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Posted by Pilgrim Soul in Culcha Vulcha, Feminist Food for Thought, You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me on Mar 12, 2010, 2:18pm | 13 Comments

EDELSTEIN!...

So let’s say you’re a film critic.  Let’s say you’re a film critic at a widely distributed publication!  That happens to be located in New York, which means that you get to see a LOT of movies, because not only does New York allow you access to all the big blockbusters, but...
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Posted by BeckySharper in Harpy Shout-out, You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Activism, Assweasels, Busybodies, LGBT on Mar 11, 2010, 7:19pm | 33 Comments

Prom (oting) Homophobia...

This month in Fulton, Mississippi, two girls wanted to go to prom together, and one of them wanted to wear a tux. When one of the girls—high school senior Constance McMillen—challenged the school’s written policy that prom dates must be of the opposite sex, the school board decided:...
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Posted by PhDork in Thoughts, You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, It's Science! on Mar 9, 2010, 5:00pm | 25 Comments

Don’t hang up that mating towel ye...

A detail from my own personal (highly offensive) mating towel. Via sewitsforyou @ Flickr That’s the good word from Georgia Gwinnett College researcher Steven Platek, who will shortly be publishing his findings on men’s preference for women’s surgically-altered asses. And thank maude,...
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Posted by Pilgrim Soul in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me on Mar 2, 2010, 8:47am | 17 Comments

Unfuckingbelievable...

The other night I hung out with a feminist friend of mine who I won’t name yet because I haven’t asked her if I can, and it happened to be the day the Paterson story broke.  We got to talking about it over wine, and she said, and I think this was completely fair, that of course there was...
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Posted by BeckySharper in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Beauty Culture, Ladybits, Ridculousness on Feb 25, 2010, 7:24pm | 48 Comments

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...
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Posted by PhDork in Thoughts, You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Culcha Vulcha on Feb 22, 2010, 11:00am | 10 Comments

HA HA HO HO HEE HEE FAIL FAIL FAIL...

I live in New York, and I go the theatre now and again, so I get ticket offers via email a lot.  Most are quickly scanned and then deleted.  Some are flagged.  And some, like this one: Kate, the witty, waspish shrew, must be married off before her younger tamer sister. When Petruchio comes in search...
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Posted by PhDork in Language Matters, You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Bodies That Matter, Fat Is A Feminist Issue, Sports, Weight Police on Feb 18, 2010, 11:00am | 20 Comments

Female Olympians are Fat! (TW)...

That logo-person is lookin' a little blocky, doncha think? Okay, of course they’re not.  Although I’m sure some of these fit, muscular athletes would qualify as “obese” according to BMI calculations.  (Which are crap, in case you hadn’t picked up on that.) But shaming...
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Posted by PhDork in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Advertising, Double Standards, Food, Rants on Feb 15, 2010, 12:00pm | 36 Comments

You Have to Eat to Live...

No. You don't. Via atomicjeep @ Flickr Dear Corporate Food-Like-Substance Manufacturing Overlords, I’ve been seeing this commercial of yours a lot lately–it seems to be in heavy rotation on TLC and Bravo (Lady Channels, for ladies!)–and I feel the need to write and ask if you realized...
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Posted by BeckySharper in Solo Flying, You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Be A Bitch, Rape Apologists, Rape culture, Roman Polanski, Sexual Predators, The Media on Feb 12, 2010, 7:07pm | 32 Comments

Be A Bitch: To the New York Times Public...

Dear Mr. Hoyt: I am writing to express how disgusted I was by Dennis Lim’s February 12 article about Roman Polanski. Certainly, the Times has given plenty of coverage to Polanski’s crime, including a 2009 editorial which read: This case has nothing to do with Mr. Polanski’s work or his...
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Posted by BeckySharper in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Dating, The Patriarch, WTF? on Feb 11, 2010, 9:00am | 69 Comments

Miss Manners Meets The Patriarchy...

In my imagination, this is where Miss Manners writes her columns. Via joeke pieters @ Flickr. From today’s Miss Manners column: Dear Miss Manners: I took the father of a young lady I would like to pursue to lunch a few months ago, seeking his permission and approval to date his daughter. After...
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Posted by The Harpies in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Advertising, Masculinity, Misogyny, Sexism, Stereotypes, The Media on Feb 8, 2010, 9:00am | 63 Comments

What We Learned from the SuperBowl Ads...

That about sums it up. Via that_james @ Flickr Superbowl Sunday is as much–if not more–about the flashy, expensive ads as it is the outcome of the game.  A lot of the lead-up hubbub was about the Tebow “Abortions Murder Football Heros!” ad, but if one were an alien who landed...
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Posted by BeckySharper in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Creepy-Ass Shit, Sexy Time, Stereotypes on Feb 2, 2010, 3:00pm | 46 Comments

Possibly the Creepiest Fucking Thing Eve...

Pygmalion and Galatea, 2010. Via CNN. Because nothing else of import is going on in the world, yesterday CNN broke the story of the latest in expensive, hi-tech fuck dolls. Yes. A story about fuck dolls on CNN. Specifically Roxxxy, a $7,000, 5′7″, 120-lb, alarmingly lifelike talking sex robot. Prepare...
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