Culture
Douchebag Decree: Bad Mothering Lawsuit
In 2009, two adult children filed a lawsuit to sue their mother, Kimberly Garrity, for more than $50,000 in “emotional distress” damages. At the time, twentysomething Steven II and eighteensomething Kathryn alleged their mother failed to do her motherly duties thereby accusing Kimberly Garrrity of... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Rena
I used to live in a neighborhood boasting several martial-arts schools, and always liked walking by at night to see them all lit up and peopled with serious-looking little girls and boys in their crisp white gis. But it wasn't until recently that I heard about the woman who was partially... Read more »
Sexual Inadequacy: By Blood or Marriage
Essentially this judge, the dishonorable Charley E. Prine Jr. of Harris County, has decided that even though there is no evidence to suggest that a gay man is even statistically AS likely to molest a child, that Flowers cannot trust Evans to watch the children while he does anything. No grocery... Read more »
We're All Mad Here: Pharmaceutical Advertising and Messaging About Mental Illness
Advertising is as much a part of pop culture as deliberately created works of art.
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We're All Mad Here: Crazy Ladies in <em>Batman: The Animated Series</em>
“We’re all mad here” might be the best description of almost all of the characters in Batman: The Animated Series, including the caped crusader himself. Most of the villains in Batman are super criminals with personal obsessions that drive their crime sprees well beyond the... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Southwest Airlines
When I heard that Southwest had done something appalling, my first thought was, “Again?”
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We're All Mad Here: <em>Sucker Punch</em> Tackles Abuse In Asylums
This post discusses abuse in asylums, including sexual assault. It discusses the history of lobotomies and describes (briefly) the procedure. It also contains spoilers for the movie Sucker Punch.
I went to see Sucker Punch expecting a light piece of fluff that involved... Read more »
We're All Mad Here: Mental Illness in YA Fiction
Young adult literature features a number of depictions of mentally ill characters, from authors who both bother to do their homework and take the time to present their work well and authors who don’t seem to feel that research and sensitivity are necessary. In YA especially, depictions of... Read more »
On Our Radar
Great links to keep you busy this weekend!
The Rotund reports on Fat Ladies in Spaaaaaaaaace: A Body Positive Coloring Book. Someone get this for me please!
Leticia St. Remy at Xhibit P compares the... Read more »
Murder, She Blogged: Young Detectives
One of the reasons the detective genre is so beloved for so many of us, I think, is because we grow up on mysteries and detective stories.
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