ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 06 2007 | women, gender, education
Awesome article. I always envied the girls whose parents had enough money to send them to an all-girls school. I can't count the number of times teachers had to stop the class to deal with immature asshole boys in my school--and it was ALWAYS boys--all the way up through high school.
Quoted: I have the answer: a congestion-charge-style tax on parents who insist on polluting girls' education with their testosterone-fuelled little monsters. The money could go toward ...
- 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.
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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 - Aug 26 2008 | election, women, politics
Quoted: She made it further than any other woman, but the barriers for a woman becoming president remain high.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 24 2008 | election, women, obama
I hope he means it -- saying you're a better proponent of equal pay than McCain isn't saying very much.
Quoted: Democrat Barack Obama, determined to win over female voters, talked Monday about the women who helped shape his life in arguing that he would be a better proponent of equal pay than Republican John McCain.
- ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 17 2008 | Tudor history, British history, women, books
Alison Weir is a top notch historian. I read this book and am now reading The Children of Henry VIII and plan to read her other books on the Tudor period ... she has several, which you can find on this page.
Quoted: Amazon.com: Six Wives of Henry VIII: Alison Weir: Books
ShareViewed: 3 Times - ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 16 2008 | news, Spain, women
At least some countries get it.
Quoted: By now, no one should be surprised by Zapatero's commitment to gender equality. In his first term, he passed a sweeping law against domestic violence, legalized gay marriage, eased divorce laws, and required political parties to practice gender parity. He also appointed equal numbers of men and women to cabinet positions, and named María Teresa Fernández de la Vega as his deputy prime minister.
This time around, the prime minister, who was re-elected on March 9, appointed more women than men to his cabinet. He also created a new Equality Ministry, charged with ensuring fairness in the workplace and continuing the fight against domestic violence.ShareViewed: 11 Times - ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 19 2008 | trends, funny, women
This is pretty hilarious no matter who you are.
Quoted: The Urbane Tomboy
ShareViewed: 30 Times - ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 05 2008 | Encarta, women
Check out my update to the election guide -- it's very timely!
How much do I love having free reign over this page?ShareViewed: 22 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: 55 Times - ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 25 2008 | video, Tina Fey, Hillary, women, awesome
click to playTina Fey, just say the word and my first born is yours. Your bad assery transcends time and space.
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You must be Ms Kruse's friend before you can comment on this Fave.what, and girls have never ruined school for boys? do you know how often I wanted to just show up in sweatpants or gym shorts so I could be comfortable and just focus on learning? but those clothes provide zero erection camouflage so it can't be done. I mean sure, when I wore jeans I got to tuck it up and under my belt with the added bonus of it feeling good, but I think we all should recognize that boys don't exactly have it easy either.
That being said I wouldn't have wanted to go to an all boys school.
Um, aren't you missing your remedial math class right now?
something like that. I am sorry that men have made things so hard for womyn throughout herstory.
i agree with Melissa's comment. i went to decent public schools in Kansas, but the assholes who caused headaches for all of us, were ALWAYS boys. although, i had some really good guy friends who weren't assholes, and that was a positive...plus can't go wrong with the lovely "soccer hotties" eye-candy ;)
Yeah, for every well-behaved, mature male student there are about 15 subhuman jerks who will try to pull the barrettes out of your hair in gym class--NINTH GRADE gym class.
*Accented Discovery Channel voiceover voice*
Ahh yes, the attempted flirtations of the socially retarded adolescent male. These overtures are often overly aggressive and misinterpreted by the female species. Though these techniques seldom work, they still provide an invaluable learning experience for our young male. But for now he'll return to his classmates and exaggerate the success of his latest venture.
baorao: Ha ha, true, true
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