December 2008

A Long December

by Cara December 31, 2008

By now you all undoubtedly know that I’m a Beatles fanatic. Well, I do listen to other music (sometimes), and this is one of my other favorite bands. I love them. Have for many years. And I have always loved this song from the first moment I heard it. Especially right now, at this time [...]

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Campbell Soup Catches Teh Gay, Yet Somehow Doesn’t Mind

by Cara December 30, 2008

Swanson Broth ran an ad in The Advocate, a popular LG(bt) 1 publication that is in some trouble of its own right now.  Quite naturally, seeing the audience, the advertisement (pdf) featured a lesbian couple preparing a holiday meal with their young son. All seems well, good, and uneventful . . . but that’s because [...]

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Help For Hate Crime Victim

by Cara December 29, 2008

Last week, I blogged about a lesbian woman who was gang-raped in a hate crime due to her having a rainbow sticker on the back of her car. Thanks to Pizza Diavola in the comments, I now have information on a way that you can help the woman who was the victim of this horrific [...]

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Yoko Ono: A Feminist Analysis (Part Two: Don’t Let Me Down)

by Cara December 27, 2008

Introduction: Oh Yoko! Part One: The Ballad of John and Yoko Popular myth tells us that Yoko Ono didn’t only break up the Beatles, which has been the focus of my other posts so far; she also fucked up John Lennon really bad. John, they’d have you believe, was the brilliant best friend of fellow-genius [...]

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So This Is Christmas

by Cara December 24, 2008

The one and only Christmas song I like, Happy Xmas (War Is Over). (This version of the video unfortunately cuts of Yoko’s part of the intro and the very end of the fadeout, but was otherwise by far the video with the best overall sound quality. SORRY, I miss Yoko too.) I hope you all [...]

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Woman Gang Raped in Homophobic Hate Crime

by Cara December 23, 2008

Trigger Warning Having just yesterday discussed the ways in which many depictions of rape uphold the violent act as an appropriate punishment for women who behave outside of patriarchal expectations, I couldn’t not post this story (h/t). A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, [...]

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The Myths Encompassed by The Rapeman

by Cara December 22, 2008

Trigger Warning Via Feministing comes this video about The Rapeman, a comic that ran throughout the 80s and 90s. I don’t know what program the obviously Australian voice over is from, but the existence of Rapeman has been corroborated. According to the video, Rapeman is a schoolteacher by day, raping superhero by night. He rapes [...]

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Yoko Ono: A Feminist Analysis (Part One: The Ballad of John and Yoko)

by Cara December 20, 2008

Introduction: Oh Yoko! Ah, the Beatles. Perhaps the most brilliant musicians to ever live. Innovators. Loved by millions. Smart, charming, lovable goofballs. Endlessly fascinating personalities. And yet, not always the nicest guys. No, they were not only all capable of being assholes (though some more than others), they also tended to fall into that group [...]

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Anti-Choice DHHS Rule Finalized

by Cara December 19, 2008

At Feministe (where I originally intended on posting this until that jerk Jill beat me to it with a really good post), I’ve been relentlessly updating you on the proposed DHHS rule that aims to limit the availability of abortion and contraception by protecting anti-choice employees of Title X funded institutions from “discrimination” based on [...]

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Men’s Magazine Desires World Without Meaningful Consent

by Cara December 18, 2008

This image, of a scantily clad woman attached to a video game controller with the caption “Keep on dreaming of a better world,” was posted without comment at Sociological Images. First of all, it seems pretty obvious to me what the man targeted in this ad (by a men’s magazine) is supposed to use the [...]

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