Posted by BeckySharper in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Assweasels, Body Image, Double Standards, Fat Is A Feminist Issue, Stereotypes on Feb 9, 2011, 11:22pm | 35 Comments
Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts, You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Abortion, Busybodies, Misogyny, Politics on Feb 4, 2011, 3:00pm | 8 Comments
Abortion in the City Republicans Love to...
In the midst of public outrage over the HR3 and the restrictions it would impose on abortion, the New York Times’s most read story this week is about the unusually high abortion rate in the city House Republicans love to hate: Two of every five pregnancies in New York City end in abortion, a statistic...
Posted by Marie Anelle in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Activism, Assweasels, Politics, Rape culture on Jan 31, 2011, 8:26pm | 23 Comments
Redefining Rape: More Important Than Job...
I’m sure we’re all very familiar with John Boehner’s latest assault on women. I have run out of shades of appalling to describe HR3. The squeeze on reproductive rights by members of the GOP is bad enough, but that sacred (albeit hypocritical if you ask me) truce when it comes to rape...
Posted by Marie Anelle in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Beauty Culture, Children, WTF? on Jan 29, 2011, 9:00am | 14 Comments
WRONG. JUST WRONG....
Silly women, don't you know that 8 is the new 15? So I’m sure most of you have heard the whispers on the internet, but in case you haven’t, here’s a real tale of horror right here. In case you don’t think that you’re really reading what you’re reading, let me assure...
Posted by BeckySharper in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Assweasels, Be A Bitch, Dating, Wrongo Dongo on Jan 23, 2011, 5:26pm | 24 Comments
Be A Bitch: On JDate...
Y’all may recall a post I wrote a couple years ago about being radically skeeved out by a super-creepy creepster I encountered via an on-line dating site. Guess what? My recent return to on-line dating has uncovered another fine specimen. To wit, this e-mail I received from a JDate hopeful: Welcome...
Posted by Marie Anelle in Thoughts, You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Rants on Jan 19, 2011, 2:37pm | 8 Comments
FU Snowplow (and other fun stuff about l...
So I had a bit of a rage moment and I think I scarred K for life with it. She’s seen me sarcastic, she’s seen me bitter, she’s seen me roll my eyes and seen me be annoyed. She has never seen me turn ourselves around swearing at the top of my lungs about how much my city’s...
Posted by annajcook in Language Matters, You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, LGBTQ, Politics, Religion on Jan 19, 2011, 11:00am | 10 Comments
In which my equal rights “criminal...
Who knew cuddling = oppression? Pursuant to last week’s post on the far right and American history, Sarah Posner posted recently at Religion Dispatches Magazine about the post-Prop-8, post-DADT positioning of the Christian right which believes itself to be not only a persecuted minority but (through...
Posted by BeckySharper in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Anti-Semitism, Politics, Rants on Jan 12, 2011, 10:31am | 31 Comments
Sarah Palin and “Blood Libel”...
Not much that Sarah Palin does can shock me these days, so I wasn’t particularly surprised when she backtracked from her “crosshairs” poster and had her aides claim the crosshairs were just “surveyor marks.” Sarah Palin is a uniquely weak character—she can dish it,...
Posted by BeckySharper in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me on Dec 4, 2010, 5:35pm | 49 Comments
To The Lady At Target Wearing the “...
Dear Madam: Thank you for letting us all know which holiday you celebrate and how you prefer to be greeted this month. I realize it’s vexing when people wish you a “Happy Holidays”. You should not have to endure the indignity of being automatically lumped in with non-Christians, just...
Posted by PhDork in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Assweasels, It's Science!, The Media on Dec 2, 2010, 3:00pm | 9 Comments
Pull Out Your Bitchzookas...
…because there are a number of recent stories (or “stories”) that deserve a serious barrage of “you’ve got to be fucking kidding me” letters-to-the-editor. You can write one, or two, or three! We’re feminists, we support your right to choose at whom you direct...
Posted by PhDork in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Children, Consumer Culture, Things That Are Sad on Nov 30, 2010, 12:30pm | 20 Comments
Holiday Shopping, Like Most “Happy...
And I don’t just mean the “holy crap, how am I going to afford anything this year?” part. I have a couple of nephews, one of whom is a little 8-year-old science nerd, and so I’ve been looking around for some kind of build-it or do-it-yourself kits. I love robots, The Dude loves...
Posted by PhDork in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Co, Rants on Oct 27, 2010, 9:30am | 9 Comments