I really appreciated this article. Who knew traditional media could cover something this grassroots and progressive in an appropriate way? I certainly didn’t! Soraya Chemaly: Why You Should Take Your Teenager on a SlutWalk. In her Pulitzer Prize winning book, Backlash, Faludi described the conservative response of a society reeling from changes brought on by feminism. A… [Read more…]
September 13, 2011
From Feministe — In defense of the sanctimonious women’s studies set.. YES: The feminist arguments against beauty pageants are obvious, and have been around even before the famous 1968 demonstrations at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, which spawned that impossible-to-kill myth of feminist bra-burning. But in 2007, when women are attending college and grad… [Read more…]
September 9, 2011
Feminists not getting “you-know-what” — Feministe. any feminist, or woman with half a brain, should understand why this is so ridiculous. First of all, women haven’t been burning their bras for decades, and when the allegation of bra burning first came out it hadn’t even happened yet (though i’m SURE it’s happened since, it is… [Read more…]
August 11, 2011
Anti-feminist market theories of sexuality fail to explain the data.. The common theme of anti-feminism of the ’60s through roughly the ’90s was basically, “Feminism is emasculating. Now go make me a sandwich.” Alas, anti-feminists are beginning to realize that overt misogyny isn’t really the selling point it used to be, and so now anti-feminism… [Read more…]
July 17, 2011
A Teen Feminist Calls the Westboro Baptist Church | fbomb. i love everything about this… especially the fact that a young woman took the initiative to call people up and ask them point blank what they thought of feminism. More of us should be doing stuff like this. Alright, cool. So anybody who defines themself… [Read more…]
June 7, 2011
Early last month I posted on the slutwalks that were going down.. sorta. I linked an article to it. Since then the controversy, fervor, love and hate surrounding these events has not quieted. The momentum has carried. So here’s a little more information on the SlutWalks: Here’s a GREAT VIDEO of Jessica Valenti discussing the… [Read more…]
March 26, 2011
from jezebel, a rant on the lack of hollywood nerd-love and nerdy girls in general: I’ve known a fair number of offbeat women and if you ask, they’ll tell you their one or more stories where guys were initially smitten with their endless knowledge of MST3K episodes, but left shortly after in search of someone… [Read more…]
March 14, 2011
More garbage from the GOP: Peck’s response to media coverage of this? He was only joking, apparently. As if even a joke like that would be in any way fitting for a public representative. Oh and, it’s not his fault either, apparently everyone else from where he is from is also a racist.. a GREAT… [Read more…]
November 29, 2010
So I watched Get Him to the Greek for the second time last night, and there’s this one part of the movie that keeps replaying in my head. It’s a small scene and i couldn’t find any clips of it to post, but it’s the part at the beginning where Jonah Hill is talking to… [Read more…]
November 19, 2010
I have been hearing the song “bottoms up” on my way to and from work every day for the last… 4 days. And I only have it on a station that plays mainland music when Island 98.5 is on commercial. Admittedly, it’s better than “toot it and boot it” but that isn’t saying very much. … [Read more…]
October 4, 2011
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