But, if feminism becomes a politics of identity, it can safely be drained of ideology. Identity politics isn’t much concerned with abstract ideals, like justice. It’s a version of the old spoils system: align yourself with other members of a group—Irish, Italian, women, or whatever—and try to get a bigger slice of the resources that are being allocated. If a demand for revolution is tamed into a simple insistence on representation, then one woman is as good as another. You could have, in a sense, feminism without feminists. You could have, for example, Leslie Sanchez or Sarah Palin.
I don't know what to do with this job sometimes.
Boss wrote an email vaguely suggesting incompetence on my part.
Slightly annoyed, I wrote back explaining my competence in no uncertain terms.
Boss sends back: “You go girl!”
Another day, another Jew giving the rest of us a bad name.
Dude, you are not helping with wildly unfounded bandying about of the word “terrorist.” Let’s not even talk about your health care fuckery.
The thing that kills me about the Stupak Amendment
(besides all the obvious things like, you know, equal access to basic health care procedures)
is that those schmucks in the House decided to push it through on a weekend, like we wouldn’t notice what could be the most significant undermining of Roe v. Wade since A. Dracula Scalia was appointed to the Supreme Court.
We are now overwhelmingly a country that supports access to abortion. To slip this past on a day off is to hope the populace is apathetic to its leaders’ moralizing bullshit.
Especially since these “special weekend sessions” are intended to show how damn hard those poor, six-digit salaried civil servants are working to pass watered down damn-near-useless legislation. Workin’ hard, sellin’ away women’s rights at the first convenient moment.
Just passed a hummer with a windshield detail reading “hit that.” It’s like a perfect storm of misogyny and commercial bullying!
Oh yeah, my show opened btdubs. Holler if you’re interested in seeing some downtown NY theater in the next 2 weeks.
yossarianjumps:
itoodislikeit:
Oh god no… boss has a bedbug infestation. I work in an elevator-sized office. I am, as they say, fucked.
Are you sure you aren’t having trouble distinguishing between reality and last night’s episode of 30 Rock?
This is a good question… I have been dealing with a lot of robots, and I do wear glasses and make jokes…
Oh god no… boss has a bedbug infestation. I work in an elevator-sized office. I am, as they say, fucked.
via forward.com
“The Forward’s survey was drawn from the most recent public records or, if that information wasn’t available, from the organization itself. The median salary for men was $287,702, while the median for women was $175,211, amounting to a ratio of 61 cents to one dollar. By contrast, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, in a report last September, found that women working in full-time, year-round positions nationwide earned 77 cents for every dollar a man earned.”
Another great victory for minorities in Judaism. SIKE.
My hometown rabbi still wouldn’t marry me, btdubs.
Earlier studies found that once someone made a negative comment about a person who wasn’t there, the conversation would get meaner unless someone immediately defended the target. Otherwise, among both adults and teenagers, the insults would keep coming because there was so much social pressure to agree with the others.
