I apologize for subjecting you all to this, I really do. There is just so much wrong here that I can hardly even begin to process it all. But lets start with that title... This is a piece about why women shouldn't get tattoos:

Why Put a Bumper Sticker on a Ferrari?

( WARNING: objectification, body shame, gendernorms, classism, judgemental nastiness )

Everyone knows the "Shit ________ Say" trend going around Youtube. If you don't, basically it's user-created content of ridiculous things people say, most of the time, to other people. The best one was uploaded a couple of days ago and, as you may know, it's called "Shit People Say to Feminists" and it's awesome. I totally recommend you give her a ( Read more... )

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Andrew Stanton Explains 'John Carter' Name Change, Says Girls Won't See A Movie With 'Mars' In The Title
Many fanboys and literary fanatics became ruffled when Disney (and director Andrew Stanton) changed the name of this spring's Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation "John Carter of Mars" to simply, "John Carter." Apparently Stanton was in London to ( Read more... )

Whatever aspects of being a “Hot Chick” work for you, enjoy them. But don’t fool yourself that you’re doing so of your own unconstrained free will.

So I was looking at “Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street,” which is so blatantly sexist I got bored trying to write about it. The site’s slogan is “The Sexy Side of Protesting Corruption,” but it might as ( Read more... )

Congratulations, Television! You Are Even Worse At Masculinity Than Femininity

by Linda Holmes


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I think this is very much on point. Discuss.As a woman, there is nothing I resent more than being called “crazy.” The “slutty” card holds a close second due to obvious double standards, but to be deemed crazy connotes a sense of manic desperation that doesn’t look good on anyone and I HATE IT. The “He’s Just Not That Into You” era has set the ( Read more... )

real women

Excuse me while I throw this down, I’m old and cranky and tired of hearing the idiocy repeated by people who ought to know better.

Real women do not have curves.   Real women do not look like just one thing.

Real women have curves, and not.   They are tall, and not.  They are brown-skinned, and olive-skinned, and not.  They have ( Read more... )

At a Sterling, Va., Gold’s Gym one March afternoon, a few dozen young women have assembled for “Project Cheerleader,” a three-hour seminar that lays the track to the sidelines of FedExField. Inside, cheer director Stephanie Jojokian leads a stable of current and former cheerleaders, makeup artists, hairstylists, and spray-tanners in airing their ( Read more... )

A mother is angry her 16-year-old daughter had a secret abortion arranged by a school counsellor.

Helen, not her real name, found out about the termination four days after it had happened. "I was horrified. Horrified that she'd had to go through that on her own, and horrified her friends and counsellors had felt that she shouldn't talk to us," she ( Read more... )