Lipstick and Pigs
Increasingly irritated with the coverage of the electoral campaign, I nevertheless resigned myself to watching yet another McCain/Palin stump speech in rural Virginia today where Palin railed against the undue lipstick-related sexism being thrown her way and underlined her and McCain’s stance on earmark spending, otherwise known as pork barrel spending. The irony. Today Palin [...]
...read moreLiar liar in a fiery, smolding pair of pants
This is a fucking joke, right? Barack Obama uses a terribly cliche’ analogy – “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig” – to describe McCain’s strategy, and in response, the McCain campaign* turns around and accuses Obama of making a sexist attack on Gov. Palin. Check out the ad they [...]
...read moreCan I Touch Your Hair? Black Women and The Petting Zoo
Hair does not mean the same thing to white women as it does to black women. Hair for us is a physical indicator of the ways in which we are different. It is no accident that the first black millionaire, Madame CJ Walker sold hair care products. Part of female beauty has always included long [...]
...read moreEwwww! You got your other issues in my feminism!
This rant was inspired by a comment waiting in moderation. Now, this comment doesn’t *technically* violate any rules, so another mod may very well come and approve it while I type this post. But as far as I am concerned that comment can rot in hell! I don’t think there is any kind of shit [...]
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