The Lorax is one of my favorite books: I actually have a copy signed by Dr. Seuss. So I am generally inclined to be in favor of any movie versions of it, because I apparently do not learn from experience that the only consequence of adapting Seuss books is sadness and pain. The most obvious…
Social Justice 101 Part Ozy Has Lost Count: Social Construction!
(Sorry for the giant break in this series… life happened!) People are often seriously confused about social construction. Socially constructed things are not less real than non-socially-constructed things. Money is a social construct: if everyone woke up one morning and decided that those little pieces of green paper were completely worthless, dollars would rapidly become…
Ozy Should Not Read The Comments On News Stories
Yes, the logical corollary of “gay people love each other and so should be allowed to marry each other” is “poly people love each other and so should be allowed to marry each other.” …So? “Don’t extend civil rights to some people because then other people will want civil rights” is a terrible argument.
Disney Masculinity
This is an extremely interesting video about masculinity in Disney films.
Open Thread
Charlotte Allen theorizes that if you dress like a slut this Halloween you might be raped. I, of course, do not want this horrific fate to happen to anyone, so I have decided to exclusively reveal What Sluts Dress Like on Halloween. As fabulous as I am, you guys are just going to have to refrain from…
Amber Cole and the Misandry of Low Expectations
Trigger warning for rape. Amber Cole is a fourteen-year-old girl. She performed oral sex on one boy while a second filmed her. There is some suggestion (for instance, by her father) that she might have been coerced; the boys responsible have been arrested. The video surfaced on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, where she was widely…
Gaddafi Raped Before Execution
[MASSIVE trigger warning.] A video obtained by the (graphic pictures of rape at this link) Global Post shows Gaddafi being raped by a Libyan rebel before his execution. Speculation suggests he may have been raped by a stick, knife or the barrel of a machine gun.
Quote of the Day
Was just rushing upstairs to call Shazzer with the groundbreaking news that maybe [men] are not the unattainable strategic adversary aliens after all, but just like us. –Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
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Link Awesomeness
Pharyngula links to a documentary on circumcision. I have not actually seen it, so I don’t know if it’s problematic or not, but I figured it would be relevant to some of our commenters’ interests. Anyway, Papa Zed wouldn’t post it if it were seriously problematic. Adorable poem about trans sex. Seriously. This poem is the…
FBI Subcommittee Acknowledges Men Can Be Raped
Trigger warning for discussion of rape. The FBI’s definition of rape has remained unchanged for more than eighty years: “the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.” It is unknown how many millions of rapes have gone uncounted because they were Apparently Not Really Rapes. On Tuesday, the Uniform Crime Report Committee voted…
Announcement
I’m going off to do Nanowrimo, which is awesome, but it also means that in the month of November, it is unlikely I will get an opportunity to do many posts, although I will work this week on writing some posts that can be doled out over the month. I will still be reading and…
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Dr. Pepper Ten
The new advertising campaign for Dr. Pepper Ten prompts some serious questions. For instance: Did Dr. Pepper Ten’s market research suggest that it really needed shoring up in the sexist douchebag demographic? How the hell can a calorie be manly? What planet is Dr. Pepper Ten’s advertising team on? What awful women have they met…
Food Trends Men Hate
Yahoo has tapped into the Great Male Hivemind to find out what food all men everywhere hate. Apparently, you do this by asking a couple of dudes what kind of food they aren’t fond of. Judging by this logic and the dietary habits of my roommate Justin, all men subsist on mozzarella cheese sticks, cheese…
Last Man Standing
There is exactly one circumstance in which I will watch Tim Allen’s new TV show, Last Man Standing. That circumstance is if I managed to recruit my cool gender egalitarian friends to have a drinking game where we would take a shot every time there was a joke that was sexist, racist, classist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist…