Response from the Feminist Majority Foun...

Posted this afternoon on the Feminist Majority Foundation’s blog  in response to the shitstorm over Peg Yorkin’s pro-Polanski statement in the L. A. Times (comments on the FMF’s blog are enabled–I hope you’ll use them). Statement by Eleanor Smeal, President, Feminist Majority...

An Open Letter to Peg Yorkin of the Femi...

Some of the industry’s most prominent women said they believe Polanski, who faces a sentence as low as probation and as high as 16 months in prison for pleading guilty to having sex with a minor, should be freed. “My personal thoughts are let the guy go,” said Peg Yorkin, founder of...

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,...

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.

More Women Slaughtered…Yawn....

Last night, George Sodini entered his fitness club outside Pittsburgh with two guns in a gym bag and a mission to kill women.  I would say “woman,” since his (currently unidentified) ex-girlfriend was among the wounded, but he didn’t go after her specifically.  Instead, he entered...

Harpy Predicts Future: Chris Brown R...

Flashy, but fleeting. Via spud murphy @ Flickr. My Mondays are currently such that I’m out and about a lot, away from the computer and other forms of media, but even I knew that Chris Brown had released a public apology, although I didn’t get to view it until this morning.  Not only has...

Are You a Good Doormat?...

Via Claire L. Evans @ Flickr. The Internet is a window onto the world.  If something exists, you can find it on the web.  If it doesn’t, just check again tomorrow.   And as you click around, the elves inside your computer are noting where you go, when, and how often, and madly tallying up...

You Might As Well Ask The Pope....

"OMG it DOES show on your face!" Via Joe Gatling @ Flickr. I’ve already noted my opposition to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. That makes me sound like I’m all for unplanned pregnancy, but no. NCPTUP should probably change their name to “National...

Gordon Ramsay, Hypocritical Nightmare...

Via Stevens Bruno @ Flickr. Gentle readers, I confess that among my guilty reality show pleasures, I occasionally enjoy “Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares,” mostly because my inner clean freak is always deeply gratified to watch Gordon go berserk on restaurant owners whose kitchens...

Sex-Selection Among Americans of Chinese...

The preference for males among some Asian-American immigrants has resulted in significant deviations in the proportion of baby boys to baby girls, according to research conducted by professors Lena Edlund and Douglas Almond of Columbia University. More boys than girls are born in the United States, by...

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude....

I have been waiting for an excuse to use this awesome picture (that PhDork found) again. Via Trois Tetes @ Flickr. I am the kind of person who despite a generally sardonic demeanour and occasionally… decisive manner of speech actually believes in the best in people.  When I meet people, I assume...

How to Win Friends and Influence People...

If you are not already reading RH Reality Check, you should be. Amanda must have a stomach of steel, because she actually read Justice For All’s 113-page training manual and lived to tell the tale. Justice For All is an anti-choice organization that targets college campuses and the naughty, nubile...