October 2011
235 posts
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fyeahwomensstudieswolverine-dea asked: I feel weird submitting an Ask to this blog, since I have been a butthead about it before. I was just jealous because corgis are cuter than wolverines. Regarding the idea of a kind of "beginner's guide" to feminism, the book "50 Key Concepts in Gender Studies" by Jane Pilcher and Imelda Wheledan is a really excellent resource.
the-capm asked: The top book in Ms. Magazine's Top 100 Feminist Non-Fiction Countdown is Feminism is For Everybody by bell hooks. The whole list is a great resource.
babiesinatrenchcoat asked: I don't know if this counts, but a great book for learning about the history of feminism is No Turning Back: The History Of Feminism and the Future Of Women by Estelle Freedman.
doctorbee asked: I feel like there needs to be something like a "Beginner's Guide to Feminism" that I can just direct people to when they start asking questions. Do you know of anything like that anywhere?
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My fiancé who is currently in communications and women’s studies at Augusta state university, has been slowly opening my eyes to the truths and myths of feminism, sexism and women’s rights. I found your site via a meme generator and I’m loving everything I read. I can’t wait till my fiancé gets a chance to check out your site. I’ll be sharing with all my friends....
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leejamlee asked: Having a difficult time wording this, but how can we explain to someone that rape is not about sex?
doctorbee asked: Trying to figure out how to respond to a friend's facebook post: "Maybe the problem with women is that we don't listen. Men try to say nice things all the time and somehow all we choose to hear are the negative comments." I don't want to be rude, but the post is just absurd! Tips, CFC?
essscaaapaaades asked: (Continued) All three women are very traditional women, so I think it's a security blanket in case the man leaves. I decided long ago that I would take my husband's name as a part of my name, but keep my last name, (and Ms instead of Mrs). I would become Ms. Mia Kay (husband's l.n.) (my l.n.). I also strongly feel that my name be a part of any children's names; as a child, I...
essscaaapaaades asked: This is a little late, but I have some valuable points on the whole name thing. My mother and her sister did not take the full last name of their spouses (they both hyphenated, until a year or so ago when my mom dropped my father's last name entirely). Her other sister never married. I feel like their avoidance of their SO's last name was not so much feminism, though, as some weird fear...
notyrsweetheart asked: CFC, I have a conservative male friend who is pro-life and anti-abortion, but says he thinks if he were a female he'd be pro-choice because it's not fair. What the fuck. I'm so frustrated. What even do I do with this.
mclaughlane asked: I love you, Critical Feminist Corgi. Just sayin'.
c-oloursandcarousels asked: So a Men's Rights Activists Group formed at my university, and your blog inspired me to write an argument essay in my English 102 class against all the "female privileges" they claim exist. My professor loved my draft and we had a feminist-bonding moment, but of course during peer reviews this guy totally misunderstood my points and accused me of not focusing my essay enough on the...
dappertomcat asked: In my high school (I don't remember the rule earlier than this), boys had to remove hats and lower hoods, especially at the pledge of allegiance...but girls didn't have to. It seemed odd to me. Also, boys rarely got in trouble for lowering their pants and showing boxers, but girls got so much shit for what they wore...
colbum asked: we can't wear hats at my high school, but whenever students ask why, they say it's because of 'safety.' yeah i don't know either.
ribskulled asked: Since you're all on the topic, at my school we're not allowed to wear hats because with the security cameras we have, you can't identify someone if they're head is covered by a hat, or something like that.
jonnycravat asked: In my high school, none of the students are allowed to wear hats. Faculty (to an extent), visitors, and deliverypeople are allowed to, though.
lakrymosa-deactivated20120422 asked: At the public high school I attended we could wear hats.
dandelionchild asked: The rule of 'no hats in school' is (I think, please correct me if I'm wrong) a holdover and continuation of men removing hats out of respect, or when you enter a building, etc. It's considered rude when you don't remove your hat in those cases. My brother and I were never allowed to wear hats at the dinner table because she considered it disrespectful!
behindtheboathouse asked: In my high school, no one (students and strangers alike) was allowed to wear hats because of respect. They said that it's common courtesy to remove your hat when you enter a building.
This happened today in class and I want to know what you think about it. We began talking about stereotypes and prejudices, we were talking about toys and how some ppl would like their kids to grow up with ‘generic’ toys, things that don’t incline at either sex. We were questioning the fact of who determines that playing with, for example, tea sets was limited to girls and legos to guys. All the...
megageeko asked: No, the weird part is that I'm fairly certain it only applies to females, because I've seen plenty of guys wearing hats without getting in trouble for it.
pennieblack asked: We could wear hats in high school -- hats and chewing gum were the two big things middle-schoolers looked forward.
easily-lost asked: I read the post about how people were deciding last names for their children. I would give my (hypothetical) kids the last name of whichever was first in the alphabet. That way they don't always get stuck last in line for everything :P. On the outfit thing, my school's policy was no cleavage/illegal references/skirts shorter than your hands at rest. I got yelled at all the time for...
makkine asked: I think the hat thing is for visibility. So students can see the whiteboard? Still doesn't make much sense, though, since by that logic you could just ban tall students and be done with it.
absiste asked: My school lets us wear hats, and it's the only school I know of in the area that does. Given, the general clothing rules there seem to be "just wear more then underwear" most days. I think the dress code is just really relaxed in this case.
kitty-fantastico asked: We don't have uniform but he have strict enforced dress code at my school. If anyone catches you out of dress code you get a detention. It's rather difficult to follow because no one can agree on anything. One year we weren't allowed to wear sweaters with logos (like big Hollister or Aero letters) on the fronts of them. Currently, both boys and girls have to wear polo shirts (any...
milkshakespear3 asked: My old school let you wear hats
abigailxhobbs asked: I've never heard of a school that allows you to wear hats, or head scarves (unless for religious reasons). The rule book at my school said it was something about people using things like hats and scarves to signal their gang, or something
madness4everyone asked: I was kind of a tomboy when I was a kid, but skirts were mandatory in my boarding school so was forced to wear them for 4 years straight. When my mom finally told me she was letting me go to a public school I burned them all and got grounded for a month on account of it. To this day she has no idea my grandma not only helped me, but also took pictures. So not sorry.
mahdmwozelle asked: I'm still wearing a school uniform and I HATE IT. The girls have a heavy synthetic knee-length skirt (day in, day out) and it's terrible in Jamaica humidity/heat and STILL bad when it gets chilly (the breeze manages to get its way up in there and stay). I don't mind the whole idea of uniforms as long as they make some sense given the circumstances! >:T
luumpb-deactivated20111215 asked: HOLD THE PHONE there ARE schools that let you wear hats?
megageeko asked: My school doesn't have a uniform, but it does have a (mostly limited to females) dress code, basic stuff like can't have a skirt be above the knees, no low necklines, no visible bra straps. The most confusing one is that we're not allowed to wear hats.
These are my school uniforms... we wear tights and...
From CFC: thank you for the funny pic!!!!
don’t you wish you could wear pants in the winter though? i would freeze to death here in Canada if they ever pulled that bullshit with me.
whoreian-gray-deactivated201112 asked: My school used to have uniforms, but they were the same for boys and girls - polo shirts and navy blue pants. Girls could wear skirts too, and I'm sure boys could if any ever expressed an interest, as my school tries hard to be open. There's a girls' Catholic school near mine though and they have to wear skirts year round. The thing about that is that I live in Minnesota, and it...
charlotteness asked: On the last names thing, my parents decided to each keep their last names, and to give any girls my mother's last name, and any boys my father's last name. I have my mother's, and it confuses people a bit, but overall I think it's a great system. A friend of mine's family does the same thing, but alternated the last names of their children, instead of basing it on gender.
It's interesting because I love the discussions I...
doctorbee asked: Hey CFC, I was wondering about the use of the asterisk after trans* in one of the asks you just answered. What is the significance of that?
elocuencia asked: i didn't think of it like that before.. (I'm a guy) but here, (Venezuela), all schools and high schools have uniforms, public and private. In 80 % of the schools girls have to wear either skirts or jumpers. I studied in an all sports school so the uniform was pants for boys and girls and that's fucked up too ( just because they do sports they have to wear pants).
inpurpleimstunning asked: I'm in high school where we have a strict dress code (white and blue shirts, white and blue pants, rules on both, etc) but not an actual uniform (which would be like, this particular shirt, these particular pants, etc) and people SAY that it equalizes people and eliminates class differences, but at least at a high school level it really doesn't. You can tell who has to money by...
ishouldbeallowedtothink asked: I would not have survived as long as I did in school without being able to wear pretty much what I liked. I had my hair bright colors and wore a cat ear headband on a daily basis. I was also bullied into leaving school and pursuing my GED. But, I attribute this not to the fact that we were not all dressed alike, but to the fact that kids are cruel based on differences. Uniform or not. I...
laughingfish asked: as a trans* person who spent all his life in schools with uniforms(most all schools in my country are like that), its a very distressing experience. I spent two years in a school that allowed "girls" to wear pants but otherwise, skirts, skirts, skirts. I wore a knee-length one with tall socks and it still sucked. and the female teachers, OBVIOUSLY, wore pants I remember fighting with the...
fornoesis asked: I grew up in a high income area, and we didn't have uniforms, but I currently teach in a severely impoverished inner-city school, and the students do have uniforms. I teach pre-k so I don't see a lot of sexualization/gender differences, but one aspect to the argument for dress codes in this kind of environment is some students cannot afford an array of clothes and the school uniform...
n4ncyb0y asked: my high school had pretty loose rules on uniform, people could wear trousers, skirts or leggings if they wanted to. Though the only skirt that guys could wear were kilts. Scottish schools are pretty nice uniform wise.
carvedpumpkin asked: We didn't have school uniforms in my high school, but rather a strict dress code focused on covering skin (despite high temperatures in my state) and modesty. Teachers said skin could be "distracting to other students." Instead of viewing the body as something shameful to be covered, I think it would be much more effective to teach self control and boundaries.
baronessbamf asked: On an added note; We used to have non-Uniforms days. You'd bring in a pound and it would go to charity However for two years we didn't have one, because some girls had decided to wear short skirts As I said to my Drama teacher; "That's fucking stupid, you can't punish the entire school because 4 girls wore something the Headmistress dislikes" but we did get...
ishouldbeallowedtothink asked: One time in HS I dressed up as a nurse for halloween. we were allowed to wear costumes. When I got in the security officer told me I had to go to the office because my dress was too short. (I was wearing opaque tights under it) I spent half the day there until the principal said I could go to class. Later I saw a girl much taller/thinner than I wearing the same dress with no tights. and the same...
thisisbitch asked: If I may just add my two cents :P I think nearly all schools here in Australia have uniforms and I see it as a very positive thing. I know at my school it was requested of the girls that they didn't wear skirts so short you could see their underwear (just sounds like common decency, right?) our principal was quite understanding. When I put pink streaks in my hair in year 9 it was...
outfoxedly asked: i think school uniforms are great. this is coming from a secondary/high school student who has to wear one and agrees it helps stop people feeling pressured to wear certain things. however, our all girls school has forbidden girls from wearing trousers. it can get to minus degrees in the winter and we're walking around in skirts and tights - it's RIDICULOUS and i think horribly unfair....
