More on Komen and Planned Parenthood
...read moreThe truth is that anti-Planned-Parenthood sentiments aren’t about abortion; they’re about hostility to women, and particularly to female sexuality. Abortion makes up 3% of its services. Cancer screening and prevention are 17%.
Parents: Time to Panic
No one wants their kids to smoke. But what if your kid is pretending to smoke, kinda-sorta? From an actual news broadcast, kids are smoking Smarties.
...read moreWhoops.
I am fairly confident that this could have been avoided.
...read moreGod, somebody tell me why: Bridesmaids
So last night, we rented Bridesmaids. We were already there at the Redbox, it was right there in front of us, and it was supposed to be a hilarious and heartwarming romp, right? It got critical accolades, it got 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes–it should be a laff riot, right? Holy shit, Batman. Bridesmaids is [...]
...read moreSiri: Total Misogynist.
The big news of the week is that Siri, the iPhone 4s’s virtual assistant, is apparently unable to find anything related to women’s health. Ask her to find an abortion clinic in New York City — a place with a few abortion clinics — and she can’t locate a single one. She can, however, direct [...]
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Things That Will Surprise No One
John Derbyshire — he of “15-year-olds are the sexiest broads around because women reach their expiration date at 20″ fame — has some Things To Say about sexual harassment and racial discrimination: Is there anyone who thinks sexual harassment is a real thing? Is there anyone who doesn’t know it’s all a lawyers’ ramp, like [...]
...read moreDerby Names
Feministe friend Tricia sends on this article about the disgusting, often misogynist, names that have become common in derby culture. The creativity is laudable, I suppose, insofar as it’s ever laudable to come up with 10,000 different ways to equate sex with violence and abuse. “Pat McCrotch” and “Clitty Clitty Bang Bang”? Sure, ok. Juvenile, [...]
...read moreFeminists not getting “you-know-what”
What is it that feminists aren’t getting enough of, according to Andrea Tantaros? Dick. Lots and lots of dick. After decades and decades and decades of feminists burning their bras, saying, ‘Make more money than men, do this, run over men, have sex like a man, tell your man what to do, don’t let them [...]
...read moreNewsflash: Your ovaries are drying up and crumbling into internal bacon bits.
Ladies! I have some bad news that you definitely would never have suspected: It turns out that whitening your teeth, dying your hair and using really good anti-wrinkle cream will not in fact extend your fertility. I KNOW. My biology class taught me that if you’re pretty you can have babies forever, so this really [...]
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PETA to start a porn site, because of course.
I don’t see what could possibly go wrong with this plan: Instead of focusing on anti-fur, the porn site will raise awareness of veganism, said Rajt. “We really want to grab people’s attention, get them talking and to question the status quo and ultimately take action, because the best way we can help the greatest [...]
...read moreRelationship Advice – Marriage 101
Okay…all the single women gather ’round and I will share with you the vast bounty of my relationship knowledge. I know the key to getting married! And since obviously every female person is desirous of a state sanctioned relationship with a single dude, I am providing this information to you. I know each of you [...]
...read moreStop putting bathing suit pictures on Facebook, you trollops.
You are encouraging men to think of you like screwdrivers: Something I never really wanted to post about, but feel I have to, because I don’t think that young women quite understand the problem. Yesterday when I logged onto Facebook, I had several pictures of college co-eds in bathing suits, who are friends on Facebook, [...]
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