Category Archives: The F-Word

Why sleep with a boy? Natalia regails you all with personal musings on sexuality!

Please note that this post stems from a discussion started here – at Twisty’s blog. Also note – I have bolded the nickname “undercover punk” so that reading this rather long post is easier on you. I moonlight as a valiant defender of my own brand of cynical, eurotrash feminism over at Twisty’s quite aContinue reading “Why sleep with a boy? Natalia regails you all with personal musings on sexuality!”

Oh for God’s sake, Jessica Simpson is not freaking “fat”

Let me first say that I generally object to all dissections of famous people’s weight gains and losses. I have to be realistic and say that one hand, this sort of thing is inevitable, but on the other hand – maybe if we had a slightly more inclusive beauty standard, it wouldn’t happen so often.Continue reading “Oh for God’s sake, Jessica Simpson is not freaking “fat””

An Important Event for Feminism: Renegade Evolution & Top Feminist Blogs

So this week, something cool happened, and this something cool was the revelation that Renegade Evolution is in the Top 30 Feminist Blogs, according to statistics. I consider Ren a good friend, so a congratulations of a personal nature is in order. Yay! Squee! And so on. But what makes this particular inclusion so specialContinue reading “An Important Event for Feminism: Renegade Evolution & Top Feminist Blogs”

“Her tits don’t sag” – on Ali Campoverdi and supposed progressives judging a woman’s “respectability”

The comments on Ali Campoverdi’s lingerie photos have swung me back around to my favourite topic – the policing of women’s looks and attire by so-called feminists and feminist allies. Now, for reference’s sake, Ali Campoverdi has recently landed a job in the Obama White House. She has also posed for Maxim. So far, fromContinue reading ““Her tits don’t sag” – on Ali Campoverdi and supposed progressives judging a woman’s “respectability””