Feminist Friday Quick Clicks, 10 and Open Thread

Linkage:

• “Why Amurika is F*cked”- eight minutes and twenty-two seconds of youtube wtf interviews with people waiting in line at a Sarah Palin book signing
• In the UK a straight couple was denied a civil union because those are for the gays?
• Escalation in Afghanistan.
• “Dinosaurs are for Boys (Girls Allowed)“-  Sociological Images discussing androcentrism, “or the idea that boy things are good for everyone but girl things are only good for girls”
• On BPA in all our food packaging, how it’s effecting us, and who to contact to help stop it.
• Hillary Clinton and Obama in a caption-this-photo.
• Cats actually are evil.  I win.
• [Edit to include this sexist pig's shit:]  Glenn Beck is OK with a Beck-Palin 2012 ticket, but Palin-Beck 2012 is too rich- she should just get back in the kitchen where she belongs.

This list is short.  Sorry- most of what I’ve read this week wasn’t particularly share-worthy (imo) or filtered into my Google Reader at a time when I was just skimming.  Anyone have any links or stories to tell?

Also, hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving =]

Feminist Friday Quick Clicks, 8

This is, of course, also an open thread.  And sorry to be posting this so late, I need to learn not to let my computer troubles get the best of me.

• On dealing with ‘sexism doesn’t exist’ comments from other women.
• Hells yes.  “at least 41 House Dems are writing directly to Pelosi, telling her that they will not vote for anything “that contains language that restricts women’s right to choose any further than current law.””
• Just in case anyone hadn’t heard:  “the Republican National Committee (RNC) has a health insurance plan for their employees that covers abortion.”
• Rachel Maddow. Apparently the teabaggers and the teabaggers are suing each other.
• Sesame Street in South Africa has a new HIV+ character on it’s show.
• India is friggin rocking right now, allowing people to signify ‘female,’ ‘male,’ or ‘other’ on ballot forms.
• Another study on math and how environment, more than innate ability, effects how women perform.
• On cancer and divorce rates.

Feminist Friday Quick Clicks, 7: Open Thread!

Fuck.  Okay so I had a ton of tabs open in my internet browser meaning to insert them into this post right up until three days ago, and my computer crashed and I lost them.  Furious.  Especially since I normally make sure to insert and save them into the post as soon as I find them and decide to use them as I’m aware of the fact that my laptop is old and crashes often.  I did not, however, learn from this mistake and my computer crashed again last night after I found some more to post.  And now I am just too tired and annoyed to find them again.  So here is an open thread for anyone on here to post what ever they are reading/writing/cooking/crocheting or whatever else you want to blogvertise.  Go for it.

Feminist Friday Quick Clicks, 6

• Ew, ew, ew, Twilight is so creepy.  And here’s an argument from the ‘other side’ defending Twilight that really just proves why.
• This blog post needs work, but I think it helps open a conversation between sexism, anti-choice, and adulthood overall.
• The Lutheran Church of Sweden will soon be performing gay marriages =]
• I think this is funny and a clear example of capitalism gone mad:  ”Christians who believe they’ll vanish from Earth in the rapture can now hire an atheist to care for their pets.”  Only in America…
• On the gender divide in sex ed.
• On working mothers and the whole sexist media ridiclousness around it.
• On gender roles and girls already worrying about their appearances in primary school.
• Disney Princesses, deconstructed.
• I wish Mattel was making Barbies this cool.
• “Just in case you think the reason white people don’t notice racism is because it’s too subtle, here’s a clip on shopping while black from ABC’sWhat Would You Do?“
• “Some 70 percent of the respondents in a new study feel they should also take their spouse’s surname – and 50 percent say that it should be a legal requirement for a woman to take her spouse’s last name.”  And yet people still say that feminism is outdated, or pointless, or that we already got the right to vote so why don’t we just stfu already.
• Oklahoma vs Women.  This law is disgusting and a huge invasion of privacy.  No one is asking to make all vasectomies public.  People would be aghast if they had to report to the gov’t exactly why they had liposuction and to have that information available publicly on the internet.  But because it’s about a womans right to her own body in such a way that has nothing to do with being ‘pretty’ or femming it up for the benefit or at the request of men it is the all-evil.  I don’t think these people even give a shit about the fetus’s anymore, if that ever had anything to do with it.
• Pic of the day, via Shakesville.
• Feminism in Italy, struggling to take hold with a constant stream of misogynist remarks from  Berlusconi.
• Charts on understanding income inequality in America.
• A girls thoughts on her own personal safety.
• “Nearly a third of the children who flee or are kicked out of their homes each year engage in sex for food, drugs or a place to stay, according to a variety of studies published in academic and public health journals.”

Friday Feminist Quick Clicks, 4

• This 16yr old girl is so cool and inspirational.  I’ve been reading her blog for a few months and I wish her the best!
• This whole ‘ban the burka’ thing is becoming a bit viral, don’t you think?
• Make-up with a conscience?
• Not really feminist, but this is my blog so I’ll post what I want.  Here’s a blog post on how we’d all be doomed if attacked by zombies.
• Obama’s speech at t he HRC dinner
• Women senators taking on Health Care.
• This didn’t have a trigger warning label on it, but it should have.  “How a few New Yorkers are trying to save the hunted gay men of Iraq”
• Women in COIN
• On Miley Cyrus and general teenage girl-dom. Normally I would have no desire to post anything about her, but I love BITCH Magazine and watching Hannah Montana dubbed in a foreign language, I’ve found, makes it far more palatable.  Plus it is a good article.
• Evil Slutopia on the movie that everyone-just-has-to-have-a-say-on (Jennifer’s Body) but-that-I-can’t-see-for-myself-because-I-just-had-to-move-to-a-foreign-country.
• “The oldest female athlete at the World Masters Games in Sydney has broken a world record in the shot put — at the age of 100.”
• Vaginal mints.  Because yeast infections are sexy.
• More Nobel Prizes, this one to a women, the first ever to win a Nobel Prize for Economics.
• Hillary Clinton says she won’t run for president again.  Not much of a surprise, but sad all the same as she’s such a role model (to me at least.)
• Awesome teen feminist website “The FBomb” asks how young feminists can ‘screen’ potential dates for misogyny before dating.

Friday Feminist Quick Links, 3

Here’s what I’m reading this week:

• Stiletto Stoners, lol.  Though I think Jezebels commentary on it is a better read.
• Sarah Haskins is still awesome, this episode on using ‘hot’ women to sell products to men.
• Paige Schilt on The Bilerico Project writes an anecdotal list on finding books to explain bodies, sex, and sexuality in an age-appropriate way to children.
• Donate to CARE! An organization that provides girls with “textbooks in subjects such as math, science, economics and history.”
• Three Americans share the Nobel Prize for Medicine… and two of them are women!
• Okay, I’m going to be honest here.  Normally I don’t give a shit about what celebrities do in their lives, or gossip, or news articles over a month old that aren’t political in nature, but OMG Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore are adorable and I have no idea if they are together but I hope so.
• Sex-ed, Star Wars style, lol.  What kind of sex educator would Yoda have been?
• A German Magazine is banning professional models from their pages as a way to combat unrealistic body images.  Pretty awesome, I think.
• New Oklahoma Abortion Law Requires Full Disclosure.
• I just like to post things from thisindexed.com; I think the index cards/posts are funny.
• Interesting article on society and media maybe looking too hard for abuse, to the point where people no longer feel safe to properly parent their children.
• This law passed (thankfully,) but 30 Republicans actually voted against it because, you know, “because companies, not women, deserve due process under the law”  (Quote from article, not a Republican.  Well she could be one, idk, but I doubt it.)
• The Female Condom 2: Cheaper, Thinner, and a Lot Less Squeaky
• I wasn’t going to post anything more on Polanski (the bloggers and media having covered it enough) but then I changed my mind (about posting, not him.)
• Obama to name gay man Ambassador to New Zealand.
• Victory for the woman in jail suing because she was shackled to the bed while giving birth!
• “Discrimination only enables more discrimination, and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” appears to be no exception to this rule.”
• On immigration enforcement and how it effects/hurts women.
• Swedish six-graders take on Toy-R-Us for gender discrimination.
• A couple lost their 17yr old daughter after Cigna refused to pay for a liver transplant, and then heckled at the couple when they came in to ask for an apology.
• Oh!  And how awesome, that in the US our president is the proud owner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize?

What are you reading?  Or writing, for that matter?

Feminist Friday Quick Clicks, 2

Here’s a list of things I’ve been reading this week:

• On trans-misogyny in an apple advert
• On the death penelty and last words said by those on death row
• On vaccinations
• “Corrective rape” is not a foreign concept
• Not a feminist post, but still related to the blog, as it is an interesting and brief article on the differences between white and brown rice
• TimesOnline has a new column about sexism in everyday life
• On feminism in Indonesian Islamic schools
• The US Navy is taking steps to integrate women on submarines
• You know abstinence-only sex ed isn’t working when even Texas is willing to consent on the issue
• Michelle Obama is so cool (on being a mom and the importance of women owning their own happiness)
• Trying to figure out why anyone would defend this guy (Polanski)
• Japan may make it legal for women to keep their maiden names… they needed legislation for that?  (Did we?)
• Virginity-faking device, because “there is a stigma about pre-marital sex in conservative Arab societies.”
• Anti-gay court decisions like this one are why I sometimes hate my home state.
• On shoes and a study on how women are more likely to wear painful ones.  No way.
• Beautiful Cervix Project. A woman tracks the changes in her cervix throughout her cycle.  Very interesting, NSFW?
• People still publish people who think and discuss that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote?

What have you all been reading?

Friday Feminist Quick Clicks

Ah, alliteration and rhyme schemes…

Anyway, here are some interesting links to click:

• Sarah Haskins doing a quick vid on ‘dating advice.’  Gotta love her.
• The Dalai Lama is a feminist.
• On German Chancellor Angela Merkel, feminist? Or out for votes?
• The “Go Girl,” presumably for the girl on the go.
• Coopers Premium Light Beer’s sexist advertising.
• And a quick diagram from Indexed, one of my new favorite blogs.

Enjoy! =]

-Ariel