Once again, women and our bodies are fodder for some liberal cause. This time, it’s Code Pink for Peace trying to convince women to use our sexuality as a bargaining chip, with their $12 bright-pink bikini panties proclaiming, “No Peace, No Pussy!” What’s that echo I hear? Hmmm, seems to be saying […]
A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That by Lisa Glatt: This is almost a collection of intertwined short stories about several middle-class white straight women in Southern California who are struggling with sexuality and relationships. It’s not overtly feminist, but does an excellent job of exploring the experiences of heterosexual women attempting to […]
This past weekend I got to visit the Grand Canyon for the first time. Because I’m naive, I planned the trip leaving us only about an hour, thinking we would screech up, look over the side, and drive away.
Ridiculous. It’s huge, and dramatic, and wondrous. Also, I’m sorry to say, it was […]
I like to play computer games. It’s long been established, however, that I’m not cool, so of course I play the wrong games. I’ve never played World of Warcraft, and my days in the MUDs or multiuser dungeons of the late 1980s mainframe computers are long over.
I like arcade-style games. They’re […]
Ah, Satsuma:
I see you have provoked a swarm! All the buzzing is so typical of what happens to anyone willing to speak up about the system and our place in it. Typical the reactions of people with privilege to its being pointed out–”I’m not going to address what you’re saying because you […]
Pretty Bird Woman House, a shelter for women and children in South Dakota, was attacked by thieves and vandals in October–after a long struggle for funding to keep the shelter running. Their shelter house is no longer secure, and most of its contents were looted and destroyed. Violence against Native women is epidemic. […]
Everything about misogyny, fat-hating, postcolonialism and consumerism, that is.
In a delightful feature under the heading “body news,” we’re informed about the “Spice Girls’ Body War!” wherein they are “battling to see who will look the best” on their upcoming tour. I’m not under any kind of delusion that the Spice Girls are feminists, but […]
Y’all should feel proud that you are smart enough to understand me.
It seems to me that gaining actual control over victimization means stopping it. That means gaining power through political action that will stop the perpetrators. But, in my opinion, it also means creating a culture of dissent capable of confronting the “plague,” the depth of conditioning that women suffer, one by one, in […]
Nicole has just sent me links to information about the “horrific gang rape and torture style attack” on a Black mother and her pre-teen son by a group of 10 teenage boys at Dunbar Village. I’m ashamed to say I hadn’t heard about this before now even though it happened back in June. […]
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