Like, I don't read Gawker so I hadn't heard about the docu drop: 950 pages regarding Mitt Romney's shady-ass finances, but this is just weird:

Whether or not a scandal or revelation or even a bad photograph of a candidate matters depends on whether or not it confirms voters’ worst fears about you. That’s why some politicians can walk away from a ( Read more... )

Hugo Schwyzer, renowned male "feminist," attempted murderer, proud WASP (the WASPS! So downtrodden! Yes?), super gross "I slept with a million students while I was supposed to be teaching them about feminism let me tell you it was hot but I've chaaaanged and I'll never do it again (but did I emphasize its hotness enough? I'm not sure I did!) but ( Read more... )

This is a thing that happened: One Night at Asssscat, or What to Do With a Date Rape Monologue

If you click through, do not so much bother with the comments. While they're a good deal less horrible than, say, the ones at HuffPo -- seriously a dude gets up and voluntarily admits to what amounts to rape and the two most recent comments are a) a ( Read more... )

In general, the comments section for this article is a giant clusterfuck, but this absolutely takes the cake for me:

He probably also, like many young atheist dudes, doesn’t meet many scientifically-inclined atheist women. Statistically, there just aren’t many such women.
Look, I hang out with a number of scientists and I am a lifelong atheist and ( Read more... )

I mean, as someone so rightly pointed out, with this Assange thing no matter what women are going to lose. Because the fact that Assange may very well be a rapist, like, for real, is obscured by the fact that he was certainly tracked down quickly due to the US bringing political pressure to bear on the situation. Sadly, there are a lot of " ( Read more... )

There would be so much more Tiger Beatdown!

I'm not always 100% on Sady's conversations with Amanda Hess, although I do like that Amanda made her bones writing for "The Sexist" blog for the Washington City Paper, but this article on Trend Pieces and Why They Are Stupid is full of things that are both interesting and funny.

SEXIST BEATDOWN: ( Read more... )

“dear internet, you are well meaning, but I’d like to make a point. when you tell a female creator you like her work so much you want to marry her and have her babies, you’re not doing anyone any favors. first of all, as cute as it sounds in your head, it’s a shitty, disrespectful ‘compliment.’ No one makes comics looking for sexual attention. ( Read more... )

So I know there are some awesome crafty persons on my flist (especially including uberuberhip and his male, all-nude crocheting revue) and I saw this on Jezebel a couple weeks ago and thought it was a pretty fascinating read:

The New Decornographers: Bloggers With Perfect, Beautiful, Craftsy Lives

Because, whereas Martha and her ilk may have preached a ( Read more... )

Last week pretty much kicked my ass in terms of being sick at a time when I absolutely could not take the time to be sick. So, by the end of the week when I was running on TheraFlu and caffeine, I was not at all in a state to see a poster for Project Rachel in the Metro on my way to work ( Read more... )

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