March 2012
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Best of Reddit: My sister lost her baby... and my... →
Texan woman told she will have to look at another ultrasound of her dead fetus before a doctor-recommended abortion.
Just another reason why women’s health care needs to be a personal and not a government matter.
February 2012
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Downton Abbey accidentally perfectly defines...
Jane: Will you be happy? Really?
Lord Grantham: I have no right to be unhappy, which is almost the same.
Jane: Almost. Not quite.
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“Simone de Beauvoir believed that adolescence is when girls realize that men have...”
– Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia
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“Don’t take this the wrong way, but I don’t know what we’re...”
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Women vs. People →
[Photos] illustrating the annoying habit of having products and products-for-women. The phenomenon illustrates the way we continue to think of men as people and women as women, thereby centering men and men’s lives as “normal” and women’s as “special” (and not in a good way).
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KINESIS - Ashley Toliver
Though all bird-legged creatures fear
the same distance, it is instinct that pulls
them to standing. In the museum
their bodies like sea-glass, an astonishment.
The specialist says we can classify species
by measuring height with our hands.
All but the smallest flamingoes must stand
eight palm-lengths from the earth.
Their legs are the width of paperclips.
This kind of gauging is...
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On Men Who Don't Like Women in Makeup →
But even more than being annoyed by the implication that there’s one right way to be sexy, I’m dubious that men have even the slightest idea what they’re talking about when they say “no makeup.” Most guys I’ve dated couldn’t explain the difference between a skirt and a dress, so forgive me if I am hesitant to believe they fully grasp the uses and...
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I don’t want to be a feminist anymore →
I am tired of being afraid. I am tired of seeing someone writing something offensive, sexist, racist, ageist, ableist, somewhere online. I am tired of seeing those writings getting likes and lol’s, and SO TRUE’s. I am tired of being consumed by confusion and anger, typing, typing, typing and typing a seemingly endless response, including research, links and statistics, and then hesitate...
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The 8 Stupidest Defenses Against Accusations of... →
Luke McKinney responds to the sexist and ignorant asshats who replied to his post about sexist superhero costumes. Kind of my favorite response to trolls ever. I really never expected this kind of ass kicking on Cracked.com, but here we are. (Previously on eredit)
If you think hot women have it easy because everyone wants to have sex at them, you’re both wrong and also the reason...
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On weddings
Me: i want a diamond and a big party where i look gorgeous
Me: if i could throw one for myself without looking like a crazy person i would
Ben: just in case there was any uncertainty
Ben: you can't
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Initiated
Me: A friend just asked me where my sense of humor went.
Lori: welcome to the humorless bitches club, shitting on everyone else's good time
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“Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
Happy Valentine’s Day
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I’m Taking A Sad Day →
via Rachel, who prefaced it with “don’t be offended that I thought of you when I read this”
Today, I will listen to “The Funeral” on repeat. Loudly. I will play songs so depressing that you will become sad by proxy. You will weep in your cubicle and incite an argument with your boyfriend via IM, and though this war was a long time coming I’ll know I played the catalyst and...
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“The problem for women thus is not simply that they are different from men,...”
– Sandra Lipsitz Bern
(via newwavefeminism)
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The Female Gaze: Moneyball →
There was some space in the movie when a group of old men sat around in a grey room together talking about players they were scouting. And these words actually come out of someone’s mouth: “He’s got an ugly girlfriend. Ugly girlfriend means no confidence.” And multiple scouts nod in agreement, as though there is some universal understanding that 1. physical attractiveness is the only redeeming...
January 2012
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The 5 Most Ridiculously Sexist Superhero Costumes →
Some remarkably enlightened commentary from Cracked, a website I think of usually humorous but relatively head-in-the-sand. #1 is my favorite. Well played, Luke McKinney.
The most common (and ridiculous) explanation is, “I am strong and empowered and therefore love being naked and stared at.” You know, the same reason Superman flies around in a thong. One writer claims it’s to...
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The Most Glittery Declarations From the State of... →
I love my President.
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Capitol Couture →
Hunger Games + High Fashion Blogging = Best movie promo I have seen in for-ev-er.
May the odds be ever in your favor.
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Jen Kirkman - comedian: What I Would Have Said... →
Let me first address the words “female comedian.” Nobody says, “I saw the funniest male comedian last night.” It’s implied, I guess, that a comedian is male and that that’s the norm and that we need to modify comedian with “female” when a woman performs. But “female” unlike “prop”, “story-telling”, “physical” is NOT A TYPE OF COMEDY.
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“It took a special kind of guts to be a fuckup as a woman, I thought. To say to...”
– Rachel Shukert, on Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, in You Can’t Rape a Whore: A Love Story
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“I want them to remember that lawmakers and lobbyists who don’t understand the...”
– Erik Martin, reddit general manager, telling us what he thinks you should take away from today’s Internet blackouts. (via newsweek)
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