My senior year of college, once winter was officially gone, one of my housemates or neighbors bought a backyard games set from Walmart on a whim. And that’s how I spent half my senior year playing badminton. I’d played occasionally before, like you do as a kid because—let’s face it—badminton has a certain amount of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘feminism’
June 13, 2011
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This Post is About Badminton, Kinda
By aliciaaho in Ladies, Sartoria, Society, The Arts, Uncategorized
November 6, 2010
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Pilot Versus Ballerina
By aliciaaho in Gentlemen, Ladies, SocietySometimes, if you are not a cis white dude, life will up and smack you in the face for not being a cis white dude. Even if all you are doing is sitting around typing crappy prose on your laptop. I was doing just that when the love of my life started scrolling through the [...]
Tags: clothes, feminism, masculinity, video games
October 5, 2010
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The Calculus of Medical Notes: Disability and Higher Education
By aliciaaho in SocietyImagine, for a moment, that you are a graduate student teaching assistant in an undergraduate film class at a large state university. You are poorly paid, and entirely untrained. You have a full courseload of your own, and you are teaching a subject in which you have no expertise. Though your union contract stipulates you [...]
September 10, 2010
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Hamm Reduction
By aliciaaho in Gentlemen, Society, TelevisionHere is what you discover when you start reading the latest ode to Jon Hamm from Details magazine: Hamm swears at bikers. While wearing madras shorts and a baseball cap. Because they impede him from going 140 in his borrowed fancy car, a silver Mercedes that is not yet available for purchase by the public [...]
Tags: feminism, masculinity, Television
August 31, 2010
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Nathan Rabin Fails at Modeling and as a Human Being.
By aliciaaho in Gentlemen, Ladies, Sartoria, SocietyIt may seem like a clever move to self-deprecatingly refer to your own article as a “lousy blog post”, but it doesn’t mean the phrase does not ring true. If there is one set of ads I would purge from all the internets given the chance (and the POWER), it is the marketing campaign spat [...]
August 14, 2010
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A Bechdel Test for Historical Romance
By aliciaaho in Ladies, Romance, Society, WritingLately I’ve been thinking a lot about the Bechdel test and what it reveals about the film industry. And there’s been at least one post I could find on a Bechdel standard for video games as well, which is interesting, even though I could dispute a whole bunch of points in the post (such as: [...]
August 11, 2010
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Vodka is for Lame Babies — Take My Word For It
By aliciaaho in Drink, Food and Drink, Gentlemen, Ladies, SocietyPreviously on this blog, I wrote about Caskstrength’s troubling rules for drinking like a man. Today, we’re looking at the first of those rules: No vodka. Vodka is not manly, says Caskstrength. “How so?” you ask. It just isn’t. I have harped on this for too long so I’ll make it crystal fucking clear, there [...]
Tags: dipsography, feminism
August 1, 2010
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The Drink-Like-A-Man Trap.
By aliciaaho in Drink, Food and Drink, Gentlemen, Ladies, SocietyOne night, four of us ended up at Seattle’s lovely Mistral Kitchen for dinner, because the rumor mill had it that the cocktails were pretty good. The rumor mill underestimated by a mile. The cocktails were more than good: they were fantastic. Maybe the best cocktails I’ve ever had: well-crafted, unique, and utterly delicious. And [...]
Tags: dipsography, feminism
July 13, 2010
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Women Like Writing, But Nobody Writes Like Women.
By aliciaaho in Ladies, Society, The Arts, WritingInternet personality quizzes are my Achilles heel. I enjoy finding out what interval best embodies my complex individuality (major 7th, as it happens) and what the shape of my letter A’s says about me on a fundamental level. If I’d been around in the late eighteenth century I would have been totally into phrenology, though [...]
June 1, 2010
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Prostitutes, Villains, and Video Games: A Rant
By aliciaaho in Ladies, SocietyLet’s talk about video games, and the ladies in them. And by ladies, I mean prostitutes. Back in 2008 (Ye Olden Dayes, it seems), Rockstar Games took a lot of heat on account of Grand Theft Auto IV, particularly the fact that within the game, you could hire a prostitute, have sex with her, kill [...]
Tags: feminism, video games