I found this essay about a teacher's experience teaching in a predominantly African American school. However, the blogger posting the essay, Marty Nemko, says: "I've edited out a couple of unnecessarily snarky sentences, which are irrelevant to the issue." He also seems to imply as a disclaimer that the essay is overly angry or mildly racist. Hence, before reading the essay, I wanted to find the original version, so that I could see these "unnecessarily snarky sentences", as I suspect that this blogger Nemko is trying to mask the essay's overt racism. However, I can't seem to find the original version; I just keep finding a ton of blog and forum posts which just copy and paste or link to this Nemko post. Does anyone know where I might find the original? Here is the Nemko post:

http://martynemko.blogspot.com/2009/06/white-teacher-speaks-out-what-is-it.html

Also, I should note that mods (I think Yoder) have encouraged posts about race relations that don't directly address feminism, since the issues often intersect. Still, this post is admittedly absent of substance since I'm not offering any discussion of the article; but I'd rather find the original article than discuss some edited version.

Today I just experienced yet another reminder why I hate trying to be a feminine or a girly girl.

Pants shopping.

Men's pants come in the width of their waist in the actual inches and the length of their legs in actual inches.

Women's pants come in a number that means sweet fuck all because it changes depending on the style of pants you buy and the store you go to.

The size of pants that are currently on my ass are a size 7. The 7 at the store I went to, was too tight, so I picked up a 9. But the skirt from the very same store and the very same brand is a 5, it fits very nicely. The place three stores down I got another skirt that fits very relaxed on my hips, its loser than my pants, it's a 4. The other skirt I got is a 3. I have never worn a 3 in my entire fucking life. This 3 is the equivalent of a wal*mart 7.

I'm also a short woman, so its very difficult for me to find pants that are the correct in the waist, but match my leg length. Pants are almost always too fucking long. I have never in my entire existence have ever been able to buy a business outfit without having to have it tailored for my not all that rare height. Its like all the business dressy pants are made for tall skinny women. These stores always seem to have an abundance of tall skinny woman pants...

My man pant size is 6730, that means, my legs are 67 cm long and my waist is 30 cm wide (not around). It makes sense. Why has women's fashion completely failed to pick this up? Why the fuck aren't women's clothes standardized?

FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU~~~!!!

http://www.canow.org/canoworg/2009/07/factual-reporting-not-just-for-breakfast-anymore-.html

A press release about upcoming research entitled, "Promiscuous men more likely to rape" went out to journalists. The Telegraph in the UK turned this title into: "Women who dress provocatively more likely to be raped, claim scientists." In spite of the fact that the research did not demonstrate those things at all.

[chessdev]  we have a long way to go still...

The "second stimulus package" as they are calling it...

How feminist groups skewed the Obama stimulus plan towards women's jobs.
by Christina Hoff Sommers
06/29/2009, Volume 014, Issue 39

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A nice combination of new chaos and power structures enabling rape, in a culture that already deals poorly with it.

Also, I don't know who has been following this or not but there is currently some good debate about and for Evolutionary Psychology!!

First, Sharon Begley posts an article criticizing Evolutionary Psychology. Now, I'm not really its biggest fan, but she oversimplifies the arguments into essentialist excuses for "bad" behavior. Certainly, it gets misconstrued and used as such by the public at times, but is that REALLY the aim of Evolutionary Psychologists? Doubtful, in most cases. Her article is here:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/202789

"Why do we Rape, Kill, and Sleep Around?" has its good points, though.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sloan-wilson/evolutionary-psychology-a_b_220545.html

David Sloan explains, rebuffing some of her simplifications and offering good critique and defense of the field. This was my fave article and aspect of this ~war~ going on.

Gad Saad of Psychology Today writes a defense on EP:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/homo-consumericus/200906/the-never-ending-misconceptions-about-evolutionary-psychology


MORE MORE MORE:

http://www.cognitionandculture.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=471:evolutionary-psychology-under-attack&catid=29:dan&Itemid=34

This is great too:

http://edge.org/3rd_culture/bargh09/bargh09_index.html


I have been following this with great interest and tingly thighs

OMG :( anti_fem has had so much negativity so I just want to say ilu all !! Except kguy, but everyone mostly! When I say it I mean it because outside of anti_fem I pretty much have no friends guys

COMMENT AND I WILL TELL YOU WHAT I LOVE ABOUT YOU. If I don't know you well let's talk and i will then tell you what i love about you.


To make this on topic for the community:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/uog-sjf070209.php

"Sexist jokes favor the mental mechanisms that justify violence against women"

And

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/wfu-ra062609.php

"Rating attractiveness: Study finds consensus among men, not women"

IT IS HARD-WIRED IN MEN TO BE SHALLOW AND WOMEN TO SEE THE ~BEAUTY INSIDE~ OMG APPATOW FILMS ARE RIGHT!!


Happy 4th :*

I've been reading Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent over the past few days. It's the author's description of spending a lot of time in drag posing as a man, in order to find out more about what mens' lives are like. The author is a lesbian, not transgendered or a transvestite. I can't find her age, but I got the impression that she was in her 30s (it was probably mentioned at some point and I forgot).

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Skeptirapecrafty, you stupid fuck. Somebody tell me they got caps of at least some of that gloriousness. His last comment to me:

Fuck you, you fucking useless bitch. Don't you get it? You don't know shit about men. You want to end patriarchy but you're supporting it, right here, right now.

You support it by playing into this whole winner-loser dynamic. He gets attention and reward for hurting me, for making me feel small and powerless and making it impossible to communicate.

He gets to be the winner, I get to be the loser. And why? Why is it okay to hurt me like that? Why is okay to make me feel like the only place I'm safe is alone and away from the world?

Do you want me dead? Do you want to cut my tongue out? Is that what you want?

Fuck.

I was so wrong to come back here. I thought the time away it wold change, but as soon as I came back Hexie made sure everyone knew, and you all are playing the game again, trying to crush me down until I feel like death is the only option, making me like a pariah who has no place anywhere in the world.

And you think you're so fucking enlightened. Pieces of shit!

Confirmed: LOLCRAFTY



ETA: And... b&.
ETA2: And... un-b&?

BUT HE AIN'T MAN ENOUGH TO COME BACK

Poop. I'm bored.

Here's a blog that continuously updates a feminist 101 FAQ:

http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/faq-arent-feminists-just-sexists-towards-men/

Oh yeah, here's a thing on female comic fans and artists/writers complete with links to related stuff (I haven't read it all yet but it seems good and I actually got the above link from it because yes, I read through a lot of the wank on one of the linked posts):

http://eyeballman.com/blog/2009/06/13/keeping-up-appearances-as-a-female-fan/

From that same blog, I found this thing about homophobia with printers who refused to print some manga issue because of a few scenes had guys kissing (they considered them "disturbing"):

http://eyeballman.com/blog/2009/05/28/bigotry-as-bad-business/

One of the drawings of dudes kissing is on the page.

Why, just get an ugly friend!

Who the fuck approves this shit?

Jezebel write-up here.

So tell me dudes in the audience, think it would work for men, too? Should HPS start hiring himself out as the friend who makes other dudes look good? Should k_guy and puf tag-team and start their own rental business?

If a wife has surgery that prohibits her from having sex for 6 or more weeks, is the husband within his rights to ask for non penetrative sex?

Is this the wife's duty or something she would do out of sheer niceness? Assume she's not orgasming from it.

The Oakland A's have reached a $510,000 settlement with a male attorney suing them because he wasn't given a commemorative cap being handed out to women at an A's game on Mother's Day 2004.

Attorney Alfred G. Rava initiated a class-action lawsuit against the A's because, as a biological male, he was not given a plaid sun hat being handed out to the first 7,500 ladies arriving at the Mother's Day game.

...The whole context of the promotion make Mr. Rava's legal efforts even more deplorable. The Mother's Day promotion in question was the day of an A's-Twins contest that followed a 5k "Race For a Cure" event, a fundraiser for breast cancer research and support of breast cancer sufferers.

-from NBC

So which one of you guys is Rava?

( What about the Poor Oppressed Women of Iran? )

EDIT: TO HELP THE PROTESTERS go to iran.sharearchy.com which has comprehensive info on how to set up proxies (for both the techno-savvy and the less so), running TOR, Twittiquette, lists of support protests throughout the world, list of organisations to lobby, and the daily action - which, today, is to flashmob the embassies of Iran's biggest trading partners (China, Japan, Turkey, South Korea, and Italy). THINGS ARE GETTING CRITICAL SO PLEASE DO WHAT YOU CAN.

ETA2: You should also read this op-ed from an Iranian student.

Discuss with complete ontological examination.