logo

search

  • Home
  • About the Harpies
  • Contact Us
  • FAQ

Friday Fun Thread: Dream Jobs...

Posted by BeckySharper in Friday Fun Thread on 12 11th, 2009 | 28 Comments
It’s layoff season in my corner of the world, and while things are good where I work, the phone rings at least once a day with someone wanting to gossip/groan/quail about impending doom. A lot of us talk, semi-seriously, about what we’d do as a Plan B if this business doesn’t work out. Yesterday...
Read More

Unga Bunga! White Sale Gooood!...

Posted by PhDork in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me on 12 10th, 2009 | 42 Comments
It was JUST LIKE THIS. Via Hysterical Bertha @ Flickr. If there were such a thing as a big WHOOPWHOOPWHOOP siren that would go off when people started talking shite, I have go doubt that the phrase “in cave man times” would trigger klaxons everywhere. The article Shopping styles of men and...
Read More

A Room of One’s Own: Part One...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 11 12th, 2009 | 22 Comments
Last week the New York Times ran a great article about the remaining few women’s residences in New York City. Women’s residences were founded in the early 20th century as a way for single, working women to have a safe place to live. Yes, there was a healthy streak of morality policing at...
Read More

Retro Pleasures: Mr. Darcy, Colonel Bran...

Posted by BeckySharper in Culcha Vulcha, Harpy Seminar, Retro Pleasures on 10 20th, 2009 | 40 Comments
Harpy Seminar, Victorian style! So yesterday afternoon there was quite a lively discussion amongst some of the Harpies about our favorite men from ye olde literature, inspired by an article in the Telegraph that Pilgrim Soul sent us.  Entitled “Romantic Heroes: Here’s to You, Mr. Rochester,”...
Read More

Thank You for Being a Friend...

Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts on 10 19th, 2009 | 33 Comments
Via andreakw @ Flickr.Female friendships have been getting a lot of media attention in the past couple weeks. To be specific, people are saying that friendships between women are superficial at best and toxic at worst. Women cannot be more than frenemies because we are competitive, backstabbing underminers...
Read More

Plus ça change…...

Posted by PhDork in Culcha Vulcha, Harpy Book Club on 07 15th, 2009 | 4 Comments
Debs from 1937, unimpressed with this "advice." Via stonnington history centre @ Flickr A couple weeks ago, a friend of mine in town for the summer showed me an antique book he had found on the shelves of the apartment he was house-sitting:  Letters to a Debutante, an advice book for young...
Read More

Black Woman Appointed Surgeon General...

Posted by PhDork in Thoughts on 07 13th, 2009 | 12 Comments
In all the hubbub surrounding Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings, I nearly forgot that Obama would be appointing a new Surgeon General today. The announcement has just been made that Dr. Regina Benjamin, a family practice physician and the president of the Alabama Medical Association, will be the...
Read More

The Best Part of Wakin’ Up...

Posted by PhDork in Harpy Shout-out, Thoughts on 05 26th, 2009 | 12 Comments
… is Supreme Court nominee Hilda Sonia Sotomayor in my cup. (I obviously have not yet had “my cup” yet. Oy. Thanks for the correction, christina.) BOO.  YAH.  Heckuva way to start the week, I’ve got to say.  Granted, this is just the promise of the nomination, and we still...
Read More

I’m Going to be One of Those Women...

Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts on 05 6th, 2009 | 60 Comments
Awaiting the bonfire. Via piperkinsvater @ Flickr.…about whom other people mutter, “Put a bra on!” Maybe I already am one of those women. BeckySharper has had it with padded bras; I’ve had it with all bras. I wear a bra to work every day and begrudgingly slip one on if I’m...
Read More

Retro Pleasures: Horseback Riding...

Posted by BeckySharper in Retro Pleasures on 04 20th, 2009 | 20 Comments
Via poodlephile_lucy @ Flickr. When I was a tween, I was seriously into horses. Maybe it was all the fairytales with princesses and their horses. Or Black Beauty or Misty of Chincoteague. Maybe I read too many historical novels where queens and ladies galloped about on their faithful steeds.  I didn’t...
Read More

School’s In Session: Learning Elit...

Posted by Pilgrim Soul in Thoughts on 04 17th, 2009 | 12 Comments
This is a guest post by Harpy friend jessica gold haralson, who offered us an exclusive look at the new guide to etiquette we’ve all been awaiting from soon-to-be-ex-Countess LuAnn de Lesseps. As we all know, television provides a dearth of Harpy-approved feminist entertainment, so most of us...
Read More

You Can Take Away My Homemade Pie When Y...

Posted by BeckySharper in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me on 04 10th, 2009 | 16 Comments
MMMM....PIE. Actual church supper pies via deadrichmond @ Flickr. Today’s Wall Street Journal brings us an alarming article about a new scourge of government-sponsored, anti-woman repression.   The oppressed? Pennsylvania church ladies!   The Journal sets the scene: On the first Friday of...
Read More

« Previous Entries

random posts

Week One: Selling Food Stamps for Shoes...
In Which I Return From My Travels…...
How “Amelia” Missed the Point...

recent comments

  • distractedbyshinyobjects: My favorite book of fairy tales when I was little was "Tatte...
  • viajera: Great article about an amazing woman! Thanks for posting...
  • Katherine: Many moons ago I temped at a building engineering firm. One...
  • yvanehtnioj: @OleMiss - You see it as a distraction from real issues of r...
  • M: We were raised feminist, but I take credit for the academia ...
  • OleMiss: ::delurks:: As a MS expat, I wanted to say that the whole...

Tags

Abortion Activism Anger Anti-feminists Assweasels Beauty Culture Busybodies Children Choosing Your Choice Double Standards Education Empowerfulment Fashion Fat Is A Feminist Issue Feminism Great Male Narcissists Hollywood Ladylike Endeavors LGBT Marriage Masculinity Misogyny Motherhood Overshare Politics Race Racism Rants Religion Reproductive rights Sex Sexism Sexual violence So-Called Self-Improvement Solipsism Stereotypes The Media Theory and Practice Things That Are Awesome Unexpected Consequences Uteri Police Violence against women and girls Women's Health Women's Work Work Administrative Professionals Day (2)
Anonymous Prosecutor (3)
Culcha Vulcha (24)
Feminist Food for Thought (10)
Friday Fun Thread (24)
Guest Post (9)
Harpy Book Club (9)
Harpy Cinematical Society (8)
Harpy Droppings (2)
Harpy Hall of Fame (17)
Harpy Periodical (3)
Harpy Seminar (19)
Harpy Shout-out (45)
Harpy Televisual Society (3)
Honorary Harpies (15)
Housekeeping (17)
International Museum of Women (1)
Language Matters (14)
Linkaround (1)
Morning Snark (29)
Reader Request (6)
Retro Pleasures (10)
Solo Flying (46)
Thoughts (679)
You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me (77)

WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck and Luke Morton requires Flash Player 9 or better.

Blogroll

  • Bitch
  • Bookslut
  • Deeply Problematic
  • Echidne of the Snakes
  • F Bomb
  • Feminist Law Professors
  • Feminist Philosophers
  • Feministe
  • Feministing
  • Fugitivus
  • FWD/Forward
  • Geek Feminism
  • Hoyden About Town
  • I Blame the Patriarchy
  • Jezebel
  • Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose
  • Katha Pollitt
  • Maud Newton
  • Pandagon
  • Racialicious
  • Rage Against the Man-chine
  • Salon’s Broadsheet
  • Shakesville
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • The Angry Black Woman
  • The Curvature
  • The F Word
  • The Feminist Agenda
  • The Feminist Texican
  • Tiger Beatdown
  • Womanist Musings
  • Women’s Voices for Change

Archives

  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009

Search

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Valid XHTML
  • XFN
  • WordPress

google

google

.

Copyright © 2010. Creative Commons License
The Pursuit of Harpyness is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Powered by Wordpress | Designed by Elegant Themes

The harpy art you see in our banner above is by Ursula Dodge. Visit her etsy store!