I've got some more ludicrous dispatches from Ohio's abortion-ban mess.

Check out this MSN article on a modesty movement among young girls.

http://tinyurl.com/22rcgv

"They've lost the sense of encouraging their daughters to be ladylike." Good. Fuck ladylike.

the women's campaign forum is in the midst of a campaign called "she should run." they are looking for nominations of pro-choice women who would be great in public office but haven't considered running or haven't given it much thought. it takes one minute to fill out the form (www.sheshouldrun.com), and you dont have to give any personal info about anyone- just a name and a quick story. i nominated my high school math teacher and my mom- both amazing women.

also, is anyone else planning on shutting themselves in this weekend with HP book 7? =)

To be honest, having found your blog has inspired me to write my own. So feel free to check it out! By the way, I am a huge fan and a converted feminist. :-)

A Canadian perspective on work-family balance.

Here's a crazy snippet:

"There's also a striking opinion gap between moms who work and moms who don't. Working mothers increasingly believe they are good for society and at-home mothers increasingly believe working moms are a bad thing for society.

"That didn't seem to be the case 10 years ago. We're seeing these two groups growing apart," says Dr. Funk."

Not really promoting myself, mind you, but still a good read ;)

I wrote about the Disney "princesses" craze and why they make terrible role models on my blog. Enjoy!

Here are the posts I made today on the blog I run at SteveThePenguin.blogspot.com:

I said this two months ago,, about The New Yorker's take on the movie Knocked Up.

For Immediate Release:, an account of the latest horrors perpetrated by the Bush administration.

Enjoy!

There's a great debate going on at Shameless Magazine's Blog about the feminist and queer reaction to marriage and weddings. Throw in your two cents:

http://www.shamelessmag.com/blog/2007/07/feminism-the-queer-movement-and-marriage/

I started my own political-feminist blog.

I think it's pretty awesome. Probably because it's mine and, well, I'm awesome.

I recently wrote about an encounter I had intervening in a neighbor's domestic violence situation - we interrupted an assault. The experience was horrible and I just pray I did the right thing.

Here's the link (how do I hyperlink?sorry):
http://observantwoman.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/true-story-our-disturbing-brush-with-domestic-violence/

A real quickie (not suitable for those offended by strong language though) some questions just need asking!

Feministing has been inspiring me a lot in my own blog lately:

I talk shit about nipple-tinting
I talk shit about Captivity
I talk shit about the C-String
I talk shit about Bill O'Reilly
I talk shit about Details magazine
I talk shit about South Dakota politicians

Short and sweet parody:
http://www.elainevigneault.com/2007/07/19/the-controlling-asshole-a-practical-guide-to-belittling-and-beating-your-wife-or-girlfriend.html

Why the Geek Squad scandal is worse than stealing porn (Hint: That picture of sexy girls is the desktop wallpaper for a reason)

Defending Harry Potter from cultural snobs:

http://unpretentiouslitcrit.blogspot.com/2007/07/jk-rowling-is-this-sites-patron-saint.html

And a discussion about what the Redbook photoshopping image reveals about the beauty myth.

http://unpretentiouslitcrit.blogspot.com/2007/07/evils-of-photoshopping-touched-upon.html

Not a blog post, per se, but my collective's might be of interest to some of you. It's a series of photo collages/poems, which tell a story about nightmare involving alcohol and the world at the other end of the tunnel.

I recently posted about the death of Dua Khalil, Joss Whedon's reaction, and the inspired "Nothing but Red" anthology. I encourage everyone here to check out the project, spread the word, and submit your own work. It's an extremely worthwhile cause.

I just started a new feminist blog for women and by women. It's called "Then I Guess I'm Selfish". I started it because I noticed that women are called selfish for nearly everything they do for themselves. Therefore, I thought that maybe they needed a place to send in their stories and see that maybe they aren't as selfish as society and the misogynists that it inhabits thinks they are.

http://guessimselfish.blogspot.com/

For an interesting dose of different world, same old thing, I always go read Bitchy Jones.

Thanks for this! It's a neat feature, and I always find cool stuff I wouldn't have otherwise.

On my own blog I recently put up The True Faith: Liberal and
Conservative Christianity, about about how liberal Christians get angry at the Christian Right for spinning their version of Christianity as the one true version of the faith... when they do much the same thing themselves.

And if I can plug someone else's blog here: this beautiful, brilliant piece on Surgeonsblog, about a young girl with cancer and her family that's organizing prayer meetings to heal her, has been sticking in my head ever since I saw it. It perfectly hits on the head my problems with the idea of a God who has the infinite power to answer prayers and heal the sick, but somehow, mysteriously, doesn't. My favorite quote:

There's something perverse to the point of revulsion in the idea of a god that will heal the girl if enough people pray for her. What sort of god is that? To believe that, you must believe he deliberately made her ill, is putting her through enormous pain and suffering, with the express plan to make it all better only if enough people tell him how great he is; and to keep it up unto her death if they don't.

Amazing stuff.

This makes me wish I had my "people think giving birth equals responsibility" topic ready.

I just posted my first and second feminist memories. They were from when I was 4 and 5 years old, before I knew what feminism was. Neither memory may be feminist, but both show that I was thinking about gender way back when.

http://feministstotherescue.blogspot.com/2007/07/my-first-feminist-memory.html

It's not so much a plug, but a suggestion for how to ruin your day: read fanfiction.

Seriously. Not only will the horrible grammar and cookie cutter plots make you laugh, but the attitude towards female sexuality will make you cry. Not to mention the misinformation some users have about sex. (Which is hilarious and sad at the same time!)

These are what the consensus of girls think about sexuality. Not of all them are like that, but enough are to ruin your day.

Well, you might like my post on the pieing of Medea Benjamin or the one on the canceling of gay pride , both on my blog at nobodypasses.blogspot.com

Oh, and guess what? I hear there will be an interview with me posted on Feministing in just a few hours (Saturday morning) -- you know where to find that one!

Love --
mattilda

Want to know how bad fascist republican wing nuts really are? They're talking gas chambers and bombs and everything! While standing in their flip flops.
A journalist from england went on a cruise with these bastards, and here's his story:

http://www.alternet.org/story/57001/?page=1

Reverend, the Geek Squad article was a good one, though I wish you went into a bit more depth about how this affects the women who it's happening to.

Thanks for the link Lindsay. I enjoyed choice quotes like:

"The liberals don't believe in the constitution. They don't believe in what the founders wanted - a strong executive"

Montesquieu and the founding fathers would really love to have a word with this guy.

"Do you have a child back in England?' she asks. No, I say. Her face darkens. 'You'd better start,' she says. 'The Muslims are breeding. Soon, they'll have the whole of Europe."

Not to worry. We have George II and his Tenth Crusade taking care of that problem.

Sadly, many liberals are just are stupid. But hey, at least their hearts are in the right place. Right?

I recently posted about my complete inability to talk about sex with people I might want to have it with, and the social conditioning behind that.

Warning: I have no idea how to produce the Blogger equivalent of an LJ-cut, so posts on my blog may contain potentially triggering material out in the open. (Unless I'm mistaken, though, this one doesn't, and I'm making an effort to include warnings at the beginnings of such posts.)

So... this is a post that I wrote about an interview about Canadian women lawyers and the inability of the law profession to accomodate high powered lawyers who are also mothers.

The post is centered around an podcast from the CBC that talked about the documentary 'Mothers-in-Law'.

http://antigonemagazine.blogspot.com/2007/07/high-powered-law-career-motherhood.html

Photoshopping and the beauty myth.

http://unpretentiouslitcrit.blogspot.com/2007/07/evils-of-photoshopping-touched-upon.html

Someone finds my blog by googling "THE MOST HAIRY AND DISGUSTING WOMEN THAT YOU HAVE." Meanwhile, people continue to talk about my pubic hair (warning: nudity).

I've posted about career women and Courtney Cox's Dirt.

I'll also plug Shameless, because I post there too!

And finally, with no conflict of interest, my favourite post this week - LesbianDad ponders the open nature of queer families. Take a few minutes and read the whole thing.

A post on my blog regarding a recent Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article in which the columnist misinforms her readers about Emergency Contraception (EC), as she says it is an abortion pill. I write the truths of EC -- that it is a super dose of birth control hormones.

This is an entry I just wrote about some issues I have with the American ratings system--some of it has to do with the system's inherent misogyny--it's snarky and I like it.
http://journals.aol.com/redwall33/TheMindofGenevieve/entries/2007/07/21/some-issues-i-have-with-the-mpaa-ratings-system-snark/2235

I said this two months ago, and For Immediate Release:

from SteveThePenguin.blogspot.com.

India has a woman president...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6909979.stm

My thoughts on a recent Minnesota study that determined the annual cost of abortion in the state to be $8 billion.

Some posts from WIMN's Voices: The Group Blog on Women, Media, AND...

Ammu Joseph on an international visitor's confusion at sexist U.S. election coverage:
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=697

My post about a hilarious "Colbert Report" spoof about pole dancing as "feminist empowerment":
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=694

Gloria Steinem on "Prick flicks":
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=691

Rinku Sen on whether immigrants are "people of color":
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=690

Jennifer Finney Boylan on John Travolta distancing himself from drag even while he plays a woman in Hairspray:
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=689

Me, on News Corp's reaction to The Simpsons spoof of Fox News:
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=688

Laura Flanders on David Horowitz:
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=687

Me, on Fox wondering if women with "axes to grind" can "effectively rule society":
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=686

WIMN's Request to Readers -- I need your reality TV DVDs:
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=684

More great posts about women and the media on WIMN's Voices - check it out, at www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog

And subscribe to our email list at http://lists.riseup.net/www/subrequest/wimn

--Jennifer L. Pozner

I always miss shameless self-promotion day. :(

I have a few things you might be interested in.

http://thelittlegoldenblogofmanners.blogspot.com/2007/07/easy-does-it.html

http://thelittlegoldenblogofmanners.blogspot.com/2007/06/are-you-popular.html

http://thelittlegoldenblogofmanners.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-much-affection.html

I only wish I could take credit for this masterpiece:

http://tinyurl.com/esnx

I only wish I could take credit for this masterpiece:

http://tinyurl.com/esnx

Thoughts on Gonzales v. Carhart, the US war in Iraq, and the morals and values of the "morals and values" crowd.

There are not so many comments on third-world issues. Here Indian researcher Vandana Shiva on the role of women in the "hidden" economy in the third-world, particularly in agriculture. She takes on the idea that multi-nationals with their GM's somehow feed the world when it is exactly the contrary.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2000/lecture5.shtml

There is both the audio and the transcript. It is well worth following up Shiva's work.