Miscellaneous

MassResistance Warns that Dystopian Pro-Homosexualist Future Is Here!

Posted on November 12, 2009
I first saw this MassResistance propaganda on anti-equality site Opine Editorials. Strangely, Opine Editorials has a history of promoting dishonest pieces by this Southern Poverty Law Center-identified hate group. For good reason, even professional anti-equality groups have been distancing themselves from the likes of MassResistance and Americans for Truth [sic] About Homosexuality as of late...

Stuff Progressive Anti-Racist White Guys Do: Erase Sex/Gender

Posted on November 11, 2009
We have seen before how white male anti-racist writers have a tendency to erase issues of sex and gender from their critiques of society. For as much insight as some progressives, liberals, and anti-racist folks have with respect to race, some people have remarkably little insight when it comes to their own blind spots with respect to sex, gender, and other privileges...

My "Marriage Defense" Referendum

Posted on November 10, 2009
I have decided to initiate a new "marriage defense" referendum that will piggyback off of California nad Maine's referenudms that de-legalized same-sex marriage. My referendum will be nationwide in scope and will prohibit reality television shows that center around two heterosexual parents and their children...

Obama Signs Hate Crimes Act: Anti-gays Hyperventilate, Crimes Against Ladies Ignored

Posted on November 09, 2009
In October 2009, President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act that expands federal hate crime law to include crimes motivated by a person's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability...

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Blogcation

Posted on November 09, 2009
Hello dear and loyal readers! I will be posting articles this week. However, I am away and access to the intertubes for purposes of responding to comments and emails will be limited. My alter-ego Leftist Gender Warrior will be in charge of things while I'm away and will hopefully frighten anyone from leaving spam and other obnoxious comments...

Scary But Unhelpful Health Advice for Ladies: Ovarian Cancer Edition

Posted on November 06, 2009
I received this chain email the other day from a well-meaning friend. The email did not attribute it to any source, but I used the Google and I think it may have come from here (PDF). It's title is "Ovarian Cancer Whispers- So Listen!" and here is what it says:"Watch for Pelvic or abdominal pain or discomfort; vague but persistent gastrointestinal upsets such as gas, nausea, and indigestion; frequency and/or urgency of urination in the absence of an infection; unexplained weight gain or weight loss; pelvic and/or abdominal swelling, bloating and/or feeling of fullness; ongoing unusual fatigue; or unexplained changes in bowel habits...

11/3/09 Election News: LGBT Rights Edition

Posted on November 05, 2009
I want to take a moment today to acknowledge the LGBT items that voters decided on recently in Michigan, Maine, and Washington.1. MichiganIn June 2009, in Kalamazoo, Michigan the city council unanimously approved an ordinance protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people from discrimination in employment, housing, or public accommodations...

Beauty and the Geek FAIL

Posted on November 04, 2009
Noting the dood-centricity of the programming and engineering fields, commenter Sarah sent me this article, in which Yahoo is apparently "sorry" for offering lap dances at a developers event in Taiwan. Oh, note: the lap dancers were female, the lap dancees were male...

Marriage, Equality, and Segregation Part I

Posted on September 30, 2009
In the lexicon of the same-sex marriage debate, those who favor extending legal marriage to same-sex couples generally use the phrase marriage equality to represent legal marriage for same-sex couples. Yet, in one of the more bizarre arguments against marriage equality, internet "marriage defender" On Lawn uses the phrase to mean something else entirely...

Is Civility Really Asking "Too Much"?

Posted on September 29, 2009
I came across the following article in the International Journal of Intergroup Relations entitled "For White People, on How to Listen When Race is the Subject," by Beth Roy. Generally, I think it is a well-written, necessary, and important article. So, before I discuss my point of contention, I think it is necessary for me to preface my disagreement by stating my specific points of agreement with this article...

The Elephant in the Dalai Lama's Room

Posted on September 28, 2009
Apparently, the Dalai Lama calls himself a feminist because he "fights for women's rights." For those unfamiliar with Tibetan Buddhism: "According to Buddhist belief, the current Dalai Lama is a reincarnation of a past lama who decided to be reborn again to continue his important work, instead of moving on from the wheel of life...

Indian Women Get Their Own Lady Train

Posted on September 25, 2009
Due to pervasive and ongoing harassment from men, India has instituted a ladies-only train car. "Up and down the jostling train, women repeated the same theme: As millions of women have poured into the Indian work force over the last decade, they have met with different obstacles in a tradition-bound, patriarchal culture, but few are more annoying than the basic task of getting to work...

A Demonstration of the Weight of the White Male Voice

Posted on September 24, 2009
So, this may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but listen. Guess what the following prominent political pundits who each have their own television/radio shows and/or best-selling books have in common: Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Arianna Huffington, Rachel Maddow, Greta Van Susteren, and Nancy Grace...

Existence of "Lesbian" Who Now Has a Boyfriend Single-Handedly Proves that Gayness is a Choice!

Posted on September 23, 2009
It was with a smile that I read Tim Graham's article entitled "Whoops! Lesbian 'Person of the Year' in Gay Press Goes Straight With Baby." I knew immediately where it was going. Break out the balloons and cake, anti-gays, it's time for a "Conversion" Celebration!Graham writes:"In December 2005, Kerry Pacer, then 17, was featured on the cover of the national gay news magazine The Advocate as its 'Person of the Year' ? making her the youngest gay person to achieve that honor ? for fighting for a 'gay-straight alliance' at White County High School in Cleveland, Georgia...

Worst Supreme Court Case For Women #3: Ex parte Lockwood

Posted on September 22, 2009
Hello citizens and ladies. Today we're going to take a trip back to 1894 as part of my sporadically-running series on Worst Supreme Court Cases For Women. What's fun about these cases is that, even if you went to law school, you likely have never learned about these instances in which the fellows on the US Supreme Court denied women equal rights and generally just said pretty shitty stuff about we Vagina-Americans...

2010 California Marriage Protection Act

Posted on September 21, 2009
A fella by the name of John Marcotte has filed the logical conclusion to Proposition 8, the "2010 California Marriage Protection Act." This initiative (PDF), if passed by the voters of California, would essentially ban married couples from divorce.An interview with Marcotte can be found here...

Violence and More (Possible) Abortion Terrorism

Posted on September 18, 2009
Back in June, I wrote about the politically-motivated murder of Dr. George Tiller, one of the few providers of late-term abortions in the US. In this article, I specifically avoided arguing that violence was a problem unique to the anti-abortion crowd...

The Poison of World Net Daily: Defining Itself in Six Lines

Posted on September 17, 2009
It's not often that I read World Net Daily (WND). When I do, it is usually for entertainment purposes or to see what sorts of wackaloon conspiracy theories the birther crowd is into these days. While I doubt that a thing called "objective news" exists at all, WND is quite overt in its rightwing, fundamentalist Christian viewpoint...

Democrats Introduce Respect for Marriage Act

Posted on September 16, 2009
A group of House Democrats have introduced the Respect for Marriage Act.The purpose of the bill, which can be read here, is "to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage." DOMA, if you remember, prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages, even those that have a state's legal sanction, for any purpose...

Feminism and More Important Things

Posted on September 15, 2009
I recently come across a critique of feminism that is a teensy bit more substantive than some of the usual offerings. And that's always fun for me to deal with since, someone (Twisty perhaps?) once observed that we feminists devote 93.7% of our time towards convincing men that we do not hate them...

More Marriage Defender Hypocrisy

Posted on September 14, 2009
Surprise surprise, another Defender of Traditional Marriage has turned out to be a marriage hypocrite. While he is now pathetically denying an affair, California Assemblyman- and married father of two- Michael Duvall was "caught boasting about his sexual escapades with his lobbyist mistresses...

Non-Political Blog About Courage and Strength

Posted on September 11, 2009
I have never had cancer, but I can't imagine that I'd be particularly strong if I did get it. For one, I have an almost pathological dislike of vomiting. Seriously. I know that no one particularly likes to throw up, but I have probably thrown up no more than a handful of times in life...

Thursday Fun- Ellen To Host American Idol

Posted on September 10, 2009
Perhaps you've already heard that Ellen DeGeneres has joined American Idol as the fourth judge.Ooh, let me be the first to predict all hell breaking loose when she asks an unlucky, inarticulate, and perhaps beautiful contestant's thoughts on marriage only to have that contestant oppose marriage equality, subsequently lose Idol, score a book deal, nab speaking engagements, and become living "proof" as to how The Powerful Gays Ruin Everything And Pretty Much Suck At Life...

Toward a Ladyless Society

Posted on September 09, 2009
In the movie A League of Their Own, we learned that it was of the utmost importance for female professional baseball players to learn how to be ladies. Accordingly, players took etiquette lessons where they learned the so-very-relevant-to-baseball skills of walking with books on their heads, crossing their legs properly (left over right, a lady reveals nothing), and sipping (not slurping) their soups...

Odds 'N End

Posted on September 08, 2009
1. Assaults on Lesbians in South Africa*trigger warning*Previously, we have seen the Human Rights Watch document the murder and torture of gay men in Iraq. In that post, I noted the seeming invisibility of lesbians in the report and in Iraq. Where the enforcement of strict, traditional gender codes exists, I would argue that lesbians would be much less visible than gay men given women's relatively fewer opportunities for economic self-sufficiency in such societies...

A Tale of Two Clergymen

Posted on September 04, 2009
I've been struggling to write a post about notorious "Pastor" Steven Anderson, who preaches that every. single. gay. person is a child molester who deserves to die, among other things. Instead, I want to leave you with something uplifting today.Reverend David Weekley has been a Methodist clergyman for 27 years...

Article: "Separated Fathers and the Father's Rights Movement"

Posted on September 03, 2009
I have very mixed feelings about what is generally called the Father's Rights Movement, which is related to the Men's Rights Movement. Given my journeys through feminist theory, it probably comes as no surprise to anyone here that I believe that humans have made gender a category that is much more deterministic than it really is...

Carrie Prejean Extends Her 15 Minutes

Posted on September 02, 2009
The Culture Wars continue to catapult former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean to notoriety/fame/martyrhood. Long story short, Prejean was removed from her post for alleged breach of contract. She then signed a book deal to write a memoir called Still Standing, which promises to "rehash the gay marriage controversy that [supposedly] eventually left her tiara-less but a superstar of the right wing...

The Noble Plight of the New Law Graduate

Posted on September 01, 2009
Personally, I think that the fundamental problem with the Law School Industry is that far too many prospective students are able to enter the field, not because they have all that strong an interest in law, our legal system, or in justice, but because they see the profession as one that will, in a mere 3 years, garner them (a) status and (b) a solid income...

Girl on Girl Action For the Male Gaze!

Posted on August 31, 2009
I came across this video via Womanist Musings. While many heterosexual men are Repulsed and Sickened by the thought of two men having sex and/or expressing love for each other, many are nonetheless aroused by the very thought of two women doing whatever two women do together in bed...

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