Woman brutally beaten for using women’s toilet in fast-food restaurant

http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2011/04/woman_brutally_?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+thefword+(The+F-Word+Blog)&utm_content=FaceBook

This blog is about a white transgendered woman who used the women's restroom in a Baltimore McDonalds, and was brutally beaten afterwards by a 14 year old girl and an 18 year old girl, both black. an employee had videotaped the whole thing, without bothering to help, as others stood idly by. This tied into our discussion about PISSAR and the bathroom violence that transgendered people(among others) face.

unbelievable

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/04/25/2011-04-25_teonna_monae_brown_18_idd_as_suspect_in_mcdonalds_beating_of_transgender_woman_c.html


Absolutely awful. Why can't people just let others be?

Bald Beauties

http://hotforwriting.com/2010/06/is-long-hair-what-makes-a-woman-feminine/#comment-569

I think a bald or shaved head is such a bold move. My sister had cancer and had to shave her head after chemotherapy. She got a wig but rarely wore it. She was absolutely beautiful with her little bald head. I do not think hair length should define femininity whatsoever. You do not have to have long flowing locks to feel as though you are feminine or a female. It is frustrating that society so often equates beauty with things such as hair. It is impossible to watch TV or flip through a magazine where there is not emphasis on hair color, style or texture. I shaved my head a few years ago for a cancer fundraiser and it was one of the most liberating experiences of my life. Granted, this bald head was my choice. A woman with alopecia or cancer who loses their hair does not have that choice. That is why I so greatl respect and honor them by being proud and showing the world that one without hair can still exude femininity.

Emotional/ Verbal Abuse IS Abuse

http://thefbomb.org/2010/06/emotionalverbal-abuse-is-abuse/comment-page-1/#comment-28995

Throughout the past week, my Women’s Studies class has started an ongoing discussion of the realization of the various types of abuses. Many people are very familiar with the term abuse; however, do not really understand that besides being of physical nature it can be a verbal and emotional well. My best friend of 17 years is one of the most honest, loyal, and humble people I have ever come across in my lifetime. Regardless of how I feel about him one thing is for sure, he verbally abuses every girlfriend he has ever had. Often do I recall reaming him out for saying things beyond terrible to his lady friends. Once a month I would expect a call from his girlfriend at the time, crying hysterically because of the hurtful words he had said to her.

In class we had just reviewed an abuse myth, which states: “if women are abused, they should be able to pick up and leave.” The myth still is proven wrong, regardless of how bad he has treated them in the past, they still won’t leave him.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-kimmel/from-thats-so-gay-to-no-h_b_345390.html

Choices Campus Leadership Program

http://feministcampus.blogspot.com/

I choose this blog to present to the class because the foundation that organizes the blog is bringing awareness of feminist issues to college campus. Being a college student who is taking a class about feminism and gender studies the issues surrounding these topics had brought upon awareness. I thought that it would relate to class because the foundation is spreading awareness of issues surrounding women’s rights to college students. The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) started Choices Campus Leadership Program was created to inform college students about women rights, threats to abortion access, and affirmative action. The blog that interested me was about a rally that was held on April 7, 2011 at Pacific University to protest the effects of eliminating Title X. This is the funding that supports Planned Parenthood and other family run clinics in America.

The Pursuit of Harpyness- blog

http://www.harpyness.com/2011/02/25/what-were-about/

What I found isn’t a feminist blog parse, but it is a blog posted about a website of feminist blogs.

While I was looking through the different blogs on the site, I realized why they posted this particular one.

 People were asking questions like “What do these have to do with feminism?” (Which is the exact question I was thinking while scrolling through the different topic blogs.

The response of the website owners is what made me choose this particular reading. They responded to the question by saying those people are too focused on the ideology of feminism and their own version from what they know.

While the women running the website talk about things like jobs, politics, books, families, food , sex, travel relationship, they are usually informed by feminism and that there is no one right way or one feminism way for women to write about their experiences. They write about their lives as feminist women, therefore linking it to the ideas of feminism in their eyes.

The Games We Play: Did You Move Today, Fatty?

I thought that this blog was interesting. I have always loved playing Wii games and have grown to be very familiar with many of the games from the kids i babysit. I have also thought about trying to Wii Fit games as a source of indoor exercise on those days where I don't feel like going to the gym or leaving the house. After hearing from various friends both young and old, this game makes people very uncomfortable. Once I stumbled upon this article, I knew I had to share it with the class. In the blog, the writer talks about her experience with the Wii Fit game and her previous struggle with eating disorders and body image. The game weights you and insinuates that a person is "fat" without taking into consideration what they look like and other physical features. I feel like this, along with many other influences in the media are causing both women and men to feel uncomfortable with their bodies and image. I know for a fact that my 12 year old cousin is starting to do the Wii Fit. If a video game is telling a person about their image, I cannot even imagine what will happen next.
http://bitchmagazine.org/post/the-games-we-play-did-you-move-today-fattie

Women in Namibia Fight Back Against Foced Sterilization

http://blog.soros.org/2010/11/women-in-namibia-fight-back-against-forced-sterilization/comment-page-1/#comment-10740

I found this article and was surprised at how prominent the issue of forced sterilization is around the world. According to this blog, forced sterilization among HIV-positive women is an increasing global issue around the world. The World Health Organization has stated, that the chance an HIV-positive mother, with proper medication and treatment, will pass on the HIV to her child, is "virtually nonexistent". However, even with this knowledge, women around the world are being sterilized with out their consent, and hospitals that perform these procedures, give excuses that don't match up and hide the truth. These women are being tricked into signing over their reproductive rights as women, just like the mother of the Relf sisters was tricked into signing over her own daughters' reproductive rights. After reading this, I have come to suspect that maybe these hospitals are not owning up to the real reason for their "desperate" and deceitful acts of forced sterilization.