Blog For Sex Education Day

Bloggers around the blogosphere bloged for the need of sex education.

Renegade has a list of links from people who have blogged on Blog For Sex Education Day.

Here are a few notable (of the many) blogs:

Axé:

I blogged for sex education by ranting and raving with my younger brother about the ridiculous experiences we have had, and faux logic we have heard, from Louisiana and a few other men. We do not know what they are really up to as we do not understand them, but our provisional theory is that patriarchy + guilt about sex not only ruins sex but interdicts the possibility of non-faux relationship…(Read More)

Jack Goff:

Bottom line is that sexual education that is truthful and contraception-oriented, with emphasis on testing and personal responsibility, coupled with a feminist understanding of consent, is the ONLY education for our children that assesses reality, and will minimize risk in sexually active people…(Read More)

Jim K:

Seems from their point of view, if you’re going to say something about gay people, you’ve got to say something ugly. You should talk about what a dirty and disease-ridden bunch of promiscuous child-molesters they all are, you should take every aspect of the negative stereotype and teach it as fact (is this what the term “gospel truth” means?) in the classroom. You should tell students that sexual orientation is a choice, and that gay people can change if they want to — oh, and be sure to include as many lurid details of sex practices as possible, especially if they can be made to sound disgusting…(Read More)

Essentialism and Gender Roles

The Wannabe Indian Punkster, over at Days in a Wannabe Punk’s Life, blogs about gender roles and essentialism:

Basically, the essentialist position on gender states that there are distinctively feminine and distinctively masculine traits that exist outside of social and cultural conditioning and because of such qualities being wired into our brains, we must irrevocably accept gender oppression simply as part of who we are as a species. This stance is outrageous, primarily because it offers little or no insight as to how women and men can work towards changing or improving the status quo or even human nature, come to think of it. This asinine line of reasoning has been used for thousands of years to perpetuate patriarchy as a universal system ‘rooted’ in human essence and it has also been used to corroborate sexism and discrimination against women be it financially, emotionally, politically, mentally or physically.

Pregnant Women + Discrimination = Hilarious (…For Fox News)

Tracey, over at the blog Unapologetically Female, posts a video clip of a sketch involving pregnant women and work from the Fox News 1/2 Hour News Hour and has this to say:

Because according to them, pregnancy discrimination is non-issue. Because their message is apparently that pregnant women should know better than to think they’re capable of doing their jobs or that they should be entitled to their state-mandated worker’s rights before, during, and after their pregnancies. That pregnant women don’t need to make a living. They should just shut up and smile and bask in the glow of the little miracle growing inside their bodies whether or not they are able to financially support it. And that those who actually speak up and demand their rights are loud, strident, baby-hating bitches. This garbage is on national television. Thanks a lot, Fox. You’ve sunk to a new low.

Pregnant Women + Discrimination = Hilarious (…For Fox News)

Tracey, over at the blog Unapologetically Female, posts a video clip of a sketch involving pregnant women and work from the Fox News 1/2 Hour News Hour and has this to say:

Because according to them, pregnancy discrimination is non-issue. Because their message is apparently that pregnant women should know better than to think they’re capable of doing their jobs or that they should be entitled to their state-mandated worker’s rights before, during, and after their pregnancies. That pregnant women don’t need to make a living. They should just shut up and smile and bask in the glow of the little miracle growing inside their bodies whether or not they are able to financially support it. And that those who actually speak up and demand their rights are loud, strident, baby-hating bitches. This garbage is on national television. Thanks a lot, Fox. You’ve sunk to a new low.

A Call to Leftist Movie Goers

AradhanaD, of the blog “Leftist” Looney Lunchbox, calls for movie review submissions:

I started “Leftist” movie reviews back in January, I would really like for it to be an aggregate of the best movie reviews in the blogosphere. The more contemporary the better!

I get a lot of hits here at LLL with the search terms “leftist movies”, so I figure there are enough people interested in this.

If you have blogged about a movie and would like to see it cross-posted at LMR, please email me…