ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 25 2008 | video games, feminism, womenThe first feminist friendly video game! What a well written article too. I might actually like playing this game.
ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 05 2008 | feminism, women, election, palin
This sums up some of my feelings pretty well. And, just as an aside, isn't it a little bit strange that we haven't heard anyone refer to Palin as 'angry' yet? Whenever women are in the spotlight getting seriously fired up about anything they are always referred to as angry. Not so with Palin precisely for the reasons this blog states -- she negates any power she does have in order to seem unintimidating and kowtows to a boys-club-approved brand of "feminism" that isn't feminism at all.
Quoted: Why does this particular pitbull in lipstick infuriate — and scare us — so viscerally? Why does her very existence make us feel — and act — so ugly? New York Times columnist Judith Warner calls Palin's nomination a "thoroughgoing humiliation for America’s women," because "Palin’s not intimidating, and makes it clear that she’s subordinate to a great man." Palin, who obviously is incredibly ambitious, masks that ambition behind her PTA placard and "folksy" talk. ... What's infuriating, and perhaps rage-inducing, about Palin, is that she has always embodied that perfectly pleasing female archetype, playing by the boys' game with her big guns and moose-murdering, and that she keeps being rewarded for it.
ShareViewed: 6 Times- ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 04 2008 | news, Palin, feminism, women, McCain, election
Wow. Hands down the best article yet on the Palin-as-puppet/anti-feminist angle. Perfectly fair and well articulated. Leave it to Steinem.
Quoted: Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that Barack Obama's still does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, "Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs."
ShareViewed: 7 Times - ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 03 2008 | women, feminism, Encarta, quizzes
It's Women's History Month! Take my Famous Feminists Quiz.
I managed to commission 3 feminist friendly articles on Encarta for March, including this one. Just doing what I can in my little corner of the world. Just remember ladies, we're not there yet, so don't be complacent!ShareViewed: 56 Times - ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 25 2007 | women, names, feminism, equality
Quoted: In some prison cultures, inmates are given numbers and their names are taken from them. One purpose of this practice is to strip away a sense of importance and humanity from the inmates. To the Lucy Stone League, the challenge is to persuade the country (U.S.) that the tradition of women giving up their names is equally damning.
ShareViewed: 12 Times - ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 14 2007 | feminism, women
Cool site. Where has it been all my life?
ShareViewed: 26 Times - ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 25 2006 | feminism, books
I want to read this book after seeing Ariel Levy on Colbert Report. She's awesome.
Quoted: Levy cleverly leads us to explore the role models women aspire to emulate. We are not pursuing the confident, self-determined, powerful, free ideal the women’s ...
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You must be Ms Kruse's friend before you can comment on this Fave.That was an interesting article. There's a video game developer convention in San Fran that might be worth looking into as well (DICE).
Sounds more like an academic article than an invitation to relax in front of a TV and play a mindless video game (whatever the archetypes underlying it)!
Sheesh. Portal is a cool game, but this psychoanalysis leaves me cold.
How come?
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