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Splendora, Texas

By ~LS~ On July 16, 2008 · 1 Comment · In This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Splendora, Texas

Random Musings – Liz Phair

By ~LS~ On July 15, 2008 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Goals, Music, Threes

Three random musings:

1. I can’t believe it’s been fifteen years since Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville.” I’ve been listening to the CD a lot lately for some reason and then FLOW posted a brief commentary on its impact fifteen years later. I really loved this album, but I didn’t find it as much of a feminist anthem as might have. But it’s fifteenth anniversary re-release reminds me that back in ’93 I was busy listening to Indigo Girls and Melissa Ethridge. There was a brief spike in popularity for women musicians in the late 90s with the Lilith Fair crew, but today the scene for me is bleak. Maybe it’s that generation gap, again. So I asked Willow to name for me three contemporary women rockers. Here’s her list: Amy Lee, Avril Lavigne (which she says with a cringe), Hayley Williams (Paramore).

2. Although I had a myspace [...]

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Haraway – When Species Meet

By ~LS~ On July 14, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Rhetoric and tagged Tagged With: Haraway, Rhetoric, Technoculture

Here are some ofmy thoughts on Chapters 1 and 2:

1. Her writing – accessibility: I guess the first thing I want to reflect on is the quality of her writing. I was all prepared for a mind-busting read and I was surprised to find it quite accessible, almost beach reading. I don’t know why she chose to make it so “entry-level.” One thing people have bitched about for years is her lack of accessibility, which is a big issue for me, since I always wonder (like many people) what’s the point of doing feminist work if no one can read it. For instance, I really think you need to be an insider to decades of feminist theory to fully ‘get’ her Cyborg Manifesto, to see its value through its “chrome.” (Although she doesn’t use the term “chrome”, she does talk critically about the “blessed-out techno-sublime reading or something like [...]

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Moe and Tracie

By ~LS~ On July 13, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Feminism, Pop Culture, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Politics, Pop Culture, Sex

Several people have asked me about “Shoot the Messenger”‘s interview with Jezebel.com‘s Moe and Tracie. Part of me doesn’t want to give this ‘tempest in a teapot’ any more of the blogosphere’s energy. But I have to confess that, after I was asked by enough people, I watched the train wreck of an interview. Before I did that, I went to Jezebel.com and I went to Tracie “Slut Machine”‘s website. I even read Jezebel.com’s response post and their reader comments to it.

My first profound observation is I just don’t get it. I don’t get why anyone would see these two women as role models (which is what Shoot the Messenger claims), even in the most pedestrian sense. Their websites are inane and their observations are shallow, in my opinion. I don’t see why anyone who hosted or put together a comedy show would see these [...]

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Abstinence Only Sex Ed

By ~LS~ On July 13, 2008 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Politics, Religion, Sex

According to a new report from the government, teenage birthrates are rising. I read about this report on Bloomberg.com in an article that points out how this is an increase for the first time in fifteen years. Although the article doesn’t make any sort of reference to sex education, I’m afraid that the information in this report will be used to increase support for the Bush administration’s abstinence only programs, even though studies have shown that these programs are dismal failures (see, for instance, this Fox news article for a “fair and balanced” report).

For a humorous look at this failure, see Susie Bright’s take on it. She ends her commentary with the following:
Clearly, more needs to be done to frighten and guilt-trip kids and confuse them about sex. In the Bible when someone has carnal relations with someone the verb “know” is [...]

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Obama and Spock

By ~LS~ On July 13, 2008 · Add Comment · In Humor and tagged Tagged With: Geek Humor, Obama, Political Humor

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