Dirty Underwear
A while back, Blue Girl linked to this article about waiting tables in a gimmick restaurant where the diners eat in total darkness. Not my idea of an enjoyable meal (and why not just spread a tarp across the dining-room floor and grope for the bucket of hidden chicken for free?), but it is apparently [...]
...read moreHitler Cats
Check it out. That one guy looks more like Groucho than Hitler, though.
...read moreHe did not just say that! Yes. No! Yes.
So I followed zuzu’s link to McBoing’s takedown of Hugo’s advice to the self-centered pseudo-feminist. Hugo, with a nom du fil of “Apologist Tool,” commented on her post: I agree that the way I wrote the post left it open to misinterpretation. The key thing I would like to stress is that unlike a great [...]
...read more“Nice Guys”
I see that piny beat me to the punch on commenting on Amanda’s post encompassing “Nice Guys,” Hugo’s advice to a young man in his class who was disappointed that feminism wasn’t getting him laid, and McBoing’s post excoriating Hugo for the advice, and a bunch of comments batting about the whole “Nice Guy” phenomenon. [...]
...read moreDelightful Ladies
I just finished reading Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Trilogy, which was…long. Almost three thousand pages altogether. Slogging through it felt a little like this. The book is about the birth of modern empiricism–when science ceded to alchemy. It’s also about the birth of modern finance. Because many scientific discoveries involved new ways to travel, navigate, or [...]
...read moreHumble Humbert
After hunting down a post Amanda wrote about it for unrelated reasons, I’m reading Lolita. It’s amazing to watch an author in love with words and literature write a narrator in love with himself.
...read more[Obscenity] This.
Amanda picks up on the “chivalry” fallacy that A Pang wrote about last week. She quotes a commenter: The problem that gives feminism a bad name is that while a feminist may say “Feminism does not think you are a bad person if you find yourself wanting to fuck a woman. Feminism does not condemn [...]
...read moreSend Lauren to BlogHer
It’s blegging time. Chris Clarke and Amanda Marcotte are coordinating a blitz across the blogosphere to raise money to send Our Founder, Lauren, to the BlogHer conference in San Jose at the end of July. Amanda got the conference to waive fees for Lauren in exchange for a panel appearance, but she still needs airfare [...]
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