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By eresbel • 14 years ago

Parents Who Don’t Say No Are Raising Rapists?

Oh my goodness. This is an article about how when parents don’t teach their children to respect the word “no”, the male children will grow up to be rapists.

I am genuinely interested in people’s opinions.

By eresbel • 14 years ago

DC Feministers – Haiti Help

If you’re interested in helping those in Haiti, the Haitian Embassy in DC will be hosting a supply drive on Sunday. Bring supplies or come around to help them pack stuff to send to Haiti. It’s too late to mail anything, but if you’re in the area, you can stop by and drop things off.

You can bring:

clothing
baby wipes
diapers
feminine products
medicine
bandages
hand sanitizer
dry/powder baby formula
anything dry, light and nonperishable (but not things that come in cans)

Date:
Sunday, January 17, 2010

Time:
11:00am – 4:00pm

Location:
Haitian Embassy
2311 Massachusettes Ave NW
Washington, DC

This is the facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=253224531550&ref=mf

By eresbel • 14 years ago

Anti-Elitism or Anti-Intellectualism?

For a while now, I’ve been considering the concept of anti-elitism in reference to education. A week ago, a professor went on a spree about how anti-intellectualism has been fostering in the US for a long time and is bringing down the quality of conversation surrounding important topics – for instance, Glenn Beck, anyone?

But education is a privilege for those who have the means to support it. In this post at the SDS Womyn’s Caucus Blog, the author discusses the elitism that runs rampant in her group meetings. She doesn’t like how people “drop names” or have read all the books regarding the doctrine to which they adhere. (Which, to me, seems appropriate that they educate themselves about the ...

By eresbel • 14 years ago

Race and Movies: Don’t need to be Asian to play an Asian

I don’t know how many of you are familiar with the Nickelodeon show Avatar: The Last Airbender. Probably not a lot – it is, after all, a children’s show.

But Avatar is a really interesting show. It takes place in a made-up world. It really is – it deals with imperialism, environmentalism, genocide, death, family, religion, spirituality, abuse and a bunch of other very serious issues that most 8-10 year olds in America don’t think too much about. Frankly, I love this show. I love the characters (who develop and change) and the show is definitely feminist, with kick-butt women all over the freaking place, despite having a boy as the protagonist.

But what I really want to talk about is the ...

I don’t know how many of you are familiar with the Nickelodeon show Avatar: The Last Airbender. Probably not a lot – it is, after all, a children’s show.

But Avatar is a really interesting show. It takes ...

By eresbel • 14 years ago

Support for Abused Families

An article in the New York Times todays features a Chicago-based support group for women and their children who have left abusive husbands.

The group, Safe Families for Children, understands that it’s difficult for abused mothers to get back on their feet again while also taking care of their children and so has created a sort of foster program for children. The program allows mothers to leave their children with families (after allowing the mothers to choose the family) for any length of time and when the mother comes back for her children, she doesn’t need to go through the courts. The mother is allowed to visit whenever she wants and the program claims that many adoptive families become very ...

An article in the New York Times todays features a Chicago-based support group for women and their children who have left abusive husbands.

The group, Safe Families for Children, understands that it’s difficult for abused mothers to ...

By eresbel • 15 years ago

I have a question

And it’s about rape, so this is the warning.

Specifically, it’s about drinking and rape. Recently, I had begun watching the first season of Veronica Mars. For those of you who don’t know it, it’s about a girl named Veronica Mars in high school whose best friend died a year before the show starts and she tries to figure out who murdered her. Veronica is quite a strong character and I like her a lot.

From the beginning, Veronica has recounted the story of how she lost her virginity – she was drugged and raped at a party. She’s always very clear on this point, that she was raped. She never calls it anything else, never blames the drugs she was slipped ...

And it’s about rape, so this is the warning.

Specifically, it’s about drinking and rape. Recently, I had begun watching the first season of Veronica Mars. For those of you who don’t know it, it’s about a girl ...

By eresbel • 15 years ago

Anecdotal Assault

This is just a story I have decided to share here in the community. It’s about a friend of mine who was assaulted on Sunday, her birthday, actually.

I am currently studying abroad in a medium-sized city in the south of France. The university I’m studying in is very small, only a branch of a bigger institute because it’s a more intense curriculum. There are 13 students, all American, only one of which is male.

Sunday, my friend was walking home from the train station after dropping off a friend who had been visiting. A young man, about our age, approached her and asked to use her phone. (This was all in French, by the way.) She allowed him to call his ...

This is just a story I have decided to share here in the community. It’s about a friend of mine who was assaulted on Sunday, her birthday, actually.

I am currently studying abroad in a medium-sized city in ...

By eresbel • 15 years ago

Selling Eggs

This week on Dear Prudence, an advice column on Slate.com, a man writes in because he and his student wife have fallen on hard times and she wants to harvest her eggs for the money. He’s apprehensive because he has “a hard time seeing her eggs merely as genetic material” and that he would feel responsible for the possible offspring as they would be “half his wife”.

I have two issues with this – First, that he said, “I think these hopeful parents should consider adopting.” If people have the means to do such an expensive procedure and the donor is willing, they have the right to do whatever the heck they like. They’re not specifically hunting down this ...

This week on Dear Prudence, an advice column on Slate.com, a man writes in because he and his student wife have fallen on hard times and she wants to harvest her eggs for the money. ...