Oh to be young, black and...
Way to go CBS. It's fucking 2008 and just now this becomes news? Exactly who puts out all the high-profile Laci Peterson cases in the media? Umm...corporations like...Umm (Sorry, I'm a girl - this thinking thingy is hard. Oh!!! You?
If you are young, black and pregnant, the US media/politicos could give a fuck if you are murdered. Just as long as you ain't getting no damn abortions... And that goes for every race.
Court judge Muhammed Al-Qathic stepped up to the plate and arrested 8 year old Nojoud Muhammed Nasser's father and husband for sexual and domestic dispute in Yemen this week.
Nojoud said “Whenever I wanted to play in the yard he beat me and asked me to go to the bedroom with him."
The Save the Children organization does an annual ranking of best to worst countries for mothers. The ranking is determined by:
* Lifetime risk of maternal mortality;
* Percentage of women using modern contraception;
* Skilled attendant at delivery;
* Female life expectancy;
* Expected number of years of formal schooling for females;
* Ratio of estimated female-to-male earned income;
* Maternity leave benefits;
* Participation of women in national government;
* Under-5 mortality rate;
* Percentage of children under age 5 moderately or severely underweight;
* School enrollment ratios;
* Ratio of girls to boys enrolled in primary school and;
* Percentage of population with access to safe water.
Yemen happens to be at the bottom of the list, with only Sierra Leone and Niger ranking below.
The Unites States? In the 26th place, ranking after Latvia, Czech, Slovenia (basically - a bunch of fucking countries that Americans couldn't point out on a map if their lives depended on it...) Score again for Team America!
Why don't girls play guitar? Maybe teachers should stop forcing them to play the fucking flute in kindergarden.
And on that note, that reminds me of a teacher I had in elementary school who was always yelling at me to keep my ankles crossed under my desk. It wasn't fair! All the boys sat with their legs wide apart.
Sexism...It's everywhere I go. And unlike my Visa card, it will never max out.
To end this post, I will stop with two different links. Both of a sad and twisted nature. Hopefully, next week will be a better week for women and girls in the world.
Move over MILF island! We are taking your polygamous ass to Incest Ranchxxx!
Ai papi, that feels good! Oh papi, harder! AI! PAPI!
“Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up.” - Margaret Atwood
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
Dear Diary,
Dear Diary,
Last Friday I went to see: Sex(Ed) Diaries - Visions and Voices over at USC. I was so excited; I mean, really! With a press release that started off like this... "You can’t promise a girl like Julie you’ll be true to her and show up with a case of syphilis.”—Where the Girls Are (1969)...How could you possibly go wrong?
But go wrong ya did!
To sum it up in a short version I will say - It was like me hosting a "Sexuality and Artistic Oppression: A Historical and Modern Dissection of 'the woman' and her role/s in the commercial world of Acting" lecture, and then when everyone has arrived and is seated, I perform a crappy monologue that I wrote for all my guests.
Then everyone gets snacks afterwards.
But I know you! And you, my dear diary, do not want the short version! You loath the short version. You see that context is everything and brevity is useless and my witty titling will not truly recreate the evening for you in a way so that you too can feel like you were there and thinking it was so lame at the same time that I was there!
So, here you go my buddy. This is the longest version I can possibly write in an incredibly short time period because I have to go for a run real soon because it just feels so good.
- My friends and I arrived and the hall was full. We sat alongside the walls until a spider scared a couple of us into some seats that became available as some people had left.
-I saw this guy in the audience that seriously looked like Spencer Pratt. Only it wasn't, but it's hilarious to think that SP would ever go to an lecture like this. What is sad, however, is that I know and would recognize that douchebag in general though. I guess its a little fitting after his plastic friend was mislabeled a modern feminist hero by some dumbass at the NY Times.
- I thought we were going to see screenings of sex-ed videos from the 50's to now. You know why I thought that? Because that's what the pr said!!!! Basically we got to see a few edited (they took out all cuts of diseases, penises, etc.. and I heard these were graphic - is that why? Like USC kids ain't ever seen an std... I am sooo not buying that shit) reels from 3 military films, and a couple of "relationship/ dating" films. The military films all taught that you can't tell if a woman is clean from the outside, and that women are dirty carriers of filth and disease! Wear a rubber! If you don't you can get gonorrhea and die! Wear a rubber!
-The lecture was completely disorganized. There were two women and two incredibly ancient men on the stage. They had nothing remotely interesting or thought-provoking to share. They didn't bring any idea to a reasonable conclusion. They asked for people to talk about what type of sex-education they had when younger, which led into an incredibly long time period of undergrad kids sharing their fucking lame stories like a therapy session. Oh, and guess what, the organizer, Brenda Goodman, really used this event to trick us into to seeing clips from the documentary she is making about sex-ed in America. Oh! And guess what?! It basically consists of short edited moment of historical vids which were already made, and then little clips of kids in in the USC quad sharing their "education."
-In conclusion; I could give a fuck about the majority of students over at USC and what their (blatant gross generalization coming up) totally elitist bullshit theories especially when pertaining to sex deal with. If you want to preview your film, do it. Just don't hide it behind something that I would mistake for some cool shit.
Btw, you have to do more than just give your audience free brownies and coffee. I want substance, not empty calories.
It would have been really awesome if they had just shown all the videos they have in their archives.
It would also be really awesome if someone who didn't go to USC made a dope-ass documentary on this incredible subject...
Maybe someone...like you!
xoxox-
holly
Last Friday I went to see: Sex(Ed) Diaries - Visions and Voices over at USC. I was so excited; I mean, really! With a press release that started off like this... "You can’t promise a girl like Julie you’ll be true to her and show up with a case of syphilis.”—Where the Girls Are (1969)...How could you possibly go wrong?
But go wrong ya did!
To sum it up in a short version I will say - It was like me hosting a "Sexuality and Artistic Oppression: A Historical and Modern Dissection of 'the woman' and her role/s in the commercial world of Acting" lecture, and then when everyone has arrived and is seated, I perform a crappy monologue that I wrote for all my guests.
Then everyone gets snacks afterwards.
But I know you! And you, my dear diary, do not want the short version! You loath the short version. You see that context is everything and brevity is useless and my witty titling will not truly recreate the evening for you in a way so that you too can feel like you were there and thinking it was so lame at the same time that I was there!
So, here you go my buddy. This is the longest version I can possibly write in an incredibly short time period because I have to go for a run real soon because it just feels so good.
- My friends and I arrived and the hall was full. We sat alongside the walls until a spider scared a couple of us into some seats that became available as some people had left.
-I saw this guy in the audience that seriously looked like Spencer Pratt. Only it wasn't, but it's hilarious to think that SP would ever go to an lecture like this. What is sad, however, is that I know and would recognize that douchebag in general though. I guess its a little fitting after his plastic friend was mislabeled a modern feminist hero by some dumbass at the NY Times.
- I thought we were going to see screenings of sex-ed videos from the 50's to now. You know why I thought that? Because that's what the pr said!!!! Basically we got to see a few edited (they took out all cuts of diseases, penises, etc.. and I heard these were graphic - is that why? Like USC kids ain't ever seen an std... I am sooo not buying that shit) reels from 3 military films, and a couple of "relationship/ dating" films. The military films all taught that you can't tell if a woman is clean from the outside, and that women are dirty carriers of filth and disease! Wear a rubber! If you don't you can get gonorrhea and die! Wear a rubber!
-The lecture was completely disorganized. There were two women and two incredibly ancient men on the stage. They had nothing remotely interesting or thought-provoking to share. They didn't bring any idea to a reasonable conclusion. They asked for people to talk about what type of sex-education they had when younger, which led into an incredibly long time period of undergrad kids sharing their fucking lame stories like a therapy session. Oh, and guess what, the organizer, Brenda Goodman, really used this event to trick us into to seeing clips from the documentary she is making about sex-ed in America. Oh! And guess what?! It basically consists of short edited moment of historical vids which were already made, and then little clips of kids in in the USC quad sharing their "education."
-In conclusion; I could give a fuck about the majority of students over at USC and what their (blatant gross generalization coming up) totally elitist bullshit theories especially when pertaining to sex deal with. If you want to preview your film, do it. Just don't hide it behind something that I would mistake for some cool shit.
Btw, you have to do more than just give your audience free brownies and coffee. I want substance, not empty calories.
It would have been really awesome if they had just shown all the videos they have in their archives.
It would also be really awesome if someone who didn't go to USC made a dope-ass documentary on this incredible subject...
Maybe someone...like you!
xoxox-
holly
Thursday, April 3, 2008
back to the locker room...
Sex(ed) Diaries
Visions and Voices
Friday, April 4, 2008 : 7:30pm to 9:30pm
University Park Campus
Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre
Admission is free. A reception will follow.
“You can’t promise a girl like Julie you’ll be true to her and show up with a case of syphilis.”—Where the Girls Are (1969)
Remember how you learned about sex? The sex-ed films from the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and ’00s were often hilarious, sometimes instructive and almost always embarrassing. However, they also reflect changing moral, cultural and political attitudes in the United States. Join us for a screening of these forgotten classics. Learn the dangers of heavy petting. Observe the proper way to impart healthy sexual attitudes to your child without ever mentioning penetration. And note the warning signs of the most dangerous venereal diseases. Then listen to interviews with the USC community about their memories of sex-ed films and the films’ effect (or lack thereof) on the developing teenage psyche.
Following the screening, a panel of experts will explore the social implications of these films. Panelists will include Robert Eberwein, author of Sex Ed: Film, Video and the Framework of Desire; Rick Prelinger, who maintains the largest archive of sex-ed films in the United States; USC cinematic-arts professor Brenda Goodman; and Valerie Schwan from the USC Moving Image Archive.
Organized by Brenda Goodman (Cinematic Arts).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Visions and Voices
Friday, April 4, 2008 : 7:30pm to 9:30pm
University Park Campus
Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre
Admission is free. A reception will follow.
“You can’t promise a girl like Julie you’ll be true to her and show up with a case of syphilis.”—Where the Girls Are (1969)
Remember how you learned about sex? The sex-ed films from the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and ’00s were often hilarious, sometimes instructive and almost always embarrassing. However, they also reflect changing moral, cultural and political attitudes in the United States. Join us for a screening of these forgotten classics. Learn the dangers of heavy petting. Observe the proper way to impart healthy sexual attitudes to your child without ever mentioning penetration. And note the warning signs of the most dangerous venereal diseases. Then listen to interviews with the USC community about their memories of sex-ed films and the films’ effect (or lack thereof) on the developing teenage psyche.
Following the screening, a panel of experts will explore the social implications of these films. Panelists will include Robert Eberwein, author of Sex Ed: Film, Video and the Framework of Desire; Rick Prelinger, who maintains the largest archive of sex-ed films in the United States; USC cinematic-arts professor Brenda Goodman; and Valerie Schwan from the USC Moving Image Archive.
Organized by Brenda Goodman (Cinematic Arts).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
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