In The Rocky Horror Picture Show (which I saw an unconscionable number of times in my adolescence) when Frank N. Furter unveils Rocky, his artificially created superhunk, Janet says, "I don't like a man with too many muscles." Frank snarls back, "I didn't MAKE him for YOU!That little exchange always goes through my head when certain conversations ( Read more... )

Say! Did you know that girls hate Game of Thrones ? Well, neither did I. But apparently they do ( Read more... )

So, I read this thing on Tumblr about why a particular blogger over there doesn't like female characters, and she got quite self-righteous about her right to dislike them, and I started to feel all ranty, and this is the result.
( Rantiness part 1 )

In 2006, I made a vow to the powers that be that if the New Orleans Saints went to the Superbowl I would watch the Superbowl. paulcarp claimed that vow only applied to the 2006-07 season, but I stuck by it. Nope. I made a vow. I wasn't about to renege on a vow made to mysterious powers having to do with me and New Orleans. (Which is a whole big thing which ( Read more... )

This Utne Reader article quotes Sady Doyle's assertion that Critics Pick on Twilight Fans Because They're Girls, while at the same time acknowledging that they are both stupid and unfeminist ( Read more... )

According to this new book, Smart Girls Marry Money, anyway. And my career woes would be over ( Read more... )

Hey, wanna get pointlessly outraged? Read this Wall Street Journal editorial by Naomi "I hate my own sex" Schaefer Riley.
Ladies, You Should Know Better

How feminism wages war on common sense.

Okay, first word and I'm already offended.

Not quite true. The word "ladies" offends me only in context, and I have to get to the end of the sentence to really ( Read more... )