Ready for our periodic dose of “things we found around the internet”? Well here it is, champions! Remember to let us know what you’ve been thinking and reading down in the comments.
- We’ve made it though another Halloween! I hope you all had a great time, you ate candy if you wanted to, and that none of your friends wore racist or culturally appropriative costumes! But in case that last one was less than true here are some tips if you want to confront them about it.
- I also personally saw an increased number of people painting their faces to resemble the decorated skulls of Dia De Los Muertos. Here’s a reminder that, while it may seem like just a pretty skull to most people, Dia De Los Muertos is not your Halloween.
- Some…things…are coming out of Texas again, and they’re stinky as usual:
- Many women who are eligible to vote in the state won’t be able to due to new legal hurdles which make many of their valid IDs inadmissible at voting locations. “Good thing the VRA’s been gutted since we don’t need it! ::ragesmash::” – Bridie Marie
- Things looked good when a Federal Judge issue a final decision that the admitting privileges requirement of the Texas abortion restriction law is unconstitutional, blocking its enforcement! But then someone is going to have to educate me on what “Final Decision” means because just 3 days later the 5th circuit court of appeals declared that the state could go ahead with enforcement while the appeal suit is in progress.
- “The persistent claim to universalism, which is the core of this White feminism, renders the experiences, thoughts and work of Black and Third World feminists invisible, over and over again. Time’s up!“
- Interesting study out of the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Education journal says that black boys have an easier time integrating into predominantly white suburban schools than girls. HERE’S SOME INTERSECTIONALITY.
- Why do (class-privileged) women have so many clothes? Because there are SO MANY RULES governing how women should dress.
- An amazingly eloquent look into the struggles of economic inequality and why shaming poor people for certain decisions is an ignorant reaction.
- Finally “An article about why we should focus on supporting other family constellations than 2 person marriage that DOESN’T piss me off (because it doesn’t de-value people who want/need to get married).” – Logan
- “Because in always pairing the hardships with the joys, the complaints with the gratitude, as if those cancel each other out, we erase the labor, the struggles, and most of all the needs of mothers. We define motherhood through endless sacrifice and martyrdom, not allowing mothers to demand things for themselves, as mothers, as women, as whole people. We don’t allow mothers to need.”[TW: Discussion of postpartum depression and brief mention of suicidal ideation]
- Boggle the owl wants to tell you that it’s okay to have sex and you should not be ashamed about it. But also you should really only do it when you actively want to, not because you’ll be worthless if you don’t.
- Philadelphia Mayor signed a law that affords equal rights to all LGBT people. This includes a requirement that all new or renovated city-owned buildings must have gender-neutral bathrooms in addition to traditional men’s and women’s restrooms.
The following link includes a very strong TRIGGER WARNING for rape threats and violent anti-woman language quoted from MRAs and men’s rights groups. Be aware.
- “It’s hard to know what to do about MRAs beyond taking every possible opportunity to expose them as the hatemongers they are. But I think that the above list of feminist victories for men provides a clue. When she interviewed me for the 20/20 segment, Elizabeth Vargas asked me if I wanted to curtail MRA’s right to free speech, noting that even Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) has the right to protest. I agreed with her then as I do now, and I advocate the same response that’s been so successful against the WBC: rather than try to stop them, we make a peaceful human chain to blunt their hate and counter it with love. In the case of MRAs, we can do that by continuing to work to improve the lives of both men and women, and to end all forms of gender oppression. There’s nothing like the truth to expose a lie.”
If you made it through that in one piece I’d like to reward you with this awesome selfie of Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro (2013 Nobel Laureate in Literature)!
Wait, do you really not know what final decision means? A final decision is one that you can appeal to the next level. It looks like you’re trying to make a point or joke of some sort with that sentence but you seem to be trying to mock the fact that the circuit court overturned a “final decision,” which is basically all that they can ever overturn (unless the district court certifies an order for interlocutory appeal or a few other very narrow circumstances). Anyway, just in case you actually wanted to know what it means.
I read some things this week too:
http://prospect.org/article/why-do-women-do-market-work
http://prospect.org/article/boob-jam-keeping-abreast-changing-gaming-world
http://www.feministlawprofessors.com/2013/10/rubenfelds-big-step-backward-rape-law/
I very much liked that post “the logic of stupid poor people,” and I’m glad it (and a few other like-minded posts) have been getting traffic in mainstream media lately. People consistently disparage poor people for making supposedly luxury purchases. It even happened in a housing court I used to practice law in, where one of the judges denied in forma pauperis status to a tenant because she was paying for cable television, so therefore couldn’t be too poor to post an appeal bond. It’s a general issue in our society that it’s not ok in general to criticize people’s purchasing decisions, except if they’re poor, in which case it becomes everybody’s business, especially the government’s.
Yeah, I really didn’t know what “final decision” meant so thanks for the info! I figured at the very least it was something that would take a little more than what appears to be a hand-wave from the appeals court to ignore the constitutional significance and move forward with enforcement during the appeal.