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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.

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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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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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 […]

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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.

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Tags: Activism · Current Events · Feminism · Gender · Links · Media and Design · News · Politics · Society · Women

Women in Politics

June 4th, 2008 · by xJane · 9 Comments

In commemoration of Hillary’s loss of first place on the ticket (I find it unlikely that she’ll be on it at all at this point, but it might happen), I’d like to celebrate women in politics. And there are women in politics. At least, in other countries.
Currently, in the United States there are 16 women […]

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Tags: Feminism · Gender · Politics · Society · Women

Bachelor(ette)

June 3rd, 2008 · by xJane · 2 Comments

This weekend I attended an exercise in gender. One of my cousins is getting married next week & her sister threw her a party designed to piss her off. It didn’t work, but we all had fun regardless. There was a penis cake, a penis wand, penis straws (in fact, somewhere an aunt of mine […]

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Tags: Art · Dialog · Fantasy · Feminism · Gender · Sexuality · Women

Spark: Why Calling Out Misogyny Matters

May 20th, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments

over at Feministe. Verbose, but worth the time.
Spark is a category for sharing links. No intense commentary, just a link & a brief reason you might want to click on it. Something to Spark your Mind to Flame, if you will.

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Tags: Politics · Pop Culture · Sexuality · Spark · Women