The Disneyfication of Feminism
Screenwriters may have internalized them, graduate schools may have assimilated them, but contemporary romantic comedy heroines are pure corporate product, a desperately pandering and clueless assemblage of received notions, sexual anxiety and recycled focus-group-think handed down over the years like Grandma’s cheesecake recipe. and Romantic comedy heroines aren’t characters anymore, they’re tranquilizers. They provide exactly [...]
...read moreMy Cat Ate My Homework
Doug actually ate my fucking homework.
...read moreFriday Random Ten – The Not Going On Vacation Edition
My whole family including Ethan is headed for the annual family vacation to a lake house in Michigan for a full week of summer fun. Me? I’m in class taking a test. Number of times I’ve been able to enjoy the summer week at the lake house? Zero. Summer classes, baby, and there is a [...]
...read moreGetting To Know You, Getting To Know All About You
I asked, you answered, then I aswered. randomliberal/Robert: What…is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? Are we talking an African swallow or a European swallow? “Although a definitive answer would of course require further measurements, published species-wide averages of wing length and body mass, initial Strouhal estimates based on those averages and cross-species comparisons, [...]
...read moreKnow the Lord
With summer classes afoot, I’ve had to let a few principles go. E goes to a summer camp in the morning and then with my mother in the afternoon. This week, my church-going mother agreed to work the church’s Vacation Bible School, a somewhat innocuous five-day sermon complete with crafts and coloring books. Ethan goes [...]
...read moreRecruitment Calls
The best response I’ve ever heard given to an army recuriter goes a little something like this: “Look, I’m lazy and I’m a fag. I refuse to wake up at 5am every morning to wear that ugly green. And I’m gay! Did you hear that? GAY!” I was tempted to use this line, originally reported [...]
...read moreForty-Four Categorized (But Difficult to Read) Links For Your Perusal
Feminism Men with uppity wives make less money. Why? Because women are naturally suited to housework. No surprise to find that the man conducting this survey is also “very concerned” with “family values,” i.e. subjugation of an entire gender for the children. The children! Were you wondering where the male bloggers were during our latest [...]
...read moreAnother Weblog Survey
This one looks like a class-based survey on webloggers. The total results are available immediately after you are finished. Many of them are quite interesting, not what you would think. There is a serious dearth of women taking this survey. Take it, ladies, and bias be gone (we’d like to think).
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