I’ve seen a lot of articles in my newsfeed/ facebook feed about feminists being concerned with hypocritical icons of feminism. I think some of them are satire, but some of […]
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Melissa Fong: Should your daughter get the HPV Vaccine?
I can understand the anxiety about the vaccine. I can. Something that is intimately tied to our daughters sexuality is really freaky especially when we’re talking about children that we don’t even want to think about as sexual creatures.
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Lena Dunham: My body’s nobody’s body but mine! You run your own body, let me run mine!
“My body’s nobody’s body but mine! You run your own body, let me run mine!” -Old song that used be in the elementary sex-ed program in the Canadian Curriculum Here […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Makeup for Women of colour and Essentializing skintone
Makeup for Women of colour People of Colour and Essentializing skintone We all know the problem of makeup and shade selection for women of colour (or women of very little […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Oh Lily Allen…no… just no
1) I’m sure you didn’t specify “Black bootylicious Twerkers” but I’m POSITIVE you casted for a “look” that your itsy bitsy -can’t-see-beyond-stereotypes- brain can’t comprehend at the moment. 2) Of course you aren’t going to send them away when you found exactly what you were attempting to portray. The intent
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Russell Brand admits he “suffers from the ol’ sexism”
I suppose Brand is also reading and listening to the critics too: One thing I’ve learned and was surprised by is that I may suffer from the ol’ sexism. I can only assume I have an unaddressed cultural hangover, like my adorable Nan who had a heart that shone like
Continue readingMelissa Fong: What the heck is a complementarist?
What the heck is a complementarist? Well I will tell you. [3] I was forced to look this up when I noticed that some of the traffic to my blog was also overlapping somewhat with people who would call themselves “Complementarians” (this is probably due to my awesome Feminist rants
Continue readingMelissa Fong: SNL and Black female comedians
Kerry Washington hosted SNL tonight and she was good. They poked fun about this scandal- that SNL didn’t hire any black women. That was a funny enough sketch. But what I found MOST refreshing was that we got to see a black woman just act and not have to be
Continue readingMelissa Fong: I have a confession: I am a Feminist
I have a confession: I am a Feminist. I honestly don’t know what happened or when it happened. All I know is that for the time that I’ve been actively blogging under my own name (I have blogged for a long time under a pen name on other sites) I
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Harassment on Translink
One of the ways that many countries offer against harassment are female only cars on transit. While this option has proven to make women feel safer, there are a few barriers such as transgendered people’s access to these cars and the fact that not all harassment on transit is male
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Are UBC Sauder Business/Commerce students just jerks?
UBC Sauder School of Business is one of few business schools in Canada that produce some serious leaders in our capitalist economy (both here and internationally). These are the same people that will take top positions at big companies; the same people that will develop multi-million/billion(?) entrepreneurial companies; and the
Continue readingMelissa Fong: The idiocy of the men’s rights movement….
Most of you who have conversed with me know my deep passion AGAINST the men’s rights movement. I can rant on forever why many men’s rights activists don’t really understand that the things they are against are actually the work of patriarchy and sexism. But hey, many men’s rights movement
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Rape Culture- Men become men through violence against women.
I was surprised that The Toronto Star took on the topic of Rape Culture in a researched way. “Rape culture: What do Steubenville, Rehtaeh Parsons and frosh chants have in common?: An invisible circuit of social attitudes, laws and cultural phenomena exists that normalize and even encourage rape.” is definitely a
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Protecting sex workers and brothels: Demonstrations over London prostitute evictions
I wrote this, “Micro-brothels” in BC: Are we still criminalizing prostitution? a couple weeks ago to also make sure that we’re properly protecting the rights of sex workers who choose the industry. Generally, I fear a call to shut down all brothels will increase harm to sex workers. I’m especially worried about neighbours
Continue readingMelissa Fong: “Micro-brothels” in BC: Are we still criminalizing prostitution?
“Micro-brothels” in BC: Are we still criminalizing prostitution? The short answer: YES. Now the long answer: I’ve seen a couple articles in Vancouver’s 24hr News about how micro-brothels are a booming and we should be really scared because micro-brothels are dangerous. See here and here. First article: Sex-worker activist Sue
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Sinead O’Connor likes to slut-shame
Sinead O’Connor slut-shaming: “Taking me on is even more fuckin’ stupid than behaving like a prostitute and calling it feminism…I am staggered that any 20 yr old woman of the 21st century could behave in such a dangerous and irresponsible manner as to not only send the signal to young
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Reading between sexist, racist and classist lines: Sinead O’Connor gives some “motherly” advice to Miley Cyrus
Sinead O’Connor wrote an open letter to Miley Cyrus shaming her recent image and her “handlers” for letting her do videos full of nudity. It is a response to Miley’s statement in the Rolling Stones Interview: It’s the opposite of the VMAs. It’s like the Sinead O’Connor video [for “Nothing Compares
Continue readingMelissa Fong: I like Miley Cyrus’ unapologetic style
Okay, this is going to be incredibly out of character for me. But I am going to join the celebrity trash and write about my slight admiration for Miley Cyrus. I’m of the generation that knew her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, much better. I don’t care for critiquing young Hollywood
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Where are you from? No, like, where are you REALLY from?
I have written a little bit about this before here, but now that this video is circulating I want to write a little more about it. Ien Ang (2001) also writes a really good book on it called, On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West (I love
Continue readingMelissa Fong: “Fight for liberation, not privilege”: For those who fight for Equity, not equality
Sometimes you read something that is so good and encapsulates what your heart has been wrenching about that you must share it. I have followed the Gay rights movement, the Queer rights movement and the general sentiment of “Just let me be a f*cking PERSON” movement for a long time.
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