MK Feminist. A feminist critique of “cisgender” « Liberation Collective. Consistent with common usage of the term “cisgender,” the graphic below explains that “…if you identify with the gender you were assigened [sic] at birth, you are cis.” Another Trans 101: Cisgender webpage describes cis this way: “For example, if a doctor said “it’s a boy!” When you were born, and you identify as a man, then you could be described as cisgender.” [i] Likewise, girl-born people who identify as women are also considered cisgender. WBW are cis. Framing gender as a medically determined assignment may seem like a good start to explaining gendered oppression because it purports to make a distinction between physical sex and gender.
Feminism similarly understands masculinity and femininity (e.g., gender) as strictly enforced social constructs neither of which are the “normal” or inevitable result of one’s reproductive sex organs. On closer inspection of the concept of “cisgender,” however, feminism and trans theory quickly diverge. See graphic, above. “IT’S A GIRL!” Like this: Anita Sarkeesian’s TED talk and the predictable response » Lousy Canuck. This talk by Anita Sarkeesian at the TEDxWomen 2012 event was posted with its ratings and comments disabled. While ordinarily I would consider that the mark of an attempt to stifle debate, this was done because she is the target of an ongoing hate campaign because she’s a woman talking about sexism in a traditionally male-dominated territory: video games. The comments and downvotes would wreck this talk’s chances of being seen, normally. In this case, knowing that she’d be censored by the same haters she’s talking about, I’m okay with disabling the ratings and comments.
We can post it to our own sites and let her speak, then offer constructive criticism in spaces where we can moderate away the haters. This deprives them of a space to vent, and allows her message to enter the marketplace of ideas to live or die by their own merits. But the haters found an easy way around this: upload the identical video elsewhere, so they could downrate it to shit and talk about rape all they want. Marketing, Advertising and Social Media News With Attitude by Steve Hall. AdWeek doesn't like the new Miller High ads and neither do we. While Gabriel Beltrone does an exquisite job of explaining why the ads suck, we'll be more blunt. They come off like some copywriter's hipsterific dream of cool as defined by a sort of fuck you sensibility to the fact losers who drink Miller High Life can't afford to get out of the pool hall and make something of themselves. Rather, they'd prefer to spew a stereotypically Millennial "I don't give a shit" tonality -- with "we're so cool we're in black and white" 'tude no less -- that just wants to make you punch Rich for his lame attempt at wry wit and self-importance.
Too harsh? More » In April of 2013, Dininyls frontwomen Chrissy Amphlett died from breast cancer after an ultrasound and mammogram missed the cancer. It's said that her dying wish was to have the 1990 hit, I Touch Myself, be a reminder to all women to check themselves regularly for signs of breast cancer. More » more » more » more » more » more » more » Media buying. Marketing, Advertising and Social Media News With Attitude by Steve Hall - Adrants. Ads of the World™ | Creative Advertising Archive & Community. THE LIZ LIBRARY | Women's law and research | women's history, family law, politics, children's issues, education, religion, and psychology. Excremental Virtue | Lili Loofbourow's Big Face of Pretended Learning. “Cultural scavengers”: Violentacrez, Reddit, and trolls. Trigger warning: sexual violence and rape culture, racism, misogyny, online harassment, suicide. Everyone is buzzing about Adrian Chen’s article for Gawker unmasking the identity of Michael Brutsch, better known as Violentacrez, a superuser who contributed to and moderated several of the most creepy, racist, and misogynist forums on Reddit.
With reason: it’s a well-written and impressive piece of investigative journalism, and does important work unmasking someone who’s done a huge amount of harm – and the broader user and company culture at Reddit that allowed him to get away with it for so long. That said, I have some reservations about the piece and how it’s been received. While the behavior of Brutsch and other Redditors is particularly disgusting, it’s worth noting Chen writes for an outlet that’s far from innocent when it comes to racism and misogyny (for starters). This isn’t an exception with Gawker and other Gawker Media properties. The money quote in Phillip’s piece: The Ethical Adman. Can you raise breast cancer awareness without even showing women? #Pinkverts.
Posted by Tom Megginson | 9-10-2012 20:19 | Category: Pinkverts [Image via Saudi Women to Drive Facebook page] Åsk, at Adland, made me aware of this breast cancer month poster from Saudi Arabia. Hot on the heels of IKEA’s PR disaster last week, when it was found that all women had been Photoshopped out of its Saudi catalogue, this campaign has emerged from the murk of the internet.
Åsk notes: This isn’t an easy topic in Saudi, where women are in many cases controlled by men as they have fewer legal rights overall in the country, and the culture itself is male-dominated to the extreme. There is also video, on YouTube: It appears to be a campaign in which men show their support and approval for women getting checked.
It’s interesting to compare this to the men‘s breast cancer campaign in the UK that featured a fully-clothed man cavorting with a bevy of bouncing, topless women. If I had to choose between sexist societies, however, I’d still pick the one where women speak for themselves. Blog | Name It. Change It. Facials, feminism, & performance: On f**king men in a patriarchy. As feminists, sleeping with men is always going to be a little fraught. Not getting to the actual act, per se – jumping into bed with people we feel like jumping into bed with can be pretty straightforward – rather the politics surrounding feminists having sex with men within the context of a patriarchy as well as, of course, the maintenance of a sexual relationship with a man in the long-term.
Applying the phrase, ‘the personal is political’, seems particularly difficult when we are talking about an act that can be very private and very personal. Certainly sex is one of those things that can make us feel extremely vulnerable. Including politics or even acknowledging that, in one way or another, there is a larger context to our behaviour when it comes to sex, leaves something to be desired. That said, I’m not one to take individual acts as simply individual acts. Recently, Emily McCombs posted a piece at xojane.com about her love of facials (no, not the kind you get at the spa).
So ok. [GUEST POST] The Omniscient Breasts by Kate Elliot. Kate Elliott is the author of the Spiritwalker Trilogy (Cold Magic, Cold Fire, and the forthcoming Cold Steel), the Crossroads Trilogy, the Crown of Stars septology, and the Novels of the Jaran. She lives in Hawaii. Thanks to Charles Tan for advice on this post. The Omniscient Breasts: The Male Gaze Through Female Eyes My reading experience of fantasy & science fiction over forty years is that it is mostly written with the male gaze. By this I don’t mean it is written from the point of view of a male character, although that is often the case.
Nor am I speaking about the gender of the writer: a male writer does not automatically write every line of every book with a male gaze just because he is a man; in fact, a male writer can write with a female gaze, and women can (and often do) write with a male gaze. How am I using the terms “male gaze” and “female gaze?” The idea of “the gaze” is a theoretical concept about how we look at things, especially in visual culture. Let me tell a story. In Our Words. With Love. Still here | UpRoot. By Cristy C, who still has a terrific sense of humor content notes for rape, violence and foul language “And guess what, knuckleheads? I’ve already been raped. AND I’M STILL FUCKING HERE. So your rape wishes are as pointless as they are cruel.”
@Shakestweetz (Melissa McEwan). My post from the other day about Daniel Tosh encouraging members of his audience to rape a woman at his show for laughs got a lot of attention. As part of this attention, I received a comment on the blog that stated, “I hope you get raped.” Another blogger linked to my post and said, “Someone needs to rape a sense of humor into that c*nt.”
My personal email address was shut down after repeated hacking attempts from anonymous far-flung IP addresses. Daniel Tosh tried to make joke out of rape, and when someone protested, he shut her down with a threat of rape, which was not a joke but actual violence. I need you to bear witness to this. I am still here. I am still here, and I still matter. Like this: Like Loading... Feminist Armchair Regime. Black Girl Dangerous (How To Be A Reverse-Racist: An Actual Step by Step List For Oppressing White People) Not in the Kitchen Anymore. Fat, Ugly or Slutty. Feminist Boyfriend | News a newyddion! The Voice of Heard. In recent years, the video game industry and community has experienced both good news and bad news. But no bad news is more significant than the recent announcement that G4 TV, a television channel originally geared towards a young gamer audience, is to become the Esquire Network, which is geared toward a more “sophisticated meterosexual male” audience, by late April this year. ( Note: the term ‘meterosexual’ is used to describe an urban modern-day heterosexual man who is mostly concerned [and perhaps even obsessed] with his personal appearance, which is reflected by the amount of time and money spent on the most fashionable clothes, the best beauty treatments, and the most fastidious grooming his money can buy.)
In order to paint a clearer picture as to why this is happening, I will give a brief history of G4. The very idea of a channel devoted entirely to a gamer audience seemed like a very novel one at the time. 1) The Legal Corporate Owners Of G4 “We’re going through a change. Tiger Beatdown › Kumbaya Motherf*cker Central. Bill's profeminist blog. Welcome to XY online | www.xyonline.net. Fem.men.ist. Feminist Allies. Women and Hollywood | Indiewire.