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I like it without pinkwashing

By ~LS~ On October 6, 2010 · 17 Comments · In Feminism, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Facebook, Fashion/beauty, Gender, Pop Culture, Science, Sexism, Slacktivism, YWCA

This week I received many Facebook messages urging me to tell my friends “where I like it” in my Facebook status. I’ve seen my friends post such mysterious statuses as “I like it on the chandelier” and “I like it on my car seat.” This morning I posted, “I like mine without pinkwashing.” Many people didn’t understand my status or why the meme makes me so angry. I have two simple answers:

1. I hate pinkwashing.

2. This is nothing but Facebook slactivism.

Put differently, I do not believe that if I post an “I like it…” status on Facebook, I have done something significant to advance women’s health.

Instead of pinkwashing, send a $5.00 check to the YWCA who will spend it helping poor women, primarily women of color, get free mammograms.

What is pinkwashing?

pinkwashing is the commodification breast cancer. I’ll let Wikipedia explain (quoting the [...]

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Pre-grading Procrastinatory Thoughts

By ~LS~ On September 29, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: For Wordies, Pop Culture, Silliness, Teaching, Work Sucks

1. Procrastinatory is a real word. I looked. But Webster’s online dictionary is now subscription based. WTF?

2. I’ve decided to wave just like Willow — with large smiles and much enthusiasm. I’ve put this decision into practice. It seems to be going well.

3. After many years of trying to explain in simplistic language why we don’t call Asian people “Oriental,” I’ve finally decided just to show a picture of the world “upside down.”

4. Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in the same movie? Way too much hawtness in one movie. However will I stand it?

5. My fifth post today. Obviously I’m feeling chatty.

6. Ben Affleck is a better storyteller than he is an actor. To this day I still don’t understand why Kevin Smith let his monologue in Chasing Amy go on for fifteen minutes. He’s [...]

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Ways to cheat on Foursquare

By ~LS~ On July 26, 2010 · Add Comment · In Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Apps, Consumption, Droid, Pop Culture, Silliness, Travel

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Allie Beckstrom is my hero

By ~LS~ On May 26, 2010 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Generations, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Books, Feminism, Geek, Gender, Pop Culture

Paranormal fiction and urban fantasy books are plentiful these days and a large portion of them are vapid. There are exceptions, of course, as with any genre, but on the whole, the works of Laurell K. Hamilton and Stephanie Meyers are representative of “teh stupid” that is paranormal fiction.

Shows such as Buffy, Charmed, and So Weird made common the kick-ass female main character in paranormal or urban fantasy and opened the door for this genre’s expanding popularity. The burgeoning teen fiction/young adult market, born with the huge demographic hump of Gen Y, cemented gothy vampy werewolfy witchy faery stories as a permanent fixture at Barnes and Nobles. So despite the stupidity of paranormal fiction’s lowest common denominator, its frequent strength is an empowerment of females. Well, except for Twilight, which reduces girls to 19th century passive, pining virgins awaiting their one true love. But let’s [...]

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Wannabe feminism

By ~LS~ On April 1, 2010 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Pop Culture, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Fashion/beauty, Feminism, Gender, Generations, Music, Politics, Pop Culture, Sex, Sexism

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Pornification

By ~LS~ On February 25, 2010 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Feminism, Generations, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Feminism, For Wordies, Generations, Pop Culture, Rape, Sex, Sexism

Recently on WMST-L, the Women’s Studies discussion list, someone posted a call for papers about porn culture. The call was clearly anti-porn and the posting provoked a brief but rapid pro-/anti-porn debate before the moderator shut it down for being inappropriate to the mission of the list. Those old issues from the feminist sex wars still prickle at us feminists and I’m predictably on the fence about porn. I content myself to remember the title of the book, Pleasure and Danger, because porn is both those things, a crucial point about sex that we should always remember.

But one thing that does bother me is the pornification of consumer culture. I mean this in a different way than the typical use of the term as a comment on the how advertising borrows heavily from porn’s tropes and porn itself has infiltrated every aspect of popular culture. I’m [...]

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