Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!: Archive

Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!

January 2011

Weighing in on body fascism: Essay - latimes.com →

robot-heart-politics: An interesting article on dance and the focus on thin-ness and body perfection.

The women who are forced into breastfeeding →

wingsofmadness: fuckyeahgenderstudies: “Everyone agrees breastfeeding is best for babies – but vulnerable new mothers are being bullied into it. Anne Wollenberg finds some disturbing evidence” I was lucky that I was never pressured into Breastfeeding by the doctors at the hospital that I delivered at. It was my choice to breastfeed and I did. (It was cheaper, Formula is expensive) Of...

Parkinson's Drug Causes Gay Sex Addiction? →

A 51-year-old Frenchman is taking drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline to court this week, claiming one of its Parkinson’s disease medications made him addicted to gay sex and gambling. Didier Jambart said he started taking the drug, Requip, in 2003. Soon after, he became a gay sex addict, started to cross-dress, and posted graphic photos of himself on websites, according to the Agence...

This is why sexism in humour is a big fucking deal →

thejuthikakid: gwenfrankenstien: ix-tab: So it turns out that words? They mean things! Intent? Still not fucking magical, after all these years. And sexist jokes? Influence the way women are percieved. Here, have some science. WORDS MEAN THINGS I will always show this to anyone who say that sexist jokes are just jokes.

Pink nipples: the preference for "white" bodies →

The women who are forced into breastfeeding →

“Everyone agrees breastfeeding is best for babies – but vulnerable new mothers are being bullied into it. Anne Wollenberg finds some disturbing evidence”

Does oxytocin, the "love hormone", foster racism? →

LINKS! Educational links!

Okay, here are some links for you that i’ve been meaning to post for aaaaaaaages. First on the list is UMBC’s list of OVER NINE HUNDRED programmes in women’s, feminist and gender studies worldwide Next, The Artemis Guide to Women’s Studies in the U.S. Next, a searchable list of Women’s Studies Programmes by the NWSA (National Women’s Studies Association) ...

Le Lundi Living List! Colleges with gender-neutral... →

I have decided that, in order to keep this list well-known and growing as a resource, i will circulate it every Monday as part of Le Lundi Living List. Because alliteration is cool. I know for a fact that this list is lacking and far from comprehensive. However, i’m not omniscient and i do rely on heads-ups from readers so i know to add colleges to the list. Currently most of the colleges...

Full film of Sex, Death and the Gods →

Available until 10:14pm GMT Tuesday, February 1. UK only (unless you know some computer wizardry to get around the geographical restrictions).

Video interview with Beeban Kidron, plus clips →

Interview with filmmaker Beeban Kidron, plus exclusive clips from her new film. Sex, Death and the Gods explores the complex world of India’s devadasi, girls devoted to a goddess and then sold for sex at puberty

Beeban Kidron, filmmaker of Sex, Death and the... →

After I made a documentary called Hookers, Hustlers, Pimps and Their Johns, which investigated prostitution in New York 18 years ago, I didn’t think I’d make another film on prostitution. But when I heard about the devadasis it opened the whole thing up for me again. Sex work “in the name of God” was a whole new frontier and I arrived in India full of outrage and...

Southern India's devadasi system 'dedicates' girls... →

Parvatamma is a devadasi, or servant of god, as shown by the red-and-white beaded necklace around her neck. Dedicated to the goddess Yellamma when she was 10 at the temple in Saundatti, southern India, she cannot marry a mortal. When she reached puberty, the devadasi tradition dictated that her virginity was sold to the highest bidder and when she had a daughter at 14 she was sent to work in the...

Why sexism is no laughing matter, despite what the... →

Anonymous asked: just a brief suggestion: maybe you should make a books page on your tumblr, and just have a huge list (with maybe a brief summary)

Virginia considers ditching HPV vaccine... →

Plenty of Virginia parents are exercising their right to opt out: Only 17 percent of sixth-grade girls in the state received the vaccine this fall. Still, opposition to the 2007 law remains, centered on three arguments: Students shouldn’t be required to receive the vaccine, as it’s not communicable at school; the vaccination series is costly, around $360 for three injections; and the added...

rebel-baby asked: Can you recommend some necessary feminist/anti-sexism/gender studies books?

Anonymous asked: "They live in this massive-ass house. In fact, they live in loads of massive-ass houses. The value of Buckingham Palace alone is phenomenal—if that were sold, the national deficit would probably disappear. Or, maybe not. But it would generate a lot of money."

- I just wanted to point out that we make a lot of money from having a monarchy in tourism. The money...

sparklingsodacans asked: Talking about Disney princesses: http://sparklingsodacans.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/disneys-potrayal-of-women-of-color/ I wrote that for one of my writing classes.

evilferret replied to your post: I’m also really anti-royalist. I don’t see how… why are you? Because i don’t think it’s right that one family—for no reason, no merit, just birth—gets to rule the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Falkland Islands, all the other colonies i can’t remember, forever, just because. They live in this massive-ass house. In...

imagineifyouwill replied to your post:On Disney: I thought you might find this an interesting addition to The Little Mermaid’s problems. Apparently Ursula’s design was based off the drag performer Divine. I agree that many of the Disney princesses are a bit questionable, but what do you think of the Disney princes? If Aladdin isn’t a prince, how are Cinderella, or Belle, or Tiana princesses? All...

I’m also really anti-royalist. I don’t see how anyone can sensibly not be…

starswallower asked: On Disney: I thought you might find this an interesting addition to The Little Mermaid's problems. Apparently Ursula's design was based off the drag performer Divine. I agree that many of the Disney princesses are a bit questionable, but what do you think of the Disney princes?

Gays Seeking Asylum in U.S. Encounter a New Hurdle →

Very interesting—and enraging—article over at the New York Times about how gays seeking asylum on account of their sexuality are increasingly being scrutinised for how well they conform to popular (and outmoded, and wrong) stereotypes about lesbians and gays.

Anonymous asked: You might find this article interesting. (I really enjoy reading this blog by the way!)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/nyregion/29asylum.html

haterina replied to your post: Someone just called my post on ‘sexualising’… Didn’t you know? Alternate Earth Evil Activist FYGS is soaked in children-hatred! I’m imagining myself living in a gingerbread house, wearing bright colours, setting traps for sex workers and having a video collection composed entirely of Disney racist classics like Dumbo and The Jungle Book. And, of...

korneliathecreator-deactivated2 asked: okay i get it now. i guess not everyone has the awesome ability to distinguish between a joke and a serious statement.
also "man" wasn't meant to be literal, it's slang.
congratulations you can now remove the stick shoved up your ass.

korneliathecreator-deactivated2 asked: lol man do you always run around tumblr lecturing everybody?

Making this rebloggable.

stfucapitalists asked:I know this isn’t what your blog is about but could you please post this? It is very important. If you know anyone in Egypt, please pass this on to them. To bypass government blocking of websites, use numerical IP addresses: Twitter ”128.242.240.52” Fb ”69.63.189.34” Google ”172.14.204.99”. A French ISP offers free dial up internet access ~ +33 1...

Someone just called my post on ‘sexualising’ children “child-hatred soaked in adultism/adult privilege”. Uh?

venatus replied to your post:Having watched all of 101 Dalmatians (awesome cartoon version)… the fact that the entire premise is about a fashion obsessed woman willing to do anything for a coat doesn’t’ strike you has problematic? But Cruella is portrayed as unusual—and horrible—for the fact. She’s absolutely not protrayed as typical of all women. Though she does say...

Having watched all of 101 Dalmatians (awesome...

The only sexist bit is when Cruella is chasing after them in her car when they’re hiding in the removal van and trying to force them off the road. The van driver calls her a “crazy woman driver”. But that’s it.

dearestandqueerest asked: Aren't the "kids" on Glee technically not children as deemed by Ohio (where the show takes place) state law on age of consent? In Ohio it's 16 and I'm pretty sure all of the characters are 16 or older. So given that, they're not portraying children, they're portraying consenting adults under the law. I agree though that it does infantilize women. It also, given...

Anonymous asked: Of course the nature of the show shouldn't carry with the actors and actresses for the rest of their careers; that would be unfair and ridiculous. But the shoot itself utilizes high school imagery, including the letters of the school they go to in Glee. It's very clearly a shoot FOR Glee, and in that way it directly associates the sexuality they're portraying with high school...

Anonymous asked: They may BE adults, but they are PORTRAYING underage children, and that sends a message.

aliceincyberland asked: on the topic of sexualization of children: http://gawker.com/5725620/french-vogue-grooms-its-youngest-models-yet/gallery/

queerscholar-deactivated2011121 asked: I am not sure about the Vogue images (I have not seen them) but children, specifically girls, are sexualized in our culture. There is a difference between sexuality, which encourages healthy and egalitarian sexual exploration, from sexualization, which objectifies people and turns them into mere objects to be exploited by the dominant group. Young girls are fetishized in our culture and young...

My own experience and interviews with travelers....

Submitted by fuckyeahsocialthought Hey FYGS, So I have had some experiences with travelers and thought I would share. Firstly, I have a few friends who are travelers and all of my information comes from them. Anything that I have observed and has not come second hand will be explicitly stated. I was told that in marriage the man has to pay a large sum of money for the wife. I was also told...

ANOTHER THING BECAUSE I AM SEEING THIS FUCKING...

thejuthikakid: STOP SHAMING PEOPLE FOR BEING IN LOVE AND HAVING SEX Or for not being in love and having sex anyway!

but-for-the-grace replied to your video: 101 Dalmatians is SO GOOD. and not problematic? haha Well, not so far. Cruella is single and horrid with it, but Anita was single before she met Roger (as was Perdita) and they both seemed to be doing fine. I think Cruella’s nastiness is more just because she’s a horrible person/doesn’t like dogs (same thing if you ask me…). ...

Anonymous asked: "Travellers, unlike most people today, do not have sex or live together before marriage."

Are you a traveller? I am from this culture and I just starting to read your blog and this line amuses me. I htink maybe you need to explain that it is not travellers who are nto supposed to have sex before marriage it is the girls. I believe tho that this is the case with most...

aliceincyberland asked: But not only that Disney cartoons are problematic, but also the folk tales they originate from are problematic. Female villains that are unmarried and bitter because of it are common motif or syndrom of baba Yaga. There is an excellent novel of a croatian author Dubravka Ugresic http://www.amazon.com/Baba-Yaga-Laid-Egg-Myths/dp/1847670660, that talks about female villains in folk tales...

agent355 asked: I've seen The Princess and the Frog. It's a cute movie that tried to be everything to everybody, which meant no one was completely happy with the final product. Except me apparently, because I love it.

Anonymous asked: First of all, Mulan and Pocahontas technically ARE considered part of the Princess franchise even though they're not technically princesses. Pocahontas was the chief's daughter, which is why I think that happened, and Mulan was given some high honor or...something. I don't know, I'm not a fan, personally. And the reason they tend to get left out of the bigger packaging and...

tattooeddicks-deactivated201112 asked: My mom recently found a scrapbook from when I was only two years old, and in at least a fourth of the pictures, I am either naked, or shirtless. My parents couldn't keep clothes on me! Are these sexual just because I'm naked? I highly doubt it. What about pictures from when I was four trying to dress like my mom when she went to work, with makeup (albeit sloppy makeup)? The fact is,...

Who sexualises children?

I hear so much on the news, read so much in the paper and online, about how “our” little children (i’m sorry, i’ve heard it takes a village to raise a child, but—please!—-someone else’s children are nothing to do with me, a young, free and single twentysomething. I reserve a special hatred for the collective guilt-mongering thrust of that rhetoric) are...

Anonymous asked: you sit and complain about disney princesses being mostly white princesses who "sit on their asses doing nothing, waiting for prince charming to come," and when disney comes along with a princess who is neither white nor "sits on her ass doing nothing" (even though were there no conflict in the movies, no one would watch them) aka princess tiana, you find fault and call it...

I actually know the guy who lost to Chris Smith (NJ-4 (R)) in 2008. I can’t fathom how two thirds of the voting population preferred the guy who wants to criminalise the birth control pill (and doesn’t think rape is really rape) over him.