I really like jimhines and generally think that his writing on privilege is pretty thoughtful stuff.  Ergo, it's not too surprising to find that I think that this is a great post.

You know, a long time ago, I would be afraid of a group of teenagers coming toward me at night.  Now I have a teenager, and those teenagers all look like my son and his friends.  ( Read more... )

So, whilst taking a short break at work, I had a lot of fun with these posts, today, over at Shapely Prose and Zuska's place.  Then I spent a little bit of time explaining to a male co-worker what "mansplaining" is, who around the office does it, how sometimes he is the unwitting participant (as it's frequently us against the world on strategy, and ( Read more... )

ETA: I forgot my footnote.

So, could someone PLEASE explain to me why I as a feminist am pushing an ideological agenda that is somehow radical when I assert that women shouldn't be slut-shamed for their clothing choices or required to dress in a certain way to avoid arousing the men around them, but a man that thinks it's perfectly okay to tell a ( Read more... )

Seal Press, the publisher of Marcotte's book and the selector of those fabulous images from my previous post....(and no, I'm not linking to them again)...well, they have a track-record.

Profbwoman over at WOC PhD has a really thorough post up about it, which I recommend you check out.

Okay, back to today's book.  You all will be so excited!  It's

So.  Let's talk about our privilege for awhile, shall we?

In case you have no idea what's going on, there's a rift in the online feminist community.  The latest point of contention in that ongoing discussion was the fact that Amanda Marcotte's recently published book, It's a Jungle Out There, included illustrations that were, no way to sugar coat it ( Read more... )

The online feminist community is in the middle of a crisis.  I wish I could pretend it was less than that, but it's not.  And all of us need to reflect and think about what our feminism means to us, what it means to others, and what we want it to mean.   We've been working very hard to reclaim the word "feminist."  There are people, now, walking ( Read more... )

I want to clarify/evolve/change a couple of different things (I'm participating in an ongoing discussion, and my thoughts are changing, and I want to be very clear):

So, first--my reactions were totally based on the original post and the first explanation.  I have new information now.   New information should always be accommodated into a theory, ( Read more... )

My friend netmouse, who actually participated in the project, posted a very thoughtful post on how she and the folks who conceived it thought of it, and I want to quote it here for discussion purposes:

To me this was really about gender-nonspecific personal connection and permission-granting (or not granting), not women caving to the male power or notions ( Read more... )

So, a few people have asked if I would be ditching my planned fem theory Thursday post on misogyny at work to talk about this.

I think everything has been said several times over, by articulate and thoughtful folks.   So my plan is no.

For those of you who are interested, here are my thoughts in pseudo-concentrate.  There's likely nothing here you' ( Read more... )

Go look here, at feministing, then come back.

Okay, back?

What Ann said.  NOW NY does not speak for me, or for all feminists.

Unfuckingbelievable.

Look, I will be the first person defending Hillary Clinton from sexist and patriarchy-affirming attacks having nothing to do with her actual, you know, merit as a candidate.  And I'm not blind to the actual/ ( Read more... )