Nope, Not a Joke...

Well, not purposefully a joke.  But if you want to have a little laugh-’til-you-cry-’til-you-laugh-’til-you-puke experience this morning, look no further than what is quite possibly the smelliest piece of faux-feminist (ex-kyooze me, “feminine-ist”) shit ever deposited...

Thought for a Busy Morning...

We’re all up to our eyeballs in various meat-space commitments, so please forgive our recent absence.  In the meantime, a fisk-able link and a pithy quote… There have been several occasions over the last few day where a quote from scholar Peggy Phelan has floated to the front of my mind,...

I Blame Porn...

HEAD/DESK For your weekend…a link to “I Blame Porn“, my latest Bed Bitch, and Beyond post from Bitch Magazine, in which I raise the topic: is internet porn changing sex for teenagers and twentysomethings? How has the rise of mainstream, accessible porn started fucking with teenage brains,...

On Women, Alcohol, and Anti-Feminism...

For weeks now, I’ve been fuming over the misogynist media pile-on that took place after a horrific car crash on New York’s Taconic Parkway, in which Diane Schuler killed herself, her daughter, her three nieces and three men in another vehicle. An autopsy showed that she had drunk 10 shots...

No Sex Please, I’m “Wrinkly&...

My latest from the Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog at Bitch Magazine, in which I commit a wee bit of feminist-on-memoir violence against The Virginia Monologues, Virginia Ironside’s nastily sex-negative new book about the “joys” of being a woman over 60.

High Heels Now Officially NSFW...

Wear at your own risk! Via shoesexpert @ Flickr. Y’all know that I fucking hate high heels. And apparently, I’m not alone–since I wrote my rant about heels back in January, it’s been one of our top-rated posts, still getting a couple hundred hits a week and generating plenty of...

You’re Beautiful...

If there is, among my circles of feminist acquaintance, any woman who is NOT half in-love with Margaret Cho, I’ll eat my copy of Intercourse.  I didn’t really get acquainted with Cho until I was in my mid-twenties, which is to say until I started feeling like I might actually own myself. ...

Bad Ideas For Girls...

As if it wasn’t enough that tweens and teens are getting mani-pedis and blowouts, there are some–in the affluent DC suburbs, at least–who are also have their own image consultants to glamorize them. These Stacies and Clintons are doing booming business, according to an article in this...

Our Bodies, Our Neuroses...

Apologies, readers; what I am about to write is as much for me as it is for you. Sometimes I think we could learn as much about being feminists from our failures as we can from our successes. Let me confess one of my major feminist faults here.  I’ve been thinking of calling for a one-month armistice...

The Thing Is, She Never Belonged to Us...

I never thought I’d see the day where Taylor Momsen* was discussed and critiqued as a feminist icon, but here you have it.  This Lindsey Horvath person is horrified; Taylor Momsen is not “her kind of feminist.”  To be fair, I suppose she’s not mine either, not least because...

Mothers of Invention?...

So there’s this gender-coded internet ad meme-thing that I’m seeing everywhere, and I just don’t get it. The ads, which I find in Gmail, in Facebook, and in just about every other ad-bar that pops up on the right side of my screen, run something like this: Don’t get Botox! A...

You’ve Got Me, Cher...

Lately, to avoid thinking too hard about certain things in my life that are not going as planned, I have been watching a lot of movies.  I am a veteran movie-watcher of obssessive proportions; back in the video-store heyday I used to be a hated friend, because I’d already seen anything.  And...