Posted on May 24, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
WordPress has this lovely feature called tag surfer. I’ve found some wonderful blogs that way, and sometimes I find some less fantastic ones. A few days ago I found yet another post by an angry white male, who absolutely denies any white male anger to ever have existed. He’s not angry. Nope. Never. No, he [...]
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Posted on May 11, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
There’s a Danish group called Women for Freedom. Sounds like a good thing, but alas, they are as bigoted as they are active. Their chairwoman wrote (and I’ll translate from the Danish):
I have previously written about a hotel where one of the cleaning assistants were scarf-imprisoned.
Yes, that is what she calls it: Scarf-imprisoned. Because in [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2008 by Jemima Aslana
via Feministing
Teh_horror!
Yeah,
“Why would I vote for someone who is all for abortion? Statistics show that mostly the white population uses birth control and the ever-present abortion. Our numbers are dwindling, and Obama wants to keep it that way . Ever think about that? “
This is when I have to point out: No, deary, [...]
Filed under: Classism, Gender roles, Health care, Portrayal of PoC, Portrayal of Women, Racism, Sexism, Women of Colour | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 6, 2008 by Jemima Aslana
I was watching Living Wild on National Geographic the other day. Mind I know that it isn’t the most progressive and enlightened of the ’science lite’ channels, but this one pissed me off so badly.
I don’t recall the name of the bloke on Living Wild, it doesn’t really matter. He’s white, he’s a Westerner, and [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2008 by Jemima Aslana
Maybe it’s just me, but I find Leona Lewis’s Bleeding Love disturbing. There’s nothing really wrong with the lyrics as such, it’s just a sappy love-song. But the phrase: “You cut me open and I keep bleeding, keep bleeding love” Maybe it’s the fact that love isn’t attached to the sentence until the second or [...]
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