My post on the Moussaoui verdict got me a link to the National Journal’s Hotline blog … but as a “rightie.”
Yep, that’s right. Right between QandO and Right Wing Nut House.
I’m going to cry now.
UPDATE: They’re fixing it. They saw the little girl with the shotgun and made a wild guess.
I rebuke you and all your rightie ways!
Have they *looked* at this blog, at all?
I shall smite anyone who puts my beloved Feministe in the same company as Andrew Sullivan!
The “Freudian” error begs the question: are there any right-wing feminists even in existence?
Because if there’s anything we at feministe have taken a strong stance against, it’s regulation of automatic and semi-automatic weapons.
Maybe they were reading my post’s?
No, hon. I have much better grammar and punctuation than you.
and I guess this question is for Lauren, but how did you decide on a girl with a gun for Feministe?
So the girl with the gun outweighed the feminist and the implied french-ness (the -iste). I sure hope they don’t read Jesus’ General… they’d end up all confused.
Kate, I thought it was funny. I have cycled through a ton of pin-up girls and finally got tired of them. I decided to go extra campy with a gun gurl pic and when I found this one I knew it was the one. For one, it plays on that reckless, angry feminist gig.
Strange story: I still don’t know how to pronounce the name of this site. I’ve been calling it “Feh-min-eest,” but have heard others call it “Feh-min-eest-ay,” so I just don’t know.
LOL
The worst I’d had happen to me is when I was called bisexual. Not that there’s anything wrong with that… But it is funny that a favourable mention of Monica Bellucci’s bosm would lean one to imagine an entire sexual identity that does not exist.
Or maybe we’re both kidding ourselves. Maybe you’re Pat Robertson, and I’m Clay Aiken. ;)
Jill, I never figured it out either. I bought the domain on a whim after finding out that my other feminist choices were taken. Soopah-funny: when we were mentioned on Air America, the poor guy didn’t know how to pronounce it either. We should take a poll.
I say “Feh-muh-neest,” since there’s no accent aigu on the final e.
Ditto, zuzu. I think Bill Napoli said “Feh muh neest ay” on the radio. I laughed since I had never figured it out either. You’re not supposed to say it, you’re supposed to read it. To youself! On your computer!
I’ve certainly been subvocalizing “Feh-muh-neest”. Abandon your uncertainties, Jill. Join us on the faux-French side.
So nobody else thought it was “feh-muh-NEE-stuh”?
hm. That’s what a linguistics degree will get ya.
I’d never thought of the “-stay” pronunciation, though it seems obvious now.
Fortunately, Lauren’s right… you read it. To yourself. So you could pronounce it “grah-fah-LEE-tum” for all anyone cares.
Let’s take a vote. French or Spanish? :-)
(for the record, I’ve wondered about this since I started reading!)
Chuck, it’s been playing in my head as “Fem-uh-NEE-stuh” too, but I’ve wondered about this for a long time.
I was browsing this site at school when a girl tapped my shoulder and asked if I regurlarly read “Fem-ma-nee-stay.” I was like “yeah?” because I always thought this site was pronouced “fem-uh-neest” and wondered if we were talking about the same site.
I say we take a vote.
French.
If it was Spanish, there’d be an A at the end.
I’d go with Spanish…I like the idea of it being a verb.
Well, in Italian it would be the “stay” pronounciation…
Praise the Lord then, Trailhead. Just one of us doing it that way, hell, we could be crazy! But if there’s two of us, we must be perfectly sane :)
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