Real Consent Manifesta
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...read moreGrannies Gone Wild
I’m hestitant to wade into the pornography wars, but this article should give all of us more than a little bit to cringe about. Yes, it’s about the latest “fetish” — women over the age of 40, doin’ it on camera. And, from the way the article reads, doing it for male viewers and to [...]
...read moreMiddle School Girls Gone Wild
It’s hard to write this without sounding like a prig. But it’s just as hard to erase the images that planted the idea for this essay, so here goes. The scene is a middle school auditorium, where girls in teams of three or four are bopping to pop songs at a student talent show. Not [...]
...read moreBecause we’re so fucking enlightened
We invade other countries, prop up a legal charade, and execute their leaders. I hate Saddam Hussein as much as the next person. He was a dictator and a major human rights abuser, and he deserved to be tried for crimes against humanity. But what better way to promote international human rights than to execute [...]
...read moreFriday Random Ten, and Dog-Blogging
1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – O’Malley’s Bar 2. Nina Simone – Just Like a Woman 3. Aphex Twin – Radiator 4. The Smiths – These Things Take Time 5. John Coltrane – Equinox 6. The Cramps – I Was a Teenage Werewolf 7. Portishead – Glory Box 8. Magnetic Fields – Epitaph [...]
...read moreFeminist Bloggers Take Over the World
Or at least city council in Iran. Congrats to Mehrnoush Najafi!
...read more“Science” Confirms: I’m Female
And so is PZ Myers. This “gendered brain” quiz is making the rounds again (I’ve taken it before), and I score somewhere in the neighborhood of average for women who’ve taken the survey. Basically, though, it appears to be for crap. Echidne notes the bias in the questions designed to test how emotional you are: [...]
...read moreJust thought you’d all be dying to know…
My butt hurts.
...read moreWhat’s Wrong With This Picture?
From Sara Robinson at Orcinus: it may take a few years but the country is waking up to just how extreme the religious right is, and turning away in disgust. They’re no longer hiding their agenda — you might have noticed that they’re openly advocating making birth control illegal and wishing women didn’t have the [...]
...read moreI have a question
And it’s about 30 years too late, but what the hell. The damn movie’s on right now. So, in Star Wars, at the whole medal ceremony thingie at the end when Leia is giving out medals for the destruction of the Death Star – Why in the fuck doesn’t Chewbacca get one? He was only [...]
...read moreChef and Lauren sittin’ in a tree
Mawwiage. Go congratulate the old lady fer doin’ the matrimony thing.
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Okay.
So several people whom I appreciate a great deal have written about this post–or, rather, the development of its comments thread. They’ve already dealt with the categorization of some comments as hate speech, and the ways in which they are hateful, and I’m tired–so I’ll simply link their incisive analyses. But I have some questions, [...]
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