What you should read since I’m not writing:
- You Mess with the Bull . . . - Excellent before and after shots.
- Your feminism ain’t like mine - “Don’t conflate fighting sexism with supporting her or I will gladly and unashamedly bow out of it. Because I rank fighting sexism higher than electing her.” Hear, hear!
- This Might Be Blackface - “If a white actor is satirizing the prevalence of cross-racial casting by playing a character with an ethnicity other than his own, darkening up and donning a short afro wig to do so, has he crossed the line into blackface?”
- Attacking Native Women’s Rights And Why Pro-Life Democrats Aren’t All They’re Cracked Up To Be
- Painted Fabric Silhouettes
- The Unapologetic Mexican: Bill Said it Best. - Really clever comment on the “3 am” Clinton commercial.
Did that guy get eaten?! Crocs are definitely in my top three Animals Not To Mess With list (along with bears and sharks, because the three of those will just eat you, whether or not they are hungry). My fear of crocs & bears is bad enough I can’t even watch Animal Precinct: Miami anymore because someone’s always having to relocate a croc out of a botanical garden to a deserted swamp or something. Eeep!
I get so, so tired of people who dismiss what I have to say about the sexism aimed at Clinton because they assume I must be in the tank for her if I bring it up. No, I’ve just been on this planet nearly 40 years as a woman and I can see right through this shit. If you call yourself a feminist, you should be able to hear a critique of sexism as a critique of sexism, independent of who you support as a candidate.
If you call yourself a feminist, you should be able to hear a critique of sexism as a critique of sexism, independent of who you support as a candidate.
Agreed. Of course we’ve seen a lot of racism and sexism revolving around the Clinton and Obama campaigns, and many people are doing a far better job at extracting the meanings and motivations behind the bigotry than I could (which is why I’m basically just cataloguing the best of these posts). But the discussions that I’m likely to get involved with are the ones a la Lemieux in which it’s declared that no reasonable person would find X, Y, and Z, either racist or sexist, especially if it makes the person’s candidate of choice look bad, when many reasonable people obviously do. For the last three election cycles, I think I’ve learned more about the candidates and their supporters through meta-discussion (online and off) than I have from candidate websites or stump speeches.
the ones a la Lemieux
Yes. Well. I know how those go.
John Yoo, anyone?