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marissaao wrote a new blog post: The Canadian Election – What’s At Stake 2 years, 1 month ago · View
Another election is coming up in Canada. As things stand, the Conservatives are in a position to win a majority in Parliament. We cannot let that happen . The Harper Conservatives are without a doubt the worst party we have on women’s rights. They’ve tried to introduce legislation that would create a legal basis for recognizing fetal personhood. They [...]
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marissaao commented on the blog post An Open Letter To Lady Gaga, From A Fan And Fellow Feminist 2 years, 3 months ago · View
I really don’t think it’s valid to criticize a singer for wanting attention.
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marissaao commented on the blog post An Open Letter To Lady Gaga, From A Fan And Fellow Feminist 2 years, 3 months ago · View
From the article linked in the main post: “The word chola according to the critics refers to Latina girls in gangs, Latinas from the barrio who have a certain look about them and conjure very negative stereotypes. “
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marissaao commented on the blog post An Open Letter To Lady Gaga, From A Fan And Fellow Feminist 2 years, 3 months ago · View
She now identifies as feminist.
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marissaao commented on the blog post An Open Letter To Lady Gaga, From A Fan And Fellow Feminist 2 years, 3 months ago · View
I’ve been reading a lot of comments on the lyrics to “Born This Way,” and was responding to the common defences that I’ve seen. Lady Gaga may be socially conscious, but she did mess up here. And she did call other people by “a bad name”. And she is new to feminism. I basically wrote what I think [...]
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marissaao commented on the blog post An Open Letter To Lady Gaga, From A Fan And Fellow Feminist 2 years, 3 months ago · View
The thing is, Lady Gaga identifies as a feminist now, when she didn’t just a couple of years ago, and seemed to completely misunderstand what it was about. So to me, that says that she’s learned about feminism. I don’t think the outfits are related to her feminism (except for maybe the meat dress). They [...]
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marissaao commented on the blog post An Open Letter To Lady Gaga, From A Fan And Fellow Feminist 2 years, 3 months ago · View
I think there are multiple readings of the significance of the phrase “Born this way” (at her concerts Gaga always says, “remember that you’re a superstar, and you were born that way!”), which is where my interpretation of it as a kind of postmodern statement of self-determination comes from. But I think your reading of [...]
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marissaao wrote a new blog post: An Open Letter To Lady Gaga, From A Fan And Fellow Feminist 2 years, 3 months ago · View
Cross-posted at This Is Hysteria! Dear Lady Gaga, I love what you do. The populist spirit with which you insist that pop culture is art. Your devotion to performance. The sense of community that you’re building with your fans. That you’re not afraid to make out with butch women in your music videos, or be photographed in drag. I love [...]
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marissaao wrote a new blog post: An Open Letter To Lady Gaga, From A Fan And Fellow Feminist 2 years, 3 months ago · View
Cross-posted at This Is Hysteria! Dear Lady Gaga, I love what you do. The populist spirit with which you insist that pop culture is art. Your devotion to performance. The sense of community that you’re building with your fans. That you’re not afraid to make out with butch women in your music videos, or be photographed in drag. I love [...]
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marissaao commented on the blog post A Pocket Guide to Vaginal Euphemisms 2 years, 6 months ago · View
“Yoni” isn’t just a silly made-up euphamism, it’s the term used in the kama sutra.
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marissaao commented on the blog post Addressing The Opposition: How Do I Explain Chivalry Isn’t A Privilege? 2 years, 8 months ago · View
If you haven’t read them, you might find theses posts interesting:
For Thee, Fair Maiden, I Would Punch A Thousand Faces
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marissaao commented on the blog post Addressing The Opposition: How Do I Explain Chivalry Isn’t A Privilege? 2 years, 8 months ago · View
More reprehensibly, even in cases of rape, courts have required men to pay child support to their rapist. Of course they would. The child should not be made to suffer for the parent’s crimes. The interests of the child override the interests of the parent. There is nothing reprehensible about that. What is reprehensible is that custody [...]
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marissaao wrote a new blog post: The latest shot at Canadian women is aimed at sex-workers 2 years, 9 months ago · View
You can add this to the list of anti-woman things the Conservative government has done: treat sex-workers who work indoors instead of on the street like members of organized crime. New regulations were recently announced which allow the government to crack down on certain offences associated with organized crime, without having to go to the [...]
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marissaao commented on the blog post Weekly Feminist Reader 2 years, 9 months ago · View
Go Where?: Sex, Gender, and Toilets – a typology and analysis of men’s and women’s washroom signs and what they say about our understanding of sex and gender.
The Worst Anti-Abortion Ad I Ever Saw – a thoroughly silly anti-choice billboard.
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marissaao wrote a new blog post: The Mel Gibson Meme 2 years, 10 months ago · View
Trigger warning for links: violent and abusive language By now, we’ve all heard about Mel Gibson’s racist and misogynistic rants threatening his wife. I can’t say that I’m surprised by Gibson’s behaviour. What I have been rather stunned by is how his rants have caught on as a meme – although in retrospect it shouldn’t have. We are, [...]
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marissaao wrote a new blog post: Universalism vs. Cultural Relativism and the Rights of Muslim Women, Part 3 2 years, 10 months ago · View
Cross-posted at This Is HysteriaPart Three: CodaWhen examining the relationship between equality rights and freedom of religion, one theme constantly reappears in a variety of manifestations: the public-private divide.It is the public/private divide that associates women with the home, giving them symbolic cultural value while denying their individual worth and silencing their public voice.When law [...] -
marissaao wrote a new blog post: Universalism vs. Cultural Relativism and the Rights of Muslim Women, Part 1 2 years, 10 months ago · View
Cross-posted at my blog, Hysteria(!) This past fall I had a disagreement with a classmate, in which she maintained that universal human rights (in their current form) are distinctively Western. I felt it was arrogant to imagine that only Western culture could give rise to values like equality. (I guess our two positions weren’t necessarily exclusive. It felt [...]
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marissaao wrote a new blog post: Celebrity Women Are Women Too 2 years, 11 months ago · View
Jezebel has really been bothering me lately. First, it was the comments on Amanda Hess’ take down of Mary Elizabeth Williams’ condescending, victim-blamey post about sex-tapes . Which were very dismissive of the possibility that a woman who chose a career in the public eye could want to maintain any personal boundaries at all, and aren’t famous women [...]
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marissaao wrote a new blog post: Blurring Gender Boundaries in Japan 3 years, 1 month ago · View
There seems to be a rising trend in Japan of boys wearing skirts . Which I think is pretty cool. The article links this trend to ” Vegetarian Boys ” – that is, boys who don’t spend their time “hunting” girls. The second article frames this as a problem that will exacerbate Japan’s decreasing birth rate, and of course places [...]
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marissaao wrote a new blog post: Research help: non-Western feminist law reform 3 years, 7 months ago · View
I’m planing a comparative essay on non-Western feminist law reform (or at least law reform efforts). I’m intending to examine how culture is negotiated and constructed, with the goal of showing that enforcing equality rights does not necessarily mean abandoning the local legal system in favour of Western liberalism. Basically I had this conversation with someone [...]
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