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MUSIC: iTunes Genius: sexist or lazy, or both?
Posted by Amy Steele in Music, Women/ feminism on July 6, 2010
When I use Genius, I’ve noticed that if I pick a female artist such as Beth Orton, genius picks mostly female artists: Aimee Mann, Natalie Merchant, Joni Mitchell, Liz Phair, Belly, Cat Power, Dido and then strangely throws in two songs by Beck [both from Sea Change] and one by Crowded House.
Never Said by Liz Phair gets me:
Belly, Breeders, Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, Sleater-Kinney, Neko Case, Beth Orton, Sinead O’Connor [repeats of same artists
Male artists: R.E.M., Bob Mould, Paul Westerberg
Co-ed: The Pixies
Brianstorm by Arctic Monkeys and get: Klaxons, Bloc Party, Vampire Weekend, Oasis, Franz Ferdinand [and repeats of many of these artists]. Bands with females? Two. The Gossip and MGMT.
You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Do as You’re Told) by The White Stripes [granted Meg White plays drums]:
Out of 24 songs, ONE with female Gold Lion by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Bands included: Arctic Monkeys, Pixies, Vampire Weekend, Smashing Pumpkins, Spoon, Modest Mouse, Beck and Cake
Just so you don’t think my iTunes is limited, I reviewed music and used to have a plethora of CDs.
I have 750 artist folders. So I have between 8000 and 10,000 songs.
I think iTunes is as lazy as the iPod shuffle which tends to re-play songs I’ve already heard, maybe two songs prior. The shuffle is like listening to a Top 40 radio station.
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A Vagina By Any Other Name
Posted by Amy Steele in Women/ feminism on July 5, 2010
by Georgia O'Keefe
So I started this list after hearing vajay-jay [started on the silly show Grey’s Anatomy being used one too many times, particularly by Oprah who you’d THINK would be okay using the word VAGINA after so many years covering varied topics on her show]. Of course to be fair, I should also compile one for PENIS, yet I can only think of cock. So watch for that one to be added to my site soon.
Thanks to the people of Twitter for helping with this list [to be updated if anyone sends me anything that’s not included]:
down there [for the extremely prudish]
va-jay-jay [Grey’s Anatomy— this might be the most immature and annoying term ever yet so many people use it]
and NY Times wrote an article about word
peek-a-choo [Chelsea Lately]
kasloplous [Chelsea Lately]
boy howdy [Glee— This might have been the episode, combined with the ridiculous pregnancy plot lines. safe sex anyone,? where I realized that Glee is not the show for me.]
pussy
love nest
coochie
sweet spot
sweet peach
snatch
punany/ punani [Kama Sutra]
na-na [He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut]
hoo-hoo
cunt [the most offensive]
little cunny [Anne Sexton]
mound of her legs [Anne Sexton]
cockpocket [somewhat offensive, yet admittedly clever & I’m told it’s morphed from the hot pocket jingle]
whispering eye [Role Models]
woo-woo [Christina Aguillera]
the very talented and entertaining Romany Malco [40 Year-Old Virgin, Weeds] provided me with the following [and I try not to picture him whispering, “I’m really hot for your shefood”]:
queef harp
fun holster
hairy Bermuda
catchers mitt
slamwich
lumber yard
wood chipper
shefood
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Poetry Month: Feminine Unity by Tonja Dudley Bagwell
Posted by Amy Steele in Women/ feminism on April 19, 2010
lovely poem with strong message
See Tonja’s site Feminine Unity– to “unite feminine spirits around the world”
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Choice Quote: Ellen Page
Posted by Amy Steele in Women/ feminism on April 8, 2010
on Juno:
Because she kept the baby everybody said the film was against abortion. But if she’d had an abortion everybody would have been like, “Oh my God”. I am a feminist and I am totally pro-choice, but what’s funny is when you say that people assume that you are pro-abortion. I don’t love abortion but I want women to be able to choose and I don’t want white dudes in an office being able to make laws on things like this. I mean what are we going to do – go back to clothes hangers?
see full interview in The Guardian
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Choice Quotes: Men
Posted by Amy Steele in Women/ feminism on April 5, 2010
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
-Sylvia Plath
It seems that men can get out of a relationship without even a goodbye: but apparently women have to either get married or learn something.
–Carrie Bradshaw on “Sex and the City”
If I slept only with men who knew my full name, if I signed up for dance classes, if I ate more fruit—even then there was no guarantee I’d get what I wanted, or if I got it, that it would be what I really wanted after all.
–From A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That by Lisa Glatt
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
–Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), “Comment”
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Women’s History Month: focus on 1970s [guess I’ll only get to the 80s]
Posted by Amy Steele in Women/ feminism on March 31, 2010
1970—writer Joyce Carol Oates receives National Book Award for the novel Them.
1970—jockey Diana Crump is the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby.
1971—singer Carole King releases Tapestry. More than 10 million copies are sold in the United States.
1971—feminist writers Gloria Steinem and Letty Cottin Pogrebin become two of the founding editors of Ms. magazine.
1972—novelist/ short-story writer Eudora Welty wins Pulitzer Prize for The Optimist’s Daughter.
1972—Congress passes the Equal Rights Amendment [ERA].
1972—Title IX of the Education Amendments added to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
1974—tennis player Chris Evert wins the French Open and Wimbledon.
1977—actress Meryl Streep appears in her first film, Julia.
1977—Debbi Fields founds Mrs. Fields Cookies, Inc.
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Women’s History Month: focus on 1960s
Posted by Amy Steele in Women/ feminism on March 30, 2010
Joan Baez
1960—folk singer Joan Baez releases her first album.
1960—Harper Lee writes the Pulitzer-prize winning To Kill a Mockingbird.
1960—the first BIRTH CONTROL PILL gets U.S. approval for sale.
1961—Eunice Kennedy Shriver helps establish a presidential committee on mental retardation. She later founds the Special Olympics.
1962—Ship of Fools by novelist/short-story writer Katherine-Anne Porter gets published.
Rita Moreno in West Side Story
1962—Rita Moreno wins an Academy Award for her role as Anita in West Side Story.
She is one of few people to win an Oscar, Tony, Grammy, Emmy and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1962—First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy redecorates the White House with period furniture, wallpaper, art and china. She initiates a congressional bill to ensure that White House furnishings become the Smithsonian Institution’s property.
1963—feminist writer Betty Friedan writes The Feminine Mystique.
1963—The French Chef with Julia Child first airs on public television. The next year, Mastering the Art of French Cooking is published.
1963—President Kennedy signs the Equal Pay Act of 1963 [women earned 59 cents to every dollar men earned, today women earn ONLY 77 cents to every dollar men earn].
1964—more than forty neighbors witness the murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens and everyone ignores her cries for help.
1965—choreographer Twyla Tharp begins her career at Hunter College.
1966—television show That Girl premieres starring actress/feminist Marlo Thomas.
men try to take away Katherine Switzer's number during 1967 Boston Marathon
1967—Katherine Switzer secretly enters and successfully completes the Boston Marathon. She entered with the initial “K” to get in.
1968—Slouching Toward Bethelem, a collection of essays by Joan Didion, is published.
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Women’s History Month: focus on Mary McCarthy and Virgina Woolf
Posted by Amy Steele in Women/ feminism on March 29, 2010
Mary McCarthy [1912-1989]
–grew up as an orphan in Minnesota
–graduated from Vassar College in 1933
–worked as drama and literary critic
–married to Edmund Wilson, literary critic, from 1938-1946 [like many women’s college graduates/feminists she kept her own name]
–married four times
–best known for The Group [1966]– the postgrad experience of a group of Vassar women–and The Birds of America [1970]–Americans abroad, based on McCarthy’s life in Paris in the sixties
Virginia Woolf [1882–1941]
–born in London
–daughter of model Julia Prinsep Stephen and editor, critic and biographer Sir Leslie Stephen
–home schooled by her father
–when Virginia was 13, her mother died which led to Virginia’s nervous breakdowns
–her father died in 1904 and Virginia was institutionalized briefly
— in 1912 she married writer Leonard Woolf
–her novels:
The Voyage Out [1915]
Night and Day [1919]
Jacob’s Room [1922]
Mrs. Dalloway [1925]
To the Lighthouse [1927]
Orlando [1928]
The Waves [1931]
The Years [1937]
Between the Acts [1941]
–Virginia Woolf drowned herself March 28, 1941
my two favorite books by Virgina Woolf:
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.
from A Room of One’s Own (1929)
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Women’s History Month: focus on 1950s
Posted by Amy Steele in Women/ feminism on March 28, 2010
1950—Althea Gibson is first black woman to play in the U.S. Open. She later wins Wimbledon.
1950—writer Hisaye Yamamoto publishes “The Legend of Miss Sasagawara” based on her experience as a Japanese-American placed in a detention camp during WWII.
1951—I Love Lucy starring Lucille Ball first airs.
1951—artist Bette Nesmith Graham [mother of Mike Nesmith of The Monkees] invents Mistake Out in her kitchen. She sells it to Gillette for $47 million and it is renamed Liquid Paper.
1952—flutist Doriot Anthony Dwyer becomes the first woman appointed to a principal chair in any major orchestra—Boston Symphony Orchestra.
1952—Southern writer Flannery O’Connor, known best for her short stories, publishes her first novel, Wise Blood.
1952—Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Mantell cofound Caedmon Records and record spoken voices of famous poets and writers like Dylan Thomas.
1953—Mary Steichen Calderone becomes medical director of Planned Parenthood.
1955—opera singer Beverly Sills joins New York City Opera.
1955—actress Shirley MacLaine appears in her first film, The Trouble with Harry.
1956—singer Tina Turner begins her career.
1957—country-western singer and songwriter Patsy Cline sings “Walking After Midnight” on the television talent show, Talent Scouts.
1958—chef Joyce Chen opens a Chinese restaurant in Cambridge, Mass. She also writes cook books and hosts a cooking show on public television. She popularized Mandarin Chinese food in the U.S.
1959—writer Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun makes its Broadway debut.
SOURCE: Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America
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Women’s History Month: focus on 1940s
Posted by Amy Steele in Women/ feminism on March 25, 2010
Hattie McDaniel with Maureen O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
1940– Dale Messick becomes first female cartoonist with Brenda Starr, Reporter
1940– Hattie McDaniel is first African-American woman to win an Academy Award for Gone with the Wind
1941–DC. Comics introduces Wonder Woman, who along with Superman and Batman becomes part of DC Comics “Big Three”
Wonder Woman
1942–Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performs Rodeo by choreographer Agnes de Mille
1943–The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is published
1944–actress Angela Lansbury earns her first Oscar nomination for Gaslight
1945—the first twelve women enter Harvard Medical School [not entertainment but pretty monumental]
1945–Joan Crawford wins a Best Actress Oscar for Mildred Pierce
Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce
1946–Estee Lauder sells face creams that she creates herself, commencing her cosmetics empire
1947–actress Jessica Tandy appears on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire and wins a Tony for her acting
1947–Celia “the Queen of Salsa Music” Cruz records in Venezuela for the first time
1948–Stella Adler, a proponent of Method acting, starts teaching principles of acting, character and analysis of scripts
1949–Yoshiko Uchida publishes her first of 28 childrens books, The Dancing Kettle and Other Japanese Folk Tales
1949–Actress, writer and producers brings The Goldbergs, the first family sitcom, to television
source:
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America
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