The Only Girl In The Group
This is a guest post by Meghan O’Neill.
Hi. It’s Meghan. I’m a comedian. I mostly work in sketch comedy and I once belonged to a sketch group where I was…get ready for it…THE ONLY GIRL IN THE GROUP! [...] a lot of the time, I was the author of those sketches. I was writing myself as the part of the patient wife or the bitchy girlfriend or the silent, sexy old lady and giving the spotlight to some other male person. On a good day, you’d call that generous. On a really good day, you’d call that stupid! Why would any writer/actor give up their best parts?!
Tech interlude: quote and reply bug
A few people are finding that when they use the Quote and Reply link in comments the quoted text ends up stripped of spaces so that it all runs on and on and on and on. I’m going through and editing these as I find them, but if it’s happened to you could you briefly [...]
...read more2011 – World’s First Condom Action Film – Episode Bravo (1080p)
This is a guest post by Echo Zen.
So in this short film, the year is 2020. Extremist politicians have taken over America and banned condoms (along with facts and common sense). Underground networks have arisen to help smuggle condoms to desperate communities. In response, government operatives are authorised to terminate condom smugglers on sight. The result is an explosion of condoms, satire and brutal hand-to-hand action between trained assassins and smugglers.
In Norway, Gender Equality Does Not Extend to the Bedroom
A must-read piece about intimate partner violence and rape. Sexual violence against women in Scandinavia shares characteristics seen in more unequal societies: It is all too common and rarely reported, and those who commit it are even more rarely convicted. Ancient prejudices about male prerogative and modern assumptions about female emancipation conspire to create a [...]
...read moreHeroes
Zurana Horton. New York’s Daily News is reporting the gut-wrenchingly sad story of a pregnant Brooklyn mother who died amid a hail of bullets on Friday afternoon as she tried to protect schoolchildren at Public School 298 in the borough’s Brownsville section from a gunman perched atop a nearby roof. Zurana Horton, the 33-year-old pregnant [...]
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Your tax dollars at work.
This is what TSA will do when they inspect a bag you checked and find a, um, “personal item”:
...read moreFBI redefines rape to mean, like, rape
The FBI’s official definition of rape, via its Uniform Crime Report, has remained unchanged since 1927: “the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.” Obviously, this is problematic on a number of levels–basically, every word except for “the” and “of.” 1. the carnal knowledge – excluding any assault with fingers or foreign [...]
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
Post away.
...read moreThe Pervocracy nails it on misguided critiques of sex-positive feminism
I really like a recent post from the sex-positive feminist blogger Holly Pervocracy, and I’m about to link to it. But before I do that, I want to note that in part of the post, Holly explicitly goes after a radical feminist blogger named Twisty Faster, who blogs over at I Blame The Patriarchy. (Holly’s [...]
...read moreIn the end, I suspect the broom is a pretty good equalizer.
Women aren’t involved because they don’t want to be involved. Do you know how hard it is to recruit a woman who isn’t interested? It’s not fair to recruit based on sex over ability. Sometimes women choosethe less prestigious positions because they’re easier. And we have to accept the fact that there are things that [...]
...read more“Racism and Science Fiction” by Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany is a brilliant and fascinating gay black science fiction author who has won many awards and been the subject of at least one documentary. Here’s an article he wrote about racism and science fiction, which I found both eloquent and insightful. I tried to find something to snip for y’all, but it’s [...]
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This is just a really appropriate gif today.
Thank you Videogum, my life is now complete.
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