Friday Fun Thread: Lazy Sundays (and Mon...

Hibernating beaver via MRB Prints @ Flickr. A mere couple weeks after Snowpacalypse: The Enblizzarding, those of us in the Northeast US are getting Snowpacalypse: Part Deux (Now with More Sleet!). In NYC schools are closed, offices are empty and even the usually packed subway is nearly deserted. Last...

And Paterson isn’t running!...

That was quick.

Our Labia Look Just Fine, Thanks: Part I...

My bonbons will stay dazzle-free. Ladies, if your nether regions aren’t trim or pink enough, there may be hope for you yet. Now you can distract potential partners by blinding them with sparkly Swarovski crystals! It’s…vejazzling! No, I’m not joking. You wax your pubes off, then...

Great News, Gender!...

In case you were wondering if your personal physical safety was more important to the governor of New York than his buddy’s reputation and career, here’s your answer: Last fall, a woman went to court in the Bronx to testify that she had been violently assaulted by a top aide to Gov. David...

Sympathy for the Rape Apologist?...

Yesterday, Harpyness reader Christopher F. wrote me about the firestorm of controversy surrounding a recent student column in the Daily Princetonian. In “The Real ‘Sex on a Saturday Night‘”, freshman Iulia Neagu explains that women who are raped while inebriated have only themselves...

The Revolution Will Be Funny...

I was the only Harpy who ended up making the HousingWorks/DoubleX/Sarah Haskins event on Monday night.  Funnily enough, I saw a ton of people I knew there, including some people from my conservative workplace.  I was impressed, I have to tell you, that they came.  All of them are people I introduced...

Harpy Book Club, February Edition...

photo via sarah.of.a.lesser.god This feature (for now in the custody of sarah.of.a.lesser.god) is our way of sharing those book titles, both fiction and nonfiction, that have been standouts in recent reading, and hopefully getting some from our readers in return. The focus is primarily, but not necessarily...

Apple Stays Classy...

Do Not Want. Yesterday the New York Times Business section ran a story about how Apple is pulling the plug on iPhone apps featuring sexually suggestive content. “It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints from women who found the content getting too degrading and objectionable,...

Week One: Selling Food Stamps for Shoes...

While the official U.S. unemployment rate is hovering around ten percent, the crisis is not hitting all parts of the income spectrum equally. The Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University reports that the unemployment rate in the lowest income braket is ten times that of the rate in...

Feminist Revolutions (and Why Ladyblogs ...

Recently, I’ve taken to firing sporadic, angry twitter messages in the direction of @SarahPalinUSA. This, in itself, is perhaps not a very odd thing to do. Sarah Palin seems to possess an uncanny ability to draw out vitriol from nearly all corners, turning liberals who pride themselves on their openness...

I’m over Christina Hendricks....

Via Capital M @ Flickr. I admit, the title of this post may not be fair, or completely accurate, as I’ve got no beef with Christina Hendricks herself. Her ever-increasing fan club, however, turns me off. She is on the cover of New York’s Spring Fashion issue, modeling “the new lingerie-as-outerwear...

Thoughts on Domestic Violence (the Docum...

The other night I saw a screening of a documentary called Domestic Violence at MoMA. The director is a man named Frederick Wiseman, who is sort of a documentarian’s documentarian – outside of fans of these sorts of things I haven’t met many people who have heard of him. It doesn’t help that...