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Submitted by FrigginSushi on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 4:12pm

So I watched The Undefeated and The Game Change, which I thought were veryopposite of each other, almost like two extremes.

In The Undefeated, there was very much of that traditional "documentary film" feel to it. It felt too clean and organized, maybe a bit unsincere to what truely happened. When it got the the part where the narrators discussed the downfall of Palin in US opinions, the reasoned that it was because she was conservative. She got so much flack because she's conservative.

The Game Change, on the other hand, was a bit to gritty and far fetched. Not to say that I don't believe Palin had a easy time during campain, but The Game Change really made her out to be completly--dare I say-- hysteric. In this movie, one of the characters (maybe it was the Woody Harrelson) addresses Palin's antagonists as throwing out "totally sexist attacks", pointing to Palin's gender as the "problem" than people are seeing with her.

Honestly, I can't say that I disagree with The Game Change in pointing out that Gender was part of the reason she got a lot of hate from the Americans. I do think it was a factor, but I think The Game Change addressed it to an extreme. I sort of doubt that the campaign manager was surfing youtube to find a hot female politician to run with McCain to win. Both stories, though, seem very unrealistic to me.

April Fools

Submitted by jrlewis on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 12:35pm

“We’re pleased to tell you that you have been accepted for coursework in Poetry,”

Wrote the fates.

This is my thread to worship, workshop, and workship

Because writers are sailors too.

Words are a way

Away.

Eyass

A suffocating chick,

Weighing sixty cents in nickels,

Breaks shell into the yellow sea, Iowa

City is an island, grounding for the tree

Supporting the nest

Supporting me.

And you professor,

Are you parent or predator?

Its stories all the way down.

jrlewis's blog

Palin Mantrafesto

Submitted by hwink on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 10:08am

Critical Feminist Studies

Sorry about lateness of posting! This is the Palin/bell hooks mantrafesto done by myself, mbeale, and sara.gladwin

Feminists are made, not born.
Making feminism is a revolutionary act.
Revolutions of mindset can be violent.
Violence is an upheaval to oppression.

Mantrafesto Part II

Submitted by w0m_n on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 9:30am

-"The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies with a vision of social change which challenges class elitism."
-Class elitism is a mechanism of power that divides women.
-Dividing women can perpetuate the patriarchy.

w0m_n's blog

Setting the Stage: Congratulations, you're a male feminist

Submitted by rayj on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 8:22am

Tumblr discussion about congratulating men for being feminist, and the problems/possibilities in that.

Original post HERE

Some Responses HERE

Irony of reblogging HERE

Modern Family and Masculinity as Homophobia

Submitted by sara.gladwin on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 5:08pm

The article "Masculintity as Homophia" reminded me several times of the show Modern Family. In particular, there is a scene in one of the episodes of the show in which one of the husbands, Phil, is shopping with his father-in-law's wife Gloria, when he runs into an old college rival. His college rivel as always been better then him in everything and Phil decides to use Gloria as a representation of how succesful he has been in his life. His rival, seeing Phil's extremely hot Columbian "wife," then admits that Phil has indeed done well for himself. I tried to search youtube for a clip of this but came up short- but I thought this scene embodied so well some of Kimmal's points about masculinty. Kimmal states that "Women become a kind of currency that men use to improve their ranking on the masculine social scale" (61). Gloria becomes Phil's way of proving his masculinity to his highschool rival. I thought it was interesting that Phil's desperation to not be "unmasked" as a masculine failure was so prevalent that he went to the extremes of using Gloria as the symbol of ultimate success.

sara.gladwin's blog

Tales of Passion

Submitted by ramgarali on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 12:21pm

Yesterday's discussion about passion encouraged me to share this video with you. I have provided a link to a brief biography of the speaker and the link to the video in case any of you are interested.

http://www.ted.com/speakers/isabel_allende.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/isabel_allende_tells_tales_of_passion.html

ramgarali's blog

Children’s Books and Graphic Novels: One Genre, Different Names

Submitted by ramgarali on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 12:10pm

Girls Watch Porn

Submitted by rayj on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:03pm

I think this demands some critical attention, and it's not perfect, I mean, it's a CollegeHumor video so, it's not going to pe perfect, but I also think it gets at our discussion of women and the shame of watching porn, that women would be more reluctant to discuss their porn watching habits with others, and kind of capitalizes on the shock value situation. Why shoudl it be so shocking to have a hegemonically pretty girl yelling about how much she likes anal fisting or POV?