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Craft Beer, Bing, Facebook Marketplace, More: Saturday Afternoon Buzz, August 19, 2017
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KPBS: 'Brewchive' To Document San Diego's Craft Beer Industry. "An online archive of documents related to the growth of San Diego's craft brewing industry is scheduled to be launched Friday at Cal State San Marcos…. The region has around 125 licensed brewers, with about one-third in the North County near the CSUSM campus, said school Library Dean Jennifer Fabbi. She said it makes sense for the school to document their history."
Ars Technica: "Bing is bigger than you think," Microsoft boasts, at 33% of US searches. " Via OnMSFT, Microsoft tweeted yesterday that it's 'bigger than you think' and provided some numbers that will probably be a surprise to many. The company claims that fully one-third of searches in the US are powered by Bing, either directly or through Yahoo or AOL (both of which provide results generated by Microsoft). Other strong markets include Taiwan, at 24 or 26 percent, and the UK, at either 23 or 25 percent (depending on which tweet you read)." Wow.
Search Engine Land: Facebook expands Marketplace categories and content in new push for growth. "Considered by some as a 'Craigslist clone' or potentially a 'Craigslist killer,' the social site originally positioned Marketplace as a peer-to-peer selling platform, responding to the organic creation of specialized buy-and-sell groups on the site. Now it's expanding participation to businesses and introducing content from a range of listings and data aggregators."
History for All the People, from the State Archives of North Carolina, is doing a series on how to interpret handwriting. "Since beginning my work with digitizing the General Assembly Session Records collection at the State Archives, I have had to do a bit of research on how to effectively interpret 18th century manuscripts in order create the appropriate metadata for the records and improve discoverability of these records in our digital collection. The following sections include a brief history of writing during this time period, characteristics of 17th and 18th century British-American handwriting, and some tips on deciphering the text found within these records. This is the first blog post of a series on how to read handwritten colonial documents."
CNET: Twitter to livestream the solar eclipse chase across the US. "Add Twitter as yet another way to catch Monday's total solar eclipse, the first to cross the US from coast to coast in nearly 100 years, if you somehow miss it in person. The social network is partnering with the Weather Channel to livestream the 'once-in-a-lifetime celestial event,' when the moon blocks out the sun for up to a few minutes."
American Library Association: Victory near in 20-year fight to provide public with CRS reports. "After nearly 20 years of advocacy by ALA, Congress has recently taken significant steps toward permanently assuring free public access to reports by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Taxpayers fund these reports but generally have not been able to read them. "
Chicago Tribune: Info on 1.8M Chicago voters was publicly accessible, but now removed from cloud service. "A file containing the names, addresses, dates of birth and other information about Chicago's 1.8 million registered voters was published online and publicly accessible for an unknown period of time, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners said Thursday."
RESEARCH & OPINION
Google Research Blog: Making Visible Watermarks More Effective. "It's standard practice to use watermarks on the assumption that they prevent consumers from accessing the clean images, ensuring there will be no unauthorized or unlicensed use. However, in 'On The Effectiveness Of Visible Watermarks' recently presented at the 2017 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2017), we show that a computer algorithm can get past this protection and remove watermarks automatically, giving users unobstructed access to the clean images the watermarks are intended to protect."
The Next Web: Your social media use is helping scientists monitor the world's ecosystems. "Smartphones and mobile internet connections have made it much easier for citizens to help gather scientific information. Examples of environmental monitoring apps include WilddogScan, Marine Debris Tracker, OakMapper and Journey North, which monitors the movements of Monarch butterflies. Meanwhile, social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Flickr host vast amounts of information. While not posted explicitly for environmental monitoring, social media posts from a place like the Great Barrier Reef can contain useful information about the health (or otherwise) of the environment there."
EFF: Fighting Neo-Nazis and the Future of Free Expression. "All fair-minded people must stand against the hateful violence and aggression that seems to be growing across our country. But we must also recognize that on the Internet, any tactic used now to silence neo-Nazis will soon be used against others, including people whose opinions we agree with. Those on the left face calls to characterize the Black Lives Matter movement as a hate group. In the Civil Rights Era cases that formed the basis of today's protections of freedom of speech, the NAACP's voice was the one attacked. Protecting free speech is not something we do because we agree with all of the speech that gets protected. We do it because we believe that no one—not the government and not private commercial enterprises—should decide who gets to speak and who doesn't."
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Washington Post: Now you can see what Donald Trump sees every time he opens Twitter. "Users of Twitter will understand…that it can be tricky to know what someone else sees when he or she fires up the application. Everyone follows a different group of people, and that colors the information they receive. To that end, we've created @trumps_feed, an account that checks whom Trump follows every five minutes and then retweets any new tweets from them over that period. The net result is a replication of what Trump would see on those occasions that he switches over from the Mentions tab." I think this is fascinating because you can see what's driving a person's thinking and reactions (to a greater or lesser extent, of course). I would love to see a tool like this for all world leaders on Twitter. Good afternoon, Internet…
Eclipse Photography, Internment Camps, New Zealand Marae, More: Saturday Buzz, August 19, 2017
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Q: Rename colnames according to data.frame I have several data.frames df1, df2, df3, ... .
df1 <- data.frame(var1 = c("a", "b", "c"),
                  var2 = c("a", "b", "c"),
                  var3 = c("a", "b", "c"),
                  var4 = c("a", "b", "c"))
df2 <- data.frame(var1 = c("a", "b", "c"),
                  var2 = c("a", "b", "c"),
                  var3 = c("a", "b", "c"),
                  var4 = c("a", "b", "c"))
df3 <- data.frame(var1 = c("a", "b", "c"),
                  var2 = c("a", "b", "c"),
                  var3 = c("a", "b", "c"),
                  var4 = c("a", "b", "c"))
df4 <- data.frame(var1 = c("a", "b", "c"),
                  var2 = c("a", "b", "c"),
                  var3 = c("a", "b", "c"),
                  var4 = c("a", "b", "c"))

And I have a data.frame rename_vars which tells mich which variables in which data.frame should be renamed.
rename_vars <- data.frame(df = c("df1", "df1", "df3"),
var = c("var1", "var3", "var1"),
rename_to = c("var1x", "var3y", "var1z"))

   df  var rename_to
1 df1 var1     var1x
2 df1 var3     var3y
3 df2 var1     var1z

For example, in df1 the variable var1 should be renamed into var1x and var3 should be called var3x. In data.frame df2 variable var1 should be called var1z and so forth.
But how can I automate this process of renaming variables in different data.frames according to rename_vars?
Thanks for help!

A: We split the 'rename_vars' data based on the 'df' column then loop over the list with map2 on the values from the names of the list (mget) and the 'lst1', and change the column names with rename_at.  It is better to keep it in a list, but if we need to change the global individual objects, use list2env after naming the list ('out') with the object names
library(dplyr)
library(purrr)
lst1 <- split(rename_vars[-1], rename_vars$df)
out <- map2(mget(names(lst1)), lst1, ~ {
       nm1 <- .y[[1]]
       nm2 <- .y[[2]]
       .x %>%
         rename_at(vars(nm1), ~ nm2)})
list2env(out, .GlobalEnv)

-output
df1
#  var1x var2 var3y var4
#1     a    a     a    a
#2     b    b     b    b
#3     c    c     c    c

df3
#  var1z var2 var3 var4
#1     a    a    a    a
#2     b    b    b    b
#3     c    c    c    c

Or another option is !!! with rename
library(tibble)
lst1 <- split(as.list(deframe(rename_vars[3:2])), rename_vars$df)
list2env(map2(mget(names(lst1)), lst1, ~ .x %>%
            rename(!!! .y)), .GlobalEnv)

Or using base R with a for loop and assign
for(i in seq_len(nrow(rename_vars))) {
   tmp1 <- get(rename_vars$df[i])
   i1 <- match(rename_vars$var[i], names(tmp1))
   names(tmp1)[i1] <- rename_vars$rename_to[i]
   assign(rename_vars$df[i], tmp1)
   }

A: setnames from data.table
library('data.table')
for (dt in unique(rename_vars$df) ) {
  df_rows <- (rename_vars$df == dt) # get row indices matching data frame name
  old <- rename_vars$var[df_rows] # old names
  new <- rename_vars$rename_to[df_rows] # new names
  setDT(get(dt)) # convert to data table by reference
  setnames(get(dt), old, new) # set names by reference
}

Output:
names(df1)
# [1] "var1x" "var2"  "var3y" "var4"
names(df2)
# [1] "var1" "var2" "var3" "var4"
names(df3)
# [1] "var1z" "var2"  "var3"  "var4"

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Q: deleting entries with JPA and subqueries I just wrote an sql query :
DELETE FROM basisgegevens.gm_persoonburgstaat pbs
WHERE (pbs.ingangsdatum, pbs.id_persoon) in (
  SELECT pbs2.ingangsdatum, pbs2.id_persoon
  FROM basisgegevens.gm_persoonburgstaat pbs2
  WHERE pbs2.ingangsdatum = pbs.ingangsdatum
  AND pbs2.id_persoon = :persoonID
  AND pbs2.id_persoonburgerlijkestaat > pbs.id_persoonburgerlijkestaat);

I need to rewrite it to JPQL, but am getting stuck with the subquery refrencing the outer query.
public class PersoonBurgerlijkeStaatEntity {
@Column(name = "id_persoonburgerlijkestaat"
private Long identifier;
private Date ingangsdatum;
@ManyToOne
@JoinColumn(name = "id_persoon", referencedColumnName = "id_persoon", nullable = false)
private PersoonEntity persoon;

}
The persoon entity has an identifier
Can someone help me rewrite this?
Thanks

A: Not sure about this but give a try.
DELETE FROM persoonburgstaat person where (person.ingangsdatum, person identifier) in
    (select p.ingangsdatum, p.identifier from persoonburgstaat p
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Trayon White DC City Council
The hypocrisy of 'Trayon and the Jews'
written by Guest Contributor Ken Reid April 24, 2018
Had a Republican said what this DC Councilmember said, he or she would be ridden out on a rail
In the 11th month of my first year as a Loudoun Supervisor, I said a local group of atheists, who had made a big do for three previous Christmases about the creche being on the Loudoun Courthouse lawn, were behaving "like a bunch of terrorists."
My comments, first reported in the Washington Times in November 2012, soon went viral, thanks also to me making the fatal mistake of being interviewed on Channel 4. The segment even aired on the Leftist "The Young Turks" and the Huffington Post.
Although I apologized on air and said it was a "poor choice of words," (Probably meant "extremist" but "terrorist" came out of my mouth and into print,) atheists from around the nation came down on me, leaving threatening voice mails and comments on my Facebook page. Local Democrats also made hay about it.
I removed myself from lighting the menorah at the Town of Leesburg's annual tree lighting event and was never invited back by the mayor (a Democrat). A local councilmember condemned my remarks, too.
At a subsequent board of supervisors meeting, I had to withstand an hour of verbal rebuke by atheists and Democrats who demanded my resignation. I was not censured by our all-GOP board, but our pseudo Republican chairman, Scott York, spent the next month marginalizing and ridiculing me on the dais whenever he could. His top aide was an atheist and disliked me, so York also yanked my chairmanship of a Joint Schools Committee.
Thankfully, the faith community came to my defense, but my fellow synagogue members shunned me and the rabbi offered no solace whatsoever. I soon left that congregation.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called me to "discuss." My aide resigned to take another job the next month. My name was forever in the Google hits and it hurt me when I applied for jobs.
I finally resurrected myself and was only asked once about it in 2016 when I ran for Council.
Flash forward to this past month with one DC Councilmember Trayon White, a Democrat and African American, who made the outlandish remark that the Rothschild banking family, who are Jewish, control the weather. He said in a video: "Y'all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation…that's a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful."
Jewish groups and rabbis stepped in, but instead of demanding a resignation or censure (he did apologize for the remarks), they decided to give White an "education." He was invited to a Passover seder and was given a tour of the U.S Holocaust museum with a local female rabbi as the guide.
There, his aide asked inane questions about whether the Warsaw ghetto was "like a gated community." "More like a prison," the rabbi said. He saw a photo from mid 30s Nazi Germany with Storm Troopers surrounding a Jewish woman and asked if they were "protecting her." The rabbi said "they were marching her" (parading her around in ridicule, no doubt).
Then, "The Washington Post" discovered he used campaign funds to contribute to a Lewis Farrakhan speech in Chicago, where the aging Nation of Islam leader gave among his most anti-Semitic tirades of his career.
Only then, did Jewish groups pounce. It took a week before the liberal Jewish Community Relations Council of DC, which arranged for the Holocaust museum tour for White, and American Jewish Committee (which is decidedly more neocon) to ask for the Council to reprimand him.
Three members of the all-Democrat DC City Council, one Jewish, announced they would bring him up for censure. But when the vote was taken April 23, only these three voted for rebuke and it died.
Council President Phil Mendelson, who is Jewish, defended his vote saying: "The contribution is under investigation, and the time to react is when we understand or get the conclusion of that investigation, which I hope is quickly. But I do recognize the inappropriateness of supporting anti-Semitic organizations."
Inappropriate? It's more than that — it is despicable.
Council member Elissa Silverman (I-At Large), who has been critical of Farrakhan's local influence, and is Jewish, was so accommodating to White, it made my stomach ill. The Post reported: "She doesn't think a reprimand would be warranted because other lawmakers who misused constituent service funds weren't reprimanded."
In his defense, Martin, 34, did not grow up in the 1970s-90s era when the Holocaust was all over the news. He was but nine when the Museum was established. Also, anti-Semitism and anti-Israel views are much higher in the black community, especially in urban areas.
However, he is an adult and politician and you'd think he would at least get an ounce of the rebuke and criticism I got in 2012. But there is a double standard when it comes to Democrats and minority Democrats at that.
When a Republican, like me, uses the "terrorist" word to describe just one group of atheists, we get accused of saying we feel that way about ALL such folks and lose our chairmanships of committees. Even if we apologize profusely, we face much stiffer consequences and rebuke from the liberal media. Even our own Republicans jump on us.
Recall the numerous GOP leaders and candidates who asked Trump to get out of the 2016 race when his remarks about women and their vaginas or the 2007 resignation of Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott for making favorable comments about one-time segregationist Strom Thurmond.
What's even more unbelievable about the Tryon White matter is the total lack of attention from the national media, including conservative media and DC's other newspaper, "The Washington Times."
Angering me even more is the coddling White got from the local Jewish community and the failure of Jewish councilmembers to put aside partisanship and censure him. Even the Republican Jewish Coalition, which condemned a GOP House candidate, Arthur Jones for his anti-Semitic comments but has said nothing about White. Did the Anti-Defamation League arrange for a chit-chat with White like they did with me regarding the creche?
It's dismaying that American Jews will get dystopic about Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Charlottesville, but won't say "boo" about the Nation of Islam and their sympathizers who helped organize the recent anti-Trump "women's march" in DC.
There are explanations for all of this, which I hope to address in a future TBE column as we observe, next month, the 70th anniversary of Israel's creation.
The hypocrisy of 'Trayon and the Jews' was last modified: April 24th, 2018 by Guest Contributor Ken Reid
Trayon White and the Rothchilds
Guest Contributor Ken Reid
Ken Reid served 10 years in elected office as a Loudoun County supervisor and Leesburg Town Councilmember. He works as a technical writer and newsletter publisher in Norfolk. His new book is available: "The Six Secrets to Winning Any Local Election - -And Navigating Elected Office Once You Win!" available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble Google Play and iTunes.

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The nearly three-minute video has taken social media by a storm and has been the subject of late night talk shows. It amassed more than 2.6 million views on YouTube alone.
"A 7,000-year-old civilisation has turned into a bed sheet," a Twitter user said.
The authenticity of the images has been disputed with some arguing that the photograph showing the pair naked appears to be exceptionally bright even though the video showed them scaling the pyramid at night.


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Tag Archives: Janet Mock
Amy Schumer Feels Pretty Because She Is*.
By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in Beauty, Body Image, Movies	¶ Tagged Amy Schumer, Chloe Reeson, cultural appropriation, Gabourey Sidebe, I Feel Pretty, Inside Amy Schumer, Janet Mock, Liz Carr, Lizzie Velasquez, Lupita Nyong'o, Michelle Law, One Direction, racism, Roxane Gay, Trace Lysette, Trainwreck	¶ Leave a comment
*The following contains mild spoilers for the film I Feel Pretty.
Amy Schumer is known for her scathing comedy sketches about campus rape, gendered violence in video games and ageing in Hollywood. Two sketches from her comedy show Inside Amy Schumer, one about the sexism of the One Direction anthem "You Don't Know You're Beautiful", the other castigating women who put themselves down, are particularly inextricable from Schumer's public persona and the scathing cultural criticism that made her famous.
Amy Schumer is also known in Hollywood for two major movies that fly in the face of the expectations of women she skewered as a sketch comedian. Her big screen breakout, 2015's Trainwreck, followed the natural rom-com story arc of the love of an honest man putting an end to the hard-partying, commitment-phobic ways of Schumer's protagonist. Her most recent feature film, I Feel Pretty, premiering this week, focuses on the apparent ugliness of Schumer's character, Renee, and the brain injury that results in self-confidence. In the stereotypical grand gesture scene, Renee goes to her boyfriend Ethan's apartment for the first time since awaking from her confidence coma and dumping him, because how could a schlubby guy love someone as conventionally attractive as Schumer. When Renee realises Ethan can see her picking her nose through the video intercom at his apartment building, he reassures her, saying "I've always seen you." And voila, she's cured of of her bad body image and low self-worth, just as One Direction prophecised!
Women who look like Amy Schumer suffer from low self-esteem and body dysmorphia in droves, and those are completely valid concerns that are worth exploring. What I would have liked to see even more is someone with physical attributes that society doesn't deem attractive navigating the world.
Where's the heavily marketed blockbuster about fatness, or colourism, or disability, or transness by people who experience these things? I would love to see an adaptation of Roxane Gay's memoir Hunger, about her struggles with her body stemming from sexual assault, on the big screen, as I would Gabourey Sidebe's memoir This is Just My Face. Why has Lupita Nyong'o seldom been in anything other than Black Panther since her Oscar-winning role in 12 Years a Slave? I'm sure she and other dark skinned actresses would have a wealth of knowledge to bring to roles about "normal" women, but apparently only slightly chubby white women who can still rock a miniskirt like Schumer fit into that rigid category. Why not a movie starring Liz Carr, a disability rights activist and wheelchair user who acts on the British crime series Silent Witness? Or a big screen adaptation of the SBS On Demand series Homecoming Queens, created by Michelle Law and Chloe Reeson, about their alopecia and cancer diagnoses, respectively. How about a movie by and about Lizzie Velasquez, whose congenital disease preventing her from gaining weight would be quite the spin on Schumer's schtick.
Transgender author and media personality Janet Mock wrote last year about the pretty privilege that comes with "passing" as a cisgender woman. "People who are considered pretty are more likely to be hired, have higher salaries, and are less likely to be found guilty and are sentenced less harshly." As Renee takes a demotion from the web team for makeup company Lily LeClaire to work in a lower-paying role as an administration assistant because she suddenly feels presentable enough to work in a front-of-house position, it would seem, as a white, blonde, able-bodied, cisgender woman, she's already benefiting from the pretty privilege Mock writes about. "Pretty privilege is also conditional and is not often extended to women who are trans, black and brown, disabled, older, and/or fat," she continues. Transparent actress Trace Lysette also spoke about her previous preoccupation with heteronormative beauty standards on a recent podcast, and how not being "clocked" as trans protected her from becoming one of the disproportionate trans women murdered in her country. Now those are stories far more valuable than watching Amy Schumer realise she was pretty all along.
Given Schumer's history of cultural appropriation and racism, it's not surprising that she thinks her experience is paramount to all of the people whose experiences she's used as a joke and to further her agenda. Schumer has come under fire multiple times for her racist stand up jokes and tweets. Even when she doesn't explicitly intend to "play with race", as she called it in her defence, she still manages to chafe, as with her interpretation of Beyonce's black women empowerment anthem "Formation" with Goldie Hawn for their movie Mother/Daughter. Schumer's retort to that came in the form of a near-nude Instagram photo, further evidence that I Feel Pretty is disingenuous.
"It's unbecoming to acknowledge your attractiveness, so it creates a silence around pretty privilege that only elevates the competitiveness and divisiveness between women who are told we must compare, compete, and measure up in a lookist culture," writes Mock, in a far more eloquent and considered examination of this phenomenon than I Feel Pretty is and, indeed, hearkens back to Schumer's earlier work, the Inside Amy Schumer sketch "Compliments".
The creative license Schumer was given in a Hollywood blockbuster such as I Feel Pretty obviously differs drastically from her cable sketch show with far lower stakes, allowing her to explore body image with more nuance. Unfortunately, this results in a short-sighted message of empowerment for women who look like Schumer: she can "feel pretty" because she is pretty by traditional metrics.
Related: Thanks for Telling Me What Makes Me Beautiful, 'Cause I Just Wasn't Sure.
Elsewhere: [Facebook] Inside Amy Schumer: Football Town Nights.
[Critical Commons] Inside Amy Schumer: Military Video Game & Victim Blaming.
[YouTube] Comedy Central UK: Last Fuckable Day.
[Comedy Central] Girl, You Don't Need Makeup.
[Vimeo] Compliments.
[Allure] Being Pretty is a Privilege, But We Refuse to Acknowledge It.
[The Cut] Transparent Actress Trace Lysette on Her Online Presence.
[WaPo] Don't Believe Her Defenders. Amy Schumer's Jokes Are Racist.
[Digital Spy] Amy Schumer Slammed After Offensive & Racist Joke Tweet About Asians From Years Ago Resurfaces.
[The Washington Times] Amy Schumer Called Racist, Accused of Cultural Appropriation in Parody of Beyonce's "Formation".
[Instagram] Amy Schumer.
Image via Cinefilos Anonimos.
By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net, Uncategorized	¶ Tagged bell hooks, Beyonce, BuzzFeed, Chelsea Handler, child molestation, Chris Evans, Eva Marie, Facebook, Feministing, Fusion, George Michael, Jane the Virgin, Janet Mock, Justin Bieber, LEMONADE, Motto, MTV, NYTimes, organ donation, race, Ronan Farrow, Sheilas, singledom, Slate, social media, The Hollywood Reporter, Think Progress, Woody Allen, wrestling	¶ Leave a comment
I wrote in defence of Eva Marie.
From Sir Mix-A-Lot to Taylor Swift to LEMONADE: on the origin of Becky. [Fusion]
bell hooks' criticisms of LEMONADE and black femininity. [bell hooks institute]
Janet Mock responded smartly. [Facebook]
Feministing hosts a roundtable on the topic.
And with LEMONADE, Beyonce says "boy, bye" to black respectability. [Fusion]
Women-only train carriages: creating a safe space for women or not doing enough to curb the predatory behaviour of men? [Sheilas]
How Jane the Virgin deals with money. [Think Progress]
George Michael's "black" musical history. [Slate]
How social media can increase organ donations. [NYTimes]
Why do women love Chris Evans so much? [Buzzfeed]
Ronan Farrow on why the media needs to hold Woody Allen accountable to allegations of child sex abuse against his daughter and Farrow's sister. [THR]
Chelsea Handler writes in defence of being single. [Motto]
Justin Bieber and the surveillance of celebrities. [MTV]
TERFS & SWERFS Aren't Radical Feminists*
By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in Feminism	¶ Tagged #BlackLivesMatter, Amandla Stenberg, Amnesty International, Germaine Greer, James Deen, Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, Lena Dunham, Malala Yousafzai, Marsha P. Johnson, Planned Parenthood, Rowan Blanchard, sex work, Stoya, Sylvia Rivera, THINX, trans rights	¶ 2 Comments
*Trigger warning for transphobic language and discussion of sexual assault.
TERFS (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists) and SWERFS (Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminists) have been making headlines of late.
First there was Germaine Greer and the protests surrounding her talk at Cardiff University in Wales over her trans-exclusionary history. Appearing on BBC Newsnight, Greer asserted that trans women "don't look like women"—a completely regressive and anti-feminist proclamation if ever there was one—and "a man who gets his dick chopped off is actually inflicting an extraordinary act of violence on himself", ignoring the fact that many trans women don't undergo bottom surgery and that being trans is about more than what parts you have. Doubling down on her previous comments, Greer spat in a follow up statement to the Victoria Derbyshire Show that "just because you lop off your dick and then wear a dress doesn't make you a fucking woman."
While a petition to prevent her speaking at the college garnered over 3,000 signatures, it was ultimately unsuccessful and the talk went ahead late last month.
That thing where you log in to the internet for a second and see people idolizing the guy who raped you as a feminist. That thing sucks.
— Stoya (@stoya) November 28, 2015
James Deen held me down and fucked me while I said no, stop, used my safeword. I just can't nod and smile when people bring him up anymore.
Meanwhile, rape allegations against the porn industry's crown prince James Deen by his ex-partner and fellow porn performer Stoya, as well as others, have illustrated how much of the world views sex workers: undeserving of rights and incapable of being raped. Even Lena Dunham, who is usually pretty progressive on feminist issues today, has joined other famous women such as Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet in a bid to urge Amnesty International to reconsider their recommendation to decriminalise sex work, a move that could improve labour conditions in the industry.
While the title of this piece might be triggering for some in this age of click- and rage-baity headlines, you can rest assured I'm not defending TERFS and SWERFS; I'm asserting that the acronyms to describe them need to be rethought because feminists who exclude trans women and sex workers from the equality they're allegedly fighting for aren't radical at all. (I would go as far as to say they're not feminists at all, but that's another piece for another time.)
What's radical about subscribing to widely held notions that trans women aren't "real" women and therefore don't deserve the rights feminists have been fighting for since the dawn of last century? What's radical about pushing sex workers even further into the margins of society than they already are? Nothing.
Radical feminism, to me, is one that is accepting of not just all women, but all people. It's one that supports movements such as #BlackLivesMatter, refugee and asylum seeker rights and labour conditions. It's as concerned with tearing down the patriarchy that prescribes only one way to be for men as it is for the rigid guidelines for femininity. It wants to give visibility to old women, poor women, immigrant women, trans women, disabled women, queer women, women of colour and women in sex work alongside the predominantly white women who get to voice their opinions and have them heard, at least in some form. I would even go as far as to include environmentalism and animal rights in radical feminism, which have so often worked side by side. Not being in favour of these things, or only being in favour of them for certain people, is conservative, anti-feminist and not radical in the slightest.
Truly radical feminism—which I guess is really just intersectional feminism—needs to continue to stand up for society's most marginalised people and take ownership of that title once again. Greer and co. are old hat and painfully conservative. It's the women who started #BlackLivesMatter; women like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera who spearheaded the Stonewall uprisings; women like Laverne Cox and Janet Mock who are giving increased visibility to trans people and, specifically, trans people of colour; young women like Amandla Stenberg and Rowan Blanchard who are showing that young people aren't ambivalent about human rights; women like the those who started the Sex Workers Project and those who speak out about sexism and violence in the industry, like Stoya; women who work and campaign for Planned Parenthood in the face of defunding and violence, like the post-Thanksgiving shooting; the women who started THINX, period panties for, yes, privileged women who can afford to buy them, but also for trans men and women in rural, developing areas who struggle with the stigma surrounding menstruation; and women who fight for the education of women and girls in the developing world, like Malala Yousafzai, who are the real radical feminists.
Elsewhere: [BBC] Germaine Greer: Transgender Women Are Not "Real Women".
[The Telegraph] Germaine Greer in Transgender Rant: "Just Because You Lop Off Your Penis… It Doesn't Make You a Woman."
[Change.org] Cardiff University: Do Not Host Germaine Greer.
[The Guardian] Germaine Greer Gives University Lecture Despite Campaign to Silence Her.
[The Guardian] Actors Call on Amnesty to Reject Plans Backing Decriminalisation of Sex Trade.
[Thinx]
The Reading Hour.
By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in Books, Events	¶ Tagged Agatha Christie, Alice Pung, Alison Bechdel, Amy Poehler, An Untamed State, Andi Zeisler, Anita Hill, Ann Douglas, Annabel Crabb, Anne Helen Petersen, Ariel Levy, Armistead Maupin, Bad Feminist, Big Girls Don't Cry, Bitch magazine, Bossypants, Brigid Delaney, Brock Lesnar, Caitlin Doughty, Clarence Thomas, Death on the Nile, Dominick Dunne, Don DeLillo, Donna Tartt, Female Chauvinist Pigs, Fun Home, Go Set a Watchman, Gustave Flaubert, Harper Lee, Harvard Lampoon, Hilary Mantel, Holding the Man, Jane Mayer, Janet Mock, Jill Abramson, John Green, John Gregory Dunne, Judy Blume, Lauren Rosewarne, Laurinda, Lena Dunham, Madame Bovary, Meghan Daum, Mockingjay, Nancy Jo Sales, Naomi Wolf, Natasha Walter, Nora Ephron, Norman Mailer, Not That Kind of Girl, Orange is the New Black, Paper Towns, Patricia Highsmith, Piper Kerman, Rachel Hills, Rebecca Traister, Redefining Realness, Roxane Gay, Sara Gruen, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Stephen Tropiano, Suzanne Collins, The Beauty Myth, The Bling Ring, The Fault in Our Stars, The Secret History, The Sex Myth, The Wife Drought, Timothy Conigrave, Tina Fey, Wolf Hall	¶ 1 Comment
Tonight at 6pm marks 2015's edition of The Reading Hour.
In celebration, here are the books I've read in the past year and a brief review of them.
What have you been reading since last year's event?
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay.
If you haven't read Roxane Gay's book of essays since it was released last year, then what the hell have you been doing?! Gay is one of the best writers out there, and her take on all things pop culture and the conflicted relationship feminists sometimes have with it is a must read.
Death Clutch by Brock Lesnar.
This is one of those terribly ghost-written wrestling autobiographies and the main reason I read it was because it had been sitting in my to-read pile for far too long. Brock Lesnar is one of my least favourite wrestlers mostly because he was the first one I met and he was an asshole. This book gives a glimpse as to why he's so introverted, which can sometimes come across as rude and ungrateful.
Rebels & Chicks: A History of the Hollywood Teen Movie by Stephen Tropiano.
Having been written a decade ago, this book unfortunately misses many of the teen movies we've come to know and love since then, such as Mean Girls and John Tucker Must Die, not to mention the booming genre of fantasy/dystopian teen flicks. But it does provide a pretty thorough and entertaining history of many teen movies you might have missed from as far back as the '50s and, of course, the golden age of teen flicks, John Hughes' '80s.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
This was one of those books that, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't get into. The main reason I stuck with it was because it was a gift and I wanted to tell its giver that I'd actually read it.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
Carrying on from the funk that Madame Bovary got me into, I spent a few weeks reading this on public transport (which, at over 600 pages, is no mean feat!) but my mind wandered elsewhere.
Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham.
Of all the celebrity memoirs I read over the past year, I'd probably recommend this one the most, if only for the salacious alleged molestation Dunham detailed and her experiences breaking into sexist Hollywood.
Too Much Money by Dominick Dunne.
Not one of Dunne's better books but a carefree romp for the reader nonetheless.
The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales.
This was also a gift from the same person who gave me Madame Bovary. I'm pleased to report it held my attention much more than Flaubert.
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel.
Another gift, and one of my first forays into comic books. I enjoyed it more for the story than Bechdel's illustrations.
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins.
By far the worst instalment in the Hunger Games trilogy. I know it's set in a dystopia, but Mockingjay was thoroughly depressing.
Yes Please by Amy Poehler.
I had such high hopes for Yes Please, but it was mediocre, both in writing style and humour.
Maybe the Moon by Armistead Maupin.
One of only two books written by Maupin outside the Tales of the City franchise, I didn't fall in love with the characters as I have with his previous books, but it was an interesting story based on the life of Tamara De Treaux, the actress who played E.T.
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.
Not as good as the movie and I struggled with the animal cruelty portions.
Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy.
One of the most overrated feminist texts I've read. This is probably a testament to the fact that it was written ten years ago and feminist theory has come a long way since then, baby. A lot of unnecessary scaremongering not unlike this recent Vanity Fair article on Tinder and online dating in general.
The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin.
Maupin's second non-Tales book, it was turned into a film in 2006 starring the late Robin Williams which was dubbed as a "psychological thriller". While I would say the book is far more campy than a psych thriller has a right to be, I did enjoy the suspense of Maupin's fictionalised real-life encounter with Anthony Godby Johnson, the young author of a book about his abuse as a child, which later turned out to be a hoax.
Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism by Natasha Walter.
A poor woman's Female Chauvinist Pigs.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt.
This book could have stood to be shorter, but it is very suspenseful and lives up to the hype.
Wild Things by Brigid Delaney.
I had high hopes for this modern-day Aussie version of the aforementioned The Secret History set in the residences of an elite Sydney university. The local spin increased the novelty factor, but I was expecting more.
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay.
Not for the easily triggered, Gay has a knack for writing about suffering that is second to none.
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock.
If you ever need to explain the plight of trans people and how to talk to and about them, I can't recommend Janet Mock's memoir highly enough.
Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine by Andi Zeisler (ed).
A selection of some of Bitch magazine's best pop culture writing from its inception in 1996 to this book's publication in 2006. Another decade has passed since then, so it'll be interesting to see if Bitch comes out with another collection. I hope so. In the meantime, subscribe to them.
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf.
There's a lot to be said for feminist theory that is accessible to its readers and I don't think The Beauty Myth is. I found it hard to stay focussed on some of its more wordy theories and criticisms.
Periods in Pop Culture by Lauren Rosewarne.
Who would've thought there were enough examples of menstruation in pop culture to warrant a whole book?! I enjoyed this exploration of periods in pop culture and its demystification of something that is normal but rarely discussed.
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie.
I was obsessed with this movie as a kid so I thought I'd finally read the book. The movie trumps it TBH.
Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith.
I had different expectations for this relationship thriller but I was pleasantly surprised by what Deep Water turned out to be.
Laurinda by Alice Pung.
One of the best YA's I've read… well… ever. Pung has a knack for putting to paper the way inner city teens talk and the dynamics of private school girls. If you're looking for something easy to read but gritty, Laurinda is the one for you.
Nightlight by Harvard Lampoon.
This book made me understand the nuances between satire and parody: satire is smart and crafty, parody is the equivalent of Chief Wiggum—annoying and stupid.
Bossypants by Tina Fey.
In the vein of Amy Poehler's Yes Please, Bossypants wasn't as good as I thought it would be. In fact, it was barely funny.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty.
This was one of the best books I've read all year. It looks at the funeral industrial complex and argues that people have options for their loved ones in death that don't include embalming, a sterile mortuary and an impersonal traditional funeral.
The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb.
A lot of statistics and studies brought down what is otherwise a funny, engaging argument for more equality between men and women in the home and at work.
Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister.
With the announcement of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential run, I thought I'd finally get around to reading Rebecca Traister's take on the 2008 election, which has been on my to-read list for years. It was interesting, however its distant tone means I barely remember its contents only a few months after reading it.
Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave.
This is a beauty of an Australian fictional work and I can't wait to see the film it was recently adapted into. Very tender and sad but also brilliant.
Playland by John Gregory Dunne.
This book began the series of four books I attempted to into over the course of a few weeks but just couldn't. I think this one was about Hollywood (as Joan Didion's husband and Dominick Dunne's brother, it seems only fitting) but I gave up after less than 100 pages.
Falling Man by Don DeLillo.
I got almost to the end of this novel about September 11 after realising I'd taken in nothing.
Oswald's Tale by Norman Mailer.
Coming in at over 800 pages, I couldn't justify giving any more than about 90 pages of my time to this biography of Lee Harvey Oswald.
The Feminisation of American Culture by Ann Douglas.
I'd bought this book six years ago when its contents may have interested me, but upon cracking its spine, I realised I was no longer.
I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron.
The Most of Nora by Nora Ephron.
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron.
I decided to get into Nora Ephron after the previous spate of books that kind of made me hate reading. Whilst I'd never read any Ephron before, I did devour most of her movies over the summer, so I thought her book writing might be similar. I was right, although I did end up encountering most of her essays more than once as these collections tended to double or triple up on some of them.
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas by Jane Mayer & Jill Abramson.
Another book that had been on my list for years that I decided to read upon HBO's announcement that they'd be turning the sexual harassment of Anita Hill by current Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas into a biopic starring Kerry Washington as Hill. While Strange Justice isn't light reading by any means, it did enlighten me to the politics of the case ahead of the biopic.
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.
I was late to the party on this one. I did have a little cry as was expected, but I found its protagonist annoying, the dialogue unrealistic, and the writing misogynist at times.
The Sex Myth by Rachel Hills.
Naomi Wolf and Ariel Levy, take note: this is how you write feminist theory. With an informal, accessible tone and a non-judgemental discussion of sex, this is the seminal text about sex and feminism for the millennial generation.
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman.
I had no idea some of the Netflix series' characters would be so heavily based on real people Piper Kerman encountered during her incarceration that inspired the show. While her story and her subsequent work with the Women's Prison Association are important, I found some of the language she used alienating and transphobic, in particular.
Paper Towns by John Green.
Despite The Fault in Our Stars' overhype, I still had high expectations for Paper Towns, which I had written on my to-read list next to the words "debunking of Manic Pixie Dream Girl". While the book tries hard to do that, particularly towards the end, it ultimately fails. Also, too much use of the word "ret*ard" and Quentin's friend Ben is a complete creep who refers to women as "honeybunnies". Gag me.
Scandals of Classic Hollywood by Anne Helen Petersen.
I love Anne Helen Petersen but I didn't necessarily love her take on classic Hollywood which is arguably what made her famous. I'm looking forward to her dissection of more modern stars and the gossip surrounding them for her second book.
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee.
No wonder Harper Lee kept this original manuscript of what would eventually become To Kill a Mockingbird hidden for so long. It's pretty average on all counts and focusses far too much on the racism we've all heard about. Mockingbird is by far the superior text so if you aren't able to separate the two in your mind, steer clear of this one.
The Unspeakable by Meghan Daum.
This, along with Laurinda and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, was perhaps the best book I've read all year. Featuring only a few longform essays, The Unspeakable is bookended by the two standouts: "Matricide", in which Daum explores her ambivalence and sometimes rage towards her dying mother, who passes away less than a year after her own mother with whom she had a tumultuous relationship; and "Diary of a Coma", which details the viral infection that almost killed Daum, again, less than a year after her mother's death. Challenging, laugh out loud funny and gasp-inducing.
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume.
Based on the real life events in Judy Blume's hometown in the '50s, where three planes crashed in the period of a few months, I expect to finish this one tomorrow. I'm enjoying the story however there are far too many characters and giving them equal time in their own little mini-chapters distracts from the central story of Miri and her family.
Related: The Reading Hour 2014.
The Reading Hour 2013.
Blood Bonds—The Sisterhood of Menstruation.
Interview with The Sex Myth Author Rachel Hills.
Elsewhere: [Bitch Flicks] Lena Dunham, Slenderman & the Terror of Little Girls.
[Vanity Fair] Tinder & the Dawn of the "Dating Apocalypse".
[The Hairpin] Scandals of Classic Hollywood.
[The Independent] Go Set a Watchman: Atticus is Now a Racist in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Sequel.
Image via HuffPo.
Writing About Taylor Swift Ruined My Friendship!
By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in Uncategorized	¶ Tagged Janet Mock, Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl, Redefining Realness, Taylor Swift, Writers Bloc	¶ 3 Comments
This is a version of a post that originally appeared on Writer's Bloc as part of their May series on balance. Republished with permission.
A few years ago I wrote a blog post about Taylor Swift's anti-feminist lyrics. Perhaps ill advisedly, I used an example from my friend's love life to illustrate my point about Swift's detrimental view of gender roles in her music without my friend's consent.
This friend has a soft spot for Taylor Swift, along with Twilight, Glee and young adult fiction, and I believed these biases informed her actions when she started hooking up with my roommate. When their courtship fizzled out a short time later, she revealed to me that because they were friends first, she didn't feel that as lovers their relationship was any different: where were all the grand gestures on his part, she wondered?
Now, at the time I thought this observation would perfectly prove my assertion that Swift's lyrics and anti-feminist rhetoric in interviews enforced an ideal that heterosexual relationships must take the shape of fairytale romances that are performed primarily by the guy, while the woman is just a passive receiver of surprise weekend getaways, jewellery and flowers.
In hindsight, perhaps my opinion about my friend's love life wasn't something I should have published on my blog, or even passed judgment on in the first place. Needless to say, she didn't think so either as we're no longer in contact.
Funnily enough, after that shit went down, I suffered a bout of writer's block that lasted the better part of a year. Karmic retribution, perhaps?
This is not the first time I've gotten into trouble with a friend for airing their dirty laundry in my prose. About a year and a half before the post that ended a friendship, I wrote about how I thought one of my friends wasn't very socially adept due to a sport-focused sheltered upbringing and how this informed my broader point that sportspeople shouldn't be held up as heroes (a topic that was doing the rounds in the news that week). Understandably, he was very hurt that I used personal details he'd told me in confidence to further my agenda and that I had those opinions about him. He's a bigger person than both myself and my former friend, though, as he was able to see both points of view and hash it out with me like an adult and our friendship has since recovered. (Yes, I ran his inclusion by him prior to publication!)
The irony is that the singer herself is all too familiar with mining her and others' personal lives for her work. I'm not trying to equate my writing with Swift's or that using other people's stories is the same as using your own, but I'd like to think she could relate. Either way, we both wrote and write about people who are no longer in our lives, a feat some writers are more adept at that others.
But how much of the personal anecdotes of the people in our lives do writers have the permission to share? Obviously, I had permission to share neither experience, but in the absence of anything happening in my own love life and the desire to act as therapist to another friend, respectively, I crossed a line.
And it's a fine one to write on when you're crafting memoir. Increasingly, I've been delving into the personal essay and wondering whose stories and lives I share I have the permission to make public.
How specific can you get when using identifying details in your writing? At the time of publishing the pieces in question, only a few of my friends were reading my blog and would have realised who I was writing about. The majority of people who read my work are unknown to me. But just because only a handful would recognise the subject in question doesn't necessarily mean writers have free reign over how they're represented.
Writers such as Lena Dunham and Janet Mock share that problem on a global scale. Dunham's memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, drew controversy last year when she wrote of her curiosity about her sister's body parts and an alleged date rape in college. Though names and other details were altered, a fellow student of Dunham's alma mater was falsely identified as her attacker. Mock shared concerns about the portrayal of her family in Redefining Realness, her memoir about growing up trans in Hawaii. When the stakes are that much higher—being perhaps the most influential millennial in a decade and coming out as a gender identity much of the world is yet to accept as legitimate, respectively—there's an increased likelihood that your audience and subjects take issue with your words.
Call it the life of a writer or chalk it up to my own narcissism or lack of imagination but it would seem that I haven't learned my lesson as I'm still writing about the people and situations that caused friction in my personal life in the first place.
Related: Taylor Swift—The Perfect Victim.
In Defence of Mia Freedman.
Elsewhere: [Writer's Bloc] Writing About Taylor Swift Ruined My Friendship!
Image via Blank Space.
Some Thoughts on Bruce Jenner.
By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in In the News	¶ Tagged Alice Eve, Bruce Jenner, Diane Sawyer, GLAAD, Janet Mock, Jezebel, Jill Soloway, Redefining Realness, Slate, The Kardashians, The Mary Sue, Transparent, transpeople	¶ 1 Comment
I've been loath to contribute my feelings about Bruce Jenner's coming out as a trans woman to a feminist/humanist/trans rights sphere because, as a cisgender person, the last thing I'd want to do is cisplain.
However, as probably the most well-versed person on human rights in my immediate circle of friends, colleagues and family members, I've been throwing my two cents out there whenever the conversation inevitably veres Bruce's way.
Because the people I've been talking to about him* are espousing predictably ignorant views. Things like "what's his deal?", "is he a she-he" and "tell me about this Kardashian who now thinks he's a woman".
I try not to get angry when explaining that gender is a spectrum, being transgender is a legitimate gender identity, and that it's not for us to judge a person who's spent 65 years keeping this secret, but I can feel my expression change as the fury bubbles up inside me.
One person I was actually able to have a tempered conversation with about Bruce wondered whether ignorance to trans issues (and, by extension, race, gender, sexuality, disability, class issues) could excuse such bigoted reactions: "You can't fault people for not being aware," she said.
Except you can. How do you think anyone who's sensitive to minority issues came to be that way? Because they listened to people who are from these communities and actually deal with these things on a daily basis. Read about them in books like Janet Mock's Redefining Realness and online. Follow enlightened people on Twitter. Watched Bruce's interview with Diane Sawyer to understand that not everyone who falls under a certain umbrella wants to be addressed in the ways that are generally accepted as politically correct. The information is out there and ripe for the picking so ignorance is not an excuse. I actually have more respect for bigots who are informed about the issues they choose to be so bigoted about, even though I fundamentally disagree with them and think they're horrible people.
My friend agreed, saying that watching shows like Transparent (which is problematic in it's own right) has opened her up to trans issues. The problem she has with Bruce's coming out though, she said, is that he lied about it: "You don't have to come out, but when he was asked whether he was a trans woman in the past, he said no."
Sure, there are ways Bruce could have framed his answers to be more ambiguous, but the media still would have spun it to service their agenda. It's not Bruce's job to make us more accepting of people who don't fit our preconceptions.
Imagine the weight on his shoulders being a trans woman whilst also being a) held up as an American hero as an Olympic gold medalist in a sport that women can't even compete in (thanks, Alice Eve!); and b) a member of a family comprised of some of the most famous women in the world who, whether we agree with it or not, are the epitome of femininity in many instances. (And for all the Kardashian haters who've made comments such as those in the third paragraph of this piece, Bruce's family has actually come out in support of him—a low barometre of decency, but I digress—in his transition which makes them better than you.) No wonder he didn't feel safe or accepted to come out. (Props to Bruce and ABC for mentioning the very real violence trans people face, especially trans women of colour who aren't protected by the security Bruce has.)
Maybe it's just because I try to surround myself with progressive people (at least online if not IRL), but the reaction to Bruce's interview has been overwhelmingly positive. Those who actually took the time to listen to his experiences can take into account the obstacles put in Bruce's way that have prevented him from living his truth in public. Maybe it will open their eyes to the obstacles put in the way of other trans people who haven't been #blessed with the privileges Bruce Jenner has.
*I'm referring to Bruce by his birth name and using male pronouns as that is what he's stated a preference for at this time and is in line with GLAAD's guidelines.
Elsewhere: [Slate] Jill Soloway Apologises for Joking About Bruce Jenner on Facebook.
[The Mary Sue] Why Transparent Has Lost the Trust of the Trans Community.
[Jezebel] Alice Eve is Sorry She Said Bruce Jenner is "Playing at Being a Woman".
[GLAAD] GLAAD Responds to ABC News Interview with Bruce Jenner, Releases Tip Sheet for Journalists.
Image via ABC News.
TV: Catching Up on Women-Friendly Media.
By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in TV	¶ Tagged 2 Broke Girls, American Horror Story: Freak Show, Amy Poehler, Breaking Bad, Brigid Delaney, Dominick Dunne, Donna Tartt, Foxcatcher, Girls, Grey's Anatomy, House of Cards, How to Get Away with Murder, Janet Mock, Lena Dunham, Mick Foley, Nora Ephron, Orange is the New Black, Orphan Black, Parks & Recreation, Revenge, Roxane Gay, Scandal, The Good Wife, Total Divas, Wild	¶ 4 Comments
Summer is usually a time when I catch up on TV shows I've neglected throughout the year.
In Australia, (when I owned a TV) all the shows would be on hiatus and in its place tennis and cricket as far as the eye can see. Likewise, American TV comes to a halt usually from about Thanksgiving which gives me ample time to keep up with the Kardashians or, in a more high brow vein, Breaking Bad, which I finally watched in its entirety this time last year.
Recently I lamented to a friend that this summer I've been watching more movies and, like, reading instead of catching up on shows like I should be. There's so many on my list: The Good Wife, Orphan Black, Parks & Rec, House of Cards. I didn't even watch American Horror Story: Freak Show when it started a few months ago and, low and behold, it just aired its season finale.
So what better time to catch up on it than this past (long) weekend? (And yes, I am well aware that AHS cannot be construed as women-friendly, but stay with me.)
I also have ample days off from my day job in the next week so, in addition to more freelance work and my side gig at OCW, I should be able to finish the 13 episode season by the next weeks' end.
I intend to work just as hard throughout the year, but I also need to make sure I engage in self-care to keep the momentum up. So when I've emptied out my brain onto the page and filled it again with the words of others, what better way to unwind with some TV that functions as a hug?
I've been very vocal about my love for Grey's Anatomy: when I was sick a few weeks ago, I knew I should have started one of the abovementioned shows but I just needed comforting in a way that no one but Meredith Grey and co. could do, so I rewatched the first half of this season. It, along with its Shondaland cohorts Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, return this week and I've got a hot date with the Middleton Law School kids and President Grant on the weekend.
From there, I intend to either dip into The Good Wife or House of Cards as research for a piece I've been ruminating over for months. While the beauty of many Netflix-based shows is their short seasons allowing quick consumption, there's a good six seasons of The Good Wife, so who knows when I'll emerge from Alicia Florrick's law offices?
In contrast to the abovementioned shows, it was only a few years ago that many of the books, movies and TV shows that I was drawn to were about men. My favourite authors were men, the movies I was interested in seeing at the cinema were about men, and many of the TV shows I watched were all about men. Don't get me wrong, some of my favourite authors are still men (Dominick Dunne and Mick Foley), and I'm hanging out to see Foxcatcher at the movies. But on the whole, I'm so fucking sick of only learning about men's lives—either real or fictional.
That's why, this year, I'm making a conscious effort to consume media about women and minorities. What started out as something I was completely unaware of has blossomed into a newfound appreciation for the voices of women I may not have sought out before. I've slowly started to realise that all the shows I watch are about women—OITNB, Total Divas, Girls, Revenge, 2 Broke Girls, The Mindy Project—as are the shows I intend to. I've only recently started watching movies again, and I started with Nora Ephron's cannon over Christmas and New Years. Wild is the next movie I intend to see at the cinema. And my reading list from the past month has consisted of Roxane Gay, Janet Mock, Donna Tartt, Lena Dunham, Brigid Delaney and Amy Poehler, amongst many others.
Which shows—and other media—are you looking forward to consuming this year?
Related: Hustle, Loyalty & Respect: Where I'm Taking My Career in 2015.
The Golden Age of Television.
Physical & Mental Health on Orange is the New Black.
Girls: A Season Two Retrospective.
Revenge is a Dish Best Served by a Woman.
2 Broke & Tampon-less Girls.
Elsewhere: [Bitch Flicks] The Choice to be a Total Diva.
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Approaching public perceptions of datafication through the lens of inequality: a case study in public service media
Kennedy, H., Steedman, R. and Jones, R. (2021) Approaching public perceptions of datafication through the lens of inequality: a case study in public service media. Information, Communication and Society, 24 (12). pp. 1745-1761. ISSN 1369-118X
In the emerging field of critical data studies, there is increasing acknowledgement that the negative effects of datafication are not experienced equally by all. Research on data and discrimination in particular has highlighted how already socially unequal populations are discriminated against in data-driven systems. Elsewhere, there is growing interest in public perceptions of datafication, amongst academic researchers interested in producing 'bottom up' understandings of the new roles of data in society and non-academic stakeholders keen to establish positive perceptions of data-driven systems. However, research into public perceptions rarely engages with the issue of inequality which is so central in data and discrimination scholarship. Bringing these two issues together, this paper explores public perceptions of datafication through the lens of inequality, focusing on the relationship between understandings and feelings within these perceptions. The paper draws on empirical focus group research into how audiences perceive the data practices that signing in to access BBC digital services enable. The paper shows how inequalities relating to age, dis/ability, poverty and their intersections played a role in shaping perceptions and that these social inequalities informed understandings of and feelings about data practices in complex and diverse ways. It concludes with reflections on the significance of these findings for future research and for data-related policy.
Kennedy, H.
Steedman, R.
Jones, R.
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
public perceptions; data practices; datafication; inequality; understanding; feelings
Published (online): 4 March 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1736122
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Exporter of the Year for Safety and Security
By -Complete Inspection Systems, Inc.
Posted in Awards
Press Release: ThinkGlobal, Inc.
Think Global, publisher for the Department of Commerce, held a special ceremony at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC naming Complete Inspection Systems, Inc. winner of the Exporter of the Year Award in Safety and Security. "We were honored not only to have received this prestigious award, but also for the support of local representative for Brevard County, Congressman Posey, who took time out of his busy schedule to attend the ceremony," said Gary Parish, President of Complete Inspection Systems, Inc.
All Exporter of the Year award winners also will be profiled in the May/June 2013 issue of Commercial News USA.
"Our software and solutions help save lives in the pharmaceutical, medical device and packaging industries by identifying print errors and component mix-ups," says Gary L. Parish, President of Complete Inspection Systems. "Since a significant amount of manufacturers operate in other countries, using automated inspection helps provide safe imports back to the USA and is the key to our growth. Obtaining international recognition will lead to additional opportunities, which is very exciting as we are currently announcing our newest most advanced 2D barcode in the world, the HD Barcode. This advanced proprietary barcode can encrypt up to 703 kilobytes of data, embed full color photo images, and is easily be read using any Smartphone."
Criteria on which winners were selected include the total number of documented export transactions, the total percentage increase in sales, exports as a percentage of total sales, the company's commitment to exporting, the company's commitment to customer service, and the company's innovation and originality in marketing products or services. To be eligible for the award, a company must currently be exporting from the United States.
"Complete Inspection Systems is indicative of how proactive American companies are growing by exporting," said Gregory Sandler, president of ThinkGlobal. "This year's winners reflect the diversity of American exporters, 97 percent of whom are small-medium sized enterprises. Exporting is a critical part of the U.S. economy, accounting for 12.5 percent of the nation's GDP. In fact, 70 percent of the world's purchasing power is located outside of the United States."
About ThinkGlobal
ThinkGlobal Inc. is a print and online publishing company that manages the USA Export Expo and produces Commercial News USA, the official export promotion magazine of the U.S. Department of Commerce. ThinkGlobal also is a corporate marketing partner with the U.S. Commercial Service, part of the International Trade Administration within the Commerce Department. www.thinkglobal.com
Information about the Exporter of the Year awards, including profiles of all the winning companies, is available online at "Exporter of the Year"
Contact: Gary Parish
President, Complete Inspection Systems, Inc.


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"We asked because of what she laughed" - why is the sentence wrong?
We asked because of what she laughed.
This sentence is supposed to be grammatically wrong. Why is it so? What is the correct version?
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Do you know what's wrong with it? There's at least two options. – jimsug Sep 23 '15 at 11:21
"We asked because of what she laughed AT" would make sense. – user24561 Sep 23 '15 at 21:59
It would be very unusual, but I can see a way this sentence would be correct. In fiction, laughed can be used to mean spoke words with a laughing voice then she could have laughed a comment. The comment which she laughed might then prompt others to ask a question. – barbecue Sep 24 '15 at 1:03
Laughing does not typically report speech.
*She laughed a good idea.
?She laughed hello.
She said hello.
Since in this case, what stands for an argument to laugh, which is at best questionable.
You can repair this by changing either the verb, or what:
We asked because of why/when she laughed.
We asked because of what she said.
There are many more possibilities, but those two options probably change the sentence the least.
jimsugjimsug
+1 It could also be intended to represent We asked why she laughed or We asked what she was laughing about. – StoneyB Sep 23 '15 at 11:31
yeah, there's many possibilities... let me address that. – jimsug Sep 23 '15 at 11:31
And what about this version: We asked from what reason she laughed. – bart-leby Sep 23 '15 at 11:32
@bart that wouldn't work in most contexts. It's at least archaic, if not outright ungrammatical. – jimsug Sep 23 '15 at 11:33
@bart-leby You could say We asked for what reason she laughed, but this should be avoided because the collocation ask for usually means request. – StoneyB Sep 23 '15 at 11:47
"Because of what" is not something you say often in English when "what" is a question. (It is often used when "what" refers to something: "I had to apologize because of what he did" - but it is not used to ask something, as in the original sentence.)
When asking a question, often you would use "why" instead
We asked why she laughed.
or more likely,
We asked why she was laughing.
Also, you don't laugh because of something, you laugh at it or about it. So
We asked what she was laughing at.
We asked what she was laughing about.
although as others have pointed out, you could laugh because of being tickled or inhaling laughing gas or whatever.
Ed AvisEd Avis
While it's not common to laugh because of something, it is possible. Being tickled often causes people to involuntarily laugh. – TheZ Sep 23 '15 at 15:59
"Because of what" is fine in other phrases - "Because of what she said", "Because of what she ate", "Because of what she did" etc. I think the main differences is those are transitive verbs. – bdsl Sep 23 '15 at 16:43
I completely agree with bdsl and disagree with this answer. "Because of what" is quite common. "The girl yelled at the bully because of what he had done to her sister." For this particular case, there's not a more natural way to say it. – ErikE Sep 23 '15 at 22:48
Also, laughing because is perfectly fine. "When he said 'your hair looks stupid', I laughed because he had toilet paper stuck to his shoe, which looked far more ridiculous." – ErikE Sep 23 '15 at 23:33
Yeah, saying that because of what is not often used is not really right. Because of what happened, because of what they saw, because of what was broken, because of what... I could find more examples, but this answer pretty much starts with an incorrect premise. – jimsug Sep 24 '15 at 5:48
Grammar, dimly remembered from schooldays ...
In English, the fundamental structure of a grammatically correct sentence is [subject] [verb] [object]. Subject and verb are not optional, but some intransitive verbs do not accept an object. In "I took a biscuit", the subject is "I", the verb is "took" and the object (the thing that the verb is referring to) is "a biscuit". "Laughed" is intransitive. You can't laugh anything, you just laugh. If you laugh and [then] say something, that's exactly how you write it. 'She laughed, and said "Never!".'
Subject and object are frequently phrases rather than single words. In my first sentence above, "the fundamental structure of a grammatically correct sentence" is the subject.
nigel222nigel222
The problem is that it's very rare to use the verb laugh transitively. It is possible for laugh to be used transitively, but it's usually (maybe even exclusively) used that way to qualify the laugh itself.
E.g., (from englishpractice.com)
We fought a good fight
We laughed such a hearty laugh that we fell out of our seats.
This might be a stretch, but I'm trying to play with it a bit by composing something that might allow it to work in a certain context:
She laughed a laugh that was completely ridiculous; she laughed what was the loudest laugh we'd ever heard. We wondered, "Can this really be?" because what she laughed seemed impossible. We asked because of what she laughed.
tjb1982tjb1982
May be my misunderstanding stemms from the fact that I consider "why" and "because of what" to be synonyms which is probably not so. I supposed that "Why are you laughing"? = "Because of what are you laughing"? – bart-leby Sep 23 '15 at 19:13
'because of what' is not interrogative but explicative. – Tᴚoɯɐuo Sep 23 '15 at 19:37
@bart-leby: it seems you have correctly identified your issue; "why" and "because of what" are not equivalent. Both why and what indicate a question, "because of x" indicates an answer. Because of what is neither a question nor an answer. So, you could say "We asked why she laughed" or "We asked what caused her to laugh". It can sorta be made to work but would need a lot more context (and punctuation). "We asked, because she laughed, what was so funny about the letter she was reading". I'm not sure it can be made to work with the "what" included. – jmoreno Sep 24 '15 at 4:54
Although other answers have pointed out that laughter does not convey speech, this is not necessarily true.
"You look like little red riding hood," he laughed.
"I like to be comfortable", he laughed.
"Yes, yes," he laughed, "I've been through the mill."
"Hello, sweet ladies," he laughed in a fruity, musical voice.
So the sentence is not technically ungrammatical.
Ordinarily the distinction is made between speaking and laughing, and certainly it's hard to speak intelligibly while laughing, so the sentence sounds quite odd.
The other answers assume you mean "We asked [a question] because of [what she laughed]".
However, I think what you actually mean is simply "We asked her why she laughed".
Correct alternatives
The most common ways to say this would be:
We asked [her] why she laughed.
These would also be correct:
We asked what the cause of her laughter was.
We asked her what caused her to laugh.
We asked her the reason for her laughter.
We asked for what reason she laughed.
I think this one is correct but sounds awkward:
We asked her what she laughed because of.
Problems with "We asked because of what she laughed":
The sentence structure "We <verb> because of <...>" almost always gives the cause <...> for an action. E.g. "We jumped because of a loud noise." All the other answers (so far) have interpreted your sentence like this.
"Because of what" is occasionally used instead of "why" for emphasis, e.g. "You're late, because of what?" However, it is never placed before the action: "Because of what, you're late?" does not make sense.
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