Excuuuuuuse me ladies, for liking the cover of Jessica Valenti’s book. Yep, liking it. Not tolerating it, or excusing it on grounds of potential marketability, but actually thinking that it was both funny and fun. As a person in love with book cover pop-art, as someone who regularly browses the “new arrivals” shelves just toContinue reading “What Jill Fillipovic said… Well, maybe not”
Category Archives: The F-Word
On My Grandmother’s 80th Birthday
I think about career. My grandmother was a successful physician and administrator who ended her working days after well over 50 years, more than half a century of infectious diseases and bureaucracies. I think about old age. I know how much she misses work – the starched white coat, the nurses flipping on the electricContinue reading “On My Grandmother’s 80th Birthday”
I dick, therefore I am
Apostate recently wrote this: Ever since I found out about it, I have found penetrative sex inherently violent and I think its power dynamic is skewed in the male’s (or top’s) favor (he is the aggressor, she the recipient – some level of passivity is built into her role – sex can be performed onContinue reading “I dick, therefore I am”
Chipped nailpolish and all
My friend Shadee wrote a column for the Chronicle. The column provided yet another testament as to why the Chronicle message boards and discussion sections should be moderated. “Go back to Iran,” “Shia whore,” “bitch,” “traitorous snake,” – are some of the choice epithets the Chronicle team is basically allowing to be expressed on theirContinue reading “Chipped nailpolish and all”
Bleed like me
Is the media coverage of Faye Turney sexist toward men? Women? Both? Are Iranian officials sexist for demanding, apaprently, that Turney wear the veil? Are they trying to make a point to Britain? To the U.S. via Britain? To Iranian citizens who have to wear the veil by law if they weren’t born with aContinue reading “Bleed like me”
Natalia A. 