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Entries Tagged as 'Gender'
Spark: Kilts!
July 21st, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments
Tags: Activism · Current Events · Gender · News · Society · Spark
Spark: Women in the Box Office
July 20th, 2008 · by xJane · 2 Comments
“Could It Be? Did Hollywood Execs Get The Memo?” speculates on the reason for the number of movies-about-women (which seems to correspond with movies-by-women). I would take issue with her assertion that Mama Mia! or Kit are any great leaps forward for womankind, but I’ve not seen either, so I won’t get into that here.
Tags: Art · Current Events · Fantasy · Feminism · Fiction · Gender · Movies/Hollywood · Pop Culture · Women · Writing
Swingtown
July 20th, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments
I’ve been watching
Tags: Activism · Art · Feminism · Fiction · Gender · Pop Culture · Women
This is What a Feminist Acts Like
July 19th, 2008 · by xJane · 10 Comments
I have to give props to my husband for recently committing unanticipated acts of feminism. At a recent party, a (male) acquaintance was drunkenly holding forth about how women fundamentally change when they have sex (presumably each time, given his justification) but men do not. Therefore, it is astronomically worse for a woman to cheat […]
Tags: Activism · Belief · Dialog · Feminism · Gender · Humanity · Personal · Reason · Religion · Sexuality · Women
Societal Norms & Sexual Experimentation
July 15th, 2008 · by xJane · 11 Comments
I Kissed a Girl (& I Liked It) is the title of the “#1 Pop Hit” of the summer. I even heard it on the radio the other day (although not before I heard the article).
This hits on something I’d been thinking of bringing up around here: the fact that female-on-female, shall we call it […]
Tags: Current Events · Ethics · Feminism · Gender · Homosexuality · Music · Pop Culture · Sexuality · Women
Spark: Misogyny in Christianity vs. Islam
July 11th, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments
Over at Screaming into the Void.
Tags: Belief · Bible · Bible Study · Christianity · Church and State · Current Events · Dialog · Ethics · Feminism · Gender · Getting over Religion · Islam · Links · Religion · Sexuality · Spark · Women
Female Bishops!
July 8th, 2008 · by xJane · 5 Comments
So…the Church of England has voted to allow female bishops. Which sounded awesome to me, despite the fact that those opposed to it have called those in favor of it “mean spirited” for disallowing “super bishops” (read: male bishops) for congregants that object to the authority of a female bishop. I’ll come back to that.
So […]
Tags: Activism · Christianity · Current Events · Feminism · Gender · News · Politics · Religion · Spiritual Progressives · Women
Spark: Target Women
June 19th, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments
Whoever invented this is inspired! Here they are on politics.
Tags: Activism · Current Events · Feminism · Gender · Links · Media and Design · News · Politics · Society · Women
I Heart Michelle Obama
June 18th, 2008 · by xJane · 4 Comments
Although Elizabeth Edwards is also teh awesome. However, she [Obama] has become the latest target in the media as an “agressive, outspoken, forceful” woman. Her rise to this prominence after Clinton’s exodus from the misogynist spotlight can be taken to be indicative of the fact that one of the major draws [for the media] of […]
Tags: Blogging · Current Events · Feminism · Gender · Links · Politics
Stupidity Kills, Too
June 7th, 2008 · by xJane · 5 Comments
Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Griswald v. Connecticut, which ruled that Americans have a right to privacy under the Constitution (based upon the fact that things like “unlawful search & seizure” violate your privacy). Specifically, that married couples could practice contraception in the privacy of their homes and the State (of […]
Tags: Activism · Current Events · Education · Fantasy · Feminism · Gender · Sexuality
