Where Can I Find Me a Warrior-Poet?
Oh Abstinence Clearinghouse, where would I go to for laughs if not for you? Today, we have the fine pieces of literature sold at the Abstinence Store, and I think they do a pretty good job of demonstrating how abstinence-only advocates feel about men and women: In case you can’t see the image very well, [...]
...read moreNever mind the retrograde “women need to be loved to orgasm” story, just when the hell did Jenny McCarthy become a sex expert?
From Amanda comes this lovely little “wimmins are such complicated, needy and inscrutable creatures and men are grunting primitives” item from our friends at ABC News. No animal has to commit to a relationship to lure the female of the species into the nest. We humans are much more complicated. Women need to be in [...]
...read moreI’ve pulled a few tampons out of Junebug’s butt, but I ain’t never seen the Lord
Jesus found in dog’s butt. Really. Go take a look. Sure beats a grilled cheese sandwich. (Via).
...read moreDear Spinach,
I miss you. Come back soon. Love, Zuzu.
...read moreKill it! KILL IT!
I have been fortunate enough never to have cohabited with large numbers of roaches. When I was growing up, ants would flood in with the rain. When I was in college, every house I lived in had mice, which had no fear of us whatsoever. I thought they were kind of cute, although it would [...]
...read moreQuality of Life
Blue wrote a post about Andrea Dworkin’s description of her disability, and commenters are taking her to task for it over at Alas. Dworkin had nothing remotely “apocalyptic” to say about disability. If she’d lived another 20 years that may or may not have changed. Her last piece of writing is not at all political [...]
...read moreMoving the Goalposts
Jennifer Ouellette at 3 Quarks Daily has a must read post on the moving target of sizes in women’s clothes. While the couture industry is scaling down sizes so that zero is the new four, and sizes less than zero are being created, the mass-market apparel industry is, thankfully, beginning to realize that they’re in [...]
...read moreWhat’s In A Name?
Shark-Fu of AngryBlackBitch and A White Bear of Is There No Sin In It? have must-read posts today about this misbegotten article from John “Who needs the FDA to ensure drug safety when the market will do it just fine?” Stossel and Kristina Kendall of ABC news, which discusses the fact that people with identifiably [...]
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