On Women, Alcohol, and Anti-Feminism...
Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 08 24th, 2009 | 71 Comments
For weeks now, I’ve been fuming over the misogynist media pile-on that took place after a horrific car crash on New York’s Taconic Parkway, in which Diane Schuler killed herself, her daughter, her three nieces and three men in another vehicle. An autopsy showed that she had drunk 10 shots...
No Sex Please, I’m “Wrinkly&...
My latest from the Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog at Bitch Magazine, in which I commit a wee bit of feminist-on-memoir violence against The Virginia Monologues, Virginia Ironside’s nastily sex-negative new book about the “joys” of being a woman over 60.Pursue Your Harpyness Elsewhere: A Linka...
Posted by Pilgrim Soul in Linkaround on 08 21st, 2009 | 4 Comments
Pursuant to reader suggestions we are starting a weekly linkaround to posts in the womanist/feminist blogosphere of interest, with hopes of diversifying and deepening the kind of work we can do and the issues we can thoughtfully consider here at Harpyness.
Renee at Womanist Musings on Racism and Power
An...
Friday Fun Thread: Dream Jobs...
Posted by PhDork in Friday Fun Thread on 08 21st, 2009 | 19 Comments
DO NOT WANT. Via House Of Sims @ Flickr.
I’ve got two, maybe three part-time jobs lined up for this fall, and one of them starts Monday. I’m usually excited when the school year fires up, but I’m less than thrilled this year, because although I will be doing some teaching, which...
Caster Semenya: Sports, Sex, and Gender...
Posted by sarah.of.a.lesser.god in Thoughts on 08 21st, 2009 | 8 Comments
via dump9x @ flickr
The story of Caster Semenya is definitely compelling enough for me to fire up my Harpyness writing during my vacation, partly inspired by a reader who urged us to take this on. Semenya is an 18-year-old South African runner, who is now at the center of a media firestorm following...
Michelle Obama does not need the country...
For heaven’s sake. I am not posting a picture of Michelle Obama wearing shorts on her family’s recent trip to the Grand Canyon. There are plenty of rocks to look under on the web, and plenty of “news” outlets wringing their hands about her sartorial choices. This Newsweek blog...What Confused Me On My Summer Vacation...
Baroo? Via pigpogm @ Flickr. I’m fairly certain that this will provoke somebody’s ire, but I’m going to put it out there anyway, and let slip the ring-bearing dogs of war. While we were visiting the fam, Sister Dude asked her brother if he would stand up for her at her wedding, which...Harpy Seminar: Tattoo You!...
BeckySharper's (somewhat blurry) actual tattoos Welcome to Harpy Seminar, a regular feature we plan to have at regular intervals, unless we get too busy to have it at regular intervals, in which case it shall appear whenever we have time and inclination for it. Each Seminar begins with a question,...Girls Rock!...
Music to my ears On the heels of our last Friday Fun Thread re: summer camp, I have to give a big shout out to some fierce girls who spend their summers learning to rock. Thanks to commenter Hill Rat for bringing this write-up about Girls Rock! DC to my attention. Camp not only educates these girls...What I Didn’t Learn on My Summer Vacat...
Posted by PhDork in Thoughts on 08 19th, 2009 | 38 Comments
via Mutasim B. Pritam (EWU) @ Flickr.At the risk of provoking further masculine ire (oh noes), I’m going to go ahead with another post in this series…
Yesterday I noted the gender discrepancies in household work I witness when I visit the Dude’s family (my parents are divorced, so this doesn’t...
Love, (De)Friendship and Facebook...
Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 08 19th, 2009 | No Comments
Does anyone else snicker whenever they get a message saying someone has "poked you?"
My latest from Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog at Bitch Magazine, in which I tackle burning questions about Facebook and the sticky issues of on-line breakups, defriending and why you should never put your relationship...