Here is a video about the biological importance of mom. This video is dedicated to my moms and my sister-in-law.
Thanks Mom! “Slightly more than 1/2 of everything I am is thanks to you!”
Posted in Songs and Music on May 9, 2010| 2 Comments »
Here is a video about the biological importance of mom. This video is dedicated to my moms and my sister-in-law.
Thanks Mom! “Slightly more than 1/2 of everything I am is thanks to you!”
Posted in Songs and Music on May 6, 2010| 1 Comment »
This is a great video I ran across via Fickle as the Breeze
The composer of the song is John Boswell and he has more songs (available for free download) and videos at The Symphony of Science Website. Boswell also has a YouTube page with songs from his various projects.
Boswell’s other project is called Colorpulse and on some tracks, he sets philosophy to music.
Posted in Video Games, tagged Dancing Demon, Dragon Age: Origins, Emerald City Confidential, Flower, Frogger Beyond, Little Big Planet, LittleBigPlanet2, Marketing, Mirror's Edge, Portal, Portal 2, The Oregon Trail on May 5, 2010| 6 Comments »
One of my favorite blogs, The Border House, is renewing a meme about game covers that women want to see. The meme encourages women to write a post about the kinds of game covers that made us want to play a game. The Border House is compiling a list of these blog posts at the site. If we want stuff that is made for us and marketed toward us, then it makes sense to express our preferences around marketing. I agree.
Here’s how it goes…
Ladies, what RPG covers (or interiors) have you seen that involve a woman in the art that make you say, “I want to play that” or, just as good “I want to play her.” Or that make you feel like it is a game you could like, or be included in by a group of guys you’d never met and whose maturity you didn’t necessarily know?
I dropped one of the conditions. I dropped the condition that the cover should “involve a woman” because I also often find androgynous covers attract me, and I also like some covers that involve masculine figures, as long as they don’t seem anti-female humans. My additions are below the jump:
Posted in Songs and Music, Video Games, tagged Ableism, Portal on May 3, 2010| 1 Comment »
I missed the “Blogging Against Disablism Day” on May 1, 2010, because I was still in the throws of technology failures. They are over now! Yippi! Thanks to patient partner for working on the problem for a whole two weeks.
Here is a great video of my favorite song from Portal in lieu of the post I would have written on Saturday.
More ASL videos are posted at Stephen Torrence’s YouTube page Captain Valor
There is more about the ASL video project at his blog Bad Philosophy
Posted in Ethics, Feminism, Health Care, Sexism and Gendered Norms, tagged Autonomy and Relational Autonomy, Cosmetic Surgery, Difference, Health Care Access, Media, Racism, Respect, TV, Vulvic on May 2, 2010| 13 Comments »
About ten years ago I was at a meeting and we were discussing what the policy on female genital cutting (FGC, female genital mutilation (FGM), or female circumcision) should be in the hospitals of the Canadian city where I was living at the time. The woman who was giving the presentation about the facts of FGC said at one point in the presentation that there was “no benefit” to FGC that could be weighted against its harms. Now, I do not support FGC in any way, but I was also quite bothered by this statement because it is one that renders the women who engage in FGC unintelligible and irrational, which makes discussing FGC with women impossible. I have been thinking about this issue again because I recently saw this video about the increasing requests for labiaplasty in Australia (The video is NSFW):