Meghan McCain is trying to have it both ways! She’s acting like she owns her body! OWNS it! Perish the thought! Between this nonsense and Lucinda Rosenfeld’s awesome advice to a young woman who got roofied and abandoned by her friends at a concert (shorter version: “You’re probably just a drugged-up slut. Your friends oweContinue reading “Nice slut-shaming, Noreen Malone”
Category Archives: The F-Word
Link round-up (Polanski, hijab, zombies, etc.) and a moment of truth
Anne Applebaum annoyed me with her clueless stereotyping of Russian women, but she downright freaked me out the other day when she went to bat for Roman Polanski. Her subsequent defense of her comments is even worse – Applebaum has the nerve to call the victim’s testimony “salacious.” I don’t even know what to sayContinue reading “Link round-up (Polanski, hijab, zombies, etc.) and a moment of truth”
Roman Polanski: “The god who comes demands his sacrifice”
I’m wondering how long it will take for some idiot to make a hysterical YouTube video begging the justice system to “LEAVE ROMAN ALONE!…uh uh uh.” Flippant, I know. It’s hard to talk about Roman Polanski’s arrest with any of the gravity it deserves. It’s even harder to keep a straight face when I seeContinue reading “Roman Polanski: “The god who comes demands his sacrifice””
From a feminine feminist: dear Ashley, it’s not my magical mesh panties that make me happy
There’s lots to cringe at over at the Sense & Sexuality blog, but this particular essay jumped out at me. Of course, it’s not like I haven’t heard the same thing over and over again: “you’re trying to have it all and hence you’re unhappy,” “gender equality kills romance,” “porn is SATAN – and yourContinue reading “From a feminine feminist: dear Ashley, it’s not my magical mesh panties that make me happy”
Yes, it’s perfectly OK for Mackenzie Phillips to sell her incest-rape story. Next question.
Ever since Mackenzie Phillips dropped her bombshell on Oprah – her father John Phillips raped her while high on drugs, and the sex even eventually became consensual – there’s been all of this discussion. Some people have been focusing on whether or not father-daughter incest is always rape, and others have been screaming “she hasContinue reading “Yes, it’s perfectly OK for Mackenzie Phillips to sell her incest-rape story. Next question.”
Natalia A. 