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By Jacki Schechner / current.com / @JackiSchechner
It's rare when someone sends me an article so offensive that I don't even know where to begin tearing it apart. Suzanne Venker's Fox News opinion piece titled "The War on Men" is an insulting and misogynistic diatribe that claims if only women knew their role as subservient, second-class citizens, we'd have more well-behaved, respectful men wanting to get married.
(More from Current: 101 assaults in the war on women)By Jacki Schechner / current.com / @JackiSchechner
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Rush Limbaugh on Thursday lashed out at feminists — who he called “feminazis” — over the news that male genitalia are shrinking.
The conservative radio host pointed to an Italian study which found that the average male penis was 10 percent smaller than 50 years ago. Researchers cited weight gain around the waist, smoking, stress and environmental pollutants as factors.
But Limbaugh wasn’t buying that explanation.Rush Limbaugh on Thursday lashed out at feminists — who he called... more
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Expect unlikely romance on the big screens this July. These steamy stories of unusual couplings are challenging, unconventional and opening one after another in relentless progression throughout the month.Expect unlikely romance on the big screens this July. These steamy stories of unusual... more
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"Something wonderful happened on the internet this week. And something horrible happened at the same time.
A Californian blogger, Anita Sarkeesian, launched a Kickstarter project to make a web video series about "tropes vs women in videogames". Following on from her similar series on films, it aimed to look at women as background decoration, Damsels in Distress, the Sexy Sidekick and so on. Her pitch is here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/566429325/tropes-vs-women-in-video-games
Sarkeesian was after $6,000 to cover the cost of researching the topic, playing all kinds of awful games, and producing the videos. Seems reasonable, doesn't it? Even if you don't like the idea - or don't believe that women are poorly represented in games (in which case, you would be wrong) - then isn't it fine for other people to give money to something they believe in?
Except some kind of Bastard Klaxon went off somewhere in the dank, moist depths of the internet. An angry misogynist Bat Signal, if you will..."
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http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/internet/2012/06/dear-internet-why-you-cant-have-anything-nice"Something wonderful happened on the internet this week. And something horrible... more
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The F word. The worst one around. The one tied with unpleasantly preconceived notions of bra burning and man-hating.
Recently, after overhearing an explosively sexist comment on a lunch break, I asked a friend, “Do you consider yourself a feminist?”
“Oh, NO!” she snapped back with a level of enthusiasm that shocked me, spitting the word out like a worm in an apple, “…no no no.”The F word. The worst one around. The one tied with unpleasantly preconceived notions... more
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By Diana May-Waldman – WorldWide Hippies-I’m loud, opinionated and bossy. I know that. I am acutely aware of who I am. And at the end of the day, I make no apologies for it. I call foul when I see it or hear it. I’m a woman.By Diana May-Waldman – WorldWide Hippies-I’m loud, opinionated and bossy.... more
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When I saw burning Magnesium in my high school Chemistry class, I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. It burned with such a fierce, pure, white light that I felt as if I couldn’t take my eyes off of it. As the rest of my classmates shielded their eyes or stared off into space, I was captivated.
I’ve always been attracted to science, and loved my Biology and Ecology classes, but Chemistry was different. It was so dynamic: loud and messy. I started pursuing internships with the local university, and spent several summers identifying pill-bugs by gender and species, maintaining a colony of Asian earthworms, collecting local water samples to test for pollution, and measuring the effects of electricity and water on certain compounds. It didn’t surprise anyone who knew me when I went to college planning on getting a degree in Biochemistry. But the more I pursued Chemistry, the more I noticed how few other women there were in the lab and in my science classes. Of the eleven professors who taught Chemistry during my first year of college, only two were female. Of the seven labs I was in over the years, I only ever had a female partner once. All the labs I worked in outside of school were mostly male.
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Lynn Hershman Leeson ("Conceiving Ada," "Teknolust") was at the epicenter of the feminist art revolution in the 1960s and has never stopped chronicling it's evolution. Now armed with over 40 years of interviews and archival footage, Leeson in her new film "!Women Art Revolution" provides names, places, dates and times that up until now have been missing from art history. Before this film many artists like Ana Mendieta, Howardena Pindell and Rachel Rosenthal would have been forgotten. Today Leeson insures that they did not live, work and create in vain.
Lynn Hershman Leeson talks about her new documentary film on ReelMATERIAL. http://www.reelmaterial.com/2011/08/interview-with-lynn-hershman-leeson/Lynn Hershman Leeson ("Conceiving Ada," "Teknolust") was at the... more
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It is a fortunate coincidence that today is both International Women's Day and the release date of Marge Piercy's The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems 1980-2010 by New York publisher Alfred Knopf.It is a fortunate coincidence that today is both International Women's Day and... more
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In some parts of the world, women are still not taught or allowed to read. And in the United States, women were not given the same education as their male counterparts until decades later. With similar policies overseas, one could think it difficult to find a female on page worthy of praise. With only eyelash batting or being tied to the proverbial train tracks, women have made up a poor part of the printed page.
link: http://librarysciencedegree.org/top-10-fictional-feminist-icons-of-all-time/In some parts of the world, women are still not taught or allowed to read. And in the... more
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This Sunday September 12, 2010 Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism, an exhibit that explores the impact of feminism on contemporary North American painting for past half century, will open at The Jewish Museum located at 92nd Street and Fifth Avenue. The exhibit will continue through January 30, 2011. Tuesday morning September 7th your New York Jewish Culture examiner previewed the exhibit, which traverses Abstract Impressionism, Pop, and Minimalism through to the present. (Also see the article's slideshow).This Sunday September 12, 2010 Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism, an exhibit... more
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Starbuck kicks ass: she smokes cigars, plays cards and likes to get into fights. And more often than not she wins. She has casual sex and enjoys it, and maybe most importantly she’s the best pilot. (Well, yeah, there’s this thing about Apollo being good too, but come on, that’s no comparison. She saves his ass several times and Apollo is just lame generally.) So we got a woman here who breaks all the rules of being a woman, she’s playing the big guys game and she is really fucking good at it. And she’s doing that without the aid of huge amounts of impeccable make up, and while wearing clothes that are a) actually covering he body and b) not skin tight but comfortable and practical. She doesn’t fight or run in high heels. She’s not using some super-human abilities, her achievements come from grit and sweat and skill. She doesn’t do flying kicks and acrobatics to show off her legs, she punches the opponent on the nose, and gets bloody knuckels. She’s doing it right and I was instantly in love with her.
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But then patriarchy strikes back. She has broken all the rules and she will be punished for it...Starbuck kicks ass: she smokes cigars, plays cards and likes to get into fights. And... more
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In March, the Indian upper parliament passed a historic affirmative-action bill. If approved by the lower house, the law would reserve 33 percent of all parliamentary seats for women. You might think this would be well-received by rural women in India. But they long ago gave up on the government and have taken things into their own hands. India is witnessing a rise of vigilante groups, the most sensational of which is the gulabi, or pink gang, operating in the Bundelkhand district of the Uttar Pradesh state, one of the poorest districts of India. Some gangs have started what Indian journalists describe as a "mini-revolution" on behalf of women.
http://www.slate.com/id/2260797/pagenum/all/#p2In March, the Indian upper parliament passed a historic affirmative-action bill. If... more
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Contrary to media hype, American manhood is not in decline -- but hopefully toxic gender stereotypes are.
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With each step that American women have taken on the road to equality, detractors have fretted about what their advancement means for men -- particularly the "manly man." The lumber jack. The quarterback. The captain of industry. Clint Eastwood.
Sure, we occasionally see articles lamenting the end of traditional femininity and the difficulty of finding a submissive woman who derives all of life's pleasure from nurturing her family. But a far more common modern lament is the demise of masculinity. In 2000, Susan Faludi explored "the betrayal of the American man" in Stiffed. In 2001, Christina Hoff Sommers decried The War on Boys. In 2005, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote that "this is turning into a woman's world," and Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens published a book about "saving our sons from falling behind in school and in life." In 2006, Harvey Mansfield eulogized Manliness, and a Newsweek cover story again warned of an impending "boy crisis." Last summer, in Foreign Policy, Reihan Salam declared the economic crisis a "he-cession."
The latest contribution to the masculinity-crisis meme is "The End of Men," a cover story in this month's Atlantic by Hanna Rosin. Women are outperforming men in schools, at work, and at home, she argues. The global economy is shifting in such a way that it favors "female" characteristics, and male-dominated industries such as manufacturing, construction and finance are declining. "As thinking and communicating have come to eclipse physical strength and stamina as keys to economic success," she writes, "those societies that take advantage of the talents of all their adults, not just half of them, have pulled away from the rest." What if, she asks, "the economics of the new era are better suited to women?"
It's disappointing that, despite a history of sharp observations about gender and 5,000 words to work with, Rosin makes the same oversight as all of the other hand-wringing articles about the state of the American male. She thinks the problem is men; really, it's traditional gender stereotypes. The narrow, toxic definition of masculinity perpetuated by Rosin and others -- that men are brawn not brains, doers not feelers, earners not nurturers -- is actually to blame for the crisis.
Unlike some other chroniclers of the so-called decline of masculinity, Rosin acknowledges men are not biologically predisposed to jobs that require strength and aggression, just as women are not biologically destined to be better thinkers and caregivers. Yet her underlying assumption is that the growth industries we currently consider to be "women's work" (nursing, home health care, food service, child care) will always retain that designation. Maybe it's just my feminist idealism talking, but I fail to see why these "nurturing professions," as Rosin dubs them, must forever be the province of women. Not once does she posit what would happen if we stopped writing articles that reinforced the stereotype that men are best suited to the manufacturing and finance sectors.
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