Punishment
Word. Obama at a town hall meeting: “When it comes specifically to HIV/AIDS, the most important prevention is education, which should include — which should include abstinence education and teaching the children — teaching children, you know, that sex is not something casual. But it should also include — it should also include other, you [...]
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WAM Redux
I spent the weekend at the Women, Action and Media conference up in Boston, and it was so fantastic I’m not even sure where to start. First, a million thanks and a big round of applause for WAM organizer (and Feministe guest-blogger) Jaclyn, who put together a really wonderful conference and whose hard work is [...]
...read moreSkinny Bitching
Jill posts about vegans being seduced by Mannon, and mentions Skinny Bitch. (It will get no link love from me.) Its creator has been criticized for publishing a how-to book for especially health-conscious anorexics: Contributors to the popular feminist blog Feministing have criticized the emphasis of the “Skinny Bitch” books on weight loss, noting that [...]
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Sexy Hot Vegans
Click the picture for a larger image. Shocker: Animal rights activism can be sexist. TWO things that you can find a lot of in Portland, Ore., are vegans and strip clubs. Johnny Diablo decided to open a business to combine both. At his Casa Diablo Gentlemen’s Club, soy protein replaces beef in the tacos and [...]
...read moreWhere have all the strong women gone?
Parts of this article are bullshit, but this section stood out to me: My female friends need to disguise or soften their ambition and intellect, in a way my male friends don’t have to. A while ago, after writing a column about feminism, I received an e-mail from a reader who said: “I think it’s [...]
...read moreWoman-Beating for Jesus
Ridiculous. A player for the Pittsburgh Steelers assaulted his girlfriend, but was allowed back on the team because he had a good reason for hitting her: Jesus. In Harrison’s case, Rooney [team chairperson] said the player was trying to take his son to be baptized. “What Jimmy Harrison was doing and how the incident occurred, [...]
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The Pushkin Problem
Your blogger in PR last week, with the book she’s been reading for five effing months because she spends too much time on the internet and reads too many things for law school, leaving Tony Judt 2/3rds incomplete. This makes her sad, and potential partners will probably reject her for it. I have so been [...]
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Chastity Clubs: Bringing the Hymens to Harvard Since 2001
I have very little to say about this article, other than: 1. Talking about condoms and safer sex is not the same thing as demonizing abstinence, and if you’re under that impression, I sure hope that you were a legacy admission to Harvard, because otherwise that’s just embarrassing. 2. You look dumb when you complain [...]
...read moreDear Maureen Dowd,
I’ll support Hillary Clinton shutting up and dropping out of the race as soon as you decide that as another loud-mouthed and unapologetic woman who pisses people off, you should drop off the editorial pages of the Times. And I will start to love your mouthiness again as soon as you stop referring to Barack [...]
...read moreWhat does a feminist blogger do…
When she gets a comment like this: I was in Caracas at a party–a loud mouth usa feminist was stating she was a “strong usa woman hwo could handle any man”. Many women there were looking at her very strangely–& the men were at first laughing –then they started to make remarks about “colonialism from [...]
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No, you’re the racist one! I myself am colorblind.
This post has a comment section that’s making me want to tear my hair out. So not everyone sees the Vogue cover as racist. That’s fine, and there are certainly a handful of decent arguments in that thread as to why the cover isn’t what I’m seeing. But if I have to read “The fact [...]
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