Expect lots of extroverted, neurotic babies coming soon.
Who read NY Daily News this weekend? Did you see that article? One called “Extroverted men, neurotic women are the most fertile combination: study“? If you’re anything like me (Jewish, New Yorker, and yes, neurotic) you glanced at this and were like “Really? Then how am I not pregnant already?” But then you actually *read* [...]
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Moni’s Ground Rules
Hello Feministe! I’m Monica Roberts, AKA the TransGriot for those of you who have yet to be introduced to my writing either at my home blog, the Bilerico Project, or various places such as Racialicious, What Tami Said or Womanist Musings. For the next two weeks I’ll be guest posting here thanks to the gracious [...]
...read moreThis Isn’t Actually Funny
A new poll shows that 62% of Republicans think that government should “stay out of Medicare.” I admit that I snickered at first. Quite heartily, in fact. So I certainly can’t hold it against anyone for doing the same. But then I remembered that this kind of ignorance — which isn’t exclusive to Republicans, as [...]
...read moreWhy I Hate Filling Out Forms
I hate it, every single time. Name, sorted. Then… clunk. Sex – M or F. Sod. It seems like an easy question, right? For most people it is. For me, it should be an easy question. I live and identify unequivocally as female. I’m not a genderqueer person for whom the very either/or question is [...]
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Speechless
This is the latest cover of the National Review. I don’t even know what to say. Ann pretty much has it covered. But, if Sonia Sotomayor actually was South Asian, I’d still find this an incredibly racist cover. And of course, she’s obviously not. As the cover itself acknowledges, she is Latina (specifically, Puerto Rican). [...]
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Because Regular Chocolate Bars Are Way Too Masculine
I don’t even know what to do with this one. Fling is a new chocolate bar that’s aimed at women. You can tell, because the packaging is pink. Also because the damn thing is called “fling,” indicating that there’s something thrilling and “naughty” about the chocolate bar — and no one considers it “naughty” when [...]
...read moreBill Cunningham: Democrats Think “a Woman’s Womb is a Tomb”
Via Media Matters, Bill Cunningham “discusses” the woman who gave birth to octuplets: Okay, so . . . is it just me, or does Bill Cunningham’s argument essentially go like this: Democrats support the right to abortion! Which I think is very, very wrong (and murder, and destroying some kind of sacred femininity or something)! [...]
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Because if you put flowers on it and have a matching tote, women will buy it.
So that image to the left, at first glance just looks like some cute (though not my style) little clutch, tote and scarf set, right? Well, close, but not quite. Actually, it’s a laptop. A laptop made to look like a clutch purse. A “digital clutch.” And yes, it does actually come with the scarf [...]
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Complicated and Conflicting Thoughts on Bill Baird
The other night, for the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I attended an event in Rochester, NY with reproductive rights activist Bill Baird. Until this event, I had never really heard of Bill Baird. I had heard of his famous Supreme Court case, Baird v. Eisenstadt, though I couldn’t cite it by name. But upon [...]
...read moreGoodbye, Bush
And good riddance. This oral history of the Bush Administration lays out the astounding incompetence, ignorance, and misguided agendas at play in the White House. For chrissakes, these people were gaslighting, spying on, and sabotoging each other for eight long years. I went to a communications meeting the day after [Jim] Jeffords switched. I remember [...]
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Oh no, it’s . . . ABORTION DONUTS
File this under “the most stupid thing I’ve ever heard in my life” — even worse than OMG LESBIAN SOUP. Krispy Kreme Doughnuts released this really apolitical and seemingly innocuous press release, saying that they’re giving away free doughnuts on Inauguration Day: “Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (NYSE: KKD) is honoring American’s sense of pride and [...]
...read morePalestinian Woman Confronts Israeli Army
Via Juan Cole comes this video of a Palestinian women from the U.S. putting her life on the line by standing up to the Israeli army firing (what are likely but not necessarily rubber bullets) at demonstrating Palestinian adolescents. The woman is being identified as peace activist Huwaida Arraf. As BFP notes, it’s unclear when [...]
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