February 2009
Feministe » “What is bad for the Jews is better... →
This clumsy beginning is compounded by the deep trauma of the Shoah itself - and the fact that international Jewry was forced to forgive Germany too quickly. Burg does, at one point, use the abused child comparison, but it’s in the context of a much more exhaustive study of the effects of trauma. “The [post WWII] negotiations, agreements, and diplomatic relations were decided on for cold and...
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“But what really gets me about the above quote is the dismissal of happiness. I...”
– Fatshionista! - Photography (Fatography?) as Cure for Happiness
January 2009
Obama abandons ‘war on terror’ catchphrase →
vruz:
vruz: more like a buzzword, actually… and Obama is only being pragmatic:
“a Pentagon-funded study last year recommended that the U.S. do away with the terminology as the strategy behind it was “not successful in undermining al Qai’da’s capabilities.”
I… I kind of love my President.
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The Pandora's Box of Cohabitation - Feministing →
I felt anger at Nikolai creep up. I felt the urge to unpack the box myself but quickly slapped the impulse away. I expended Herculean energy trying not to say anything, trying to ignore the box and pretend it didn’t matter. And, in fact, to him, it didn‘t matter.
He eventually cleaned up the box in anticipation of a house guest. And like that—poof!—it was gone. But I...
ohnotheydidnt breaks LiveJournal! news at eleven →
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“Even if you bought it because you deserve the best, because it will make your...”
– Because You’re Worth It. Really. (via gauntlet)
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“We need a widespread rebellion of women who are tired of worrying about their...”
– Laura Fraser (via gauntlet)
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“So if we want to remain slim, should we be shunning fat people?” Yes, that...”
– Fat is contagious again
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Here is a question every author hates: “Where do you get your ideas from?”
The answer is: MY HEAD, but people want something more specific than that. They want something authorly and evocative that makes me seem smart. “I pull them out of my a$%,” is not the kind of thing that sounds good when quoted in a fine publication read by members of the American Library Association. So when I am asked...
How about the fact that women grow up in a society that is centered on men’s experiences and lives? That the female body is used as a representation of sex itself, whereas (hetero) men’s experiences and understandings of sex dominate our cultural narrative? To go back to an old feminist gem, men watch; women watch themselves being watched.
And women’s bodies are positioned as public property....
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25) →
Jens Lekman (19)
Hercules and Love Affair (1)
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins (1)
The National (1)
Beirut (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Father Chains Girl To Bed To Stop Her Eating →
(via Shapely Prose)
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“Hardwicke’s film has many things to recommend it: a beautiful sensitivity to...”
– Bitten by the female gaze (via gauntlet)
See also: slash fiction, another one of the “unique, specific secrets of female desire.”
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“There is a point to be made about language. He never said the word ‘terrorism’...”
– Chris Matthews (via soupsoup) (via twothirty)
“Terrorism is a tactic, not an enemy.” - Eugene Robinson
(via danielholter) (via robot-heart-politics)
“It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari”
– Obama spokesman Bill Burton, as “Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Technology:” washingtonpost.com (via somethingchanged)
I like how they’re all Mac users and frustrated by six-year-old Windows systems. I think they should switch the White House to Macs, personally....
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Greenwald: Save exceptions, Obama meets or greatly... →
msbadkittie: vruz:
Fred Hiatt and the Washington establishment’s bizarre concept of “due process”
by Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com
Barack Obama will have spent his first several days in office issuing a series of executive orders which, some quibbling and important caveats and reservations aside, meet or actually exceed even the most optimistic expectations of civil libertarians for what he could...
“An internet chum, in a discussion board debate surrounding TP and T.D. Jakes,...”
– What Does Tyler Perry Really Want From His Audience?
“It was much easier to get into a second-row seat — a seat 15 feet from the...”
– Ezra Klein
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Red and Blue Baby Naming: Inauguration 2009... →
A few years back, I started a project to track down the red-blue divide in name terms. Did blue (liberal) and red (conservative) America actually name their children differently? Yes, they surely did. But how they did was a stunner. The “bluest” names were traditional, Christian, and single-sex; the “reddest” were newly invented, non-religious and androgynous. (Try it on...
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Whoops! Anti-Choice Nurse “Accidentally” Pulls Out... →
Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops to close →
We believe there is wisdom in knowing the appropriate time to say farewell. After 82 years of bookselling, it is with immense sadness that we announce the closing of Milwaukee’s own independent Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops. Our doors will be permanently shut as of Tuesday, March 31st, 2009.
NO. THIS IS NOT ALLOWED. I VETO THIS. :(
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ROBERT PATTINSON: So, the next generation of young women are currently flocking to see a female lead starring in a movie by a female director based on a bestselling book by a female author, and in this movie the main character wants to become completely submissive and self-sacrificing for a male.
KRISTEN STEWART: I love you. Put a baby in me.
If “Twilight” Was 10 Times Shorter And...
“That’s the standard critique. But I have another take on it. I think there’s...”
– Bidisha: What’s behind the need to create a perfect wedding? | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
(via sarahchristine) (via gauntlet)
Yes to this whole article.
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“This also helps explain why, according to several studies, children with...”
– How the city hurts your brain - Boston.com
I miss the woods.
this explains a lot, actually
She has found that praising a child’s effort on a task (“you’ve worked really hard!”) has a motivating effect, whereas praising the child by attributing their success to a character trait (“you’re really clever”) caused them to become to be more distressed when they encounter failure and lead them to chose easier tasks afterwards.
Her work suggests this...
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This Is Why You Should Love Eddie Izzard →
like you needed another reason.