Sonia Sotomayor is on Sesame Street!
Sexist Pictures Post
November 10, 2012 by 9 Comments
Pictoral evidence of the existence of sexism below the cut. Slow connections beware. Hat tip to Sociological Images and Love Joy Feminism, from which these pictures were stolen.
President Obama Cries
November 9, 2012 by 1 Comment
I have to say that President Obama’s speech to his campaign staff made me tear up a bit. I am not the only one, because in fact President Obama’s speech to his campaign staff made him tear up a bit too. (Note: transcript available here.) There were a lot of inspiring things in the American [...]
It’s Just A Blog Hop To The Left
November 9, 2012 by 2 Comments
So Clarisse Thorn nominated me to participate in a blog hop thing where writers talk about their writing, and then people get to discover new writers, and it’s all good. What is the working title of your next book? What About The Men: Why Feminism Needs Men and Why Men Need Feminism. Where did the [...]
Can Men and Women Be Friends?
November 7, 2012 by 23 Comments
Maybe it’s a perfectly nice platonic friendship, and also you get to check out the other person’s chest sometimes. Inexplicably, this option has been ignored by all the coverage ever.
Election Night Post: In Which Ozy Gets Political
November 6, 2012 by 13 Comments
Sometimes the good guys win.
Family Values Candidate Repeatedly Raped Young Boy
November 3, 2012 by 11 Comments
Anti-sex ideas don’t work. We have tried the “shame people for having sex that we don’t like and then there won’t be rape!” tactic again and again. And the very perpetrators of those beliefs end up being the rapists and abusers, and the shame around sexuality hurts the very survivors they say they’re going to protect.
Humorless Feminist Moment: No Rapey Jokes, Stephen Colbert
November 2, 2012 by 24 Comments
Nothing makes me sadder than to have to defend Donald Trump. Nevertheless, a blogger’s work is never done, particularly when Stephen Colbert keeps making jokes that upset me. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive [Transcript of relevant bits: "Mr. Trump, I will write you a check for [...]
Nate Silver Apparently Inaccurate On Polls Because He’s Effeminate
November 1, 2012 by 7 Comments
Some conservatives are not terribly fond of Nate Silver, the renowned blogger and statistics wonk behind Fivethirtyeight. For one thing, he keeps predicting that Obama will win. (80.8% chance as of this writing.) Those conservatives, who are fond of the narrative of Romney Momentum, feel that Nate Silver is randomly making up numbers in order [...]
Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2012 by 2 Comments
I leave you all with Marilyn Manson’s This Is Halloween and a Open Thread where you may feel to discuss what you wish. I have my own home now, so I’m going to get to GIVE CANDY to TRICK-OR-TREATERS and I’m super-excited! I will be the most enthusiastic vampire ever.
Photo of the Day
October 27, 2012 by 2 Comments
TW for rape [Man holding a handwritten sign that says "'How can a girl rape a boy?' --Nearly everyone I tried to tell for the first four years after it happened."] Via (massive TW for rape) Project Unbreakable.
On Trans-Inclusive Language
October 27, 2012 by 12 Comments
Trans-inclusive language is language that acknowledges that some people identify as a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth, including genders that our culture does not technically recognize as existing.
Hey, Guess What? Fathers Should Parent Too
October 25, 2012 by 18 Comments
A recent study about parents’ effects on childhood ill health found that unemployed mothers spend about seven hours a day doing chores related to their children’s diet and exercise (such as grocery shopping, cooking, and playing with children), while employed mothers spend about five. On the other hand, both employed and unemployed fathers spend less [...]
The Fourth Meditation On Blind Spots
October 24, 2012 by 66 Comments
One of the first things most girls (and people mistakenly considered to be girls) learn about boys is that boys want to date you.
Civil Rights Investigation Launched Into Death of Young Black Man in Police Custody
October 22, 2012 by 1 Comment
RIP, Derek Williams. I sincerely hope that you will receive justice.
“You have reminded me how much I love men!”
These are comments by bobbt, Patty, and Michael Cusden on the post “What Dads Really Want For Father’s Day”.