logo

search

  • Home
  • About the Harpies
  • Contact Us
  • FAQ

Condoms: Good. This Design: ?...

Posted by PhDork in Thoughts on 03 17th, 2010 | 18 Comments
Under the Bloomberg administration, New York City has distributed millions and millions of free condoms at bars and other public locations throughout the five boroughs.  I think it’s a great social program, though there has been a lot of bellyaching from some quarters about “subsidizing...
Read More

Who’s Counting?...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 03 2nd, 2010 | 46 Comments
I mean, besides him... From a recent “Ask Carolyn” column by Carolyn Hax: Dear Carolyn: The other day, the guy I’ve been out with exactly four times asked me for my “number.” (Not my phone number, the other one.) I was offended that he’d even ask at this early stage,...
Read More

Parents of America, you are on notice!...

Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts on 01 29th, 2010 | 38 Comments
Forget hiding in an attic for two years and dying of typhus at Bergen Belsen – what’s really offensive about Anne Frank’s experience was her awareness of her vagina. Some unfit asshole in Culpepper County, Virginia became scandalized by Frank’s mention of her genitalia in The...
Read More

Where do you think “Barefoot and p...

Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts on 01 27th, 2010 | 23 Comments
Conventional wisdom holds that when a person is tricked or coerced into reproducing, that person is male and the deceiving party is female. But a study conducted by researchers at UC Davis confirms what far too many women already know: the ones trying to initiate a pregnancy against their parters’...
Read More

Mary Karr on the Vocabulary of Desire...

Posted by Pilgrim Soul in Thoughts on 01 19th, 2010 | 57 Comments
In my other life as a reader of pretentious literary fiction, I came across a Paris interview with the poet and memoirist Mary Karr that you might find interesting.  It’s not fully available online, but here is the excerpt I find particularly a propos: KARR: When I started Cherry [her memoir of...
Read More

“I can have sex!”...

Posted by PhDork in Thoughts on 12 3rd, 2009 | 10 Comments
In recent months, due in no small part to the bloggular work of our own SarahMC, the fine ladies at fwd, and Melissa McEwan of Shakesville, I’ve become increasingly aware of how rights for women and rights for those with disabilities overlap and are intertwined, and what I can do–or not...
Read More

How to be an Assweasel 101...

Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts on 11 13th, 2009 | 32 Comments
Twice in the past 48 hours I have had the displeasure of reading pathetic, poorly-written attempts at humor in college newspapers. The target of the writers’ screeds, of course, is women. It’s amazing how many people think misogyny is fresh and new and “edgy.” The new shame...
Read More

Disability and Sexuality Co-Exist...

Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts on 10 28th, 2009 | 11 Comments
There was a bizarre scene in last week’s episode of The Office, wherein Pam complained to Oscar that their boss Michael was sleeping with her mother. “How would you like it if Michael was having sex with your mom!?” Pam asked. After a brief pause, Oscar told her, “My mom is in...
Read More

Newsflash: Cougars are People, Too....

Posted by PhDork in Harpy Seminar, Thoughts on 10 19th, 2009 | 12 Comments
As opposed to the botoxed succubi preying on fresh, sweet mannfleisch that rightfully belongs only to the nubile. In a recent New York Times Fashion section (’cause that’s where the stories for ladies go), Sarah Kershaw noted with incredulity that women over 35 who date men 5 or more years...
Read More

In Praise of Casual Sex...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 10 4th, 2009 | 17 Comments
Last week over at Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog, we talked about the joy of no sex. In this week’s post, it’s all about the not-boyfriends. I’ve simply never bought into the idea that all sex must live up to the shining heteronormative ideal of candlelight and roses and true love (which,...
Read More

No Sex, Please, We’re Sex-Positive...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 09 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment
In this latest post from Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog at Bitch Magazine, I wanted to let readers get the last word on the “Is No Sex Sex-Positive?” post. Between Bitch, Facebook, Harpyness and e-mails I received, it was clear that plenty of women have strong opinions about not having sex, and...
Read More

Is No Sex Still Sex Positive?...

Posted by BeckySharper in Solo Flying, Thoughts on 09 26th, 2009 | 19 Comments
Via Liz_Kelly @ Flickr. In my most recent post for Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog, I actually switched from talking about sex to talking about…no sex. This was in response to a brilliant reader comment: Becky I’m interested to know if you’ve ever thought about abstinence from a sex positive...
Read More

« Previous Entries

random posts

The Boys and the Mouse...
The Kids Are Alright...
Pet Peeves: An Open Letter to “Pregnant̶...

recent comments

  • Joe: @Joe – does it help when we spell it “doodz”? Better than...
  • Mackey: The issue of naming I found really interesting. I haven't be...
  • double: Well, I'm almost exactly an entire year late to this party, ...
  • double: I like it. The power on symbol makes me think of vigour, ene...
  • Clare K. R. Miller: What an amazing woman. Thank you for sharing this! I thought...
  • yvanehtnioj: @Becky - I'm a big fan of "drawers" (completely gender neutr...

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 (10)
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 (15)
Linkaround (1)
Morning Snark (30)
Reader Request (6)
Retro Pleasures (10)
Solo Flying (46)
Thoughts (686)
You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me (78)

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
  • Hysteria!
  • 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!