You can be my black Kate Moss tonight
If you can’t find a real live woman of color to model for you, there’s always blackface! According to one informal perusal of this month’s fashion magazines, there are exactly zero models of color in the fashion spreads. As Dodai at Jezebel says: So, what have we learned? Black, Asian and models of color are [...]
...read more“Savagery”
Headline writers choose their words deliberately. And when they choose the word “savage,” they are trying to paint a very specific picture for you — and can guess the colors they’re using (hint: white is not on the palette).
...read moreA Thanksgiving Story
A week ago, it was the Transgender Day of Remembrance. A couple days later, of course, it was Thanksgiving. Two annual events that I often have rather mixed feelings about. Obviously I’m almost a week late in writing this post, but more stuff kept happening last week, so it’s only now that I’m getting around [...]
...read moreThe Colonial Sex Trade
Apparently middle-aged and older white women are traveling to Kenya in order to have sex with young local men. “This is what is sold to tourists by tourism companies — a kind of return to a colonial past, where white women are served, serviced, and pampered by black minions,” said Nottinghan University’s Davidson. And where [...]
...read moreU.S. Immigration Enforcement Finally Preaches What it Practices
Julie Myers, the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, apparently thinks that blackface is “original.” Myers, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ran into trouble earlier this month after she and two other agency managers gave the “most original” costume award to a white employee who came to the agency’s Halloween party dressed as an [...]
...read moreInternational Day of Action Against the Northern Territory Intervention
Via Laurelhel and BFP, today is the International Day of Action Against the Northern Territory Intervention. The Northern Territory is a territory in Australia that is sparsely populated and largely made up by Aboriginal people, whose ancestors were the original inhabitants of Australia and the victims of white colonization. The Day of Action is based [...]
...read moreYour Daily Dose of Hate
Here’s a beautiful example of male college students who think that being offensive is the same thing as being funny: The Sentinal “humor” piece “Mock of Love.” It’s a set of “spoof” suggestions for the second season of the VH1 Bret Michaels dating show Rock of Love. The irony is that if you’ve ever watched [...]
...read moreSex shouldn’t matter in politics. Let’s all be gender-blind!
Here’s what happens when USA Today tries to write from a feminist point of view: you end up with a headache. Women are more kind and nurturing than men. They are natural altruists, placing the common good — including education, health and the environment — ahead of their narrow personal interests. And that’s why we [...]
...read more“An excellent question”
That’s not how I’d qualify “How do we beat the bitch?,” but to each their own. Most interesting to me is the roaring laughter in the room after the question is asked (for those who can’t see the video: McCain is fielding questions, and one woman asks, “How do we beat the bitch?” Everyone laughs, [...]
...read moreShorter Caleb Posner: Give me my porn, and please stop making me share my water fountain with the dark people
Sometimes I think that dipshit college freshmen PoliSci majors write newspaper columns simply to entertain the feminist blogosphere — and Caleb Posner is no exception. He is really, really angry that “radicals” have overtaken the feminist and the civil rights movements. Feminism, he said, went downhill after 1848, as soon as the little ladies started [...]
...read moreThis case minimizes true rape cases and demeans women who are really raped.
UPDATE: Post fixed so that comments are now enabled. Also, surprise surprise, Judge Deni was retained. And I’m moving this to the top. _____________________________________ So said Judge Denni in the recent “rape-as-theft-of-services” case. Today, Philadelphia residents voted on whether or not to retain her. We’ll see what happens. This case demonstrates a lot of things, [...]
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