In gender equality news, Venice just got its first female gondolier, and the PTA got its first male national president! Is shipping electronic waste overseas for recycling socially responsible, or questionable? I think it’s pretty questionable, due to the fact that electronic waste is usually processed by people who are unqualified and it’s becoming a …
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Problems and Solutions
Last year, the French banned the headscarf, arguing that it conflicted with French values. Now, the French are proposing a ban on the burqa. Both of these bans are ostensibly supposed to promote women’s freedoms while protecting French values, but I believe that they do just the opposite, and I find them troubling and disturbing. …
Gelatinous Hinges
Any personal messages you’d like delivered to the President? With all the fuss over the peccadilloes of male politicians, one might reasonably be inclined to ask: where are all the unfaithful female politicians? (And, more importantly, in my opinion: why do we care about the sex lives of politicians?) Speaking of the sexual adventures of …
Kings
Kings was the only thing I watched this week which was worthy of review (other than the first season of True Blood, which I will be discussing later). Talking about this show with Tristan the other day, we were both remarking that it’s a crying shame that it was canceled basically right out of the …
Freaks Like Me
I recently decided to stop reading two websites I had previously greatly enjoyed, because their authors both decided to discuss, at length, how disgusting freaks like me are. How we look repulsive, and undoubtedly horrify and shame our parents. How people who look like me are all mean and rude and snotty. And, of course, …
Wonderfalls
Have you seen Wonderfalls? Because if you haven’t, you definitely should. It’s another masterwork from the mind of Bryan Fuller, and it is excellent and dark and strange in a way which is different from Pushing Daisies, but also very different from other kinds of television, which is what made it brilliant. And, of course, …
Rickety Lilacs
Queers for Economic justice has a story up on New York City’s attempt to commercialize the Stonewall Riots, and why that’s particularly offensive given the fact that the city just announced that it wouldn’t be funding shelters for queer homeless youth. Fillyjonk over at Shapely Prose has a really great post up talking about the …
A Tuesday in 1978
California’s budget crisis appears to be attracting more and more attention as the state flounders. Our situation is apparently every bit as delicious and appealing for public consumption as the fate of the auto companies, despite the fact that it involves almost 37 million people who are about to be in a very dire situation …
Slow Jellies
Ears are evidently more important than we ever imagined. This is kind of neat: evidently evolution progresses at a faster rate in warm climates. In shocking news, most Americans want health reform. Man, and I thought this was just a story on House: a physician famously diagnosed herself with breast cancer (and took her own …
Does What You Make Reflect Who You Are?
I’ve been thinking about this question a lot, over the course of my Joss Whedon and Feminism series and in conversations with people about the fat hatred which seems to be so common to many Bryan Fuller shows. I think that the things people make most definitely reflect the natures of their creators, because art …