{"id":8212,"date":"2009-07-11T06:36:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T13:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/?p=869"},"modified":"2009-07-11T06:36:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T13:36:49","slug":"the-%e2%80%9cwhy-are-you-so-angry%e2%80%9d-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8212","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cWhy are you so angry????\u201d edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week has been a veritable smorgasbord of RAGE-inducing reports of various incidents. Here’s some of the stuff that has been fanning the flames on the side of my face<\/em>….<\/p>\n

How I lost my health insurance at the hairstylist’s<\/a>Freemarketer<\/strong>: “But if we offer a public option the insurance companies will go out of business!!!” Me through gritted teeth<\/strong>: “That would be the goddamned point<\/em>!”<\/p>\n

Organization Pays Addicted Women to Undergo Permanent Sterilization<\/a><\/p>\n

Which Women play center court at Wimbledon, the sexy or the talented??<\/a> I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count.<\/p>\n

How sexism in women’s sports is linked to homophobia<\/a><\/p>\n

Choice Quote:<\/p>\n

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As Granderson writes:<\/p>\n

Organizers are trying to sell their sport and believe the casual, straight male fan is more apt to watch attractive women—because if they had a love of the game, they wouldn’t be casual fans, would they? In a sport in which Anna Kournikova, a player without a singles title, can become the most popular on tour, no one should be surprised by any of this.<\/em><\/p>\n

While Granderson is entitled to his own opinion, that doesn’t mean he’s entitled to his own facts. We now have some definitive answers as to whether sex sells women’s sports or if it just sells sex. Dr. Mary Jo Kane, sports sociologist from the University of Minnesota, specializes in gender and sport for women and undertook a far-reaching study of images of women athletes putting their bodies on display for a wide-ranging focus group of both men and women. Kane found a very basic truth: sex may sell airport frat-porn like Maxim magazine, but it doesn’t sell women’s sports.<\/p>\n

Kane believes these images "alienate the core of the fan base that’s already there. Women, age 18 to 55, are offended by these images. And older males, fathers with daughters, taking their daughters to sporting events to see their favorite female athletes, are deeply offended by these images."<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A-fucking-men. It surely drives me up the wall when I see this everlasting unrelenting push to make women sexy no matter what the hell they are doing at the time. <\/p>\n

Sexy and the Gender Binary<\/a> Naked women are a selling point, naked men…are porn?!<\/p>\n

Don’t know much about history…Abolition as self help movement<\/a> It doesn’t help that Texas assholes want to further downplay minority civil rights leaders in the history texts<\/a>. Cause they take up so much damned space already. But then the only history that counts is the history of white Americans amirite?<\/p>\n

The Not so Hidden Politics of Class Online<\/a><\/p>\n

How Coco Cola has fucked up India for profit<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Cisgender’ isn’t an insult.<\/a> No really, it is NOT an Insult<\/a> How to check your cis priviledge<\/a> Please apply the above info to this next post. Why I hate filling out forms<\/a><\/p>\n

Horndog Billionaire: The Philanthropist Sullies A Good Man’s Name<\/a> I am sick unto death of shows like these. SICK of them. Take your midlife crisis, grief, need to save the world, need to make a difference, need to fuck the natives, need to get personal fufillment, WHATEVER… and shove it.<\/p>\n

On a less crazy-making note…<\/p>\n

Musing on Queer People, Fandom and Slash<\/a><\/p>\n

What does feminist urban policy look like?<\/a><\/p>\n

Bayou<\/a> has been updated.<\/p>\n

Yellow Peril Supports Black Power<\/a><\/p>\n

And finally…<\/p>\n

Trailer for Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

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This week has been a veritable smorgasbord of RAGE-inducing reports of various incidents. Here’s some of the stuff that has been fanning the flames on the side of my face….
\nHow I lost my health insurance at the hairstylist’sFreemarketer: “But if we offer a public option the insurance companies will go out of business!!!” […]<\/p>\n

And now a word from our sponsor…<\/h4>\n


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