Category Archives: feminism

Cargo, your lip gloss insults my intelligence

If you are not famil­iar with Sarah Hask­ins and her video series, “Tar­get Women,” you should be! She does a great job of hilar­i­ously expos­ing the absur­di­ties of adver­tis­ing that, well, tar­gets women. In the Sarah Hask­ins spirit, I have to share with you my unhap­pi­ness with this prod­uct, Cargo Clas­sic Lip Gloss. Ordi­nar­ily, I would …

August 23, 2009 – 7:40 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in feminism, miscellaneous | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

state control of abortion: funding, or failing to provide?

I am gen­uinely con­fused by this recent Fem­i­niste post, Michele Bach­mann: rad­i­cal pro-choice fem­i­nist? The author offers two pieces of infor­ma­tion that she seems to believe are con­tra­dic­tory. 1. A quote by Michele Bach­mann: “That’s why peo­ple need to con­tinue to go to the town halls, con­tinue to melt the phone lines of their lib­eral …

August 21, 2009 – 9:41 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in applied ethics, criticisms of feminism, ethics, feminism, health care, politics & political | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

feminism, abortion and universal health care

So, I’ve been warm­ing up on this blog for a while now, so I fig­ure it’s time to start link­ing to other blogs that I read. Today’s sub­ject is a post over at Fem­i­niste, “one of the old­est fem­i­nist blogs designed by and run by women from the ground up.” Just as back­ground, let me …

August 14, 2009 – 12:16 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in criticisms of feminism, feminism, health care, politics & political | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

parentism: an example

What is par­en­tism? Par­en­tism is a less dis­cussed cousin of racism, sex­ism and clas­sism. On my inter­pre­ta­tion, par­en­tism con­sists in dis­crim­i­nat­ing against peo­ple on account of their parental sta­tus, or in indi­vid­ual actions and atti­tudes or insti­tu­tional arrange­ments that favor per­sons of a par­tic­u­lar parental sta­tus unjustly. While surely there are cases wherein peo­ple are …

July 5, 2009 – 12:45 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in feminism, parenting, saw it in the news | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (5)