I love old movies and thanks to the DVR I have been recording and watching them every chance I get. I am working through the AFI list of Top 100 films of the 20th Century pretty dilligently. I have it on my List of Bests that I am working on over at 43 Things ( Read more... )

Where has everyone been today? LJ has been so slow! Wah! I want more people to take my poll and stuff! *pouts*

Are we getting what we deserve?I don't mean that literally, but I am getting to the age where most of my feminist friends have lost their passion for women's rights, sure they still care, but are they invested enough to make a difference ( Read more... )

Gee, how did I miss this?

Morning is not off to a great start, hopefully it will get better...

deliriums_fish has an interesting essay on her LJ:

( Reposted here if your interested )

In the end, many mothers I've encountered since becoming one myself have decided to change their names in line at the passport office, or in the post office, or in a doctor's waiting room. They are not inspired to do it out of a nostalgic affection for tradition, or some cozy idea of family, or anything so charged or esoteric; they do it because ( Read more... )

Repeal the 19th

/sarcasm/
That's right folks sign that petition now, don't delay. Women are, of course, the cause of all the evil in the world... let's take all those crazy "equal rights" types down a peg shall we?
/sarcasm/

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Self-Injury: You are NOT the only one.
Monday, March 1, 2004 is SI Awareness Day.

FYI this is also the beginning of Women's History month... I will post more about WHM during the month of March!

I just saw Britney Spears "Toxic" video online. I hate this song even more than I hated "Slave for You" I think those lyrics are horrendous! But "Toxic"? What a peice of near pornographic garbage ( Read more... )

I never imagined she would even be an option, but she is truly a remarkable feminist theorist.


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So, don't give me your tenets and your laws. Don't give me your lukewarm gods. What I want is an accounting with all three cultures-white, Mexican, Indian. I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails. And if going home is denied me then I will have to stand ( Read more... )