There are a few upsides to depression. For example, should you read embarrassing trend pieces with headlines like, “Why Single Women Need To Shut Up,” you are awash in a tidal of gratitude. No need to read it all the way through like myself and the ladies at Shakesville did, it can easily [...]
What is it about people who compulsively seek guidance from any external authority that makes them all such dicks?
Coming from Afghanistan: “In a massive blow for women’s rights, the new Shia Family Law negates the need for sexual consent between married couples, tacitly approves child marriage and restricts a woman’s right to leave the home.“
How [...]
Besides being to blame for any suffering endured throughout all of human history, Britain is totally embarrassing because they’re totally obsessed with Beth Ditto like, still. To give you an idea of how uncool that is, I’m turning 25 next month and I was getting bored by, “Oh my God, you look just like [...]
This just in: state of North Dakoa to draft an estimated 1200 women annually for its own private fleet of carrier pigeons. Authorities say enslaved women last hope to repopulate a state that no mother fucking sentient being would voluntarily migrate to. Population and tourism continues to decline as plague of Evangelical mutants threaten to [...]
Something you learn about marriage growing up in an animal hospital: some husbands will tear up and cradle their groins when advised to neuter their pet, and some wives will drop $150 bills on prosthetic silicone implants to avoid the indignity of such an episode. As you might expect, to preserve the illusion of professionalism [...]
After all this thinking about the frozen image, I came across something I had written a few years ago (here mangled a bit), back when I used to do some modeling for figure and portrait drawing at the local art museum.
After class, one of the women sidles on up to me while I’m filling out [...]
Amazing post from Lesley over at Fatshionista talking about her relationship to the self portrait. For well over a year now, she has been posting photos of herself (in impeccable dress) regularly to her flickr. She writes,
In my mind, I can draw a clear line between my inclination toward self-portraits and the Jenny Craig polaroid [...]
Not long after mentioning the plague of American Apparel and pornofied culture in my post on feminism’s future in new media, Jezebel has a great post discussing their latest move, which is a partnership with online fashion social networking site Chictopia. Three top-rated Chictopia users are being featured in American Apparel spreads featured on the [...]
In 2004, the NY Times Magazine ran an article called “Friends, Friends With Benefits and the Benefits of the Local Mall.” To this day it might remain the most singularly on point piece of journalism about adolescent sexuality in an increasingly “connected” world; in 2004, it had only been one or two years that every [...]
Exciting! Fanning the flames of my undying fascination with conservative feminists, Christina Hoff Sommers has posted a lecture on the Feminist Law Professors Blog. I’m reading it now, will update later with thoughts. It looks good and infuriating and at least mildly nutritious all at once!
For all us chumps who went to Clark–she introduces her [...]
So I laughed until I cried when I watched this commercial for a little finger vibrator from Trojan. This airs on cable networks. Yes. It does.
Maybe you’re throwing a party because I know, it’s totally great that women are ‘allowed’ to talk about their own pleasure in the public sphere. That [...]
Another thought about why both this month in TNR, and over the summer in the Nation, Zizek finds himself the posterboy for “fascist discourse” on the left, even though that’s really missing the point, and why he is allowed so much forgiveness from the body he is criticizing. Zizek is performative and masculine (and performatively [...]
Hey, while we’re (read: I’m) talking about Zizek, here’s the consummate dialectical inversion, from last February’s Cosmo, via Glossed Over:
Is sincerity even possible anymore? That level of condescension just dried up my shit like it was early onset menopause.
Jezebel has a great post about an article in this month’s Allure, purporting to address a new “syndrome” plaguing the privileged: Acquired Situational Narcissism.
The greatest narcissism, I think, is propagating the myth of infinite social decline. As if the sixteen zillion “sexual revolutions” and eras of various “enlightenments” never happened, Judith Newman seems to be [...]
I was writing about this whole other thing, but then this sort of stunned me off track:
Overweight and obese women have more sex than skinny types, a new study suggests.
Oh. Ok. Then this:
The results seem to contradict stereotypes that overweight and obese women have less sex. If anything, the researchers said, the opposite seems to [...]
So Kathleen Parker. She’s some trip.
Lady recently wrote a book called “Save the Males.” Yuk yuk. KParks is what one might call a “conservative feminist,” but not a brainless Republicunt. She misses out on the sort of radical subjectivity that remains to be the invaluable legacy of a Dworkian feminism (what we keep), but she’s [...]
I don’t know many people with that much respect for god, but I’m kinda friends with a lot of creeps. Lord knows I don’t, even though I really do give it a sincere go. That has little to do with my own personal theologies, of which I rarely speak because that shit is sorta corny. [...]
Because sex and power are inextricably, irrevocably enmeshed in one another, it seems entirely relevant to talk about what we can learn about one from the other. Specifically, the impulse to make rules for sex and seduction betrays a broader wish to impose order on the inherently disordered. This is why nerds don’t get laid [...]