Loving Large
Josh Max has a piece today in Salon about his attraction to larger women (and his 10-year marriage to one) that looks at some of the social forces shaping attraction and the peer pressure that tells men that there’s something wrong with being attracted to fat women. It’s a pretty good piece, albeit a bit [...]
...read moreLies, All Lies
Mighty Ponygirl suggested Alias Grace after dirtygirlfromill from Midwestern Transport started a sidebar about Lolita. I nominate The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford, and Time’s Arrow (although it might not count, since the narrator is not exactly disingenuous). Who’s your favorite unreliable narrator?
...read more“You Still Want the Cookie.”
A group of middle-school girls in the South Bronx, tired of the lack of a comprehensive sex-ed curriculum (or, apparently, *any* sex-ed curriculum, since parental pressure has meant the school isn’t even implementing the state-required program), are taking matters into their own hands: Teach us about the birds and the bees! That’s the overture from [...]
...read moreI’d Rather Be Lucky than Smart
So I’ve been thinking about the MySpace debacle (which it’s likely gonna be), and the argument that all you can really do is teach your children to avoid pedophiles et al., and about Lolita (light of my life, fire of my loins…), and I’m feeling a little bit nauseated. Why? Well, I was not a [...]
...read moreWhat Women Want
Retch. I’ll go ahead and solve the mystery for everyone: Women want to be treated like individuals. Which, whaddaya know, is generally what men want, too. We all want different things. We all have different needs. We want those addressed, instead of being grouped into one big pile. Of course, that is not the Rabbi’s [...]
...read moreOrange Goblin in Trouble
But I think I’m with Ezra on this one: I have my problems with Kos, but this sort of gotcha journalism is silly. I don’t like Kos one bit* (and I dislike The New Republic even more). And I’ll be honest, I rarely if ever read Daily Kos (although I did today after reading about [...]
...read moreWhat Else I’m Reading Today
All must-reads, and all worthy of their own posts. Check ‘em out: UCLA’s Do-Nothing Admissions Solution: Out of an incoming class of 4,700 students, only 96 are black. Does UCLA care? Does anyone? What are they going to do about it? Amanda on live girl-on-girl action: “Let me be clear about how I feel about [...]
...read moreCan I Have Mike Adams’ Job?
When a college professor is recommending these books for summer reading, you know you’ve got a problem (for the record, I’d be saying the same thing if he was recommending Stupid White Men and the DaVinci Code). For those attending the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, I’d recommend avoing Adams’ class, unless you’d rather [...]
...read more17th Carnival of the Feminists
Check it out at Bitch Lab. It’s awesome. The next one will be held at Ink and Incapability, and while it’s pretty wide open, her themes are as follows: 1) I’m interested in women and religion, particularly women within new religious movements. A widely held belief (even in the femosphere) is that religious women are [...]
...read moreCondoms Block HPV
Well there goes that anti-condom talking point. The consistent use of condoms protects against human papillomavirus, a cause of warts and cervical and other female cancers, researchers are reporting today. In the study, which independent experts said was the most conclusive to examine the role of condoms in preventing infection with the virus, women whose [...]
...read moreFabulous Mommies
This made my day. Ha.
...read moreElle Goes to the Middle East
It’s set to hit newsstands in Jordon, Lebanon and Morocco this Friday.
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