Headlines of the Week (Or Whatever)

When Men on the Left Refuse to See Their Sexism

White Hot Rage

On Thin Privilege

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance

The Thing Is, I’m Undocumented

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After reading all about Miley Cyrus tweaking at the VMAs, I have some things to say about Robin Thicke. First, I originally thought he was Justin Timberlake. No really. The video for Blurred Lines kept coming on Mexican TV at Aranda's while I was at work, and I remembering thinking that JT had kinda let himself go because marriage, haha. Anyway, I later learned he was Alan Thicke's kid and was married and had children of his own and then I was just really confused. Now I'm hearing all about Miley and this is what I'm thinking about. Last, sometime soon, I'm gonna karaoke Blurred Lines at the Railhead but sing the feminist parody version and it will be awesome. Anyway.


A Feminist Parody of Blurred Lines:



Dear son, don’t let Robin Thicke be a lesson to you

The Blurred Lines Of Real Manhood (Robin Thicke, I’m Looking In Your Direction)

Robin Thicke Calls ‘Blurred Lines’ a ‘Feminist Movement Within Itself’

A Feminist Takedown of Robin Thicke, And Anyone Who Thinks There's Something "Blurry" About Sexism

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This week, I'm thinking about privilege. Okay well really, I'm always thinking about privilege but this week I'm linking about privilege. Haha.
 
On Privilege

The Distress of the Privileged

THE ETHICS OF LIVING JIM CROW: An Autobiographical Sketch

Whites Believe They Are Victims of Racism More Often Than Blacks: In Zero Sum Game, "Reverse Racism" Seen as Bigger Problem than Anti-Black Racism

Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

Facts are Cool: In Support of Straight White Male

What We Aren’t Talking About When We Talk About ‘White Privilege’

A Horrible Irony.

A fellow Oklahoman gamer posted a video on Google+ today. I'm not going to link to it here, because I'm not going to send any traffic that way. Anyway, he commented that:

"If you want some good ideas on how to tackle the problem of harassment in online gaming, this is a great place to start. We need to change things as a group if we want it to stop. We need help from game developers and platform developers as well."

This is, in general, a sentiment with which I heartily agree. However...

McDonald's Sexism Fail

I take my three children (one girl, two boys) to McDonald's about twice a month, usually while on road trips to visit family. (I get them apple slices, 2% milk, and all white meat chicken nuggets, but nutrition isn't the topic at hand.) When I go to McDonald's, (It doesn't matter if it's a corporate or franchise McDonald's, or in what city), I'm invariably asked the same question:

"Would you like a girl toy or boy toy?"