Words that probably should not pass unexamined in an analysis of sexist advertising and art include:

tramp
trampy
slutty
prostitute
whore
innocence
vulgar
vulgarity
classy
trashy

This editing class is depressing.

On Wednesday I overheard Kate Chopin's "Story of An Hour" described by a classmate as, "the one where that guy's wife thinks he's died..."

It took me five minutes to stop gaping. Mrs. Mallard really can't have her own story, even when it is her story, can she?

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... .... ....I don't know about you, but for me sunblock is not a beauty article but a "do I want to be in pain and discomfort for the next week while my superficial but widespread burn heals?" article.

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No, no, I got to say, a fictional narrative about war is not "of necessity" populated only by men. Women live through wars too. They fight in them, they spy in them, they nurse the sick, wounded, and dying, they staff operations posts, they run the phones, they take their turns behind anti-aircraft guns or on public safety details, they make the ( Read more... )

My youngest brother's friends know my younger brother, the middle brother, by name. This despite the fact that he is never around/awake when they are here ( Read more... )

1) Harriet Jacobs. Which. Admittedly if there were a biopic about her coming out I would probably be terrified of it and antsy and not want to go see it in theaters because oh my god I would need to be able to stop the tape and walk away and come back to get through it, but she just blows me away, and and and it could be awesome ( Read more... )

The dog bit me, and when I shouted, the younger of my two younger brothers told me to calm down ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about street harassment lately. Mostly because when I was out planting decorative plants around the mailbox on Sunday I kept tensing up every time I heard a car. I was wearing one of my chemises, the low cut black one with blue flowers on it. It's one of my favorite pieces of clothing for summer. It's too cold here the rest of ( Read more... )

I can't say I'm surprised by the four hundred year old racist and sexist rhetoric dressed up in clothing for the new millenium that's been all over the news media in regard to the Democratic nomination race - nor by the racist and sexist rhetoric that's been all over said news media since that race ended and the race for the election began to gear ( Read more... )

When you code characters as masculine, you are still coding them as having gender.

Ugh! I know a few strains of canon argue that coded masculinity is actually coded gender neutral - but that doesn’t make it a non-androcentric argument!

Stop telling me there’s no gender until women show up! Men have gender! Masculinity is not neutral! It is not ( Read more... )