{"id":612,"date":"2004-02-16T19:51:16","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T03:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/16\/links-links-links-links-links\/"},"modified":"2004-02-16T19:51:16","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T03:51:16","slug":"links-links-links-links-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Links links links links links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>MaryBeth Williams, of Wampum, is <a href=\"http:\/\/wampum.wabanaki.net\/archives\/000782.html\">running for the legislature<\/a>. No joke. From being a fan of her blogging, I know MaryBeth is smart, passionate, compassionate, dedicated, feminist, educated and skeptical &#8211; everything I could want in a politician. Plus she&#8217;s a woman and a minority in a state that doesn&#8217;t have enough of either in government (is there any state with enough?). I only regret she&#8217;s running in the right-hand coast&#8217;s Portland, rather than mine.\n<p>She plans to keep on blogging, so there should be some fascinating blogging in Wampum as the campaign moves on. By the way, MaryBeth&#8217;s blog has a Paypal button if you&#8217;d like to contribute to her campaign.<\/p>\n<li>I can spend hours just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neen.org\/demo\/clinger.swf\">yanking the funny flexi man back and forth<\/a>. Back and forth, back and forth&#8230; If your browser lets you, zoom in so he&#8217;s bigger. Whheeeeee&#8230;.\n<li>There have been tons of great posts at Body and Soul lately. <a href=\"http:\/\/bodyandsoul.typepad.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/cheap_has_more_.html\">&#8216;Cheap&#8217; has more than one meaning, sweetheart<\/a> is one of my faves, and if you haven&#8217;t read it I recommend you do so.\n<li>Just when you thought it was safe to go back to reading economics journals&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2004\/01\/the_economics_o.html\">&#8220;The Economics of Orgasm.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Two brief responses to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/001244.html\">this post of mine<\/a> on the Family Scholars Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriagemovement.org\/archives\/2004_02_08_archive.html#107652013750481923\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriagemovement.org\/archives\/2004_02_08_archive.html#107654765062709506\">here<\/a>. Until I have further information, I have to agree with Tom and David that NOW LDEF was being unfair and attacked what seems to be a decent program unfairly. On the other hand, I&#8217;m a little skeptical that the separate programs offered to women won&#8217;t be &#8220;lesser&#8221; &#8211; it definitely merits investigation.\n<p>I should also mention that David Blankenhorn was perfectly nice in his response to me &#8211; and even admitted error on one point &#8211; making me feel rather guilty that I was snarky in my comments to him. I&#8217;ll do better in future.<\/p>\n<li>A few days ago, the <i>New York Times <\/i>carried an article on the Justice Department <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/02\/12\/politics\/12ABOR.html?ex=1391922000&#038;en=dc9c434d2ef05cdf&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">seeking medical records of women who have had abortions<\/a>. Most chilling quote:\n<div class=\"snip\">Citing federal case law, the department said in a brief that &#8220;there is no federal common law&#8221; protecting physician-patient privilege. In light of &#8220;modern medical practice&#8221; and the growth of third-party insurers, it said, &#8220;individuals no longer possess a reasonable expectation that their histories will remain completely confidential.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately, at least one Judge (in New York) has taken Ashcroft&#8217;s side in this dispute. (Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/riba_rambles\/216355.html\">Rita Rambles<\/a>).<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/ericzorn\/chi-zornlog.story\">The Chicago Tribune <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msmagazine.com\/blog\/recommended.asp?id=579\">Ms.Musings <\/a>have both recently linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/buggydoo.blogspot.com\/\">One Good Thing<\/a>. Let me add &#8220;Alas, a Blog&#8217;s&#8221; tiny voice to the growing chorus &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/buggydoo.blogspot.com\/\">One Good Thing <\/a>is smart, funny, mean as hell (in a <i>good <\/i>way) and wonderfully feminist take on motherhood, owning a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honeysuckleshop.com\/content\/home.html\">sex toy store<\/a>, current events and everything else.\n<li>Speaking of sex toys, if you&#8217;re in the market, please make a point of shopping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honeysuckleshop.com\/content\/home.html\">The Honeysuckle Shop<\/a>; it&#8217;s a fine shop, plus the owners have good politics. Pass the word on.\n<li>Back at the Family Scholars blog, Elizabeth Marquardt argues passionately that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyscholars.org\/archives\/2004_02_08_archive.html#107673229552067410\">cloning is a women&#8217;s rights issue<\/a>.\n<li>Don&#8217;t know why I find this appealing, but I do. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stud.ntnu.no\/~alexann\/\">Dance, fat purple thing, dance!<\/a>\n<li>Interesting post at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedtimber.org\/archives\/001302.html\">Crooked Timber <\/a>on what makes a good childhood, venturing into thoughts about public spaces and TV watching rules. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/apartment11d.blogspot.com\/2004_02_01_apartment11d_archive.html#107646474064215339\">Apt. 11D.<\/a>\n<li>Excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministe.us\/blog\/archives\/000674.php\">meta-blogging post at Feministe <\/a>&#8211; you should go read it. When I started &#8220;Alas, A Blog,&#8221; there were many blogs by feminists, but relatively few feminist blogs. Now it seems to me that there are so many excellent feminist blogs. It pleases me (and gives me more to read!) &#8211; but at the same time, it makes me feel &#8220;Alas&#8221; is less necessary than it used to be. Like Feministe&#8217;s MsLauren, I&#8217;m wondering if it isn&#8217;t time to jettison the blog and work on other writing. (My fear is that without the blog I&#8217;ll do no writing at all &#8211; as MsLauren wrote, Blogging is the one kind of writing I seem to get done without deadline pressure.\n<p>From Feministe (and via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapphosbreathing.com\/archives\/000317.html\">Sappho&#8217;s Breathing<\/a>):<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">The world is a strangely oppressive classroom in which memes we dislike and with which we disagree are taught to us every day. We often feel that we have no voice, no outlet, no space to call one&#8217;s own. Blogging has given us a space that is under our control, in which we can say what we like, popular or not, and form more concise ideas about who we are and what we really think about a given issue. We can accept or reject the memes as we so choose.<\/div>\n<p>I sometimes think I&#8217;ll spend my entire life doing nothing but unlearning poisonous memes the world has shoved down my throat. (Should I post this? It sounds negative, and my readers tend to like upbeat stuff more. And who can blame them?)<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/features\/lifestyle\/chi-0402120480feb13,1,2751326.story?coll=chi-leisuretempo-hed\">Cyndi Lauper still rocks<\/a>. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msmagazine.com\/blog\/recommended.asp?id=586\">MsMusings<\/a>.\n<li>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefword.org.uk\/\">F-Word <\/a>(a really good website I should read more often), the author linked in comments to this essay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefword.org.uk\/features\/feministsaresexist.live\">&#8220;Feminists are sexist.&#8221;<\/a>\n<p>From F-Word:<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">The thing is, I&#8217;m getting really, really tired of having to justify feminism by explaining how it also benefits men. And that, believe it or not, is the point of this article. What I&#8217;m angry about is not the genuine male enquirers who honestly wonder why \u201cnobody complains about the stereotyping of men\u201d (and they do exist, I replied to several of them), it&#8217;s the anti-feminist men who attack us for daring to get involved in a movement which aims to improve the lives of women.<\/p>\n<p>What this is really about is men accusing feminists of sexism and hypocrisy unless they can prove that they spend exactly half of their time, energy, and resources on campaigning on behalf of men. What this is really about is that if feminism only improves the lives of women, it has no value or importance. What this is really about is that feminism only has value if it works on behalf of men and improves the lives of men. What this is really about is anti-feminist men being threatened by women working for women. What they&#8217;re really saying is that to talk about women, to focus on women, to point out that something affects women badly; all of this is of no importance or value. It&#8217;s classic, really \u2013 because men are not always the focus of attention of feminism, these anti-feminists can&#8217;t stand it.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I very much agree, and even drew <a href=\"http:\/\/zena.secureforum.com\/cartoons\/show_toon.cfm?toonID=305&#038;toonList=1518,1457,1308,1251,1247,1248,1227,1223,1217,1206,1194,1185,1175,1162,1148,1129,1118,1100,1088,1076,1065,1061,1052,1029,1024,1017,1007,1002,998,992,977,968,964,946,938,930,921,912,885,873,869,856,850,841,839,809,803,794,780,774,764,759,750,725,710,712,705,702,697,691,663,651,639,628,609,598,574,568,565,554,545,532,527,525,515,510,502,496,479,467,459,441,438,431,425,418,413,400,378,372,370,358,353,328,319,307,305,303,301,300,290,287,286,285,284,277,271,272,270,262,258,250,247,241,238,234,226,218,209,208,202,191,190,189,188,187,186,181,178,171,165,161,138,137,136,135,134,132,115,112,108,105,102,99,88,85,82,78,75,68,70,71,72,73,74,69&#038;index=by_artist.cfm&#038;artist=10\">a cartoon carrying much the same message <\/a>a few years ago.<\/p>\n<li>Heidi Bond at Crescat Sententia has written a post well-worth reading, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crescatsententia.org\/archives\/week_2004_02_08.html#003077\">&#8220;On Giving Up.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>At A Fistful of Euros, <a href=\"http:\/\/fistfulofeuros.net\/archives\/000349.php\">Scott Martins discusses the headscarf ban <\/a>in France. He also points out something I hadn&#8217;t realized (but should have guessed); one consequence of the ban is parents choosing to keep their daughters home from school.\n<li>Gabriel Rosenberg responds to <a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielrosenberg.typepad.com\/galois\/2004\/02\/incest_polygamy_2.html\">responses to his posts on incest and polygamy<\/a>, and also argues, persuasively, that it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielrosenberg.typepad.com\/galois\/2004\/02\/fried_man_origi.html\">unlikely that any state will be forced <\/a>to recognize same-sex marriages in other states.\n<li>A descriptive <i>Village Voice <\/i>article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/issues\/0326\/hyde-keller.php\">gay and lesbian same-household co-parenting arrangements<\/a>&#8230; at some point I should discuss my own somewhat odd home life on the blog.\n<div class=\"snip\">In her late twenties, Beth decided she was ready to have kids. She met Phillip Hernandez and discovered that he and his partner, James Slayton, longed to have children, too. They joked about doing it together, and one day the conversation turned serious. The three drew up a formal agreement that was not legally binding but would serve as a framework for this family for the next 18-plus years. They now have two sons, 3 1\/2-year-old Zander and 17-month-old Nicholas, and another son on the way. The boys are each biologically related to one of their dads, but Beth thinks the distinction isn&#8217;t important and balks when people ask her to clarify.<\/div>\n<p>I always get a thrill from seeing people make alternative arrangements work.<\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;m sure most of my readers would hate <a href=\"http:\/\/dustinthelight.timshelarts.com\/\">Dust in the Light<\/a> (it&#8217;s unapologetically anti-gay). But I have to admit, I like the design. Most special-effects heavy designs leave me cold (and with a headache), but for some reason this works for me. Except that the stained-glass-window thingy looks bad when text scrolls over it.\n<li>Via Dust in the Light, I came across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/opinion\/letters\/content\/projo_20040210_hayes.2fe61.html\">Letter to the Editor by Karen Hayes<\/a>:\n<div class=\"snip\">Conservatives would have us believe that gay marriage threatens traditional marriage. But marriage and the &#8220;traditional family&#8221; have been in trouble for decades &#8212; for a host of reasons that have nothing to do with homosexual partnerships. No law against same-sex marriage will change the divorce rate; no constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union of a man and a woman could have saved my parents&#8217; marriage, or my own; and no legalized bigotry will heal America&#8217;s broken families.<\/div>\n<p>Yup, yup, yup.<\/ul>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=buy-floxin-safely-online\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MaryBeth Williams, of Wampum, is running for the legislature. No joke. From being a fan of her blogging, I know MaryBeth is smart, passionate, compassionate, dedicated, feminist, educated and skeptical &#8211; everything I could want in a politician. 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