Modest Chauvinist Pigs
Nona Willis-Aronowitz at The Nation takes on Wendy Shalit’s new modesty book, Girls Gone Mild — and damn she is good. A taste: Shalit’s so-called “rebels” amid our “pornified” culture may be technically raging against the mainstream, but they are surely just repackaging age-old ideas as defiance. They appear in the form of 16-year-old rappers [...]
...read morePro-Life Politicians: Every fetus is an incredibly valuable human life with rights that trump all others. Until it’s born. Then the little bastard’s on its own.
Another reminder of how much “pro-life” politicians love little babies: so much that they won’t provide health care for them. President Bush yesterday rejected entreaties by his Republican allies that he compromise with Democrats on legislation to renew a popular program that provides health coverage to poor children, saying that expanding the program would enlarge [...]
...read moreDon’t get too attached to your stuff
…because the Bush Administration can now take it away any time they like. And the stuff of anyone you know who could be construed as giving you or anybody else “material aid”. Material aid like, say, a SIM card. Or employment. Judicial review? Don’t make Georgie laugh. P.S. Anyone who feels sorry for you (because [...]
...read moreFriday Random Ten
1. Voxtrot – Kid Gloves 2. Tom Waits – Clap Hands 3. Justin Timberlake & Timberland – Summer Love / Set The Mood Prelude 4. Mudhoney – Endless Yesterday 5. Ryan Adams – Thank You Louise 6. Beth Orton – Don’t Need a Reason 7. The Avett Brothers – Signs 8. Bill Evans Trio – [...]
...read morePlanning: Kind of like treason
Apparently, discussing the possibility of withdrawing troops from Iraq is tantamount to supporting “enemy propaganda”: “Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia,” Mr. Edelman [...]
...read moreBoobgate Part Deux
There was cleavage on display Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Hillary Clinton. She was talking on the Senate floor about the burdensome cost of higher education. She was wearing a rose-colored blazer over a black top. The neckline sat low on her chest and had a subtle V-shape. The cleavage registered after [...]
...read moreRace, class, and street harassment
So, I have to admit – I was a little nervous when posting about street harassment the other day. I was really eager to open up the conversation, especially because it was focused on a queer/gender non-conforming/trans experience and perspective that I’m not used to hearing. But I was also worried about certain dynamics that [...]
...read moreMaus
I have cats. My cats are murderers. I am their official documentarian. This, then, is last night in the kactus household: It’s hard being a chewtoy. A mouse caught in the headlights. A final act of defiance. Such is life. *Don’t be fooled by the dates on the pictures. That just means I didn’t get [...]
...read moreBathroom Activism
A few weeks ago, Khadijah Farmer was eating dinner with her girlfriend after the Manhattan Pride Parade, at a restaurant in the West Village. She got up to go to the bathroom, but was followed in by a bouncer who banged on the stall she was in and told her to get out. Apparently, someone [...]
...read moreGeneration Chickenhawk
Classic. Pam has quotes and screen shots.
...read moreThe Susan B. Anthony of Pole Dancing
Via Jenn, I found this video of Stephen Colbert applauding empowerful feminist women who are taking the movement to the next level — by poledancing. It’s pretty fantastic, and it hits at an issue that always grates on my nerves: The need to sell everything as “feminist.” I’m sure that poledancing can be a whole [...]
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