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Comment on FREE CECE: Trans Women of Color and the Criminal Punishment System by A. Grace Steig

A. Grace Steig — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:19:45 +0000

The inherent injustice of the prison system to trans people and people of color – and all marginalized individuals – is such a crucial point. What a well articulated piece, and thank you for the links connecting readers to action and information.

Comment on Pop, Plastic, and The Lana del Rey Effect by Austin Hoops

Austin Hoops — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:35:40 +0000

Thx for information.

Comment on M.I.A.’s Bad Girls in the Middle East by badgirl

badgirl — Mon, 14 May 2012 03:21:33 +0000

yo it’s still a good song tho so shut up son nahmean

Comment on Nussbaum on Butler by Louise

Louise — Sun, 13 May 2012 04:18:38 +0000

Thank God for Nussbaum. Butler’s useless theorizing is so ridiculously convoluted and so incredibly devoid of any meaningful politics and policy advocacy that it is a relief to hear an academic voice that has the courage to say what so many others are thinking.

Comment on The Last Straw: DKE Sponsors Hate Speech on Yale’s Old Campus by Flashmobs and Failing Fast « Crystal C. Yan

Flashmobs and Failing Fast « Crystal C. Yan — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:46:38 +0000

[...] victims. It’s even more disturbing when other students, like Yale’s DKE, think it’s okay to joke about sexual violence. Perpetrators at Wesleyan are dismissed for a few semesters but can return and graduate, while [...]

Comment on Rula Quawas, Arab feminist and intellectual, discusses institutionalized sexism at the University of Jordan by khatema kilani

khatema kilani — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:45:58 +0000

Amazing answers as usual

Comment on “New Girl,” Old Story: The Gender Politics of Fox’s Newest Hit by Katy

Katy — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:00:23 +0000

I hope you have found the show worthy of your hopefulness, as I have, and I’m typically a very skeptical, jaded viewer. It’s the only thing worth watching on Fox and rises above the stereotyping on all other successful sit-coms (ironically using male writers).

Comment on Martyrdom Usurped: Chechnya's Black Widows by “More Islamic than the Islamists”: Claiming the Female Body for a Nation

“More Islamic than the Islamists”: Claiming the Female Body for a Nation — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:01:01 +0000

[...] as Black Widows. These women’s motivations, intentions and actions are sometimes seen as both as symbol of rebellion but also subservience to a male-dominated insurgency, which may be in itself a sexist way to look at women’s [...]

Comment on Against Abuse of Trans People, Against Prisons by Ben Miller

Ben Miller — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:25:20 +0000

I wonder if you aren’t forcing the perfect to be the enemy of the good. There’s no doubt that the prison system needs an overhaul, but that ain’t happening anytime soon. And you may be right that segregating transgender inmates will reinforce undesirable conceptions of gender and sexuality, but it’s hard not to believe that this reform will save some transgender people from injury and abuse–both by removing them from violent non-transgender inmates and by specially training the new facilities’ guards. It should also publicize the message that transgender people deserve protection, and more broadly that prison violence is a serious problem. I couldn’t imagine giving up those tangible advantages in the service of a distant ideal of total gender freedom. If there were some chance of achieving a more philosophically palatable, radical alternative, it might make sense to fight for that instead of touting this reform. But no such alternative is even remotely conceivable at the moment. So isn’t the moral choice, for now, to protect real victims as best we can?