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on: February 04, 2011, 07:08:24 PM

The Bell Jar Utd.




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Matches played: 10
Won: 4
Drawn: 5
Lost: 1

TD scored: 13
TD sustained: 8

Casualties Inflicted: 16
Casualties Sustained: 27

Best win: 2 - 0 vs. The Dandies (Bann), Jan 13th 2011
Worst loss: 0 - 1 vs. Diplomatic Immunity (Strazos), Dec 12th 2010

Best Winning Streak: 2 - Jan 13th 2001 - Jan 25th 2011

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The Bell Jar Utd. has been founded by some of the most intelligent, sensitive, artistic, awesome women in the history of humanity. In a game mostly ruled by males of different races and species, this amazing women got together to kindly offer the dudes, willing or not, some perspective. With a baggage of never forgotten battles on their shoulders, and brilliant achievements who inspired generations of women, meet the Amazons and learn why they do what they do. And most importantly, what they did.




#1 - Sylvia Plath, Throweress and Captainess, lev. 3

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932–February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for her two collections The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel. In 1982, she became the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize posthumously for The Collected Poems. She also wrote The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death.






#2 - Simone de Beauvoir, Blitzeress, lev. 1

Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986), was a French existentialist philosopher, public intellectual, and social theorist. She wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography in several volumes, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. She is also noted for her lifelong polyamorous relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre.






#3 - Virginia Woolf, Blitzeress, lev. 3

Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928). Virginia Woolf's concern with feminist thematics are dominant in A Room of One's Own (1929) where she made her famous statement: "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."






#4 - Mary Wollstonecraft, Blitzeress, lev. 3

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason. After Wollstonecraft's death, her widower published a Memoir (1798) of her life, revealing her unorthodox lifestyle, which inadvertently destroyed her reputation for almost a century. However, with the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's advocacy of women's equality and critiques of conventional femininity became increasingly important.






#5 - Margaret Atwood, Blitzeress, lev. 1

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. Margaret Atwood voices strong feminist themes through her writing. In several of her books the female protagonist is a representation of "every women" who is victimized and minimized by gender and politics. Her novels that illustrate her strong feminist views are The Edible Women (1969), Lady Oracle (1976), The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Cat's Eye (1988), and her most recent novel Alias Grace (1996). These novels portray the strength and proactive nature of women as they struggle with inequality.






#6 - Toni Morrison, Catcheress, lev. 2

Toni Morrison (born on February 18, 1931) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. In her work Toni Morrison has explored the experience and roles of black women in a racist and male dominated society. In the center of her complex and multilayered narratives is the unique cultural inheritance of African-Americans. "Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company."' (from Nobel Lecture, 1993)






#7 - Naomi Wolf, Linewoman, lev. 1

Naomi Wolf (born 12 November 1962) is an US author and political consultant. With the publication of The Beauty Myth, she became a leading spokesperson of what was later described as the third wave of the feminist movement. She remains an advocate of feminist causes and liberal/progressive politics, with a more recent emphasis on arguing that there has been a deterioration of democratic institutions in the United States.






#8 - Marguerite Duras, Linewoman, lev. 1

Marguerite Donnadieu (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996) was a French novelist, representative of the nouveau roman, scenarist, playwright, and film director, internationally known for her screenplays of Hiroshima Mon Amour, and India Song. After relatively traditional novels and stories, Duras published in 1958 the novel Moderato Cantabile, which first summarized her themes of sexual desire, love, death, and memory. However, Duras did not publish a manifesto of her ideas like so many representatives of the noveau roman did, but her final work, Ecrite (1995), gave a brief account of her life and theory of writing.






#9 - Helene Cixous, Linewoman, lev. 2

Hélène Cixous (born 5 June 1937) is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. Along with Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva, Cixous is considered one of the mothers of poststructuralist feminist theory. In the 1970s, Cixous began writing about the relationship between sexuality and language. Like other poststructuralist feminist theorists, Cixous believes that our sexuality is directly tied to how we communicate in society. In 1975, Cixous published her most influential article "Le rire de la méduse".






#10 - Octavia Butler, Linewoman, lev. 1

Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. She described herself as "comfortably asocial—a hermit in the middle of Seattle—a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive." Themes of both racial and sexual ambiguity are apparent throughout her work.






#11 - Andrea Dworkin, Linewoman, lev. 3

Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women, and for statements that were interpreted as claiming that all heterosexual sex is rape, an interpretation she rejected.
An anti-war activist and anarchist in the late 1960s, Dworkin wrote 10 books on radical feminist theory and practice. During the late 1970s and the 1980s, she gained national fame as a spokeswoman for the feminist anti-pornography movement, and for her writing on pornography and sexuality, particularly in Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1981) and Intercourse (1987), which remain her two most widely known books.






#12 - Staceyann Chin, Catcheress, lev. 1

Staceyann Chin (born 1971) is a spoken word poet, performing artist and LGBT rights political activist. Her work has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Pittsburgh Daily, and has been featured on 60 Minutes. She was also featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where she shared her struggles growing up homosexual in Jamaica. Openly lesbian, she has been an "out poet and political activist" since 1998. Chin credits her accomplishments to her hard-working grandmother's and the pain of her mother's absence.






#13 - Erykah Badu, Linewoman, lev. 1

Erica Abi Wright (born February 26, 1971), is an American recording artist, record producer and actress. She is best known for her role in the rise of the neo soul sub-genre, and for her eccentric, cerebral musical stylings and sense of fashion. She is known as the "First Lady of Neo-Soul" or the "Queen of Neo-Soul". For her musical sensibilities, she has often been compared to jazz great Billie Holiday. On March 13, 2010, Erykah Badu shed her clothes as she walked along a Dallas, Texas, sidewalk until she was nude at the site where President Kennedy was assassinated. Suddenly, a shot rang out as the song ended; Badu's head jerked back and she fell to the ground. The result was a controversial video for her song "Window Seat".






#14 - Ursula Rucker, Linewoman, lev. 1

Ursula Rucker is an American spoken word recording artist. Rucker is known for a diverse repertoire, and for utilizing techniques that catch her listeners' attention, both of which have brought her critical acclaim and widespread praise from fans. She also envisions a black feminist worldview that transcends specific gender politics and can be extended to efforts to "emerge from the muck and mire" and "set the brainwashed up masses on fire."






#15 - Alice Walker, Throweress, lev. 2

Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African American author and poet. She has written at length on issues of race and gender, and is most famous for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She's credited with introducing the word "womanist" for African American feminism. Additionally, Walker has published several short stories, including the 1973 Everyday Use, in which she discusses feminism, racism against blacks, and the issues raised by young black people who leave home and lose respect for their parents' culture.







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Reply #1 on: February 04, 2011, 07:34:00 PM

You're missing my favorite feminist!

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Reply #2 on: February 04, 2011, 07:46:52 PM

Heh she's awesome Sjofn. But honestly, I am missing SO MANY, I just mixed it up between personal faves, different eras, and just who I could think of the day I created the team without having a headache cause I am old and forgetful.

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Reply #3 on: February 04, 2011, 07:46:55 PM

Very nice.

When I saw Butler, I was expecting Judith, but I gotta say when I first saw your team lineup I was jealous. Virginia Woolf and Emily Dickinson make frequent appearances in games-where-I-get-to-name-people. I am still sad that I forgot to name my Necromantic team.

Actually it turns out that Simone de Beauvoir is playing on more than one team -- appropriately enough -- as she appears occasionally for my Paris Existentialist-themed DE team in the Feeder League. Only a pale imitation of the Amazon original, of course!

So when will the jerseys be available for purchase?
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Reply #4 on: February 04, 2011, 07:51:25 PM

So when will the jerseys be available for purchase?

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Don't give me ideas. As you can clearly see, I am totally insane (and I might end up doing that).

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Reply #5 on: February 04, 2011, 08:09:50 PM


I think a PLATH 9 football jersey would be pretty stylin', to be honest.
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Reply #6 on: February 04, 2011, 08:33:14 PM

I'm guessing that asking your team to organise sandwiches for the playoffs wouldn't be received well?

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Reply #7 on: February 04, 2011, 09:00:20 PM

I'm guessing that asking your team to organise sandwiches for the playoffs wouldn't be received well?

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See those 15 raging faces? That's my team chasing your ass to make fat steaks out of it, Iain.

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Reply #8 on: February 04, 2011, 10:09:14 PM

The Norse look forward to invoking their Diplomatic Immunity in handing you another loss in the near future.  Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

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Reply #9 on: February 04, 2011, 11:53:46 PM

Actually it turns out that Simone de Beauvoir is playing on more than one team -- appropriately enough -- as she appears occasionally for my Paris Existentialist-themed DE team in the Feeder League. Only a pale imitation of the Amazon original, of course!
A few of my MMO characters are named after her as well. Apparently I'm not as weird as I thought.
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