Every year, PETA, the darling of clueless celebrities everywhere (dear actors & pop stars of the known universe, don’t just check with your publicist if the PETA people are “nice,” or whatever, do research), puts us through the hypocritical indignities of their sanctimonious “Worst Dressed List.” Of course, PETA is that classy organization that onceContinue reading “PETA’s “Worst Dressed List” – About as progressive as Rush Limbaugh’s big toe”
Category Archives: Idiots on Parade
Shorter danaseilhan: “Sexual assault and harrassment are bad things. Unless they happen to a mouthy stripper.”
This LJ user recently showed up on a Pandagon thread of doom with a few things to say about Renegade Evolution’s bad day at work (for the sake of context: Ren Ev is a stripper who cut a performance short when the drunk rednecks who hired her became dangerously aggressive – not to mention theContinue reading “Shorter danaseilhan: “Sexual assault and harrassment are bad things. Unless they happen to a mouthy stripper.””
Smackdown Time: “All heterosexual women are rape victims”? Oh yeah?
A regular old feminist is usually pretty weary of the standard clichés: “all feminists hate men,” “all feminists think sex is rape,” “all feminists wear clown shoes and smell like cow dung,” and so on… HOWEVER, Every once in a while you really do stumble on to folks who believe that, and I quote, “allContinue reading “Smackdown Time: “All heterosexual women are rape victims”? Oh yeah?”
Sometimes the dragon loses
I’ve write dark fairy stories. I’m working on a book that frightens me, its author and creator, sometimes. I think it’s cool to wear a scarf decorated with skulls, and not just because I’m trying to be neo-punk. I think Beslan is representative of the human condition. I see around me gleeful contempt (hmmm, obsessionContinue reading “Sometimes the dragon loses”
Screw the Old 5K! Let’s Run to the Radfems!
I ran Cross Country in high school. Hence the lame joke. My offline experiences with self-identified radical feminists have tended to be very positive. Someone whom I consider a mentor is a radical feminist and a heavyweight thinker and academic (and a damn fine human being). A lot of my own thinking about life inContinue reading “Screw the Old 5K! Let’s Run to the Radfems!”
Natalia A. 