{"id":3171,"date":"2007-02-27T05:37:32","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T12:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/27\/link-farm-open-thread-46\/"},"modified":"2007-02-27T05:37:32","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T12:37:32","slug":"link-farm-open-thread-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3171","title":{"rendered":"Link Farm & Open Thread #46"},"content":{"rendered":"

Truly Outrageous presents<\/em>: The 31st Carnival of the Feminists!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Nineteenth Floor presents<\/em>: Disability Carnival #9<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Righteous Sister Speaks presents<\/em>: Erase Racism Carnival #9<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Brownfemipower: The Women The World Requires<\/strong><\/a>
\n“…For our communities, death is not the ultimate fuck you\u2013living is.” A bit under a year from now, I hope someone nominates this post for a 2007 “best post” Koufax. It’s that good. And also impossible to summarize, so just go read it.<\/p>\n

Crooked Timber: Why Are Dutch Children The Happiest, Healthiest Kids In The Industrialized World?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Agitator: Context For The SWAT Team Shooting Of Kathryne Johnson<\/strong><\/a>
\nI hope folks are reading The Agitator. One of his most frequent topics is how SWAT teams are now commonly being used for no-knock raids on homes where there’s no reason for heavily-armed no-knock raids; as a result, more and more people are dying, in most cases shot to death by police invaders who didn’t identify themselves, and whose over-the-top tactics introduce violence into non-violent situations.<\/p>\n

This post is a stunning — and by no means complete — list of people who have been shot to death for no acceptable reason. Except in the rare case where someone shoots a police officer in self-defense, there is never any significant punishment for the killers.<\/p>\n

I Shame The Matriarchy: My Ex-Husband’s Porn Addiction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Geek Monthly: Interview With Joss About The “Buffy Season Eight” Comic Book Series<\/strong><\/a>
\nPage four of the interview is especially interesting for feminist readers, but the whole interview makes me excited about the comic book. There is a minor spoiler about what Dawn’s been up to, though, so skip page 2 if you’d like to avoid that. Curtsy: Capitalism Bad, Tree Pretty<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alex Blase at Dkos: Gay-Bashing Is The Reason “Forcible Sodomy” and “Rape” Are Two Different Crimes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Rad Geek: How The U.S.’s Drug War Contributes To Starvation In Afghanistan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

BlackProf.com: Jim Crow Laws Were The Tyranny Of The White Minority<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

African American-backed majoritarian governments controlled the South after the Civil War; while in power, they enacted strong civil rights laws and created a public education system. These policies were reversed, and segregation imposed, not because African Americans were a minority, destined to lose in the majoritarian political process, but rather through elimination of democratic politics and imposition of minority rule. African Americans and their white allies were stripped of their electoral majority through fraud, violence and illegal disenfranchisement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

News Story: Hybred Cars, Blind Pedestrians, Audible Signals and Noise Pollution<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Gimp Parade<\/a> links to this article, which points out that hybrid cars — because they’re so quiet — are potentially dangerous to blind pedestrians.<\/p>\n

The Anti-Essentialist Conundrum: Rosie Demonstrates What A Real Apology Looks Like<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Indianz.com: Bureau of Indian Affairs Is A “Black Hole” For Tribes Wanting Land Placed In Trust<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Extremely cool photo of migrating starlings in Algeria.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Shakespeare’s Sister: Jimmy Kimmel’s Anti-Transsexual Rant<\/strong><\/a>
\nSS links to a YouTube video<\/a>. In the video, interviewing Rebecca Romijn (who plays a transsexual on Ugly Betty<\/em>) Kimmel jokes about how he thinks transwomen are ugly and unfeminine, and jokes about a fictional character taking an axe to a transsexual. Romijn disagrees with him and says some of the right things, but I was longing to see her get angry and chew Kimmel out, and I was disappointed.<\/p>\n

I’m unhappy with the cliched use of the transsexual villain plot-twist on Ugly Betty<\/em>, which obviously feeds on ugly anti-trans stereotypes. But despite that I still love the show, and the writers are attempting to make Romijn’s character both fully developed and sympathetic to the audience.<\/p>\n

Never Judge A Book By It’s Cover: Democrat women are ugly! Ha ha!<\/strong><\/a>
\nFor Republicans, this sort of thing passes for wit. The pettiness and stupidity of this post is made even more pathetic by the blog’s name. (The joke in this post parallels the Jimmy Kimmel anti-trans bigotry linked to above, further proof that banal minds think alike.)<\/p>\n

Newspaper Rock: Simpsons Episode Does A Good (But Not Flawless) Job Depicting American Indians<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Blind Bookworm: Ashley X And The Journalistic Challenge Of Writing About Disability<\/strong><\/a>
\nA lot of really interesting stuff here. Curtsy: The Gimp Parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Deltoid: Poll Shows That Most Americans Badly Underestimate Iraqi Death Toll<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Dissident Voice: Palestinian Refugee Family, Including Children, Imprisoned In Texas; Daughter May Have Been Sexually Abused With Punative Body Cavity Search<\/strong><\/a>
\nAbsolutely disgusting. After reading the above article, read the follow-up article<\/a> as well. (Thanks to Ms. Xeno for the tip.)<\/p>\n

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Dispatches From The Culture War: Christian Group Objects To Wal-Mart Carrying Books For Queers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

A Bird’s Nest: Reading The Anti-Feminist Blogs<\/strong><\/a>
\nCheck out her follow-up post<\/a>, as well.<\/p>\n

The Republic Of T: Wealth, Inheritance, and Excluding Same-Sex Couples From Marriage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

My Private Casbah: Feminism Shouldn’t Be An Excuse For Anti-Trans Prejudice<\/strong><\/a>
\nBint criticizes the decision of a Canadian women’s center to discriminate against a transwoman volunteer. Shorter Bint: None of us will truly be free until all of us are free.<\/p>\n

International Federation of Journalists Condemns US For Unprovoked Attack On Iraqi Journalists<\/strong><\/a>
\nAs ePurbus Media points out<\/a>, the total lack of coverage of this story — either to confirm or to debunk it — is very disturbing.<\/p>\n

Daily Campus: If “Rape Drugs” Are Uncommon And It’s Drunk Women Being Raped, That’s Still Rape<\/strong><\/a>
\nIf you run into a login wall, you can use: Login: alas@amptoons.com Password: alasablog<\/p>\n

Washington Blade: Proponents Of Federal Anti-Gay-Marriage Amendment Will Seek Amendment Via State Legislatures<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The American Prospect: How Fundamentalist Christians Think About Gays And “Recruitment”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Last fall, while doing some reporting in northeastern Kentucky, I was talking to two local activists (registered Democrats, no less!) about why they were trying to shut down anti-bullying training at the public high school. Their gripe? By teaching that homosexuality is normal, and that students shouldn’t harass their classmates because they\u2019re gay, the training sought to recruit students into being gay. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nDaily Mail: Article About Troop Of Fat Ballerinas<\/strong><\/a>
\nAs Big Fat Blog<\/a> correctly points out, the article contains some annoying and needless anti-fat cliches, but the dancers are great. I always love seeing good fat dancers. (That’s a photo of one of the dancers, to the right.)<\/p>\n

Newshog: The Case Against Iran Is Extremely Weak<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Eurozine: Interesting Interview With Martha Nussbaum<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe end of the interview, which includes her (mostly positive) reflections on MacKinnon and Dworkin, might be particularly interesting to feminists. Curtsy: Feminist Law Professors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

LA Times: Al Sharpton’s Ancestors Were Enslaved By Family Of Strom Thurmond’s Ancestors<\/strong><\/a>
\nHoly shit. (Thanks to Bean for the tip.)<\/p>\n

Cool Beans: Our bank donates to charity! Which charity is that? Just, y’know, “charity.”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Why Sadly, No! Will Never Be On My Blogroll<\/strong><\/a>
\n(Fortunately for them, I’m sure they couldn’t care less.)<\/p>\n

Andrew Sullivan: Dildos, Penises, Anuses, and Texas Law, Oh My!<\/strong><\/a>
\nThis is a link to an embedded youtube video. The entire thing (which includes comments from Molly Ivans) is pretty amusing, but the highlight is definitely a debate in the Texas legislature over a law making it illegal for a penis to ever touch an anus. I also liked the sex shop employee, standing in front of a display of at least 30 dildos, explaining that they don’t sell dildos. Curtsy: The Debate Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Angry Brown Butch: Race, Opposition to Equal Marriage Rights, And Homophobia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Slate: In Defense Of “Hooking Up,” The Latest Non-Crisis On Campus<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Taking Steps: It Is Time For A Feminism Of The Monsterous<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This is for the Lilim, because you forget that the next part after your co-opted icon parts ways with Adam and goes her own way is and she begat monsters, and she becomes terrifying. This is for the Gorgons and the vampires and the chimaeras, for Cybele and Baba Yaga, Hel and Ashtoreth, for Lamia and Scylla, for Kali and Kapo ‘ula-kina’u. This is for all of them with teeth.<\/p>\n

It is time to look the monstrous in the eye. It is time. It is time to say that we are beautiful in our fierceness, and that we are our own. We are not the rejected of what we can never be. We are what we were meant to be. We are not pieces of wholes thrown together incorrectly. We are not mistakes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

YouTube: Man Testing Different Levels Of Dog Shock Collar<\/strong><\/a>
\nThere’s probably something wrong with me, because I think this clip is hilarious. Via Damn Cool Pics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My Private Casbah: Similarities Between Being A Person Of Color & A Person With Disabilities<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Dispatches From The Culture Wars: The International Trend Towards Outlawing “Defamation of Religion.”<\/strong><\/a>
\nScary stuff. Especially in light of Amanda and Melissa’s recent experiences<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Volokh Conspiracy: Yes, Athiests Are Capable Of Being Moral<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Ruth Rosen: The Care Crisis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For four decades, American women have entered the paid workforce–on men’s terms, not their own–yet we have done precious little as a society to restructure the workplace or family life. The consequence of this “stalled revolution,” a term coined by sociologist Arlie Hochschild, is a profound “care deficit.” A broken healthcare system, which has left 47 million Americans without health coverage, means this care crisis is often a matter of life and death. Today the care crisis has replaced the feminine mystique as women’s “problem that has no name.” It is the elephant in the room–at home, at work and in national politics–gigantic but ignored.<\/p>\n

Three decades after Congress passed comprehensive childcare legislation in 1971–Nixon vetoed it–childcare has simply dropped off the national agenda. And in the intervening years, the political atmosphere has only grown more hostile to the idea of using federal funds to subsidize the lives of working families. (Curtsy: Our Bodies Our Blog.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

YouTube: Super Flexible Girl Competition<\/a>.<\/strong>
\nVia Damn Cool Pics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An Even Scarier Photoshop Retouching Site<\/strong><\/a>
\nVery disturbing, both because they specialize in photos of contestants in child beauty pageants, and because they’re not as skillful as the folks who do adult models, and as a result the retouched photos look even more artificial. Via a comment left on Pandagon<\/a> (normally I’d credit the person who left the comment, but Pandagon’s down at the moment, so I can’t look it up).<\/p>\n

Clay Cane: Gallery of Black Women On The Cover Of Vogue<\/strong><\/a>
\nCurtsy: Blackprofs.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Spain Standardizes Women’s Clothing Sizes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Glenn Greenwald: When Foreign Policy Is Dominated By Men Wanting To Preserve Their Masculinity<\/strong><\/a>
\nGlenn doesn’t put things in those terms, but I think anyone watching politics through a feminist lens would find it impossible not to see idiotic machismo lurking behind a bunch of politiicans going on about the need to appear “strong” rather than “weak.”<\/p>\n

Equality Loudoun: Anti-Gay Male Preacher Propositions Undercover Male Cop<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

2000 Bloggers: Photo Montage<\/strong><\/a>
\nNeat. Curtsy: DeviousDiva<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Slactivist: Biblical literalism, homosexuality and charging interest<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

New (to me) Blog: Muzzlewatch<\/a><\/strong>
\n“Tracking efforts to stifle open debate about US-Israeli foreign policy.”<\/p>\n

(I’m only including this link to DeviousDiva in the hope that it’ll help her become a flippery fish. :-P )<\/a><\/p>\n

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