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Southern Poverty Law Center Designates 13 Anti-Gay Hate Groups

Posted on November 26, 2010
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has issued a report profiling 18 groups which "pump out demonizing propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual minorities;" 13 of these groups will be designated as hate groups in 2011 due to their alleged "propagation of known falsehoods" and "repeated, groundless namecalling...

Dear Warner Bros:

Posted on November 25, 2010
Do not mess this up. Or, as Giles would say, "Oh, dear lord." [Removes glasses, wipes them off on shirt, puts them back on.] Unlike many Buffy fans, I do not think Joss Whedon is absolutely vital to a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot. I am a big Whedon fan, but I do subscribe to the apparently absurd notion that other talented, feminist writers exist who would be capable of doing justice to the Buffyverse he created...

Coach Whips Boys Into Shape

Posted on November 24, 2010
[TW: Child abuse; misogyny] A male Mississippi high school basketball coach has been accused of "paddling" players on his boys basketball team as a means of discipline. Three players, including one who the coach struck "daily and sometimes more than once daily" with a "five to ten pound weight belt," have filed a lawsuit...

More Fun With Totally-Made-Up Binaries!

Posted on November 23, 2010
Generally, I thought this Wall Street Journal article about communication styles, entitled "She Talks A Lot, He Listens A Little," could have been a bit better by not making it about gender. I only say "a bit" better because of the way the author divides the world into simple binaries and uncritically accepts the dubious explanations of an evolutionary psychologist...

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Womb Envy

Posted on November 22, 2010
"Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, 'Did God really say, ?You must not eat from any tree in the garden?'" The woman said to the serpent, 'We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,' but God did say, ?You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die...

Yabba Dabba Doo

Posted on November 19, 2010
Armchair evolutionary psychologists (and many of the professional ones) can be downright hilarious at times. Observe, following an article about Cindy McCain's laudable opposition to gay bullying and the military's discriminatory policy toward gays, commenter "stedums" opines: "as I have said for years, the female of our species is far more community-conscience than the males...

Breaking: Boys and Girls Are Inherently Different, Except When Boys Prove Worse At Stuff

Posted on November 18, 2010
Isn't it funny when anti-gay and anti-feminist advocates who claim that male and female humans have vast biologically-explained differences are subsequently found claiming that societal factors, rather than biological ones, explain the Boy Crisis in education? On the one hand, they peddle the myth of sex/gender complementarity by, for instance, claiming that two men or two women should not be parents because each child needs a male and a female parent...

Better Than

Posted on November 17, 2010
[TW: Sexualization of children]A part of me wants to believe something was lost in translation, as I've seen several different versions of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's latest fun quote, this one in response to criticism lodged at him for sexual activity with an underage girl...

Reactions To Studies Show Both Sides Exaggerate!

Posted on November 16, 2010
Thanks to commenter GXB for passing this article along to me. The Huffington Post has boldly declares, via headline, that "Child Abuse Rate At Zero Percent in Lesbian Households, New Report Finds." I'm not particularly surprised by the actual findings of the study, but I am uncomfortable with this headline for two reasons...

Whoops! Anti-gay Ordinance Accidentally Hurts People Who Matter

Posted on November 15, 2010
Via Alex Blaze writing for The Huffington Post, we learn that an anti-gay ordinance supposedly intended to only harm same-sex and unmarried couples is also now set to harm heterosexual married couples, thanks to poor wording in the ordinance. The initative read: "The city of El Paso endorses traditional family values by making health benefits available only to city employees and their legal spouse and dependent children...

What Women Are

Posted on November 12, 2010
[TW: Sexual Assault, Suicide] Via Shakesville, a 14-year old girl who accused an 18-year-old man of rape has commited suicide after "merciless taunting" about her allegations and "weeks of harassment became too much." Melissa McEwan aptly notes: "I would love to see this case open up a national conversation about talking rape accusations seriously, about victim-blaming, about victim-shaming and -silencing, the way that we've begun a national conversation about anti-gay bulling...

Somebody Call the Gender Police!

Posted on November 11, 2010
[Cross-posted at Our Big Gayborhood]Perhaps you've heard of blogger Nerdy Apple Bottom's post about her young, adorable son's decision to dress as a female cartoon character for Halloween. She recounts her experience upon dropping him off at school in costume:"Two mothers went wide-eyed and made faces as if they smelled decomp...

Assistant Attorney General, Bully, Fired

Posted on November 10, 2010
[TW: Anti-gay harassment] Well, Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell, who launched a bizarre bullying campaign against openly-gay university student body president Chris Armstrong has been fired for, according to his boss, having "repeatedly violated office policies, engaged in borderline stalking behavior and inappropriately us[ing] state resources...

APA Report on the Sexualization of Girls

Posted on November 09, 2010
The American Psychological Association's Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls has issued a report (PDF) defining sexualization, examining the prevalence of sexualization, evaluating the evidence suggesting sexualization has negative consequences for girls and society, and describing alternatives to counteract the influence of sexualization...

I Eat

Posted on November 08, 2010
[TW: Eating disorders, fat phobia/hatred]Yippee, personal anecdote time! Today, I'm going to talk about food and body image. Two disclaimers. One, I am mostly a n00b when it comes to the emerging movement known as Fat Acceptance, mostly because, as a thin person, I've had the privilege of not having to think much about what it is like to live in a virulently fat-phobic society...

"Human" and "Female" as Mutually Exclusive Categories

Posted on November 05, 2010
[TW: Rape, Torture]"When a woman is tortured in an Argentine prison cell, even as it is forgotten that she is a woman, it is seen that her human rights are violated because what is done to her is also done to men. Her suffering has the dignity, and her death the honor, and her legal status the recognition of a crime against humanity...

Dona Nobis Pacem

Posted on November 04, 2010
[This post is my contribution to the Blogblast for Peace Day. Cross-posted at Our Big Gayborhood.]To me, peace means being assertive, that delicate balance between aggression and passivity. It means defending a violent person's encroachment upon our human dignity in a way that causes the least physical, verbal, or emotional harm to the violent person...

Bonobo Females Handy With Tools

Posted on November 03, 2010
From Wired: "A new study of tool use in bonobos suggests females of this great ape species are handier than males.That?s also been seen in chimpanzees, but it was thought that chimps could be an aberration. Instead, the new study hints suggests that female-driven technological innovation could be the norm in humanity?s closest cousins...

This Week

Posted on November 02, 2010
Hello everyone, I am going on a gayer than gay gaycation this week. I do have posts lined up for the rest of the week, but I won't be around much to comment, interact, or check my email. I'd tell everyone to behave in my absence, but fortunately, my blog is not usually inundated with abusive comments anyway...

I Bind You, Patriarchy

Posted on November 01, 2010
Hey look, it's the Malleus Maleficarum, the Catholic-priest written handbook that Catholic Inquisitors used to hunt, torture, and murder (mostly female) "witches" in medieval times. (Thanks Gutenberg!). Of particular interest to my delicately wicked lady brain is the section explaining "why a greater number of witches is found in the fragile feminine sex than among men...

Stuff Progressives Do: Use Very Edgy Rhetorical Devices (That Marginalize the Marginalized)

Posted on October 29, 2010
[TW: Suicide, body shaming] So, many of you probably know that it's not my favorite when members of one oppressed group minimize the experiences of oppression that other groups face. I am no longer surprised by the phenomenon of, say, white LGBTs being racist, black heterosexuals being homophobic, or atheists being Islamophobes, but to me it is always particularly disappointing...

There, I Fixed It

Posted on October 28, 2010
Stop me if you've heard this one: "I recently asked my friend's little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?' She replied, 'I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people...

Straight Guy: Gays Not Owed Apology

Posted on October 27, 2010
Writing in the Huffington Post, Earl Ofari Hutchinson has explained to us that Valerie Jarrett, Senior Adviser in the Obama Administration, does not owe the gay community an apology for refering to the "lifestyle choice" of a gay teen who committed suicide...

Not Helping Religion's Image

Posted on October 26, 2010
Now this is always a fun reversal. In response to an article at Family Scholars Blog that noted how young people are increasingly not identifying with organized religion in large part because of being repulsed by homophobia within religion, commenter RK opines: "...

That Glee Photo Shoot

Posted on October 25, 2010
So, there is this. View the slideshow (warning: might not be safe for some workplaces). I love Glee. I sometimes am annoyed by it, but generally, I appreciate its ode to geekiness. I also do sometimes like looking at photos of attractive women (and men), if the photos are tastefully done and don't seem like they're completely exploiting the person...

And Another Great Marriage Campaign

Posted on October 22, 2010
[TW: Rape]Via shakesville. Coinciding nicely with today's earlier post, from the fauxgressive side of the aisle, sex advice columnist Dan Savage offers up a female sexual assault survivor a big serving of rape culture and male sexual entitlement. Long story short, a woman is in an open relationship with her husband...

I'm Sorry But Today's Blog Post Is In Another Castle

Posted on October 22, 2010
Happy belated 25th Anniversary, Super Mario Bros!I just needed a little break from Serious Things today. Talk about whatever you want in the comments, especially 80s videos games, movies, and toys.

Another Stellar PR Campaign for Heterosexual Marriage

Posted on October 21, 2010
[TW: Rape]Ho-ly shit. The things people still say out loud. Take self-described "marriage, relationship, and sexual coach" John Wilder, opining upon how "Feminists Are the Ruin Of Marriages, and Your Sex Life":"It is appalling what feminists and feminist counselors tell couples about sex...

In Which Humorless Feminazism Yet Again Becomes a Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Posted on October 20, 2010
Looks like there's more trouble in that feminist paradise that is social conservatism. Apparently, "The Fox and Rice Show," which consists of commentators at the conservative site Human Events have jokingly conceived of a "Babes of the DNC Calendar," in which they mock the looks of various liberal women...

Oh Well, I Guess Civil Unions Will Do

Posted on October 19, 2010
Articles like these where"marriage defenders" brag about how totally amazing marriage is for "couples" always chap my ass because, naturally, they don't mention the fact that there are many same-sex couples who would sure like to get married and take advantage of all of these grand benefits...

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