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Obama: Gotta Get That Dirt Off Your Shoulder
Another week, another Friday Crappy Hour in which the lesser-known Crappyist Megan (of Glamocracy) is forced to beg for someone to write it with her so that she can avoid talking to herself online like she does in real life. Luckily, Spencer Ackerman (of the Washington Independent and the newly-launched Attackerman) is as big an intellectual whore as I ever was despite having never been a lobbyist. We talk about how the New Yorker loves to quote bloggers but never by name, campaign sex, how W. cock-blocked Spencer more-than-just-metaphorically in November 2000 and how the Hamas endorsement of Obama is just part of the vast right-wing conspiracy or something. Guess Obama's got some other dirt to brush off his shoulder. More »
raped of its meaning
How Did "No Means No" Become A Fun Rape Joke?
Hey, look at the T-shirt! It says "No Means No (Well, maybe if I'm drunk.)" Is this an overly, like, Jezebel thing to write a post about? Whatever! It's Friday! Okay, sooooo, "No means no." See the period? Affirmative? Good. After a few drinks and maybe a blow job, you can add another sentence. Such as: "Oh who am I kidding, I have no self-control." Or: "Okay, enough with your dick in my mouth, I changed my mind." Or: "What with the increased bloodflow in the direction of my gonads I am going to have to reconsider that stance." Those and numerous other statements would, in effect, render void and inapplicable the preceding "No." The fact that the word "no" had been uttered prior to the consent, for whatever reason, is moot. And yet! Somehow the often-amusing, eminently human phenomenon that is changing one's mind as to one's amenability to sex with an individual, a process men and women experience with frequency, has been twisted into an excuse for rape. Successfully twisted, we should add: even if the whole "one in four women gets raped in college" is exaggerated, uh...it is one in four. More »
when i had a real job
Why Are Newspaper Newsrooms So Sexist? I Ask Veteran Newspaper Reporter "Moi"
Here's something we can all agree on: Boy's clubs = bad! An angry editor at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette just resigned with an awesome if not entirely coherent screed subject-headed "Fuck The Glass." Apparently Marilyn Mitchell had enough of their casual harmless N-world wielding and penis size comparing! Also, she had gotten into a newsroom dispute over...uh, storm coverage! So the feminazi circumciser squad over at Feministing decided to weigh in. "This really resonates with me because I've worked for daily newspapers, and I really hated the newsroom culture at a few of them," writes Feministing's Ann. The editors were homophobic lechers that gave dudes all the assignments! Well, it may shock you, but I have to side with the femiragers on this one: having worked at a few newsrooms myself, I think it is safe to say there is a LOTT of chauvinism out there! The mystery, of course, is why. More »
"Good" feminists are all up in arms over this ad for Target, which shows a model splayed out over the company's bullseye logo. Specifically, they are offended that "the model's vag was in the center of the target." Oh, c'mon people. Maybe we're bad feminists, but it's Target. The model doesn't look she is about to be assaulted and we seriously doubt that Target is trying to sell more Gladware containers and Erin Fetherston frocks by degrading women. (Click tag for full-size image of ad.) [Feministing]
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A commenter on Feministing: "You know what's going on on Jezebel right now? Moe posted a rant, then she posted a follow up that was titled with a snarky in-joke (which all the Gawker blogs do, as far as I can tell) that was a more grounded explanation of her political opinions. And Jessica just posted something about her opinion on the matter, and she likes Hillary. They are having a conversation... and their voices are loud, brash, and in your face. Which I know is exactly how we're all taught NOT to be. And which is exactly why I appreciate it. Hooray for women disagreeing but still listening to each other! Can we please do that here, too?" [Feministing]
A commenter on Feministing: "You know what's going on on Jezebel right now? Moe posted a rant, then she posted a follow up that was titled with a snarky in-joke (which all the Gawker blogs do, as far as I can tell) that was a more grounded explanation of her political opinions. And Jessica just posted something about her opinion on the matter, and she likes Hillary. They are having a conversation... and their voices are loud, brash, and in your face. Which I know is exactly how we're all taught NOT to be. And which is exactly why I appreciate it. Hooray for women disagreeing but still listening to each other! Can we please do that here, too?" [Feministing]
The good news is that the majority of respondents to this TMZ poll prefer "their" drunk girls mobile. (Not comatose.) The bad news is...well, did we tell you about the time America's most popular entertainment website shamelessly used that 19-year-old Hollywood rape victim's harmless Facebook pictures to suggest she was a golddigging lush who was asking for it? [Feministing]
What do the Philippines Bureau of Customs and American feminists have in common? PETA rage. The animal-rights organization is getting flak for its use of sex dolls to protest Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in the Philippines' red light districts. The dolls, which were accompanied with a PETA-provided "KFC Blows" banner, have been confiscated by the Bureau. [Feministing]
Looking for a pencil sharpener that simultaneously files your Dixon Ticonderoga and denigrates women? Feministing points us to this supremely insulting office product portraying a headless female body on all fours taking a pencil up the ass. It's the perfect companion gift to go along with that miniskirt-shaped mousepad (you can put your hand up a skirt all day long!) for the favorite misogynist in your life. [Feministing]
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Sex Advice From A Somewhat Asexual-Looking Man
Meet Marshall Miller. He's not only a heterosexual man, he's an expert on the female orgasm. No, really, he apparently gives them to that lady next to him all the time, which is why she's his common-law wife, and the two now go from churches to colleges to companies spreading their Gospel of Clit, an oral tradition (see what we did there?) they have now compiled into a written document available on Amazon for your pleasure, I Love Female Orgasm, which we know about because it was just given a glowing review on Feministing containing the following sentence-fragment.Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller (imagine how explosive their sex must be!) are sex educators and Brown graduatesNo no no no no no no! What's worse is that the first sentence of the review was so promising: More »
shades of gray rape
'Cosmo' Tells Me I Was 'Gray Raped'; Feministing Says It Was Rape. Are We Really Arguing About This?
Language is a powerful thing. Like: when the Zionists first began settling in the holy city I just visited they named their newspaper the "Palestine Post", after the same group of people who would eventually gain fame for producing the deluded group of destructive (and yes, murderous) radicals Fox News would eventually dub the "homicide bombers." There is something spooky and perverse when a group of otherwise enlightened, democracy-loving people invests so much energy in the effort to control language, and while I'm on the subject, the same goes for people who insist on refer to anti-abortionists as "antichoice," thus removing from them any and all motivations, however misinformed or hypocritical, for coming to that particular political persuasion other than THEY'RE JUST PLAIN EVIL. Which brings us to this issue at hand: rape, and whether it should be legal or kosher or whatever to characterize it as "gray." I believe it should. Like most bloggers, for one, I am a fan of inventing words. "Celebutard" and "emosogynist" are not just fun to say, they neatly encapsulate social ills unique to this era, a category into which we would also classify the increasingly common modern-day problem that is this thing they're now calling "gray rape." More »
shades of gray rape
'Cosmo' Wonders: Is It Rape If You Had Too Many Jaeger Shots To Remember It Anyway?
True story that I wrote in three minutes because that's exactly how much time I felt like dwelling on it: this one time about nine years ago I got locked out of my house and went home with some vaguely smarmy hair-product using type from my ex-boyfriend's frat. I had slept with maybe two or three guys prior to that — it was the summer between sophomore and junior year of college — so when he, after about a half hour of fooling around, put on a condom I was like, "Whooooah, what are you doing?" But I'd had two forties and I kept drifting in and out of consciousness — my tolerance, obviously, wasn't what it is today — and I woke up to find him sticking it in. I'd said 'no' a bunch of times and when I came to I just froze, stopped, turned over and slept. In the morning I chewed him out (by informing him I wasn't putting him on "my list" — oh no she didn't!) and after that he kissed my ass so liberally I thought he might have learned from it. More »
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Feministing just posted a love letter to this hilarious (although a bit long - it clocks in at 5:14) clip of comedian Wanda Sykes and her visionary idea for women: A detachable vagina. Don't ask, just watch (some language NSFW). More »
In Favor Of The Portable Pussy
Feministing just posted a love letter to this hilarious (although a bit long - it clocks in at 5:14) clip of comedian Wanda Sykes and her visionary idea for women: A detachable vagina. Don't ask, just watch (some language NSFW). More »
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Is SNL's Andy Samberg A Bad Feminist?
- The women at Feministing wonder if Andy Samberg was being an "ironic hipster douche" when he wore a "National Organization For Women—Berkeley" tee to a Spike TV awards-show. Our verdict: Samberg may be a hipster but he's probably not being ironic; he grew up in Berkeley. [Feministing]
- The British women who think we're bad feminists pass along this report: Toddlers begin to understand and react to gender stereotypes from as young as 2 years of age. [TheFWord]
- Just a few days after the report about new guidelines for identifying symptoms of ovarian cancer comes word that doctors have proven that a "common breast cancer drug can significantly cut relapse rates." [Guardian]
- Two women in the NYTimes obit section today: R&B singer Nellie Lutcher, 94, and Ruth Bell Graham, 87, wife of Billy. [NYTimes]
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