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Last Entry: October 26, 2020 at 10:02:01

A Different Kind of Crime

Posted on January 07, 2011
[TW: Sexual assault, harassment] Feminist Naomi Wolf

Posted on January 06, 2011
1. Writing in Religion Dispatches, Eugene McMullan observes that the Catholic Church hierarchy's No Girls Allowed Club is comprised of bullies whose focus on retaining power continues to render the institution ever-more irrelevant. Meanwhile, the National Coalition of American Nuns has been willing to publicly criticize and counter the bishops', whom the nuns aptly note have a "record low" credibility on sexual matters, silence regarding LGBT bullying and their active political opposition to same-sex marriage: "...

Prop 8 Update

Posted on January 05, 2011
The Prop 8 saga continues. Yesterday, the 9th Circuit sent the Prop 8 (aka Perry v. Schwarzenegger) case back to the California Supreme Court to answer the question of whether the backers of Prop 8 have "standing" to defend its constitutionality given that the Attorney General has refused to defend the measure (PDF)...

UConn Breaks Record, Man Writes Uninspired Critique Of Hub-ub

Posted on January 04, 2011
Congratulations to the UConn women's basketball team for winning their 89th game in a row and thereby breaking the NCAA record for consecutive wins! Not surprisingly, many male commentators have already been quick to dismiss this accomplishment, calling it an inauthentic record because it was achieved by a woman's team which, being composed of women, is therefore supposedly comprised of less-skilled players than a men's team...

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Agenda of a Concerned Hockey Dad

Posted on January 03, 2011
You know how when you watch TV football show Friday Night Lights you always sit there thinking that the football boosters, comprised of dad-ly Texas high school football has-beens, wield an inordinate amount of power in their town and really need to get lives that don't revolve around the sporting dramas of teenage boys? Yeah...

Fannie's Faves of 2010

Posted on January 02, 2011
Wahoo! Here's a list of some of my favorite things I read or played in 2010 (these items weren't necessarily released in 2010): 1) Comics I stopped reading dude comics many years ago once I came to the realization that women weren't represented, or represented well, in many of them...

The Anti-Feminist Deception

Posted on December 29, 2010
[TW: Gender-based violence] Making its rounds in the MRA/woman-hating circuit is this article by Caroline Glick which deigns to expose feminism as a "fraud." I know the MRA crowd has been figuratively jerking off to this partiuclar article, since roughly a third of the articles I regularly receive via my Google Alert for "feminism" would more accurately be categorized as "anti-feminism...

Buying Masculinity

Posted on December 28, 2010
Others have noted the homoerotic um, admiration, that many rightwing men channel toward "authoritarian strongmen" like Vladimir Putin, men who display hyper-masculine traits. Labeling traits like strength, virility, and violence as those that are essentially male, and then vaunting these traits as superior to their "opposite" female counterparts, the line between whether a man wants to, say, be Putin, or be with Putin, does seem to be blurred at times...

Lady Director Thingy

Posted on December 27, 2010
As a blogger, I often receive emails from people asking me to promote their products, articles, or blogs on my site for their own commercial purposes. I usually decline because, well, nothing chaps my ass more than someone basically saying "It's awesome that you've built up a base of readers over the years in your commercial-free space...

The Holy Mothers

Posted on December 24, 2010
Late theologian Mary Daly reminds us that when men start doing the things that women do, it has a tendency to become Very Important Business. Religion, of course, is no exception. She writes:"Virginia Wolf, who died of being both brilliant and female, wrote that women are condemned by society to function as mirrors, reflecting men at twice their actual size...

Odds 'N Ends (Again)

Posted on December 23, 2010
Let's just call this the "WTF is wrong with people?" edition.1. [TW: Gender policing; transphobia] In San Francisco, Amber Yust went to apply for a new driver's license. Four days later, she received a personal letter from the DMV employee who processed her application...

Odds 'N Ends

Posted on December 22, 2010
1. Writing in Religious Dispatches, Mark Berger writes of the problem of sexual abuse in Orthodox Jewish communities: There?s nothing to suggest that sexual abuse is any more or less prevalent in the Orthodox community than anywhere else; but there are a number of peculiarities to Orthodox Jewish life that have made the reporting of abuse less common than in society at large...

In Which Gay = Male, Again

Posted on December 21, 2010
Silly me for thinking that when former President Jimmy Carter said we might be ready for a gay president, we were actually talking about a president that could be either male or female. Maureen Dowd, and those she cites, confirms yet again that in cultural narratives about "gay" rights, the default gay is still a gay man...

Makeover!

Posted on December 20, 2010
Hello everyone. As you can see, interior decorators have come into Fannie's Room and made some big changes around these parts. A big tip of my sombrero goes out to my special friend hammerpants for, basically, doing all the heavy lifting and design work...

Another Wise Latina Takes Bench: Immediately Ensures All She's Not Racist, Sexist, or Heterophobic

Posted on December 17, 2010
Congratulations to the Honorable Monica Marquez, the first Latina and openly-gay Supreme Court Justice in Colorado. From FoxNews: "[S]he was quick to tell her colleagues that her allegiance is to the law, not any special interest group when she was sworn in Friday 'On the bench, of course, my allegiance is to the law, not to any particular constituency,' she said after she was sworn in by her father, retired Judge Jose D...

Commenting Issues

Posted on December 17, 2010
Hello all- As you might have noticed, my commenting system run by Echo is misbehaving. From what I've seen around the web, other bloggers using this system are experiencing problems as well. For now, try using a different browser, if you can.I have not been deleting comments and will try to have this resolved ASAP...

Yes, And?

Posted on December 16, 2010
It is common for those who oppose same-sex marriage to ground their opposition in a purported belief that all children should be raised by a man and a woman. That is, they disapprove of unions that "intentionally deprive" children of the man-woman gender duo...

1 Down

Posted on December 15, 2010
6,999,999 to go.Elite "Marriage Defenders" who have built careers out of getting Americans to feel good about opposing same-sex marriage have claimed that it "defames" those who believe in "traditional marriage" to suggest that they, and the 7 million voters who upheld Prop 8, have anything less than benign motives for doing so...

Inconvenient Omissions

Posted on December 14, 2010
Today's Perry v. Schwarzenegger Amicus fun was brought to you by a group of Catholic, Mormon, Evangelical Christian, and other Protestant organizations opposed to same-sex marriage. One of the central arguments presented is a reaction to what they believed was the implication of Judge Walker, who struck down Prop 8 at the federal trial level, that the religious motivations behind the same-sex marriage ban were "sinister and novel...

Civil Union Me

Posted on December 13, 2010
[Cross-posted at Our Big Gayborhood]Many Americans have the privilege of the same-sex marriage debate being an abstraction, a pedantic debating exercise, that does not affect their lives in a concrete way. Oftentimes, as I talk about gender roles, patriarchy, and heterocentrism with respect to marriage, I even let myself forget that this issue is, for me, more than some sort of academic dialogue...

Things That Render "Feminist" a Meaningless Label

Posted on December 10, 2010
TW: Sexual Assault Speaking of Wikileaks spokesman Julian Assange's extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations, his attorney Per E. Samuelson, a rape-defense specialist, laments: "To be accused of a sex crime in Sweden is considered very serious. Swedish courts tend to believe what the woman says...

Abortion Debate FAIL

Posted on December 09, 2010
The cocky cluelessness of anti-feminist dudes is often downright hilarious. Here, anti-feminist, anti-abortion blogger "Wintery Knight" opines upon what "the early church fathers [thought] about abortion" and concludes that they were "pro-life." Fun fact, folks: 100% of the early church fathers were not born with uteri...

Prop 8 Oral Arguments Heard

Posted on December 08, 2010
On Monday, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in Perry v. Schwarzenegger (aka, The Prop 8 Case). I haven't have a chance to watch the arguments yet, which were televised this time, but I did peruse the anti-gay Amicus Briefs that were filed...

Race Lessons From a White Conservative Professor

Posted on December 07, 2010
[TW: Racism] Conservative commentator and professor of political science Mike Adams is whinging about criticism aimed at him again. What started this round was a column he wrote saying that if he were president of University of North Carolina, he would abolish the African American Center (and the LGBT Center, and the Women's Center, and well, you get the point)...

Civil Unions Pass In Illinois

Posted on December 06, 2010
My home state of Illinois passed a civil unions bill last week! I have written about previous attempts to enact civil union/marriage equality laws in Illinois here and here. As I discussed earlier, Illinois' "Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act,"contains a (unnecessary and redundant) provision telling religious groups they don't have to solemnize civil unions if they don't want to:"Nothing in this Act shall interfere with or regulate the religious practice of any religious body...

Odds 'N Ends

Posted on December 03, 2010
1. Via Geek Feminism, venture capitalist John Doerr admits that when it comes to which startup companies he chooses to invest in, he looks for those headed by "white, male, nerds" who've dropped out of pretiguous universities, because in his mind, there's a pattern of such companies being successful...

Scarborough's Model of Civility

Posted on December 02, 2010
Previously, we've learned from at least one anti-feminist that it's not okay for female politicians to tell male politicians to "man up." The rules may be different, though, when men tell other men to "man up," especially when the manning-up is to be done in opposition to women...

Women's Sports and the Lavendar Menace

Posted on December 01, 2010
I was pleased to read this well-done article by Graham Hays at ESPN, of all places, openly discussing the problem of pervasive homophobia in women's sports. The article centers around Olympic and pro softball player Lauren Lappin, who came out before participating in the 2008 Olympics...

The Ignorance of Anti-Feminism

Posted on November 30, 2010
So, this article over at the Eagle Forum is fun. In it, a lady bemoans how it is apparently okay for female politicians to tell their male rivals to "man up" and how, Because of Feminism, "women can do and say whatever they want about the opposite sex, but men can't do likewise...

Book Review: No Excuses

Posted on November 29, 2010
So, I should preface this book review by noting that I generally avoid books and articles that, although largely well-intentioned, are of the Workplace-Tips-For-Women variety. Such advice, I've found too often, encourages women to adopt toxic hyper-"masculine" values, while failing to critique such values...

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