Elizabeth Lambert, a University of New Mexico football player (that’s soccer, to my fellow Americans – I think “soccer” is a stupid word and try to use it as little as possible, OK?), was involved in a pretty violent incident on the pitch and it wound up on YouTube. She was suspended from the team,Continue reading “Um, so the response to Elizabeth Lambert’s ponytail-yanking incident isn’t sexist or anything…”
Category Archives: The F-Word
Love? Hate? Worship? I say worship: Sasha Grey in Playboy
This link is 100% Not Safe For Work. So don’t go clicking on it, and then screeching to me about how you got your ass fired and can’t afford to feed your Alexandrine parakeet and how it’s all my fault. I like Sasha Grey. Not necessarily for high-falutin’ pseudo-intellectual reasons either. I think she’s reallyContinue reading “Love? Hate? Worship? I say worship: Sasha Grey in Playboy”
Sluts! Feminists! Tom Wolfe! Again! Headdesk!
Can we please stop resurrecting the writer who has his panties in such a twist over the fact that some women aren’t afraid of the “slut” label anymore that he even wrote an entire bad, bloated novel about it every time this stupid conversation about young women and sex happens? This is about as oldContinue reading “Sluts! Feminists! Tom Wolfe! Again! Headdesk!”
Reinforcing the “dumb bimbo” meme, one righteous feminist blog post at a time
…I have more power than a Playboy model in the real world, since my opinions are taken seriously. All of us would never have this if we posed for Playboy, because as much as the men who make the rules coo and flatter Playboy models, they actually think you’re dumb bimbos and they don’t giveContinue reading “Reinforcing the “dumb bimbo” meme, one righteous feminist blog post at a time”
Way to go, Democrats
As Sarah Jaffe points out, Representative Bart Stupak (D-Michigan—yes, D, that’s not a typo)… doesn’t think that health insurance should provide abortion coverage. He thinks women should have to buy a separate rider that would cover abortion. Because, y’know, women like me totally plan on aborting lots of babies. The Stupak-Pitts amendment to the healthContinue reading “Way to go, Democrats”
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