What Matters...

Another flame-haired, green-eyed girl you wanna get your hands on. It’s all over the news here in NY, and, I imagine, elsewhere in the States:  RUSSIAN SPY RING BUSTED!!! That’s right, 10 individuals were arrested on espionage charges, although at this point it looks like in the decade or...

Harpy Seminar: Camille Takes a Dump...

Our horrible fate, as envisioned by Camille Paglia. Welcome to Harpy Seminar, a regular feature we plan to have at regular intervals, unless we get too busy to have it at regular intervals, in which case it shall appear whenever we have time and inclination for it. Each Seminar begins with a question...

In Which I Am Agreeable—With Audre...

Awesome image by Natalie Dee, of course. As y’all know, I often get a good larf out of Audrey Irvine’s dreadful “Relationship Rant” columns on CNN. For retro anti-woman thinking and twisted “insights,” I crowned two of them the Most Ridonkulous Op-Eds of 2009 and 2010. But...

Friday Fun Thread: My Favorite Things...

My Precioussssss... When I came home yesterday, there were about 20 police and firemen in the lobby of my building. Seems one of my neighbors left a candle burning and an errant breeze blew a curtain into it. Half her kitchen was flame-roasted before New York’s Bravest showed up to save the day. Theoretically...

What are YOU dude-ing this weekend?...

Half & Half and Combos. Breakfast of Champions. I’ve got plans for a karaoke night, the US-Ghana soccer match, and a birthday cookout, among other things.  These are all equal-opportunity social functions, and I’m looking forward to them. But that’s ’cause I’m a girl. ...

Do Hypocrites Have a Right To Privacy?...

I have already confessed to loving it when hypocrites get busted. John Ensign? Ted Haggard? Mark Sanford? David Vitter? I practically danced with schadenfreude when their good Christian family values dissolved into a sticky mess of gay sex, adultery, prostitution and other “perversions.”...

Australia’s First Female Prime Min...

It’s 8:42 PM on June 23 as I write this, but if I were in Canberra, it would be 10:42 AM on June 24, the day Australia gained its first female prime minister, Julia Gillard. A member of the Labor Party, Welsh-born Gillard is 48 years old and previously served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister...

SarahMC does cohabitation...

Hello folks. I apologize for my absence ’round these parts lately (if you missed me, that is). My manpanion and I moved into a new apartment together over the weekend and I am still totally beat. We don’t have television or Internet yet, which is a real drag. But we are making progress and...

You Ain’t Got No Alibi, Quinnipiac...

Via heraldpost @ Flickr Yesterday morning I heard about a trial just starting in neighboring Connecticut.  The issue under contention:  cheerleading.  Specifically, should cheerleading, of the competitive, dancing/tumbling/throwing people in the air variety (video w/ annoying music) that you’ve...

Activism at the World Cup...

"We Support the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo for the Nobel Peace Prize." During a training session at the World Cup last week, the Argentine national football team paid tribute to the women’s activist organization Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, who have just been nominated for the Nobel...

Size Matters...

Too big? From wikimedia. I happened across this article on Stony Brook University’s Feminine Boy Project a couple of months ago, but I couldn’t figure out what to do with other than say “Wow, how horrible!  Thank goodness we’ve evolved beyond this kind of bogus ‘medical-minded’...

Chauvinism and the “Boy CrisisR...

Earlier this month, I got hung up on a New York magazine article by Hanna Rosin about New York City’s role in education’s “boy crisis”: magnet schools and gifted-talented programs have significantly more female than male students and standardized testing favors girls’ abilities...