the attention just encourages her

Pink Glove Dance

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:21:17 -0800

A video made by employees at Providence St. Vincent, the hospital where I work, got some love from Feministing.com today. Wooo!

"CP: What do you think is missing in hip-hop today? KRS ONE: I am not just saying this because you..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:01:00 -0800

“

CP: What do you think is missing in hip-hop today?

KRS ONE: I am not just saying this because you [a woman] are asking the question, this is my real answer: More women. More women. Not just emcees or b-girls, but women taking control of hip-hop. Let me be culturally-specific- hip-hop’s women should teach hip-hop’s men how to speak to them. Because when we learn how to speak to you, we can learn how to speak to the whole business world. It’s not just about respecting you…it is…but it’s deeper than just respecting another human being. Everytime you degrade a person, you degrade yourself, because you are standing next to that person. You can’t diss a person, and not diss yourself…I should say “she’s a queen.” And what does that make me? A king. So now at the end of the day, what’s missing in hip-hop? Knowledge of self, that should only come from women. I know that sounds feminist, but that’s real talk.

CP: But men can be feminists, too.

KRS ONE: No doubt. But they are scared. They’re cowards.

”

- City Pages interview with KRS-One, with whom I am now in deep love.

"Inequality tends, notoriously, to be accompanied and sustained by ways of thinking that render it..."

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:43:53 -0700

““Inequality tends, notoriously, to be accompanied and sustained by ways of thinking that render it imperceptible to those it benefits, and sometimes also to those it burdens.””

"I thought being a feminist meant I couldn’t wear lipstick or crave men with small behinds. I..."

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:26:00 -0700

“I thought being a feminist meant I couldn’t wear lipstick or crave men with small behinds. I thought that “feminist” meant I couldn’t send “Peanuts” cards to guys who I was afraid wouldn’t call back, or buy stockings with seams. I thought “feminist” meant no more steamy flirtations or prolonged shopping trips. I thought it meant braided hair and short nails, maybe mandatory tofu. I certainly associated feminism with humorless, dour, and—worst of all—unblinkingly earnest women. That was because I was accepting the male version of things, which was sort of like believing the mouse’s version of the cat, since it entailed being given access to a vision that could see nothing besides teeth and claws.”

- Regina Barreca is right on.

(She also writes, “They told me that only women who couldn’t get laid got political,” which I love.)

DRUNK MONKEYS.

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:46:18 -0700

DRUNK MONKEYS.

BABY PANDA.

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:30:38 -0700

BABY PANDA.

I went to Goodwill in the hopes of buying something cheap to get...

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:30:07 -0700

I went to Goodwill in the hopes of buying something cheap to get change for the bus and ended up finding my favorite book from childhood for less than two bucks. Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede encouraged and developed my tomboyish and feminist tendencies, thanks to quotes like these:

“Fencing is not proper behavior for a princess,” [the King] told [Princess Cimorene] in the gentle-but-firm tone recommended by the court philosopher.

Cimorene tilted her head to one side. “Why not?”

“It’s…well, it’s simply not done.”

Cimorene considered. “Aren’t I a princess?”

“Yes, of course you are, my dear,” said her father…

“Well, I fence,” Cimorene said with the air of one delivering an unshakable argument. “So it is too done by a princess.”

and

“But King Tokoz is a male dragon!” Cimorene said, then frowned. “Isn’t he?”

Yes, yes, but that has nothing to do with it,” Kazul said a little testily. “‘King’ is the name of the job. It doesn’t matter who holds it.”

Cimorene stopped and thought for a moment. “You mean that dragons dont’ care whether their king is male or female; the title is the same no matter who the ruler is.”

“That’s right. We like to keep things simple.”

Basically Cimorene is a badass princess who learns fencing, magic, Latin, cooking, economics, and juggling. When her parents thwart her from pursuing what she finds interesting and try to marry her off to a dull prince, she runs away and volunteers to be Kazul the dragon’s princess (this is also not done; princesses are supposed to be captured by dragons, then rescued by knights). The dragons rule, Cimorene rules, and this series rules. It’s just as good as it was when I was 10 and I highly recommend it.

"[Valerie] Jarrett also serves as the White House’s unofficial champion of minority issues. This may..."

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:39:32 -0700

“[Valerie] Jarrett also serves as the White House’s unofficial champion of minority issues. This may seem superfluous, given that a black man inhabits the Oval Office — until it’s noted that Obama’s inner circle consists largely of white males, same as it ever was.”

- NY Times article on Valerie Jarrett quotes the Talking Heads!

"How many movies could be resolved in under 20 seconds if girl just told Hugh Grant, hey, I’m..."

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:24:08 -0700

“How many movies could be resolved in under 20 seconds if girl just told Hugh Grant, hey, I’m in love with you?”

- EW’s Love Hurts: 20 Bad Romantic Comedies

“North Dakota,” Lyle Lovett Currently on heavy...

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:37:54 -0700

“North Dakota,” Lyle Lovett

Currently on heavy rotation. “If I Had a Boat” is actually my favorite LL song but I can’t upload it. This is #2, though.

"Guy Hyder told her “most girls would feel lucky to get to have sex with someone like Ben..."

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:47:06 -0700

“Guy Hyder told her “most girls would feel lucky to get to have sex with someone like Ben Roethlisberger.””

- Re: rape allegations against Super Bowl QB Ben Roethlisberger

Are you fucking kidding me?

my two favorite items from Perez today

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:39:00 -0700

1. “A new Chinese government-mandated internet filter software deems pictures of Paris Hilton, Garfield, roast pork and Johnny Depp as harmful to your moral health!

Beijing ordered that all personal computers sold in China after July 1 must have the Green Dam software installed, which is designed to block pornographic and violent images.”

[Source.]

WHAT.

"Could you say “senator” instead of “ma’am”? It’s just a thing. I..."

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:17:00 -0700

“Could you say “senator” instead of “ma’am”? It’s just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I’d appreciate it.”

- Senator Barbara Boxer after being called “ma’am” by Brigadier General Michael Walsh.

[Jezebel]

Fuck yeah.

My View From the Margins

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:07:22 -0700

My View From the Margins:

This week’s Modern Love kind of sums up how I feel about relationships.

"–time is a tree(this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long..."

Sat, 30 May 2009 14:32:12 -0700

“–time is a tree(this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough”

- e.e. cummings

Top 15 unintentionally hilarious comic book panels

Mon, 25 May 2009 19:46:11 -0700

Top 15 unintentionally hilarious comic book panels:

I StumbleUponed (verb?) this and it was GOOD.

"Judge Virginia M. Kendall of the Northern District of Illinois then got a supportive laugh from the..."

Fri, 22 May 2009 18:51:03 -0700

“Judge Virginia M. Kendall of the Northern District of Illinois then got a supportive laugh from the audience when she said that giving clothing advice to young women in a law firm might not be as big an issue if the firms had more women as partners in the first place.”

- NYT article about judges’ opinions of clothing in the courtroom. Bam.

Ever since I added “badass female emcees” to my list of interests on Facebook,...

Fri, 22 May 2009 14:58:19 -0700

Ever since I added “badass female emcees” to my list of interests on Facebook, I’ve been getting ads for things like “Black Planet: Join the largest community of African Americans, make new friends, chat, share information.” I know Facebook’s really proud of its ad-targetting algorithm, but I find it a little problematic…

HALP DO NOT WANT [from Jezebel’s 20 Songs About...

Thu, 21 May 2009 19:03:07 -0700

HALP DO NOT WANT

[from Jezebel’s 20 Songs About Cunnilingus]

Oh, and, uh, I graduated yesterday.

Tue, 19 May 2009 17:48:08 -0700

Oh, and, uh, I graduated yesterday.