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more about #feminisms camera_obscura: This may seem completely unrelated but: once, I was at a bus station in SLC, about to get on a bus with my boyfriend for 3 days. They announced a bus... more » eileen.myles: Dear Jenna the Humorless, You and your friend were really prissy. Then and now. You totally don't get where you were and you're snooty! I love that y... more » professor_K: Wait, wait, wait. If we're liberal we're not allowed to laugh at "cock"? But "cock" is mother natures biggest joke! more » i'm a bottle: The poem sounds like someone's idea of what poetry should sound like. more » grace darling: And I remain fundamentally very suspicious of any class of writer that considers a day when you come up with five lines to be the blistering height of... more » SomeAuthorGirl: Jenna, it sounded like those people were treating the event as group therapy, not a poetry reading. Does not compute. Surreal, bizarre, and I hope y... more » thisisthepanopticon: Jenna -- are you sure it was Eileen Myles? I have been to a number of her readings, and she seems like she would be on your side, on the side of the l... more » rixatrix: I don't know if the uptight "uncomfortable" woman was a writer or not, but as a writer (not of poetry), I sometimes feel like people who AREN'T writer... more » haus_frau: A friend of mine in college use to hold regular poetry readings/workshops that I would avoid like the plague, and party for similar reasons. I cannot ... more » k.trujillo8: Oh that's nothing compared to Grunthos the Flatulent whose poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" cause... more » SharonTaint: The first and last time I went to a poetry reading it was a dreadful "slam poet" kind of a thing in a subterranean basement without windows and one of... more » magicwaffle: I had a co-worker who would giggle uncontrollably if you walked up to him and just said, "boobies." Every. Single. Time. more » BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): Wow. The Poetry Police sound like a lot of fun to be around. I'll call them up to go out right after I snake my drain and get my colonoscopy. more » mbprice: Tell you what. The next time someone tries to tell you how you should be enjoying your poetry, tell them they can go fuck themselves with their long f... more » hughman: so now you're part of the Teehee Party movement. more » Mr.Gawn: Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchits On a lurgid bee That mordiously hath bitled out Its earted jurtles... more » LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman: Worst poetry reading EVER was at a wedding I went to. My friend, the bride, read the following to her new husband: "Sometimes he's sweet And sometime... more » Miss_Teacher: In the past 10 years that I've been teaching teenagers I've noticed that girls are being extremely aggressive physically towards boys and when it esca... more » seedypete: In theory a "men's rights" group is probably not a bad idea. In practice I have never in my life seen or heard of one that wasn't populated entirely b... more » Ariadne27: This idea that society sides with abused women is a complete myth. My mother was in an abusive relationship with my father, and during their recent d... more » -
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"Let The Laughers Stand Up!": Scenes From The World's Most Annoying Poetry Reading
What is it about poetry that brings out the worst in people? More » -
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Should Feminism Be "About Equality For Males?"
Cathy Young defends men's rights groups in Reason, and her article's subhead reads, "Feminism should be about equality for males, too." So should it? More » -
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New Yorker: Women's Representation Is Not Enough
In this week's New Yorker, Ariel Levy complains that feminism has turned into "identity politics," focusing on getting women in positions of power but not on what they should do when they get there. More » -
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Three Feminists On Dirty Words, Pop Culture, And The Language Of Choice
Yesterday the Planned Parenthood NYC Action Fund brought together Jessica Valenti of Feministing, Lynn Harris of Broadsheet, and longtime reproductive rights activist and writer Gloria Feldt to discuss everything from feminist pop culture to whether "feminism" is a dirty word.
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Three Ways To Not Solve Sexism, By Former Portfolio Editor
In Saturday's NY Times, former Portfolio editor Joanne Lipman attempted to critique the stalling of feminism in America. The result was so ham-handed and contradictory, it read like a tutorial on How Not to Talk About Sexism.
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Complaining About Sexism Makes You A "Ranty-Pants"
Well, not really, but Janice Turner of the Times of London is asking readers to submit examples of sexism. She says that women are encouraged to ignore such examples — or risk looking like "a strident old ranty-pants." More » -
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What Makes a Presidency Feminist-Friendly?
The White House's new Council on Women and Girls is designed to ensure that government programs do enough to aid women. Between this and the Lily Ledbetter act signing, is the Obama Administration embracing feminism? More » -
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Is Margaret Atwood A Feminist? Are You?
The Guardian is worried that "if Margaret Atwood isn't sure she is a feminist anymore," feminists might be "an endangered species." But Atwood's take on the f-word is more complicated than the Guardian implies — and so is ours. More » -
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Feminists Don't Hate Marriage: In Defense Of Elizabeth Gilbert
In a short but nasty Wall Street Journal editorial, Charlotte Hays opines that Eat Pray Love writer Elizabeth Gilbert has deserted her feminist readers by getting married — thus revealing that the feminist = man-hater canard will basically never die. More » -
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Lessons From Sarah Palin Are Lessons We Don't Need
Writing in The American Prospect, Feministing's Courtney E. Martin writes that Sarah Palin can teach us three important lessons about feminism. I disagree. More » -
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Is Kate Winslet Killing Feminist Pop Culture? And Other Non Sequiturs
Broadsheet pointed us to Lynn Crosbie's bizarro piece in the Globe and Mail, which alleges that Kate Winslet and Holly Peterson's The Manny signal the death of feminism in pop culture. More » -
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Listicles
What do you think of this list of Top 10 Feminist Icons...From A Male? And can we get rid of the arbitrary "top ten" designation? How about just "10...amongst many." [Nerve] -
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Rebels With A Cause: How Women Put James Dean To Shame
British blog The F Word reviews Maria Raha's Hellions: Pop Culture's Rebel Women, and concludes that "loner" white guys aren't the only rebels — and they may not be rebels at all. More » -
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Lesbianism: Sexual Orientation, Political Choice — Or Both?
Should all feminists be lesbians? It's a very second-wave idea, but according to Julie Bindel in the Guardian, its time has come again. More »
