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- PE and the clothes that were worn - The Fergus Falls Daily Journal - Fergus Falls Daily Journal
- Olivia Munn’s Bizarre Vendetta Against One of the Least-Mean Fashion Sites on the Internet - Slate
- Houston High School Under Fire for Instituting Dress Code — for Parents - The Cut
- Supreme Court sides with father in dispute over child's gender identification - Arizona Capitol Times
- Chicago police searching for 2 men who briefly abducted 12-year-old girl on Southwest Side - Chicago Tribune
| PE and the clothes that were worn - The Fergus Falls Daily Journal - Fergus Falls Daily Journal Posted: 24 Apr 2019 08:39 PM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content]PE and the clothes that were worn - The Fergus Falls Daily Journal Fergus Falls Daily Journal You have read 1 of 10 articles. Log In or Subscribe. Column: A Backward Glance: By Sue Wilken. I attend a water exercise class at the YMCA. I only get there ...  |
| Olivia Munn’s Bizarre Vendetta Against One of the Least-Mean Fashion Sites on the Internet - Slate Posted: 25 Apr 2019 12:25 PM PDT  We're not allowed to say anything about this outfit, just that this is Olivia Munn on April 4 in Los Angeles. Vivien Killilea/Getty Images With an essay she posted to Twitter on Thursday, actress Olivia Munn has sounded a declaration of war. Her target? An independent fashion blog with one-eighth of her following. Munn wrote that the blog Go Fug Yourself is "at the forefront" of "the perpetual minimization of women" and that it "shouldn't get away with spewing vitriol" anymore. "Blogs like theirs have been around for awhile, with their snarkiness and hypocrisy on full display," Munn wrote. "And we've accepted it because as women we've been conditioned to believe that being publicly chastised for our weight, our looks, or our choice in clothing is an acceptable part of our existence." Munn goes on to draw a comparison between the blog and the boys at a Maryland high school who circulated a list that ranked their female classmates by their looks. For anyone who's ever read Go Fug Yourself, Munn's choice to focus on the fun, light-hearted, good-spirited blog is a bit of a head-scratcher. The site, despite its somewhat off-color title (fug is short for "fugly," or "fucking ugly"), is actually one of the nicest blogs in the fashion and celebrity online ecosystem, and one that has for years made a point of keeping its critiques to the clothes famous people are wearing rather than their looks or their size. For a site that came up in an earlier and meaner internet era when Perez Hilton reigned over the blogosphere, this is an admirable, and rare, stance. Munn accuses the blog of body-shaming, but its writers take pains not to do so in their posts and to root out such behavior in their community. Munn also calls out the Fug girls for perpetuating the idea that women are only as good as their looks, but the site covers—and critiques—both genders. What's more, Go Fug Yourself is hardly a powerful corporate behemoth that profits hand over fist for taking down everything Olivia Munn wears—it's essentially a small business, run by its two founders, Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan. It's influential and well-known on its corner of the internet, but with about 100,000 followers on Twitter, its reach pales in comparison to the 800,000 followers Munn commands. Munn is a movie star, and Cocks and Morgan are a couple of freelance writers trying to make a living. Munn wrote in the essay she posted that "it feels like a losing game to go up against anyone who will inevitably spend a large portion of their time retaliating & further smearing your name across social media," but it is Cocks and Morgan, not Munn, who stand to face social media harassment or worse after Munn directed her much larger fan base toward them. Munn may get aggressive comments too—that's social media for you—but she has resources to protect herself that Cocks and Morgan lack. On top of all this, I really must emphasize that the site is not attacking celebrities personally.
Notice that this does not say Olivia looks ugly or fat in this outfit, just that it's "absurd." Nothing about her looks or body, just an objective description. Seriously, how else is one supposed to describe the random piece of tulle hanging down from between her legs? The bathroom language may fool readers into thinking this is rude, and it certainly is cheeky, but it's fundamentally a comment about what Munn is wearing, not her. "An incredibly disapproving HMMMMMPH" is an exceedingly polite way of saying that an outfit doesn't work. Brutal, right?
This is fashion criticism, not body-shaming. It's not "bad for women" to treat actresses' clothes and self-presentation as worthy of notice and criticism. Munn herself, for all her protests that she doesn't want anyone to talk about her clothes, has posted those clothes and their credits on her Instagram account, which shows that she too finds fashion fun and interesting and worth paying attention to—but only if you praise her, apparently. (Unfortunately, Munn joins a wave of celebrities who have confused criticism with harassment in recent weeks. As Alan Zilberman quipped on Twitter, "Between Ariana Grande, Michael Che, Colin Jost, Lizzo, and now Olivia Munn, I'm glad these pampered rich people are displaying genuine courage by punching down at the smallest slight.") Celebrities' public and red-carpet appearances are just as much a part of their jobs as their acting roles. When celebrities pose at premieres, promote their movies, and appear on late-night shows, they're creating personas and brands, and it's worth noting that some of them are better at that than others, that some stylists are more skilled than others, that some publicists excel at crafting stars' media personalities. This also, frankly, helps puncture the belief that what stars do is effortless—behind each one stands a team of people propping them up. A good publicist, for example, might have advised Munn that writing a two-page essay about a breezy, not-very-powerful blog was a bad idea.  |
| Houston High School Under Fire for Instituting Dress Code — for Parents - The Cut Posted: 26 Apr 2019 10:24 AM PDT  Photo: Daniel Barry/EPA/REX/Shutterstock There are very few perks to being grown, but not having to wear a dress code to school is supposed to be one of them. The New York Times reported on Thursday that James Madison High School in Houston, Texas, has broken that sacred covenant between adults and school administrators and, like many scandals involving dress codes, it was done in a discriminatory fashion. The public school notified the families of its 1,600 students this month that visitors to the school would be turned away if they wore any of its newly banned styles, including sagging clothing, jeans torn from the "buttocks (bottom) to all the way down," pajamas, hair rollers, and satin caps and bonnets." This final item targets black women, who wear bonnets to protect their hair. The Times reports that the school's student body is 58 percent Hispanic and 40 percent black. The condescending letter — which was sent out the day after a mother named Joselyn Lewis told a local TV station the school had prevented her from registering her daughter for class on account of her her outfit — goes on to tell parents: "You are your child's first teacher. However, please know we have standards, most of all we must have high standards. We are preparing your child for a prosperous future … This is a professional educational environment where we are teaching our children what is right and what is correct or not correct." Lewis told the Times of her encounter with the new policy, "I don't have to get all dolled up to enroll her to school. My child's education — anyone's child's education — should be more important than what someone has on." This latest dress-code controversy comes in the midst of a national discourse about how racism gets baked into standards of professionalism. New York State recently passed a law classifying ill treatment based on natural hairstyles as harassment and discrimination and implementing policies that penalize such behavior. The directive states that, "Anti-Black racism can be explicit and implicit, individual and structural, and it can manifest through entrenched stereotypes an biases, conscious and unconscious … [it] includes discrimination based on characteristics and cultural practices associated with being Black." Carefully policed style codes for students are also frequently reported in education. Recently, black students have been reprimanded for wearing hair extensions, head wraps, and dreadlocks. A report published by the National Women's Law Center last year found that in D.C. schools, dress codes are disproportionately enforced against black girls, which contributes to their being 20.8 times more likely than white girls to be suspended from schools.  |
| Posted: 25 Apr 2019 03:41 PM PDT  Arizona Supreme Court (Dillon Rosenblatt/Arizona Capitol Times) Family courts have no right to interfere with the decisions of a parent given sole legal custody of a child after a divorce absent some showing of specific harm, even when the issue involves the youngster's decisions about sexual identification, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Thursday. In a warning of sorts to family court judges, the justices said they can impose specific limits on the power of the parent who is the sole decision maker. One example, they said, is a decision to refuse to retain particular therapeutic services if it would endanger the child's physical health or significantly impair the child's emotional development. "But any limitation must be tailored to prevent or remedy the endangerment or impairment," wrote Justice Ann Scott Timmer for the unanimous court. More to the point, she told family court judges to shelve their own views. "The court must be mindful not to unnecessarily intrude on the sole legal decision-maker's unshared authority to make major decisions concerning the child's upbringing, even if those decisions conflict with expert opinion or the court's own views on child rearing," Timmer wrote. What makes Thursday's ruling particularly significant is that the underlying dispute involves gender-identification questions of the child who is biologically male. Divorced three years after the birth, the court granted both father and mother joint legal decision-making authority with equal parenting time. But the father was given final authority about the child's education, medical and dental care. The dispute erupted when the father learned that the mother was attempting to socially transition the child to identify as female, with what Timmer said were sometimes negative consequences. The father agreed to counseling, including allowing the child to explore wearing clothes and playing with toys typically associated with girls, while at the mother's house. But the mother went beyond that, including allowing the child to appear in public in clothes associated with girls and even speaking with the child, 5 at the time, about sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy. Medical professionals diagnosed the child with gender dysphoria of childhood, meaning a marked difference between biological and experienced or expressed gender. Ultimately the family court judge appointed a specific treating therapist for the child and a consulting expert for the court, moves that Timmer said restrained the father's authority. That, she wrote, was beyond the court's power – and contrary to state law. "(The law) authorized the family court to impose a specific limitation on the sole legal decision-maker's authority only when the other parent demonstrates that absent that limitation, the child would be physically endangered or the child's emotional development would be significantly impaired," the justice said. And Timmer made it clear that the issues here – including "the complexity of the child's situation" – did not rise to that level. "Fit parents, like Father, frequently guide their children through complex situations without court interference," she wrote. And Timmer said there is no suggestion that the father will exercise his authority in a way that endangers the child. She acknowledged that the father has, in the past, been reluctant to accept the diagnosis of gender dysphoria. But Timmer said that "does not demonstrate he would fail to appropriately address that diagnosis in the future." And Timmer said the father has been willing to allow the child to explore gender issues in his home and learn himself about gender issues. But Timmer said there is something else: There is no evidence that even if the father mismanaged the gender dysphoria diagnosis by acting on his own, without court oversight, that would put the child at risk for harm.  |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2019 06:40 AM PDT Chicago police are looking for two men who briefly abducted a 12-year-old girl in Gage Park on the Southwest Side before she was able to escape their van Thursday. The girl was walking in the 3200 block of West 53rd Street around 3:10 p.m. when one of the men grabbed her and forced her into a white van, police said in an alert. The man got into the front passenger seat and told the driver to take off. The van sped away, but the girl was able to leave the van "after a brief period of time." One of the men was described as Hispanic, 30 to 35 years old, about 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-9, with "small brown eyes," a thick beard and mustache, and wearing all black clothing. The other man was described only as white and wearing black clothing too. The van had sliding doors and small windows, police said. Anyone with information can contact Area Central detectives at 312-747-8380.  |
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