FNTT Season 8, Round 1: the CONSTITUTION! edition
Background on FNTT here. Click through to read this round’s contenders. The usual reminder: Comments below are abusive, insulting and may be triggering.
...read moreFNTT Season 8, Round 1: the “Nine times out of ten it’s an electric shaver. But every once in a while…” edition
Background on FNTT here. Click through to read this round’s contenders. The usual reminder: Comments below are abusive, insulting and may be triggering.
FNTT Season 8, Round 1: the Yr Blog Sux! edition
Background on FNTT here. Today’s contenders want to let us know that Feministe is Teh Worst! As usual, the comments below the fold are abusive, insulting and may be triggering. Vote for your favorite below!
FNTT Season 8, Round 1: the “So a girl and a vibrator walk onto a plane…” edition
Background on FNTT here. Click through to read this round’s contenders. The usual reminder: Comments below are abusive, insulting and may be triggering.
...read moreFNTT Season 8, Round 1: The Baby-Killing Whores Edition
Background on FNTT here. Click through to read this round’s contenders. The usual reminder: Comments below are abusive, insulting and may be triggering. For people with a slightly deranged sense of humor (such as myself), they are also hilarious.
...read moreOn the Hugo Business
There have been a lot of calls in this thread and elsewhere around the internet for me personally to Say Something about the Hugo debacle. Caperton put up this post addressing the situation, which I stand behind, and Clarisse solicited the cross-posting of this piece by Maia. I’ve made a few limited comments, but I’ve mostly stayed silent on the whole thing. That’s for a few reasons:
...read moreTigTog Talks Feminism
Our tech goddess TigTog is talking feminism and technology over at We Are Skeptixx. Check out her interview and see why we love her so.
...read moreA Goodbye
It has been so long since I’ve produced original content at this blog that you could certainly be forgiven for not realizing I was still here. A goodbye may seem somewhat redundant, but I’m the kind of person who likes closure.
...read moreOn Change and Accountability
This was written for and originally published at Role/Reboot.
Do we actually believe that people can change? If so, how do we want them to show us they’ve changed? Is absolution possible? Who decides the answers to these questions?
Wait, is it 2005 again?
“Back Off, Angry Commenters: Has the Internet unleashed new levels of bile?” by Katie Roiphe: A new species has risen from the shallows of the Internet: the angry commenter. Sure, there is a long tradition of inspired cranks and interested retirees who have always written letters to the editor, but something in the anonymity and [...]
...read moreCommunity Request!
Does anyone have the time to help transcribe a twelve-minute video interview for Feministe? I want to post it, but want to make sure it’s accessible to all of our community members, so it needs to be transcribed and I do not have the time. If anyone is available to help out, shoot me an [...]
...read moreOur own Lauren on teen pregnancy and parenthood
Feministe founder Lauren Bruce has some fantastic things to say in this interview: Which is why I like how you put that — that “young moms are encouraged to accept failure.” To many, pregnancy and parenthood is the punishment teen moms should bear for becoming parents before it’s socially acceptable. We’re set up to fail, [...]
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