Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!

For my readers in the UK, the very amazing Indie film Frozen River is currently available on...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:50:00 +0100

For my readers in the UK, the very amazing Indie film Frozen River is currently available on iplayer.

Directed by a woman. Starring mostly women. Oscar-nominated. It’s probably in my top ten films ever. If you’ve got a free couple hours between now and Saturday, check it out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00wmwwc/Frozen_River/

Have you seen the photo's by a Chicago teen pregnancy campaign that show pregnant boys to underline shared responsibility. Are these photo's transphobic? Seeing a lot of disagreement in the comments section of the news and I'm not completely sure about this 1.

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:45:03 +0100

I hadn’t; i had to google it to find it, but after looking at the campaign—yes, i would agree it’s transphobic.

Here’s a (Daily Mail) article on it, inc. pictures: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325100/New-billboard-campaign-launched-Chicago-features-images-pregnant-boys-remind-baby-isnt-just-girls-responsibility.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

WOW, I just lost a bunch of weight using the OFFICIAL TUMBLR DIET!! Are u using it as well?

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:08:21 +0100

What.

Could you provide a list of how abortion save lives and how it does not leave the person who had an abortion traumatized forever afterwards?Thanks:)

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:34:13 +0100

This took me literally less than two seconds on Google.

“Recent studies that have been used to assert a causal connection between abortion and subsequent mental disorders are marked by methodological problems that include, but not limited to: poor sample and comparison group selection; inadequate conceptualization and control of relevant variables; poor quality and lack of clinical significance of outcome measures; inappropriateness of statistical analyses; and errors of interpretation, including misattribution of causal effects. By way of contrast, we review some recent major studies that avoid these methodological errors. The most consistent predictor of mental disorders after abortion remains preexisting disorders, which, in turn, are strongly associated with exposure to sexual abuse and intimate violence.”

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19637075

And the great news is there’s a whole internet of research and data out there for you to investigate for yourself! THANKS AND HAVE FUN!

Watching a show called "Your Style in His Hands".

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:30:13 +0100

aquapunk:

fuckyeahgenderstudies:

Or, more accurately, “Throw Away All Your Wife’s Clothes, Buy New Ones That Make Her Feel Uncomfortable And Are Only Appropriate For Summer And In So Doing Assert Financial Control Over Her, Reinforce The Idea That She Needs Your Approval For All Her Outfits And Social Outings And Make Her Feel Even More Shit About Herself Than She Does Already Probably All Thanks To Being Married To A Cunt Like You”

For the love of god this is actually a show?

Oh, sure. On TLC, alongside corkers like “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” and “Long Island Medium”.

"I’ll say it loud and I’ll say it clear. I am not mentally ill, never was, never have been, never..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:47:56 +0100

“I’ll say it loud and I’ll say it clear. I am not mentally ill, never was, never have been, never will be. I am a survivor of abuse and I believe that I have had a perfectly natural human reaction to terrible experiences. And to frame my responses as illness, I think, is offensive. And I think we spend far too long talking about what’s going on in people’s brains, and not enough time talking about what’s happened in people’s lives.”

- Jacqui Dillon, The Personal is Political (via madness-narrative)

What do you think about Author Kailin Gow? Does she really empower girls as her Amazon bio's claim?

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:34:11 +0100

Not a scooby; until this message i’d never even heard of her, much less read her books.

Watching a show called "Your Style in His Hands".

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:51:00 +0100

Or, more accurately, “Throw Away All Your Wife’s Clothes, Buy New Ones That Make Her Feel Uncomfortable And Are Only Appropriate For Summer And In So Doing Assert Financial Control Over Her, Reinforce The Idea That She Needs Your Approval For All Her Outfits And Social Outings And Make Her Feel Even More Shit About Herself Than She Does Already Probably All Thanks To Being Married To A Cunt Like You”

Since you posted that article blowing his trumpet, what do you think about the fact that Charles Ramsey did time for domestic violence a bunch of times?

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:53:59 +0100

I only read about this just now after getting this message.

He still saved those women. Nobody else did that. Would we even be hearing about these (spent) convictions if he were white? If we were would i be getting messages like yours about it? Like, fuck, what would you prefer? That he ignored it? Jesus fucking christ.

I bet you listen to the Beatles.

And i couldn’t care less about his non violent convictions so don’t even start.

"[Charles Ramsey’s] intensity […] and also his competence (he does a better job with the..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 23:50:21 +0100

“[Charles Ramsey’s] intensity […] and also his competence (he does a better job with the essentials like the address than the 911 operator) make him one of those instantly compelling figures who, in the middle of an American tragedy, just start talking—and then we can’t stop listening. […]
But one phrase in particular, from the interview, is worth dwelling on: “I figured it was a domestic-violence dispute.” In many times and places, a line like that has been offered as an excuse for walking away, not for helping a woman break down your neighbor’s door. How many women have died as a result? They didn’t yesterday.”

- Amy Davidson about Charles Ramsey http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/05/amanda-berry-charles-ramsey-cleveland-kidnap.html

What do you think about the Anonymous hackers collective in general?

Sun, 05 May 2013 18:58:17 +0100

Seems to me like it’s mostly a bunch of dudes patting each other on the back for executing elementary and/or pointless hacking exercises whilst being hugely misogynistic, often predatory. Lisbeth Salander they are not.

Ok, thank you for your answers. With all due respect, you did have a post about "Thatcher's funeral: Here’s what we could have spent that £10m on" on April 17th, so it may have been convenient for someone to ask.

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:24:56 +0100

It was a link to a topical news article! Jfc give over already.

whats happenin wiv the police stuf?

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:09:48 +0100

Oh don’t worry they haven’t forgotten about you dickhead now fuck off.

"Wow. Are you kidding me? Have you heard of a little thing called Google?" . You should be mindful that people come to this site looking for answers since they are genuinely in the unknown of where to begin to look for them. When you begin to answer questions this way you assume your audience already is in the same field as yourself. For someone who is "fuck yeah" about "gender studies" you should realize your essentialist tendencies. Also try to be kind.

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:59:46 +0100

“People come to this site looking for answers since they are genuinely in the unknown of where to begin to look for them”.

By ‘this site’ you mean Google, right? People go to Google for answers when they don’t know where to look for them. They don’t, reasonably, go to a fringe blog about GENDER STUDIES (which, let’s face it, isn’t known for gladly suffering fools) to ask about 1970s & 80s UK POLITICS.

Just because she was a woman doesn’t mean i automatically have an encyclopaedic knowledge of her. I was barely alive when she left office.

To answer for the anonymous ""Wow. Are you kidding me? Have you heard of a little thing called Google?" is an insult because it's like saying "You stupid! Here's your answer, dumbass." Or to put it another way, if you asked a question in, say, a class, it's like begin told by the teacher "Wow! Can you read? the answer is [whatever the answer is]" If the teacher did answered that way he/she, shouldn't have. And no, not all of us are as smart or internet savvy as you are.

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:52:51 +0100

Yeah guess what buddy this isn’t a blog about Margaret fucking Thatcher, i’m not your Margaret Thatcher 101 professor and asking if you’ve heard of Google is still not an insult.

What is your take on President Obama?

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:44:03 +0100

Well… i only own (and have only ever owned, now i think about it) one t shirt with a face on it, and it’s his face.

my friend has a really cool shirt where theres a uterus at the bottom right over her real uterus. but is a piece of clohing like this offensive to the trans community?

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:37:49 +0100

Ask the trans community.

Hey :) just a message to say your personal FAQ link is broken. Thanks for having such a great educational blog!

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:52:15 +0100

Yeah, i know. I broke it.

"Wow. Are you kidding me? Have you heard of a little thing called Google?" Okay there was literally no reason to be even sort of a ass there. If you didn't want to answer it then you just shouldn't have answered it, not began your answer with an insult.

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:10:58 +0100

Please tell me what part of what you quoted from me was an insult bc i just don’t see it.

For those in the US and elsewhere who don't know about Margaret Thatcher, except that she was British Prime Minister and maybe the Falkland wars. What's the big deal with her? And what's your opinion of whatever it is that she did as British Prime Minister, if any?

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:43:00 +0100

Wow. Are you kidding me? Have you heard of a little thing called Google?

Here are some things you might want to look up: her relationship with dictators, her attitude to the working class, her perspective on women, her economic views, poll tax, miner’s strike, Hillsborough, the Belgrano, the NHS, capital punishment, unemployment, privatisation of industry, selling off of social housing, section 28, Scottish oil, 21.9% inflation, pals with a child molester.

EDIT: Here’s a hand list I found courtesy of a nice person on Yahoo Answers (who knew?):

1. She supported the retention of capital punishment
2. She destroyed the country’s manufacturing industry
3. She voted against the relaxation of divorce laws
4. She abolished free milk for schoolchildren (“Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher”)
5. She supported more freedom for business (and look how that turned out)
6. She gained support from the National Front in the 1979 election by pandering to the fears of immigration
7. She gerrymandered local authorities by forcing through council house sales, at the same time preventing councils from spending the money they got for selling houses on building new houses (spending on social housing dropped by 67% in her premiership)
8. She was responsible for 3.6 million unemployed - the highest figure and the highest proportion of the workforce in history and three times the previous government. Massaging of the figures means that the figure was closer to 5 million
9. She ignored intelligence about Argentinian preparations for the invasion of the Falkland Islands and scrapped the only Royal Navy presence in the islands
10. The poll tax
11. She presided over the closure of 150 coal mines; we are now crippled by the cost of energy, having to import expensive coal from abroad
12. She compared her “fight” against the miners to the Falklands War
13. She privatised state monopolies and created the corporate greed culture that we’ve been railing against for the last 5 years
14. She introduced the gradual privatisation of the NHS
15. She introduced financial deregulation in a way that turned city institutions into avaricious money pits
16. She pioneered the unfailing adoration and unquestioning support of the USA
17. She allowed the US to place nuclear missiles on UK soil, under US control
18. Section 28
19. She opposed anti-apartheid sanctions against South Africa and described Nelson Mandela as “that grubby little terrorist”
20. She support the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and sent the SAS to train their soldiers
21. She allowed the US to bomb Libya in 1986, against the wishes of more than 2/3 of the population
22. She opposed the reunification of Germany
23. She invented Quangos
24. She increased VAT from 8% to 17.5%
25. She had the lowest approval rating of any post-war Prime Minister
26. Her post-PM job? Consultant to Philip Morris tobacco at $250,000 a year, plus $50,000 per speech
27. The Al Yamamah contract
28. She opposed the indictment of Chile’s General Pinochet
29. Social unrest under her leadership was higher than at any time since the General Strike
30. She presided over interest rates increasing to 15%
31. BSE
32. She presided over 2 million manufacturing job losses in the 79-81 recession
33. She opposed the inclusion of Eire in the Northern Ireland peace process
34. She supported sanctions-busting arms deals with South Africa
35. Cecil Parkinson, Alan Clark, David Mellor, Jeffrey Archer, Jonathan Aitkin
36. Crime rates doubled under Thatcher
37. Black Wednesday – Britain withdraws from the ERM and the pound is devalued. Cost to Britain - £3.5 billion; profit for George Soros - £1 billion
38. Poverty doubled while she opposed a minimum wage
39. She privatised public services, claiming at the time it would increase public ownership. Most are now owned either by foreign governments (EDF) or major investment houses. The profits don’t now accrue to the taxpayer, but to foreign or institutional shareholders.
40. She cut 75% of funding to museums, galleries and other sources of education
41. In the Thatcher years the top 10% of earners received almost 50% of the tax remissions
42. 21.9% inflation

And i’d tell you my opinion of her but it’s just a load of four letter words, so…