…and after you’ve stopped with the bathing suit pictures, maybe stop having breasts.
The following may be triggering for some, as it concerns the physical abuse of young girls. I can’t even. What the fuck. I’m working on the afore-mentioned “white Jewish lady” post (more accurately: I appeared on Russian TV yesterday to discuss Israel/Palestine but am having a hard time embedding the video) but in the meantime, [...]
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I’ll take voting rights over a knight in shining armor, thanks.
A sophomore at USC has learned an important fact at college: Chivalry is dead. And hairy feminists killed it. His piece is fascinating, but not surprising, because he is the ultimate Nice Guy™. The premise is that he has this female friend who complained that chivalry is dead. He explains that feminism slayed chivalry, and [...]
...read moreI still haven’t found what I’m looking for
I was poking around Slate.com earlier and noticed a curious “line of the day” See it right there in the middle there? “The top searches that begin with ‘my girlfriend is’: a bitch, pregnant, crazy, hot, fat, depressed, getting fat.” What’s the article about you might ask? The Google toolbar and Google Suggest, Google’s feature [...]
...read moreThis is what is wrong with America.
Someone showed me this thinking I would find it hilarious (which I guess I kind of do). Really, though, I find it terribly sad. It’s like all the bad things about America rolled into one. From stupid newscasts to people buying into corporate hype (seriously, the iPhone is a pretty mediocrity, my cheapo-in-comparison Sidekick does [...]
...read moreWhipping Girl
I am loving Whipping Girl. I’m not really sure how to post about it, because so many of my ideas look like this: [Introduction to Julia Serano quote] [Lengthy quote from Julia Serano] [Paraphrase of quote from me] Where to start? There’s so much happening with me around me these days, and I’m running into [...]
...read moreBecause a woman’s place is doing the laundry. In pearls. Barefoot. With her thong showing. Not to mention her ass.
Oh, good golly. Katherine Harris sent along a link to this post, in which Devil Doll presents a new comiquette (little collectible statue) of Mary Jane from Spiderman. It’s just. . . well . . . behold: Be sure to click through to Devil Doll’s livejournal to get the full picture of this little piece [...]
...read more31 Dead at Virginia Tech
There’s really nothing to say about this other than it’s incredibly sad. And it’s the deadliest campus shooting in American history. I hope you’ll take a moment to send prayers or kind thoughts to the people at Virginia Tech, and to the families and friends of those killed and injured. UPDATE: The death toll is [...]
...read moreGrannies Gone Wild
I’m hestitant to wade into the pornography wars, but this article should give all of us more than a little bit to cringe about. Yes, it’s about the latest “fetish” — women over the age of 40, doin’ it on camera. And, from the way the article reads, doing it for male viewers and to [...]
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Blue wrote a post about Andrea Dworkin’s description of her disability, and commenters are taking her to task for it over at Alas. Dworkin had nothing remotely “apocalyptic” to say about disability. If she’d lived another 20 years that may or may not have changed. Her last piece of writing is not at all political [...]
...read moreHow Many Feminists Does it Take to Tell a Joke?
Ilyka, in comments about The Alphabet of Occasional Chuckles: I’ve been thinking about this general subject of what’s funny vs. that’s not funny a lot recently anyway, and I don’t think there are any easy answers. For myself, it breaks down like this: I might laugh at a misogynist joke, but two conditions have to [...]
...read moreWhere All The Wimmin At?
Via Jane at Firedoglake, a comment from Garance Franke-Ruta about the dearth of women opinion writers in progressive publications. O]nce Amy Sullivan leaves the Washington Monthly toward the end of the month, I will have the peculiar honor of being the only female more than half-time political writer left at any of the liberal magazines [...]
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In comments on Chris Clarke’s post about why he does not refer to himself as feminist, Dr. Virago said this: I guess all I’m trying to say is that if you conclude that only some people (i.e., women) have the right to claim themselves “feminist” then you make feminism itself much less politically viable. You [...]
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