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By Sarah Dropek • 12 years ago

Being single, godless, and a feminist in Texas: a thank you note

I wouldn’t be the first person in a room to espouse the positive aspects of being in a relationship. A lot of my friends would actually tell me that I’m the person who would first bring up why relationships are time-wasters (who can write papers, attend school, work, and have a social life while trying to love somebody? Kudos to all of you who can! But not me.) and generally not as important as society gives them credit for. But lately I’ve had some conversations with friends about how awesome it is to have someone there for you – someone who challenges you, advocates for you, and is devoted to loving you.

I’ve realized a bit how having a loving relationship with someone can be a huge help when life seems a little too wild or you feel like everyone’s ganging up on you. This is a terrifying (but I think, healthy) admission.

In the same way I’m becoming more jealous of people who are in positive relationships, I have always been jealous of people of faith. A friend once asked me why I didn’t believe in much and I told her that it was because to do otherwise would be to lie to myself about how I feel. I went on to try to explain to her, though, how profoundly jealous of her faith I am and how she should embrace and nourish her faith because it is quite an amazing thing. An amazing thing that ...
By Sarah Dropek • 12 years ago

Taking the Love out of Love Stories

I’ve been watching this meme circulate lately about the badass qualities of certain women in movies. It was created originally of course as a Twilight hating meme and has since morphed, as you can read, into a ‘Star Wars is awesome’ meme.

The text of the meme says: “When the love of Hermione’s life left her, she continued to search for the keys to destroying the world’s most powerful dark wizard. When the love of Bella’s life left her, she curled up in the fetal position, went numb for months then jumped off a cliff. [the newest addition to the meme continues saying] bitches please. When the love of Leia’s life was encased in carbonite by Boba Fett and Darth Vader ...

I’ve been watching this meme circulate lately about the badass qualities of certain women in movies. It was created originally of course as a Twilight hating meme and has since morphed, as you can read, into a ...
By Sarah Dropek • 12 years ago

Apple’s Siri and Sexual Violence

Amid all the information coming out about Apple’s Siri not directing women to a place to pick up emergency birth control or to get an abortion (See Here and Here… and Here), I decided to do a little experiment of my own.

I’m a little behind the times and only have a 3GS so I borrowed the phone of a friend of mine and told Siri “I’ve been raped” thinking that she would give me locations of hospitals around my area like she does if you tell her “I’m bleeding”. Instead what I heard back was, “Is that so?”

She could have given out the number of my local Rape Crisis Center, directed me to ...

Amid all the information coming out about Apple’s Siri not directing women to a place to pick up emergency birth control or to get an abortion (See Here and Here… and

By Sarah Dropek • 12 years ago

Lyrical Feministing: Baiting Hooks and Masculinity

Down in Texas, country music rules the radio waves. Everyone loves it. Even I love it. But sometimes, as I’m jamming along in the car, I cringe singing along to some of the lyrics that go with those all-too-familiar power chords.

Let’s get a couple of things out of the way before my first post in what will hopefully be a series that will explore music, lyrics, and music videos and everything that they have to say (from my perspective, of course). I’m not anti-love, anti-family, or anti any other wonderful thing. But it’s going to sound like that sometimes, especially when I’m discussing country music. So just know that’s not what I’m going for and we’ll get started!

For my first post, ...

Down in Texas, country music rules the radio waves. Everyone loves it. Even I love it. But sometimes, as I’m jamming along in the car, I cringe singing along to some of the lyrics that go with those ...