It makes me sad that in 2012 the First Lady of the U.S. has to defend herself from being an "angry black".

"I guess it's more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here and a strong woman. But that's been an image that people have tried to paint of me since the day Barack announced [he would run for president] - that I'm some angry black ( Read more... )

I haven't done a lot of ranting here on LJ lately, and in some cases I feel like I'm tapped out. It's exhausting to to be high dudgeon for long periods of time. However, this past week has just been one long WTF after another in a world wide level ( Read more... )

But the Sesame Street issue is so ridiculous.

( Cut for TMI )

I figured since I talk about my angry uterus and my fancy prancing vagina so much I should post these images from Newsweek on the history of birth control.


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I feel like I've been very neglectful of my journal this summer. Granted, I'm semi addicted to Twitter as it allows for the kind of stream of conscious writing I enjoy, but I don't feel that I've outgrown LJ by any means. I've just been busy. Every time I sit down to write it just ends up some laundry list of "things to do", and that's neither ( Read more... )

I've heard some crazy arguments against gay marriage, but this guy takes the cake.

This is why marriage between men and women has been necessary in virtually every society ever known. Marriage, whatever its particular manifestation in a particular culture or epoch, is essentially about who may and who may not have sexual access to a woman when ( Read more... )

This article from HuffPo about the difficulty women have aquiring contraceptives was good food for thought. Always on the lookout for potentially better birth control, I hadn't really given much thought to the monthly difficulties some women may have getting the pill. Personally, I've always chafed at the required pregnancy test--I've been on Depo ( Read more... )

My RSS is making me cranky.

First there's this giveaway which should be cool, until you read the Earth Day pledge which starts out asking people to pledge to eat less meat. Maybe I'm too big picture sometimes, but, shouldn't it be considered more environmentally friendly and health conscious to eat locally farmed, free range, organic meat, or ( Read more... )

Baby Bangs! were created for baby girl’s [sic], who have little or no hair, to enhance their natural beauty. Baby bangs, seriously! Its a baby, it's already cute, they are purposely born cute so adults don't eat them, they don't need baby toupees. I thought the stupid baby headbands were too much, but this takes the need to gender your infant too ( Read more... )