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Here’s this week’s open thread for discussion and our regular round-up of some of the articles and blogs we’ve noticed over the last week or so but not had time to post about.
If you have a link or comment that doesn’t fit anywhere else and would like to share it, feel free to drop it in the comments here.
- New Yorker Boycotted For Lack of Female Writers (Jezebel)
- Middle-aged actresses are Hollywood’s new hot properties (The Providence Journal)
- Women Laughing Alone With Salad (The Hairpin)
- The Takeback (Blog: “meditations on masculinity, politics and culture”)
- Women Directors Improve Corporate Performance, but Remain Underrepresented (Social Funds: Sustainability Investment News)
- Women in London’s economy – Update 2010 (GLA Economics)
- Filipina Feminists, Firebrands and Freedom Fighters (Ms. Magazine blog)
- Joan Smith: How about telling men, not women, to stay indoors? (The Independent)
- Twitter plea missing girl Serena Beakhurst found (following criticism of lack of media coverage of the case) (BBC News and Voice Online)
- Myth-Making and the “We Can Do It!” Poster (Sociological Images)
- Hundreds pregnant in UK despite contraceptive implant (France24)
- Why Jim Needs to Remain Huck Finn’s “Nigger” (ColorLines)
- Kanye West and his sexy, dead bitches in “Monster” video (A B O U T – F A C E)
- Curiouser And Curiouser. Or the Media Bias About Gender (ECHIDNE of the snakes)
- Regrets of a stay-at-home mom (Salon)
- Education offers exciting future for ambitious Afghan girls (British Council blog)
- Black Feminist Book Club: When and Where I Enter (What Tami Said)
- Kenya: No Easy Path for Disabled Women with Political Dreams (IPS News)
- Name discrimination: the formal case to answer – and update, here (Sex Matters)
- Nicki Minaj: 1st Female Platinum Rapper in 8 Years (Feministing)
- Rants of a Gamer Girl: Playstation Is My Least Favorite Console (Feminist Fatale)
- Why I Didn’t Delete Tiger Beatdown (Tiger Beatdown)
- Beyond the Panel: An interview with Dorothy Gambrell of Cat and Girl (BitchMedia)
- Salon’s Broadsheet Sadly Shuttered (Jezebel)
- My first day as an abortion doula (Radical Doula)
- The Conservative Party and ‘discredited feminist myths’ (LabourList)
- Grooming and our ignoble tradition of racialising crime (The Guardian Comment Is Free)
- Sperm and oocyte donors’ experiences of anonymous donation and subsequent contact with their donor offspring (Human Reproduction journal, abstract)
- Two Episcopal Lesbian Leaders ‘Marry’ in Boston Cathedral (Catholic Online)
- Tears as chemical signals - smell of female tears affects sexual behaviour of men (Discover Magazine blog) – perhaps the most succinct response to this story that I’ve seen is at Feministing: “For Serious?” News of the Day: Women’s tears are a boner-killer, while Ms Magazine has a lengthier analysis
- Perception of Our Heartbeat Influences Our Body Image (Science Daily)
- Vogue Paris thinks it’s chic to sexualize young girls (A B O U T – F A C E)
- Appeal- The Suffragettes’ Tree (Feminist Memory)
- MSF Treats Victims of Mass Rape on New Year’s Day in Democratic Republic of Congo (Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders)
- Black Fridays: What’s Race Got to do With it? (Yoruba Girl Dancing)
- Disability benefit cuts ‘could breach law’ (BBC News)
- Joanna Fateman (of Le Tigre) reviews a biography of The Feminine Mystique (bookforum)
- Female Protagonists: A “Risk” Worth Taking (The Border House)
- Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords shot in Arizona, was on Palin’s infamous “target” map (Updated) (Boing Boing)
- White girls seen as ‘easy meat’ by Pakistani rapists, says Jack Straw (The Guardian)
- Rise in rape incidents in Delhi due to low conviction and poor policing say experts (womensphere)
- Domestic violence kills one Russian woman an hour says report (womensphere)
- Inexplicable Edits on Sarah Palin’s Facebook Page (Obama London)
And finally… for this week’s closing video, I’ve chosen I’m Gonna Have My Cake (And Eat It Too) by Teena Marie from her 1979 debut album Wild and Peaceful.