What Feminists Do In Their Free Time
For whatever reason I’ve taken it upon myself to watch the entirety of “The Sopranos” this month, and tonight my goal is to finish up Season Five. Yes, I know what’s coming. My beloved Adriana is getting wacked, and even though Carmella was finally getting some she’s getting back together with fucking Tony. Damn. I [...]
...read moreJewelry for Nerds
Seeing these pairs of earrings makes me wish I hadn’t stretched my earlobes to 8 gauge rings I can’t remove by myself. That said, nothing beats Chef’s ears. via Chaos Theory (If you haven’t noticed, I get half my weird and interesting links from Jennifer, so if you want to cut me out of the [...]
...read moreTrue Love Waits (‘Til 16.3 Years of Age)
Turns out evangelical teens are as slutty as the rest of us: Teenagers who identify as “evangelical” or “born again” are highly likely to sound like the girl at the bar; 80 percent think sex should be saved for marriage. But thinking is not the same as doing. Evangelical teens are actually more likely to [...]
...read moreA Young Feminist Designer Writes to Project Runway
AuH2O, originally uploaded by JillNic83. I’ve written about my good friend Kate Goldwater several times before — Kate is a feminist, environmentally friendly fashion designer who recently opened a store called AuH2O in New York City’s East Village (7th St. between 1st and 2nd Aves). Kate and I were both members of NYU’s pro-choice organization, [...]
...read moreThe forced pregnancy brigade targets rape and incest survivors and women with health complications in Colombia
Pro-lifers: They love children so much, they’ll do everything in their power to force an 11-year-old rape and incest victim to give birth against her will, after she was impregnated by her step-father. Anti-choice activsts staged a protest against abortion rights in Colombia this week — to mark the one-year anniversary of a legal decision [...]
...read moreMid-Week Fluff
I already posted this at my other blog, but it’s this week’s Video That Makes Lauren Happy. Why? Because kitties do what kitties do, and Scooby just wants to bite his babies.
...read moreWe Got Your Punk Rock Sex Symbols Right Here
Indie music lovers are already aware, but this is awesome: Beth Ditto of The Gossip posing nude for the cover of NME magazine (see additional photos from the shoot). Nekkid pic below the fold, may not be safe for work, unless work is punk rawk.
...read moreMarketing Elmo’s World
As companies futher develop methods to perfect brand identification and market to target demographics, some controversy has been stirred in recent years over marketing aimed at children — if one should do it, what age groups can one ethically target, and how. Children don’t usually balance the checkbook, we know, so what can companies do [...]
...read moreFavorite Dude of the Day:
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Just weeks after Pope Benedict denounced government-endorsed contraception during a visit to Brazil, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva unveiled a program on Monday to provide inexpensive birth-control pills at 10,000 private drugstores across the country. Silva said the plan will give poor Brazilians “the same right that [...]
...read moreI am stealing Lauren’s boyfriend
Yeeeah Keith! (Just go watch the whole thing, I can’t do it justice).
...read moreLiberating Iraqi Women
Liberation, GOP-style. Sometimes, the “assholes” tag just isn’t enough. By day the road that leads from Damascus to the historic convent at Saidnaya is often choked with Christian and Muslim pilgrims hoping for one of the miracles attributed to a portrait of the Virgin Mary at the convent. But as any Damascene taxi driver can [...]
...read moreViolence Begets Violence
U.S. military veterans are twice as likely to be jailed for sexual assault than non-veterans. Apparently, some people are confused as to why this may be. Lucinda Marshall explains it really well in her piece at Alternet: Women have always been abused in war time, and the military promotes a form of masculinity that is [...]
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