Posted by fairgreenlady on 2006-02-18 08:21:26
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I had an Ah-HA moment when one of my professors, a noted feminist studies writer/researcher, asked me to "man the table" at a tournament. I replied, "I'll be happy to WATCH the table, and I'll even PERSON the table, but there is no possible way I can MAN the table." We all enjoyed that for a good laugh.
Posted by Marina-Trilobyte on 2005-08-01 13:10:59
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...for a prime example of this, see the letters to the editor section second to last issue with amy sedaris on the cover in which the library of some alaskan college's feminist studies department (politely) rejected their free subscription to bust. they pretty much got that same exact response, with more snark. .
I'll defend Bust on this one. That letter struck me as very whiny and stuck in the Second Wave, "That's not funny!" vision of feminism.
as for the coke ring thing, i'd say that's a little irresponsible. i'm not particularly offended, as i own some vintage coke spoon earrings via my mom (purely for fashion reasons), but i wouldn't exactly go touting their awesomeness as an actually coke sniffing tool in a public forum like a magazine.
That nicely sums up how I view it. I am just old enough to remember when coke spoons were a fashion statement and the "It's illegal!" argument doesn't hold a lot of weight with me.
But still, it's cocaine. We're a little too far removed from when it was considered a normal recreational drug and a little too close for it to be interestingly vintage reference.
Posted by slowgraffiti220 on 2005-08-01 12:30:02
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Maybe we should have a letter-writing campaign so that Bust knows that this isn't what we need right now.
yeah, but like bust would give a shit. it seems to me that anytime someone disagrees with them or *gasp* actually asks them to reconsider whether something they wrote was feminist, they just write some snarky reply basically saying, "you can't tell me what is and isn't feminist because i'm a feminist, and if i say it is, it is!!" for a prime example of this, see the letters to the editor section second to last issue with amy sedaris on the cover in which the library of some alaskan college's feminist studies department (politely) rejected their free subscription to bust. they pretty much got that same exact response, with more snark. another example, in an article with the editor, she said that people who wrote in mad about a review they ran of a gun shaped dildo needed to lighten up. ummm....i can think of several HUGE reasons just, off the top of my head, as to why a feminist shouldn't lighten up about that.
in some issue with an interview with le tigre they asked the band, "is it hard living up to people's expectations of you as a feminist band?" and then used that question as a platform to get le tigre to say that readers of their magazine who didn't eat meat for feminist reasons and had problems with feminist magazines running recipes with meat were, more or less, stupid. when the band asked their interviewer why some readers would feel this way, she responded with the most inane reason ever, "well, we get all these letters. i guess some of them have a problem with the hormones in meat making girls hit puberty sooner." i don't eat meat for feminist reasons and i've never even heard that. i mean, jeez, go out and read a freaking book before insulting your readers...the feminist argument behind vegetarianism is pretty well covered in numerous print sources easily available to the public.
as for the coke ring thing, i'd say that's a little irresponsible. i'm not particularly offended, as i own some vintage coke spoon earrings via my mom (purely for fashion reasons), but i wouldn't exactly go touting their awesomeness as an actually coke sniffing tool in a public forum like a magazine. and as for that lovely comment on "having his abortion," all i can really say is WTF. aside from it's absolute stupidity, it completely ignores the use of abortion as forced birth control in other parts of the world. it's not just not funny, it's like the fartherest opposite corner of funny that you can be in.
bust just really frosts my ass sometimes. i still read it though, because i like fashion magazines and at least they're somewhat better than cosmo.
