Best Practice, Feminist Practice

This is a cross-post of a guest post for Ashley at Small Strokes Fell Big Oaks
The theme of this series, Teaching Feminism, is near and dear to my heart. I recently graduated with my master’s in English, and I spent much of last and this year researching feminist pedagogy to write my master’s thesis. In [...]

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Tough Love’s Steve Ward on Victim Blaming

I watch VH1 sometimes, I admit it.  And this season, since my favorite contender got kicked off of Rock of Love Bus, I began watching Tough Love: 
Handsome, cocky and smart, Steven Ward is America’s maestro of love. His brutally honest approach to matchmaking is what has made him and his mother Joann Ward one of [...]

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Kyle Payne is back — and as big of a douche as ever

Ugh, he’s so sleazy.
Background: here, here, and here.
I’ll echo the many others who’ve already said it: Kyle Payne is a sexual predator (whether or not there’s a “pattern of abuse”), and he is not welcome in my feminist blogosphere (whether or not he is interested in being called a pro-/feminist blogger).  
And, for the record? [...]

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“Single-Sex Education”: I do not think this phrase means what you think it means

Remember how, a year ago, I wrote this big long rant about teachers in my state using “single-sex” or “sex-segregated” education when they really meant “gender-based” education?  If so, great, I’m back on it.  If not, here’s that post.
Basically, my main contention was that single-sex education and gender-based education are NOT THE SAME THING.  Just because [...]

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Asshole Music, Part Deux

My mp3 player’s been dead for the last two weeks, so I’ve had a lot of chances to listen to the radio lately — unfortunately.  I listen to one of the very, very few radio stations I can stand in this area: KTCL 93.3.  The rest of the stations in this ridiculous state are “soft [...]

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