park<\/a><\/p>\n
\nOkay, that’s kind of a mean way to link to a blogger I actually like a lot, but I figured he’s hoping to stir up some arguments. :-)<\/p>\n
\nCurtsy: New Black Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThe good news is that the definition of rape now includes offences against men and boys, and the bill also introduces a minimum sentence for rapists. The bad news is everything else.<\/p>\n
\nOne of those thoughtful, wandering posts that’s incredibly difficult to sum up in one line in link farms, but I liked the post so I hope folks go read it.<\/p>\n
\nThe first time I read Peggy McIntosh’s “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”\u009d<\/a>, I don’t think I deep-down understood why this one is so important: “If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones.” I think I’m getting it more these days. Anyhow, that’s what this very well-written post made me think of.<\/p>\n
\nNot what I expected it to be.<\/p>\n
\nStart here at Shades of Grey<\/a>, then the response at PunkAssBlog<\/a>, and finally the counter-response back at Shades of Grey<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nLike “ Antiprincess <\/a>,” I scored “either.” Whew!<\/p>\n
\nWhile you’re there, check out part 2 <\/a>and part 3<\/a> of his anti-E.C. series, too. (Part three is also a very sensible take on the “Did Bush steal Ohio in 2004?” question.) Curtsy The Sideshow<\/a>.<\/p>\n