Content warning: several of these are NSFW and they all have sexism in them. There's also some homophobia in the next-to-last one.

Professional porn actress Stoya has two posts on harassment at conventions and street harassment at her Twitter. Money quote (so to speak) from the first one: "Let me remind you that in a room of pornography fans, ( Read more... )

This was pretty damn powerful. Has some cussing, so probably NSFW:

( Guante's 10 Responses To the Phrase 'Man Up' Behind The Cut )

One of the skills tested by the various state-level high school English Language Arts exams - previously, in Texas, the TAKS tests; now, the STAAR tests and end-of-course exams - is the ability to identify the main character of a written story or excerpt. I don't think it's too strong to say that if you can't do that, then you probably shouldn't ( Read more... )

MovieBob hits it out of the park twice in a row.

So, some dominionist dope gave his wedding guests a letter explaining why the wedding ceremony might look a little strange. Namely, he feels that a "biblical marriage" not only does not include any vows, but in fact is an "unbreakable arangement between [her husband] and her father." Her consent doesn't enter into it, and in fact seems to be ( Read more... )

Yes, I realize I'm about a week late on this, but it didn't cross my feed until someone retwitted a piece on this today.

Someone please tell me this jerkass at 38:00 is pulling an Andy Kaufman? Please? (The comment about the 5th Amendment at 42:05 - the hosts didn't know how to get control back from this guy, did they? Also, might be triggery; ( Read more... )

The Spouse's DJing event went off last night without too much in the way of issues. I enjoyed myself quite a bit, and it seemed like everyone except for a tiny handful of people did. We didn't break even - didn't even come close - which sucks a bit (y'all need to drink more, apparently; also, certain people *ahemBugcatchcough* need to not bogart ( Read more... )

Get your classism/ableism/heteronormativity out of my feminism: Experience and "choice feminism"Can we all just agree that the ways in which we respond to and resist the kyriarchy are myriad, and claiming that someone else's resistance is "wrong" when it isn't hurting you is denying them the reality of their lived experience? Yes, some choices are ( Read more... )

Interesting article about evolutionary psychology from Newsweek. Of course, anyone who ever read Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's Mother Nature knew the gist of this already. (Or sufficient amounts of Gould, but there the general academic food fight that tended to surround him might obscure things a bit.)

I particulary liked this quote:

But the evidence ( Read more... )

So I haven't had much to say about Caster Semenya, mostly because organized athletics bores me silly and I figured it would end up just being a garden-variety steroids case, since her body doesn't look that different from the Chinese women swimmers who got busted for doping a while back ( Read more... )