Category Archives: The F-Word

Penis and principles: talking about each other’s fine bodies

For Yaroslava, the queen of good dick jokes. Maybe not the most appropriate eulogizing on the day of her death, but dammit, I am tired of sitting here with a frowny face, and don’t think she would approve anyway – she always told me to smile, under penalty of death. Please don’t read this ifContinue reading “Penis and principles: talking about each other’s fine bodies”

Bad medicine: of liars, and porn, and armies of “skanks”

Something that Ren – one of the few bloggers I still have time and energy to follow right now – said the other day really stuck with me: “…I do find it kind of amusing in that asshole grim way of mine, because oh so often, the dudes screaming the loudest about how they wouldContinue reading “Bad medicine: of liars, and porn, and armies of “skanks””

As amusing as it may be to watch two non-Muslim women duke it out over the veil…

… I have to say that this argument between Naomi Wolf & Phyllis Chesler mostly depresses me. When it comes to Wolf, I think she had her heart in the right place, but did make a few claims that rather romanticize the idea of hijab. For example, when she says: It is not that IslamContinue reading “As amusing as it may be to watch two non-Muslim women duke it out over the veil…”

Germaine Greer: still glowin’, still crowin’, still transphobic as hell

We all know that the natural world is subject to certain rules. Seasons change, for example. Stars die. Eclipses occur. And Germaine Greer spews transphobic bile. In writing about runner Caster Semenya for her latest column, Greer slipped in this little gem: Nowadays we are all likely to meet people who think they are women,Continue reading “Germaine Greer: still glowin’, still crowin’, still transphobic as hell”