Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!

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February 2011

Anonymous asked: WHO IS THE MOST OFFENSIVE DISNEY CHARACTER AND WHY DO YOU WANT TO PIMP SMACK THAT HOE?

tinkertoo asked: so this may be a weird question, but me and a friend are doing a project for our gender studies class. we're doing a presentation on how sexuality, gender, and homophobia are viewed by Buddhism. we're at a lose for sources, so if you have any knowledge or can point us in the right direction it would be great. thank you :)

EDAW: Men Get Eating Disorders Too →

New UK charity, Men Get Eating Disorders Too, launches major campaign to coincide with EDAW.

dearestandqueerest asked: I've always been concerned with eating disorders ever since I was "accused" of having one (I don't get how someone can be accused of having an eating disorder but that's what happened). But I've never been able to offer real support to anyone suffering from one besides educating people about these disorders in general.

Do you think there is a possible...

EDAW: Make a donation to Beat (UK eating disorder... →

If you’re in the US and want to donate, try the National Eating Disorder Association If you’re in Canada, the National Eating Disorders Information Centre If you’re in Ireland, Bodywhys If you’re elsewhere, please look up your local or national eating disorders charity and donate to them if you can.

but-for-the-grace replied to your post: EDAW: Eating Disorder Awareness Week I really like the idea of this. are you going to include disorders such as selective eating disorder? This is a really interesting question and i’m glad you brought it up. The honest answer is that i don’t know yet. I’m really not sure. Selective eating, as i understand it, is not an eating disorder...

EDAW: Eating Disorder Awareness Week

Have just begun my EDAW posts. I’m trying not to recycle the same old, same old type news stories or sob stories, not just because the basics of eating disorders are generally common knowledge but also those stories are hella triggering and i don’t want them anywhere on my page. I also won’t be making any fucking lists of “famous bulimics” or “famous ED...

[Trigger] EDAW: Eating Disorders spike amongst... →

When Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair arrived in Israel more than a decade ago amid pleas from Jewish activists alarmed by a spike in eating disorders, she recalls patients were so afraid to get help that they sent a proxy. “A nurse would come up to me on the street and say, ‘Please help me. I’m here on behalf of a 19-year-old girl who’s lost 30 pounds but she can’t...

At Westmont College, The Goal Isn’t Forming a GSA.... →

projectqueer: Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: University bans students from forming official gay-straight alliance. Oh, you have? Well then add these two schools to the list: Seattle Pacific University, where the LGBT-oriented student group Haven has been repeatedly rendered nonexistent in the eyes of the university (and thus denied any school resources, including on-campus...

Eating Disorders Awareness Week starts Monday...

Expect several posts on the subject and the re-emergence of some older posts on EDs.

Anonymous asked: Do you think that breast cancer is seen too much as solely a women's issue?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12442363

thesefasttimes asked: A discussion was brought up in my anthropology class about gender neutral language, specifically in the work place, and the professor explained the need to use gender neutral language such as police officer instead of policeman etc. But these terms usually involve the neutralization of male words. I ask the question about the title midwife. The title clearly uses a feminine word: wife. Do you...

High court to rule on abortions at home →

At present, women take two doses of tablets for an early medicalabortion, both of which must be taken in a clinic or hospital under medical supervision. Most women go straight home after taking the second dose, and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) argues they face anxiety about when the subsequent abortion will occur. The country’s largest abortion provider is seeking a...

Hollyoaks rape trial to use viewer 'jury' →

I’m not sure how i feel about this. I was originally under the impression (and posted about it) that this storyline would be a false rape accusation storyline. I think this is probably an improvement on that… i suppose it depends on how it’s shown and what the “jury” decides. From The Guardian: Hollyoaks is to ask a “jury” of viewers to determine the...

New favourite response to GS/food Q!

vodkadrunkenski replied to your post: Quick Q: Definately. It made me not worry about what I’m eating as much. I eat “better” without worrying about my weigh, and eat at least 2 meals a day. This makes me so happy. SO happy.

Child who falsely accused boy of rape narrowly... →

From the Guardian: A schoolgirl who was found guilty of falsely accusing a 14-year-old boy of rape was told by a judge (after a 3-day trial) that she had only narrowly avoided a custodial sentence. District judge Joti Bopa Rai said the girl would have been sent to prison if she had been an adult, for years rather than months.

Japanese citizens file (£44,000) lawsuit against... →

stfukyriarchy-deactivated201112 asked: Plagiarism? Did I write something similar to what someone else has written? (It's not like I'm the first person to think that way but I doubt that is what you were talking about

Holy plagiarism, Batman!

On what planet do they teach that taking someone else’s words and passing them off as your is okay?! Fuck’s sake. The internet is not a free-for-all. Otherwise, i don’t know, maybe i’ll just go recycle some groundbreaking new articles in the JSTOR catalogue for my next paper! Cite your sources, especially if one of them is me.

zezir answered your question: Quick Q: are you just asking guys? Not just men. If i meant men, i’d have said men. I was saying “you guys’s eating habits” in the Napoleon Dynamite, inclusive sense of the phrase. I do favour precision in writing: if i mean “just” any group(s) to the exclusion of (an)other(s), i’ll specify.

I handed in my dissertation proposal today (spirit possession and the supernatural in early C20 (slightly before and partly during the Modern period) American Jewish women’s writing; looking at Dropkin, Margolin and Shtok’s poetry and Yezierska’s fiction), so that’s a piece of work off my mind/plate. Work is still fairly hectic till Friday, but thereafter i hope to be able...

Anonymous asked: Gender studies has not affected my eating habits, although I am vegan. Have you looked into animal rights?

depthandsensitivity answered your question: Quick Q: Nope. I don’t see why it would? I still eat women… My favourite reply thus far!

Has Gender Studies affected you guys’s eating habits?

Anonymous asked: How have gender studies affected the way you eat food? I'm dead serious, you a veggie, vegan, not?

Afterellen: "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" plays... →

lezgethistorical: Ma Rainey is an American music icon, but she is somehow not a household name. Referred to as “the mother of the blues,” the woman with a booming voice was one of the first ever soul singers. Just recently, it was announced she’d be included in a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame exhibit this year. She also happened to be a lesbian. In 1982, famed playwright August Wilson wrote...

Submission: The Business of FSD

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/02/orgasm-inc/ Thought you all might find this interesting. What is your opinion on FSD and the attempts to find a ‘female Viagra?’ Is it a legitimate issue to be medicated or just another money-grabber from Big Pharma? FYGS: as someone who personally has FSD, i know that it’s a legit problem. Or, more specifically, a group of problems. If...

ooootie asked: What sort of jobs/careers would be available for me if I did gender studies at uni? Thanks :)

thekailife asked: Sorry to shamelessly plug my alma mater, but Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, has a great Women and Gender Studies program! Excellent faculty, excellent courses, and the college itself has no core requirements (i.e., you don't have to take a math class if you don't want to!)

Plus, it's a fantastically queer-friendly environment. Your high school...

Anonymous asked: What colleges have good undergraduate women studies programs? Also, if I major in women studies, what can I do with it?

Just want to update you folks as to why there’s been scant activity lately. In a nutshell, i have discovered this horrible, horrible, wonderful website on which grad school applicants say when they receive a notification from one of the schools they’ve applied to. I’ve been refreshing it, and my emails, all day. And even now that it’s the middle of the night here in the...

merryrobot asked: I don't understand the difference between trans and trans*. I see it defined as "trans" meaning binary-identified trans people and "trans*" meaning anybody who is not cis or who has a "queer" gender expression. Isn't this just othering nonbinary trans people? If "trans*" was created to include people excluded from the "trans" label, then...

gendervariant replied to your post: gendervariant replied to your post:Something I… that’s what I meant putting quotations around the word trans not the actual word trans. I see where the misunderstanding was.

gendervariant replied to your post:Something I don’t understand- how does putting an asterisk on it make trans* less offensive than tr***y? I’ve seen people use it and I wasn’t sure what the difference was. I’ve also heard that using the full transgender is offensive as well. Doesn’t trans* seem like it would be more offensive because it’s a bastardization of the word? I’m sorry if this is...

spooky-boy asked: Something I don't understand- how does putting an asterisk on it make trans* less offensive than tr***y? I've seen people use it and I wasn't sure what the difference was. I've also heard that using the full transgender is offensive as well. Doesn't trans* seem like it would be more offensive because it's a bastardization of the word?

I'm sorry if...

Anonymous asked: Does it seem like the SWAG has been taken out of feminism? Equality? What with all this leftist gender–bending falsely non–judgmental shit going around that we gals get SWAG ourselves out, or are we so far gone that we wont be able to get it back?

Let's SWAG!!

Anonymous asked: A close, beloved friend of mine outed themselves as trans* to me. I would have never guessed so - and I don't even care.

I wish other people could be this tolerant - trans* people are just as normal as everyone else :)

Anonymous asked: Hey so can males be women? or not? im confused.

Continuing with Elizabeth Bishop (who would have turned 100 today!), here’s a very interesting article, “Elizabeth Bishop’s “Queer Birds”: Vassar, “Con Spirito,” and the Romance of Female Community”. It’s a JSTOR link, so unfortunately only those with access to (via your college or university, or perhaps local library) can read it. But...

Recommend FYGS for the Educational directory! →

Happy Tuesday, folks. Also, happy Elizabeth Bishop’s 100th birthday! (Incidentally, Vassar College has a wonderful special collection of Bishop’s poetry and original manuscripts, including a very illuminating set of drafts for the poem that eventually became the (super) villanelle, One Art. If you’re in the NY/Hudson valley area, go and check it out at the Vassar...

Anonymous asked: hey, thanks for posting about your academic life as well. i'm an undergraduate applying to programs next year, and i feel like a lot of 'academia' and its politics are so vague and curtained.

It's 2am, the Butler talk was a-fucking-mazing,...

[TRIGGER WARNING] Eastenders to air...

More controversy in Walford, London E20! (It’s sad that i know the fictional postcode, i know). 18 yr old Whitney—who, as seems to be an unhappy trend in Eastenders, has a history of childhood sexual abuse—is set to be pimped out by her new “boyfriend” in Eastenders’ latest controversial storyline. The seeds have already been sown by her sister-in-law and...

Guardian: Men's Health discovers feminism →

The US edition of the bastion of ripped and rugged masculinity has launched a feminist blog. It’s all ready to talk sex – but not bra burning

8 players in today's Super Bowl have been accused... →

Anonymous asked: Are you thick in the hips? Or are you one of those skinny white chicks that wont get down?

woc-resist asked: Hey there, I am a fellow academic and saw that you were applying to PhD programs. I was wondering if you were applying to Women's Studies/Gender Studies programs. I think I might have a go at applying within the next few years and am wondering if you could direct me to some good Women/Gender Studies schools that I should look into? What made you decide to apply to the schools that you applied...

victoriajakes replied to your post:Academic etiquette and rejection—a sort of personal post I’m extremely jealous you’re going to see Judith Butler! and if you don’t mind me asking, what PhD programs did you apply to? I’m assuming you are applying in gender studies… I applied to English Lit programmes, but at schools that have faculty who are particularly strong in my interests (gender,...