My Students are Not “My Customers” by Michelle at Balancing Jane — ‘His attitude, though, and the idea that I was “on his dime” is one that is becoming increasingly popular on college campuses. Students are now seen as “customers.” The buzz word is everywhere. College staff wear IDs to provide better “customer service” and campuses need to adapt to their “customer’s needs.”‘
Fat, Trans and (Working on Being) Fine With It by Mey at Autostraddle — “So not only do I have to deal with the crippling dysphoria that comes from having a body that I often don’t even recognize as my own, I also have to deal with the cultural misogyny that tells me that a woman can’t be as big and fat as I am and still be desirable.”
Victim blaming in America has become something even deeper and uglier: the complete reversal of victim and perpetrator. by Zack Budryk at Style Weekly — “Two years ago, after CBS correspondent Lara Logan was sexually assaulted in Cairo, Egypt, and greeted by a wave of implications that she brought it on herself, I suggested in a back page essay that 2011 was shaping up to be the year of the victim blamer. Now, it seems I was wrong.”
Benevolent Sexism, Again by Fannie at Fannie’s Room — ‘But, the thing is, people who express benevolently sexist ideas are acknowledging that they view men and women as discrete, fundamentally different (or “opposite”) creatures and that they, accordingly, treat men and women very differently.’
Project Bendypants: Practicing Yoga While Fat by Tiffany at More Cabaret — “You see, I apparently committed an unspoken offense to many of the yoga teachers I encountered: I attempted to practice yoga while fat.”