Oscar Eve Link Love

Actually, nothing about the Oscars in these links. In case you’re wondering what I’m pulling for tomorrow night:

Best Picture: The Reader
Best Actress: Kate Winslet
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke
Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin
Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei

I think I’ll get the main actor and actress awards right, but lose the other three. Never mind.

Some Saturday night links:

Jessica issues a stirring rebuke to those who insist on peddling the “hook-up-culture-is-ruining-our-daughters’-lives” myth.

Amanda hits it out of the park with a similar post: “Dangerous Young Women Who Know Themselves.”

Violet Socks on Women’s Rights and Culture — a nice corrective to those who think feminists ought to think twice before criticizing the way non-Western societies treat women.

Amber Rhea on class consciousness.

Jenell Paris, one of my favorite Christian feminists writers in the whole ‘sphere, put up a very insightful series: What Evangelicalism Likes. Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four.

Many years ago, Jenell (who is an anthro prof at Messiah College in Pennsylvania) and I joked we were going to form the North American Evangelical Gender Studies Association (NAEGSA). If you’re a feminist — and your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life — and you were born again of water and spirit — AND you believe gender is largely a social construct rather than a biological or divinely-ordained reality — well, we’ve got a place for ya in our little club.