Today was the first time I’d ever leapt to the defense of one Paris Hilton, after this happened. Here is the e-mail I sent to the Countdown team: Dear Keith & Co., The Paris Hilton joke was below the belt. I’m a feminist with real job, and normally I wouldn’t give a rat’s behind aboutContinue reading “There’s a first time for everything”
Category Archives: America
“I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar”
This woman did not get emergency contraception on time, and is now pregnant. She already has three kids, and plans on getting an abortion. She lives in a red state, in a red county, which means that in order to have her abortion, she will most likely have to pass through an abusive mob. SheContinue reading ““I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar””
The Blogger of the Baskervilles
I don’t read Althouse, because I value my brain cells. I had to pop over and have a look, though, when Ms. Althouse accused a prominent feminist blogger of… what exactly? Oh, of having breasts. As a feminist blogger who also happens to be a fan of nude painting I was, naturally, pissed off. OfContinue reading “The Blogger of the Baskervilles”
Sticky Stupids
Despite (or maybe because) of the financial turmoil and general aimlessness and desperation that have characterized these post-collegiate months, some days, I just have to fall down in hysterics. A woman in a speeding minivan nearly mowed me down in a parking lot today. As I watched her drive away, sans apology, I noticed aContinue reading “Sticky Stupids”
On This Gray Morning
Let’s remember the dead. Five years ago, I felt a peculiar, very organic, animalistic sense of dread. Now I feel as though there is very little justice in this world, or perhaps none at all, and nothing matters much, but the slogans matter least of all. “He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, fallingContinue reading “On This Gray Morning”
Natalia A. 