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Dear Women: Your Vagina is Like Fight Cl...

Posted by BeckySharper in Language Matters on 06 14th, 2012 | 7 Comments
Replace with VAGINA. And the first rule of Fight Club, as you all know, is we don’t talk about Fight Club. Michigan state rep Lisa Brown (D-obvs) discovered this the hard way when she referred to vaginas by name while discussing an abortion bill in the state’s House of Representatives. From...
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The Man Who Would Be Our Sleazebag-in-Ch...

Posted by BeckySharper in LOL on 11 10th, 2011 | 9 Comments
The flags don't make us believe you. So, y’all, I’ve been meaning to say something about GOP frontrunner Herman Cain. He’s your garden-variety entitled, creepy, aggressive sexual harasser—there’s little question about that. There were multiple complaints and multiple...
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90 Minutes I’ll Never Get BackR...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 09 19th, 2011 | 25 Comments
So on Saturday night, I had a fairly dreadful blind date with a banker from Montreal. His advance billing was fine: Jewish, early 40s, relatively new to New York. We met at a French wine bar in the East Village that he picked out—barstools close together, low light, very atmospheric. He looked…well,...
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On Revenge Fantasies and Accusations of ...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 07 19th, 2011 | 11 Comments
When I wrote last week about a California man whose wife cut his penis off, we got an avalanche of response from the interwebz, especially thanks to linkage from some men’s interest blogs and a few MRA dudes. I was called a “hypocrite,” “scum”, and a “dick-hating bitch”...
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Troll Poetry 4: Ballad of the Rape Apolo...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 02 26th, 2011 | 18 Comments
Posts about rape do tend to bring the trolls scuttling out from under their bridges, and Marie Anelle’s open letter to odious pro-rapist Judge Robert Dewar was no different. A dude named Ray showed up, and while I deleted his comments, they were so stupid and so ridiculous that I felt compelled...
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Be A Bitch: On JDate...

Posted by BeckySharper in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me on 01 23rd, 2011 | 24 Comments
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...
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Troll Poetry Part 3: The Douchening...

Posted by BeckySharper in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me on 06 3rd, 2010 | 22 Comments
This weekend we got a visit from a troll that led PhDork to comment: That doucheweasel needs a one-way ticket off the planet. The comment was on a post from January by SarahMC about a recent study that showed that instead of women “trapping” men by getting pregnant, it’s more often...
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Perfectionism, Feminism, and The Man...

Posted by PhDork in Feminist Food for Thought, Solo Flying, Thoughts on 05 25th, 2010 | 23 Comments
Newt (not the Nefarious one) wants you to fail, too. Over the weekend, I got together with a colleague to drink nuclear-strength coffee and grouse about our writing-intensive summer plans:  deadlines, uncertainty, anxiety.  He mentioned the chapter “Shitty First Drafts” from Anne Lamott’s...
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Wrongo Dongo: A Legal Primer...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts, You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me on 07 29th, 2009 | 7 Comments
We here at Harpyness have been down on professional athletes recently. And no wonder; our judicial system–financed by our tax dollars, I should point out–has spent lot of time processing these morons, all of whom seem to feel that they can behave however the fuck they want, and then whine...
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