What do you get when you toss “Bikini Kill,” the ability to smize, and questionable social justice tactics? This week’s dispatches from ladyblogland!
Best thing I read all week: an oral history of the “Bikini Kill” EP. Spin
So this is an article from last year that was resurrected through reblogs all day yesterday on tumblr: The Good Men Project discusses gaslighting and how it has trained women to think they are crazy. The Good Men Project
Pretty frakking sweet: these teen girls made a generator that runs on pee. Bust
Tyra Banks has a smize app. It’s $1.99 and you need it. XOJane
The UN declared birth control a human right. And the ladyblogosphere didn’t really talk about it in any interesting ways because everyone totally agrees with this. But it’s pretty big news. The Gloss
Channing Tatum is incorrectly named the sexiest man alive. Who would you pick? XX FActor, Slate
Noted person-with-questionable-ethics Tracie of Jezebel posted the tweets of some racist teens and then contacted those kids’ schools to find out if they knew their students were racist. Which is really, really unethical. RacialiciousÂ
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I think it’s good she reported them to the school. It’s not like they did anything to hide their names, they just thought that online = not serious/not real. The sooner these kids learn that being racist is never ok, neither online nor offline, the better.
Hmn. I’m not quite sure what to think about the Jezebel/Twitter/school situation. Contacting the school seems inappropriate and dodgy ground (identity? Student confidentiality?) but publishing the Tweets? I don’t know, here – I think – those Tweets might even be enough for the people involved to be arrested for inciting racial hatred. Wouldn’t it have been better to discuss the presence of racial hatred on Twitter, with a mention of having reported offensive Tweets to the police, have achieved more than public shaming? Certainly thought provoking articles.
As for the UN and birth control, I’d be very interested to see how this plays out in the abortion debate. I.E. what constitutes human rights, etc.
OMG, you mean TracIE.
Channing Tatum is the blandest man alive. I’d pick, um, pretty much anyone else. He is so so so boring.
I get him confused with all the other blank-faced wonders out there (I don’t even know their names – Ryan Reynolds is one though.)
Yes! They ALL LOOK ALIKE!
Don’t wanna scare “middle America.” Whoever the hell they are.