I've written my post but, ironically considering the day, have emailed the draft to my husband to see what he thinks before I post it. While he reads it, I wanted to give shoutouts to the BAS / IWD posts I've read so far that I found of particular interest.
• The When Fangirls Attack gals both have terrific posts up - Kalinara explains why she hates token female characters, and Ragnell explores her adolescent (and adult) power fantasies.
• Natalie Bennett, whose Friday Femmes Fatales posts are must-reading (here's the most recent one) and who started the Carnival of the Feminists ball rolling (the latest CotF is posted today), has a good international perspective of the day.
• Twisty has another good international link roundup.
• Susie Madrak discusses the situation for women and girls in Ethiopia.
• Ms K at au lait also has an African perspective on the day.
• Chris Clarke has a good one on the glaring omission of women in a famous text from 1967 about the environment.
• Mel at Chandrasutra has a great idea for a Women's Day "'meme' of four." If I have time and energy tonight I'll try to tackle that one, which requires a bit of thought.
• Jill at Feministe is link-happy as well, with a terrific overview post. Alas, she'll be taking a break from blogging for a bit, and will be greatly missed.
• Amanda at Pandagon rallies the troops.
• Elise relates the story of two Hasidim who refused to understand that their flight wasn't Mechitza Airlines (and who were, unfortunately, backed up by the carrier in question).
• Pseudo-Adrienne repros NOW's message.
• Rana has another terrific essay up, this time about how All Our Bodies Belong To Us.
• Tresy notes that IWD is invisible to the mainstream US media. It's also invisible to most male progressive bloggers, as I mention below.
• Lastly, Hugo Schwyzer comes through in spades, with a long dissertation on his own anti-sexist work.
Update: I'm rather disappointed that, as of 8 PM today, my Bloglines subs show no other men on my blogroll writing about International Women's Day. A few have paid tribute to Dana Reeve, and a few others have talked about the South Dakota anti-abortion crazies in power, but nothing about IWD and no blogging against sexism whatsoever. As was pointed out a number of times amongst comics bloggers during the recent sexual harassment episode, it's not up to women to change their behavior, it's up to men to recognize that this happens and talk about it and try to prevent future occurrences through changed behavior and raising their own consciousness. Otherwise, even something like International Women's Day gets marginalized, and I'm pretty darn tired of the majority of the world's population being made constantly invisible like this.
• The When Fangirls Attack gals both have terrific posts up - Kalinara explains why she hates token female characters, and Ragnell explores her adolescent (and adult) power fantasies.
• Natalie Bennett, whose Friday Femmes Fatales posts are must-reading (here's the most recent one) and who started the Carnival of the Feminists ball rolling (the latest CotF is posted today), has a good international perspective of the day.
• Twisty has another good international link roundup.
• Susie Madrak discusses the situation for women and girls in Ethiopia.
• Ms K at au lait also has an African perspective on the day.
• Chris Clarke has a good one on the glaring omission of women in a famous text from 1967 about the environment.
• Mel at Chandrasutra has a great idea for a Women's Day "'meme' of four." If I have time and energy tonight I'll try to tackle that one, which requires a bit of thought.
• Jill at Feministe is link-happy as well, with a terrific overview post. Alas, she'll be taking a break from blogging for a bit, and will be greatly missed.
• Amanda at Pandagon rallies the troops.
• Elise relates the story of two Hasidim who refused to understand that their flight wasn't Mechitza Airlines (and who were, unfortunately, backed up by the carrier in question).
• Pseudo-Adrienne repros NOW's message.
• Rana has another terrific essay up, this time about how All Our Bodies Belong To Us.
• Tresy notes that IWD is invisible to the mainstream US media. It's also invisible to most male progressive bloggers, as I mention below.
• Lastly, Hugo Schwyzer comes through in spades, with a long dissertation on his own anti-sexist work.
Update: I'm rather disappointed that, as of 8 PM today, my Bloglines subs show no other men on my blogroll writing about International Women's Day. A few have paid tribute to Dana Reeve, and a few others have talked about the South Dakota anti-abortion crazies in power, but nothing about IWD and no blogging against sexism whatsoever. As was pointed out a number of times amongst comics bloggers during the recent sexual harassment episode, it's not up to women to change their behavior, it's up to men to recognize that this happens and talk about it and try to prevent future occurrences through changed behavior and raising their own consciousness. Otherwise, even something like International Women's Day gets marginalized, and I'm pretty darn tired of the majority of the world's population being made constantly invisible like this.
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