Yo Majesty

really cool pix of Yo Majesty, who will be headlining at our event, Lady Party 911, on Tuesday, September 11th at the Echoplex in Los Angeles. We can't wait to see you...

The Romantic Comedy Trend

Don't know if you happened to see this - GREAT article
in the New Yorker from a few weeks back. It's about the
current "romantic comedy" trend and where it is going,
where it's been and where it's at. Very validating. What do you think?

WORLD'S HIGHEST PAID SEX WORKER?

Modern feminism has evolved to a place where we understand that we must align with ALL women, including working women and stay-at-home-moms and strippers and sex workers-- with the understanding that inside our still-patriarchal culture, our choices are often limited by the very lack of them.

But do we only love sex workers who make less than 25k before taxes a year? If Britney were a single mom who stripped every night and had a hard time getting childcare for her babies, would we have a lot more sympathy for her? Is it only the ginormous amount of money she makes that instead causes us to point to her and her ilk as the DOWNFALL of modern lady power?

Paris NOT an influence on girls?

Or at least not as strong an influence as we've assumed? Saw this post on another women's forum I subscribe to. Could we be overstating the influence Paris, Lindsey et. al. have on young women?

"Paris. Can we please unofficially put a ban on mentioning that name or anything to do with that name unless it is in reference to the French City. I've been asking young teens and tweens their opinion and none of them like her. Seems to me that it is the adults perpetuating the image. DON'T buy the gossip mags. I can truly say that I have bought only one of these magazines in the past 10 years."

Can we go AROUND Paris or do we have to go through her?

my friend Becky's theory

My good friend Becky Thyre emailed me this weekend a little epiphany she had and I thought it would make a cool blog topic....

Becky said:

"I just had an idea that explains the whole
male/female sexual thing. Didn't I read somewhere
that clitorises are just like penises, but they're
wound into the body (which explains the G-spot, it's
stimulating a part of the penis/clitoris that is near
the inside of the vaginal wall)?

So, the whole penis-envy thing is really us knowing
what it's like to have a penis, but ours is a little
harder to get to, just like adults reminisce about
childhood and how direct and simple it was.

And THAT'S why I think women can know what turns men
on and focus on it because we're really turning on our
own original penises that are now a little numbed by
their distance from the air so that we have more
motivation to think about things."

thoughts, ya'll? I have my own theories about why arousing and satisfying male sexual pleasure seems to take a precedence in our culture... would love to hear yours...

LANGUAGE, language!

Tracy McMillain is so brilliant I'm cutting and pasting her words here so maybe we can get some chicks a'talking....

A few of the Object-starting ladies have been having conversations in emails... if we were to rebrand feminism, what would it look like? I think the reason OBJECT happened upon the idea of a somewhat sexuality-focussed conversation is because that's always where feminism seems to slow down-- this side-choosing business about the young n the old, the Paris n the not, the 20 vs. 40, the OBJECT vs. NOW...

She wrote so eloquently about some stuff we might wish to mix into the language of this site... we'd love your feedback, plus your feedbackof the language used anywhere else on tis siteor on myspace.... hence the title, FEEDBACK!

Tracy's brilliant lovely words:

"I'd like to see OBJECT and THE CONVERSATION as a place where we can come together as women - with any set of political beliefs, backgrounds, skin colors, etc. - and connect in a way that affirms the particular power of being female. To me that power is more internal
than external, it is non-competitive, non-hierarchical, cooperative, personal, intimate, truthful, heart-centered, and spiritual - based more on the unseen than the seen.

What the world needs now is women grounded in their own feminine wisdom and values. To me, if women couldn't be cajoled, seduced, talked out, lured out, or put out of their inner truth, you wouldn't HAVE 'Girls Gone Wild', the rape of planet, unwinnable wars or painfully-mothered boys turning into fearful and misogynistic men.

I'm less in interested in becoming a political group per se... than a personal group which supports women in becoming more of who they really are - without all the cultural, racial, economic, and political static. This will necessarily lead to political change.

There are many groups already that focus on specific political issues. And unless we all have exactly the same politics, (or nearly exactly), I think a political focus ultimately excludes more than it includes.

What I really want to be a part of is a community of women who gather for the purpose of transforming what it means to be feminist: From
(blank) to (blank). And each woman gets to fill in the blanks for
herself.

I'd hate to see Republican women, for instance, or women who don't
believe in abortion feel like OBJECT is "not for them", because we've
decided to take an official stand on this or that issue. Every town in
America would benefit from an OBJECT group!!

What would really blow people's minds and move this whole country
forward, is if we could start a movement dedicated to finding and
holding unity among all women. A loose, non-political organization of
this kind would foment all kinds of art, business, scholarship, media,
friendship, parenting, creativity, music... sky's the limit.

The "Captivity" Conversation Continues

One of our favorite feminist thinkers, Amelia G of BlueBlood.net, recently weighed in on the "Captivity" billboard controversy, and some of what she says suprised us (plus, Girl clearly did her research). Check it out and let us know what you think. http://www.blueblood.net/2007/07/captivitycontroversy/