Thanks, Jessica!

Here's a post about a NY Time article on how technology is becoming more feminine.

And a little bit of (attempted) humor for you: Everything I need to know about life, I learned from the Republican debate.

Thanks, Jessica!

Here's a post about a NY Times article on how technology is becoming more feminine.

Also, here's a little bit of (attempted) humor for you: Everything I need to know about life, I learned from the Republican debate.

I have a recent post I did after reading an article on CNN about porn culture. I liked that the idea of putting the issue in the public eye, but I don't think it came down hard enough on women being expected to conform to the porn culture, even though some of the things are not actually sexually pleasurable to themselves. I also hate how the Suicide Girls get drug into the picture, like they've got some secret to female empowerment, when we know someone is just making some money off of their 'alt porn' existence.

Well, I started my own blog this week (so it's a little sparse right now), but I have a reaction to the fat shaming that was taking place on the Beth Ditto thread, as well as a post about my concerns regarding the Frag Dolls.

Also: The 14th Carnival of Feminist Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fans is up (or was... I'm having trouble loading it now. Weird). Yours truly had a post about women's costumes in comic books featured.

I think that's enough from me.

I recently completed a 16-week volunteer session with 17 amazing women who sit in prison. Many of them have life sentences for fighting against their abusers. I have written a lot about my experiences (see older posts on my site), but this one sums up quite a bit.

http://socialjusticefeminist.blogspot.com/2007/02/choice-and-consequence.html

Check it out! The actor who plays Adam in a Bible movie that they show at the Creationism museum in Kentucky has a past, which would imply that he was not divinely created as he claims.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/07/national/a175033D34.DTL

Argh, link's not working:
Here's the addy:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/07/national/a175033D34.DTL

Well, it's not a serious issuse, but it's a Friday and everyone can laugh about an awful gyno visit.

Here's a story about "digging for gold"
http://yourenotinkansasanymore.blogspot.com/2006/09/my-vagina-lacks-sense-of-humor-gold.html

http://heartoffalsehood.wordpress.com/2007/06/04/female-privileges/

New blogger, here. :) The link above is to a post where I respond to "female privileges" as denoted by someone over at Women in Higher Education. I plan on writing more about privilege in the near future, as well as some feminist critiques of movies and literature (of the contemporary persuasion). Thanks for this opportunity to widen my reader net.

And for some fem-ragey goodness, here's another article I haven't gotten around to responding to yet:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070606.l-genex07/CommentStory/lifeFamily/home

Cara,

Your post points out the fundamental truth that a lot of things that are good for women are good for PEOPLE. (I'm not trying to go all MRA on y'all....)

When I was looking at law schools, I specifically targeted law schools with traditionally "feminine" characteristics - accessible professors, lots of writing opportunities, friendly students. But those things aren't good for me at the expense of a guy: they are good for everyone. Apparently, though, it's only women who point out that a lot of systems don't work and need to change, for everyone's benefit.

One of the papers I had to write for a class wound up being worth posting -- it's a personal essay on my journey from pro-life to pro-choice.

Part i, Part ii, and Part iii.

I don't think I'd be up for criticism in the "hey there should really be a comma here" variety (I have been working on this for FOUR WEEKS, there is not going to be any more revision), but otherwise I'd like to hear what y'all think.

Jen - oh my goodness, what a wild OBGYN. Really, he actually hummed the Wizard of Oz theme? Really?

Yes, Bonnie, he actually hummed the theme. With his hand on my breast. He Like I wrote, the whole visit was wildly inappropriate, but not sexually (he didn't fondle me or touch me in a non-doctorly way), so I left feeling odd, but not violated. Needless to say, this year I'm finding a new doctor.

Yes, Bonnie, he actually hummed the theme. With his hand on my breast. Like I wrote, the whole visit was wildly inappropriate, but not sexually (he didn't fondle me or touch me in a non-doctorly way), so I left feeling odd, but not violated. Needless to say, this year I'm finding a new doctor.

Yes, Bonnie, he actually hummed the Wizard of Oz theme. With his hand of my breast. Like I wrote, the whole visit was wildly inappropriate but not sexually (he never touched me in a non-doctorly way), so I left feeling odd, but not violated.

Needless to say, this year I'm finding a new doctor.

I'm so sorry. Jen=Ass.

(Mouth hanging open, no sound coming out.)

Wow....

it's not self promotion, just something i stumbled upon.
i saw an ad for this that said "just in time for father's day"...
ew.

My main comment is stuck in moderation, but I'm going to take the moment to shamelessly promote my new blog.

I only have a handful of posts right now- but I just blogged about the Beth Ditto/fat shaming, as well as my discomfort with the Frag Dolls.
So. Yeah. Traffic. Please? =)

Yup, I've got a few I'd like to share, but I'll start with just this one:
"It's a Man's World"
http://www.elainevigneault.com/2007/06/04/its-a-mans-world.html

I have met so many jackass GYNs I am no longer surprised by much. If we had a thread for them, I am confident it would be full within an hour.

Nonetheless, Jen, that story takes the cake for sheer nutso. Gold? That must be the reason for the totally unfriendly stirrups — so patients can't click their heels together and just go home.

Check out this GREAT article about the "politics of smashbortion" which talks about how abortion is presented in the media.

http://www.slate.com/id/2168126

I just started a group blog a few days ago called Lip Gloss & Pepper Spray.

Here is a post my friend put up today about the Global Feminism exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum:
http://glossandspray.blogspot.com/2007/06/global-feminisms.html

There are also a few pictures on the site of Santa Cruz Pride if you're interested. That's pretty much all I've got so far!!

Hey all --
So this has very little to do with feminism, and isn't even a post, but while we're doing the "shameless self promotion" thing, I have a really cool event I'm putting on in San Francisco. I have been working with the gallery bar owners, the artist, and all sorts of Argentine government folks for 6 months to get my amazing artist friend from Argentina up to San Francisco to have an art opening, and it's happening in late June! Here are the details for the SF ladies and fellows out there:

Hernan Achinelli Art Opening
June 29, 7pm
Location: DaDaSF, 2nd Street between Mission and Market, 1 block from the Montgomery BART Station (this is a GREAT happy hour place, by the way).

Let me know if you're interested, or, heck, just show up. By the way, I've never ever done anything like this before(I'm a techie nerd for goodness' sake), so I'm pretty excited.

I would like to shamelessly promote my terribly brief blog post about the reactions to Maggie Gyllenhaal breastfeeding in public.

Exercise equipment or sex toys? I've got a photo quiz that is pretty self-explanatory (and harder than you think if you stare long enough).

This isn't a particular post, but I would like to engage in shameless promotion of the groupblog I edit: (http://www.poormojo.org/pmjadaily/) Poor Mojo's Newswire.

We cover lots of news and poltiics and fun stuff, and often articles from this very site.

Cheers

Thanks Moxie Hart.

Eric Linden's line that its all "make believe," says volumes about the creation museum. I hope Eric Linden still got paid even after the Flat Earthers pulled the clip he acted in.

OK, I'll play -- here are a handful of recent posts from WIMN's Voices, the group blog on women and the media.

"To media, rape is hilarious (to me, not so much)"
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=608

"Excruciatingly bad dialogue, insufferably elitist characters, and glaring product placement: 'Starter Wife' makes me gag…"
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=607

"Polish Jewish girl’s Holocaust diary found, akin to Anne Frank"
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=604

"NBC’s new head honcho says 'more product placement, please'"
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=601

"Memorial Day musing about women, media and peace activism"
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=595

"American Idol or big fatty? Ask the diet-obsessed talking head!"
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=591

"Breast Cancer’s Chemical Culprits"
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=587

FYI, all -- WIMN's Voices is a huge fan of Feministing, and Jessica is a house blogger there; Ann and Samhita have done guest blog posts. If you'd like to get best-of posts from WIMN's Voices, as well as action alerts and media announcements, please feel free to subscribe to our free email list, at http://www.wimnonline.org/action/

"Malalai Joya Needs Help" and "Malalai Joya is Suspended from Parliament"
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=586 and
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=582

Thus concludes my shameless (organizational) promotion. Thanks for the prompt, Jess!

I just started up a new blog yesterday: http://bloginfemme.insanejournal.com

I've already managed to post four articles...this was clearly an outlet that I needed! Any feedback/readers would be appreciated :-)

I have a post up today on my own blog at http://www.faithfullyliberal.com about Americans' thoughts on morality according to the latest Gallup survey... needless to say stupid Gallup!

http://www.faithfullyliberal.com/?p=494

a great chicago-based grassroots feminist health collective that i am peripherally involved in: www.pomegranatecollective.org.

also, we just redesigned our website!

After reading the recent comments about gentrification, I'd like to recommend some urban planning links. :)

http://www.cyburbia.org/
http://www.planetizen.com/
http://www.urbanrail.net/

I've got a medium-length post about how principles of domestic child-welfare advocacy and international adoption overlap, and a drive-by about how much it pisses me off when people call my six-month-old a "flirt."

Moriath

Your link don't work!!!

Moriath

Your link don't work!!!

Itzura - that's what happens when I type in a hurry, lol.

http://blogingfemme.insanejournal.com

And if I've somehow mistyped it again, the link is in my username as well.

I responded to the recent Feministing post about Patti Smith in BUST:
http://jix1125.livejournal.com/177582.html

So, I just started working for this organization that is currently trying to "get off the ground" and I'm heavily involved in online marketing research.

They are greatly involved in ending poverty in other countries and have teamed up with some great organizations that strive to give people (mostly women) jobs that they will enjoy, give them a sustainable income, and get them away from the ongoing sex trafficking.

They are called "Trade as One"

http://www.tradeasone.com

Here's my blog's most popular post so far: The Law Fairy says it best. It's about Judd Apatow's masterpiece, Knocked Up. Enjoy!

I'm still not over the existence of http://www.feministing.org/ which, apparently, was supposed to be a parody. But I decline to use the term for something lacking both wit and insight.

(I just discovered it today, I don't know if anyone else has seen it, and appologize for reminding people if they already saw it)

For all you people in the Northeast, check out my art show. It's running through June 30th at Newark Art Supply.
Newark Art Supply
61 Halsey St.
Newark, NJ 07102
For previews of some of my work, you can go to;
http://dru-plus-spike.livejournal.com/111990.html

Awesome post about Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lina! Thanks for sharing. :) How people think boobs are sexual objects only for guys to look at really pisses me off -- they actually have an important biological function people. You may see boobs in public when a woman breastfeeds, get over it.

Here is a little piece about my visit to The Geffen Wing of MOCA in LA to see WACK; Art & the Feminist Revolution.

http://onlinewithzoe.typepad.com/online_with_zoe/2007/05/with_all_humili.html

Here's a new stun gun that's shaped like a double headed tampon:

http://inventorspot.com/security_system

When something is described like "weapon of mass absorption" and "zapplicator" and it's PINK how could you NOT buy this;)

http://perpet.livejournal.com/391205.html

A link to a post on my blog that links to another blog [mock_the_stupid on livejournal], wherein a post about a rapist who answered his cell phone *during* a rape, has turned into both veiled and out-right accusations of the woman deserving it. I'm "perpet", and I've been defending her psychological state for a day-and-a-half, and people are still finding ways to say she had it coming.

::shudders::

Sometimes I hate people.

This is the Call for Papers for the 16th Women & Society Conference held late October at Marist College. This is an international feminist interdisciplinary conference which mentors and models feminist scholarship.
Alix Olson will be performing as part of the program...

ciao, JAM

This is the Call for Papers for the 16th Women & Society Conference held late October at Marist College. This is an international feminist interdisciplinary conference which mentors and models feminist scholarship.
Alix Olson will be performing as part of the program...

ciao, JAM

Ok so my comment never came up but I have a post on my own blog about Gallup polls' latest on morality in America... needless to say Gallup is stupid!

http://www.faithfullyliberal.com/?p=494

This is the Call for Papers for the 16th Women & Society Conference held late October at Marist College. This is an international feminist interdisciplinary conference which mentors and models feminist scholarship.
Alix Olson will be performing as part of the program...
http://www.marist.edu/liberalarts/womensstudies/conference.html
ciao, JAM

This is the Call for Papers for the 16th Women & Society Conference held late October at Marist College. This is an international feminist interdisciplinary conference which mentors and models feminist scholarship.
Alix Olson will be performing as part of the program...
http://www.marist.edu/liberalarts/womensstudies/conference.html
ciao, JAM

Sorry, I did not mean to post 3x!

Colbert's 'Word' segment on Thursday was about the sexist way in which Hillary and Nancy Pelosi are covered; how they're clothes are talked about so often and the coverage about Hillary not using her middle name. I'm impressed they caught on to this. You can see it on comedycentral.com, the clip is called 'Rodham.'

This is a really great use of Feministing, to build connections and community on and off of the internet. Will you continue to do this?

1) Anyone in NYC who'd like to be a part of the 2nd Annual Gender Equality Festival (tabling, performing, running a workshop), should download this participation request form.

2) Support teen feminist activism and the struggle against street harassment by getting a copy of the Street Harassment is a Crime poster, which was designed by 10 teen girls of color fighting gender inequality in Brooklyn.

3) Feminist Review is always looking for new writers, with or without experience. Contact me if you're interested.

I'm always the last to do these, but here's my "Knocked Up" rant.

http://unpretentiouslitcrit.blogspot.com/2007/06/knocked-up-knocks-women.html

Here is a link to my raving and ranting blog.
http://listen2women.blogspot.com/

I love Shameless self promotion Friday! It's great networking! Okay, I run a blog in connection to my magazine (Antigone Magazine)that deals with issues relating to women and politics in Canada and around the world.

Had a post about female 'sexiness' and the ways in which its constructed that might interest some people. Check out the comments - a great analysis by Cheeky Filibuster, a subversive stripper!

Here's the link:
http://antigonemagazine.blogspot.com/2007/06/female-sexuality.html

(apologies for the picture that starts the thread... its used as an example...)

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ArgusEyes

Funniest anti-feminist of the week

Wow, thanks!

My blogs are about cooking and environmental motherhood, so they may only interest a subset of Feministing readers. Here is one post I think might be relevant to most of us, about the label "postfeminism" and why articles on feminism and motherhood still end up in the style section of the NY Times:

http://www.momstinfoilhat.com/2007/02/24/who-loves-a-label/

Just wanted to thank Elaine for the link to her post about that billboard. I googled the asshole salon owner's name and was very pleased to find a news story dated 6/1/07 indicating the billboard did come down due (seemingly) to criticism voiced directly to the business. So I guess it's not such a "man's world" after all, eh, Pascal Ibgui?? Fancy the audacity of a spa and salon owner to make a statement like that which completely insults and alienates his core market. Methinks even though the billboard is down, he still deserves some letters from teh women due to sheer assholery...his business address is easily googleable.

Thank you to all who submitted, I like to be a ble to pull ideas and concepts from your post. As Amanda R said, thois is a great networking opp.

I wanted to ask a question that is related to feminism, but there is no link because I am still writing the article. How do people feel about prenatal genetic testing? Tests are used to determine whether or not a fetus has a chromosomal abnormality (or the like). On the east and west coasts, 80-90 percent of women terminate these pregnancies. Many pro-choicers, and anti-choicers alike, say this is not your "regular" abortion debate, but rather a a form of eugenics. I am looking for a feminist point of view on this controversial subject. You can respond here on this post, but I require your full name for the article (for the Pittsburgh City Paper). email = bonnieschindler@yahoo.com

Thanks.

Apparently Dan Savage decided to ding a comment Beth Ditto made in the NME issue where she appears on the cover naked.

Beth makes a comment about gay men only wanting to design for stick-figure women and Dan, a gay man, apparently takes personal offense or something and hits back at fat people.

Dan Savage has kind of a shitty track record when it comes giving advice to fat women.

http://bitchkittie.blogspot.com/2007/06/time-for-beth-dittodan-savage-feud-dan.html

Bonnie, I don't really see any difference between what you're talking about and regular old pro-choice debates. It comes down to whether or not it's moral to force a woman to endure pregnancy and childbirth against her will. It is not. Whether or not I or you or anybody else thinks her reasons are laudable is beside the point; unless you or I or anybody else has to go through the pregnancy or childbirth or motherhood, it's not our business. If a white woman decides to have an abortion because her love was black and she doesn't want to raise a black kid, well, I find her racism repellant, but that wouldn't make it acceptable to force her to have a baby against her will.

Women are themselves the best judges of whether or not they can, would be good at, or want to raise a given child. I'm in favor of advocating for social changes that would make it easier to raise and care for a child with Down's Syndrome, but I wouldn't care to say whether, given the option, I would decide to bear a child with Down's Syndrome, to say nothing of something like Tay-Sachs, which always ends in painful death for the sufferer.

I wrote about a book I read about a rural Malian midwife, and my feelings about the female body and the things that aren't so fun about it, and also a little about the way women are treated in the workplace when they call any attention to the fact that their bodies are different from men's.

I also couldn't help taking down the essay about how feminists get off on infanticide.

Bonnie, I thought about e-mailing you but I think I'm happier airing this thought out in the thread first, before jumping into being quoted for an article.

Isn't the concept of eugenics generally thought of as something society imposes on individuals as a reflection of what an outside power desires?

The typical example is Nazi (ie government) attempt to control the genetic threads of its society.

But pre-natal testing and its subsequent actions (whether to continue the pregnancy to term or not) is a reflection of an individual's choice on what kind of children they wish to have. It's not "eugenics" except in the sense that women already internally decide what kind of father they want for their children (in an ideal sense).

In fact one could argue that creating laws involving abortion + pre-natal testing actually would be a kind of eugenics because it's an attempt by an outside power to control the breeding of its population.

Thank you for asking. I am compiling an anthology based on Gender Roles, Women's Issues and Feminism in the 21st Century, and am calling for writers, poets, photographers, artists and musicians. If anyone is interested, please drop me a line.

Adele Nieves
adele@liquidwordsproductions.com

I recently wrote a post on my blog about TPM's coverage of Fred Thompson's wife. They've been running these pictures of her and implyin that she is going to hurt his candidacy, apparently because she's a pretty blond.

I don't know anything about the woman, but their coverage really bothers me. There are so many things to rip on the man about (his thin record, his reputation for laziness, his thoughtless conservatism). Do we really need to bring his wife into the deal?

What a nice thing to do. Thanks!

This is my piece Even If It's Wrong: Barack Obama, Religious Faith, and Same-Sex Marriage. It's a rant against the idea that we have to respect religious and moral beliefs that are strongly and widely held, even if they're wrong and bigoted and harmful.

And because that one's a bit heavy, I'm going to be greedy and sneak in another one in a lighter vein: Baffling Porn: Naked Girls Smoking Weed, in which I try to figure out why photos of naked girls smoking weed or posing with pot plants is hot.

And I'm still laughing/ shuddering over Jen's OBGYN story. Sheesh.

I work at Chicago Foundation for Women, and we send out a weekly email newsletter with all sorts of bits and bobs - responses to local and national news, programs we're hosting in Chicago, and occasional feminist essays and the like. We call it (creatively) the Tuesday Blast. (Guess when it goes out?) We did a pro-choice response to Knocked Up. And, if you're in Chicagoland, come see Dr. Ruth and others this Wednesday, June 13 at our Impact Awards. All this and more at http://www.cfw.org

Plus we are working on a yearlong anti-violence initiative looking for solutions to preventing violence against ALL women and girls. Go to http://www.whatwillittake.org for more.

New Blog: Feminist Philosophers

New Blog: Feminist Philosophers

I'm all for shameless self promotion. This is a couple of days old, but go here to read about how one city with numerous hospitals forces rape victims to go to only one of those hospitals for evidence collection, essentially making them go to two places for care & justice instead of one. The post also links to the story in the local alt-weekly, where police are quoted as saying, "it’s more convenient for us having one place to do the exams,� and two hospitals say they don't offer the forensic exams because, "It’s what detectives want from us.� One university hospital in town does offer the exams, but only to their own students and faculty.

Hmm, seems my first try didn't go through :( Work, internets, work!

I wrote a post in three parts about my path from pro-life to pro-choice. It's long but (and here's my hubris speaking) probably worth it.

part i, part ii, and part iii.

Thanks for giving everyone the opportunity to share :)

I don't have anything of my own to promote, but I guess I can link to one of my favorite webcomics, Home on the Strange.

Main page, with the current strip:
http://www.homeonthestrange.com/

Some notable strips:
http://www.homeonthestrange.com/view.php?ID=56
http://www.homeonthestrange.com/view.php?ID=4
http://www.homeonthestrange.com/view.php?ID=92

laurakeet--i saw the commercials on TV for the what will it take campaign and I thought they were very powerful. great work!

creepy article about the increasing rates of rape among youth.

creepy article about the increasing rates of rape among youth.

YOUTH_SEX_OFFENDERS?SITE=CAVIC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

sorry about the multiple posts:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/Y/YOUTH_SEX_OFFENDERS?SITE=CAVIC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Maclean's finally has the article about Rebecca Eckler and her claim that Judd Apatow ripped off many of the ideas in Knocked Up from her. It's here. There are also a bit more here.

Oh, also a "click to fund free mammograms" site here. It also has links to four other good causes sites.

students stopping rape at uc santa barbara. www.studentsstoppingrape.org

Not SELF promotion, but I can't be the only person whose hackles are raised by this ask-dot-com commercial:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vbEMdrAjSvk

I saw this candy bar in a grocery store today. Campaign slogan, "It's not for girls". Apparently it's been around in the UK for a while and caused a fair amount of controversy there but this is the first I've seen it here.

Queers, Slavs and squeeze boxes collide in Sugar Creek Missouri: http://www.lawrence.com/blogs/mypunkheart/2007/jun/10/polkaphobia/

POLKAPHOBIA: Queers, Slavs and squeeze boxes collide in Sugar Creek Missouri: http://www.lawrence.com/blogs/mypunkheart/2007/jun/10/polkaphobia/

E-mey, not sure if it will help to know, but I don't think Yorkie is now "here" (in the U.S., if that's where you are writing from--presumptuous of me!!) in any substantive way. Some grocery stores sell a limited number of food products specifically imported from the UK. (For the ex-pats, etc., in certain geographic areas where lots of ex-pats happen to live...although some of the product choices are not really in line with what ex-pats seem to actually want...a mystery.)

katie marie: good, er bad find. I am thinking about featuring that ad on a new weekly feature of my blog entitled "Hell to the No" which deals which dissects media images. You can see this week's installment (which features the Axe Supermarket Ad) here: http://www.lawrence.com/blogs/mypunkheart/2007/jun/06/htnnone

Hey all.
I created a Livejournal community to discuss issues about Bust and possibly brainstorm how to solve them. Check it out @:
http://community.livejournal.com/bust_rx/

Hi! I'm a bit late on this, but I have a new blog up. I'll admit, the writing needs some work. I have a tendency to go into rant mode as I'm writing about rape culture. http://miniskirtsandalcohol.blogspot.com/

I posted today about a teen group's visit to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Manchester, NH last week.

I have a lot of posts like that! Unfortunately, I was out of town this weekend and didn't see this post until just now. Still, if anyone's still reading, I've posted a number of blogs - many of them on issues also discussed on Feministing - from a feminist mothering perspective at my professional blog, here:

http://www.motherblogs.net/jessica

something about gender roles as cultural definitions sparked by an old episode of home improvement.

Here's an entry about the New York State Bar Association Family Law Section rescinding its offer for a woman to speak at its summer conference after finding out about her past career in porn ... it's from the blog of an NYC law firm that deals with women's rights in the workplace.

Oops, forgot the link, the most important part:
www.womensrightsny.com/blog.

Hi, I'm in the process of writing my story on
www.rapetrial.wordpress.com
I'm attempting to keep it anon on the actual blog in case my attacker/his friends stumble across it so please don't use my name on the blog. I would love to get some links on it to appropriate sites. Please let me know if you have any I could use or advice for my continued writing or the presentation of my story.
Thank you so much!

Hey there rose,

thanks so much for doing this: it's brave to make such a personal piece of yourself so public. I was just going to shamelessly self promote by posting a link to my article on the rise of oral sex, but your post seems a bit more important.
As a "peer advocate of sexual respect" (peer relationship counselor) at my college, and a survivor of rape myself, my most positive experiences have grown out of building support groups of other women who shared my experience and could help me think about issues like reestablishing boundaries and self-respect. I wish you luck in your trial and hope it goes well for you, and that even if it doesn't, that you are proud of yourself for having the courage to press charges on that asshole.
peace,
marina

http://theginjaninja.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/why-we-should-hang-on-to-the-word-feminism/

A post on my new blog (traffic please!) about why the actual word "feminist" is important.

Oh my God Rose, you are so brave for sharing your story. Keep it up and good luck!

Just another GGW lawsuit, from yahoo this time.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070613/ap_en_ot/girls_gone_wild