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Douchebag Decree: Spencer Morgan and the invention of “The Cheetah”

December 3, 2009 at 11:33am

Okay, okay. Maybe Spencer Morgan just did it for attention. Maybe he just wanted angry women to comment on his fantastically misogynist piece in The New York Observer so that he could get more attention. Well, guess what? It worked.

sm[art]: Pipilotti Rist

by Sara Reihani

December 2, 2009 at 3:47pm

Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist has been creating video and installation art since the 1980s and has recently finished her first feature film, Pepperminta.

ThatsNotCool.com is Pretty Dang Cool

by Kjerstin Johnson

December 2, 2009 at 1:04pm

Did you feel icky seeing headlines about the Carrie Prejean nudie pics and the “sexting” epidemic? Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon argues that when you share or make public someone’s privately-made sex photos or video, it’s a form of sexual assault. We’re still trying to navigate what the digital world means for sexual harassment, espcially when it comes to young people. That...

Hey Big Gender: Why are women being charged more for stuff?

by Kelsey Wallace

December 2, 2009 at 12:00pm

If you’ve ever felt like the cost of being a woman was somehow higher than that of being a man, guess what? You were literally correct! Via Psychology Today:

The January 2010 Consumer Reports has an article that’s sure to provoke some outrage. “Roam any drugstore and you’ll see products that seem to be twins, except for one thing: One is for women, the other for men....

Sapphic Salon: Coming out is political, personal and, apparently, a “shocker”

by Natalie Stein

December 2, 2009 at 11:02am

After actress Meredith Baxter came out to Matt Lauer on The Today Show this morning, the headlines began:

"Family Times" Shocker: Meredith Baxter says "I'm a Lesbian Mom" Meredith Baxter reveals she's gay '80s Star Admits She's a Lesbian

The Transcontinental Disability Choir: True Blood: Sookie Stackhouse, Telepathy, and Disability

by s.e. smith

December 2, 2009 at 5:14am

But the reason I looked forward to True Blood is because the Sookie Stackhouse novels feature a disabled heroine. And, as a person with disabilities, that is something that I do not get to see very often. Despite the fact that we make up an estimated 20% of the population, our representation in film and television is quite small. This means that I rarely get to engage with a character...

B-Sides: Tentative Top Ten

by Kelsey Wallace

December 1, 2009 at 12:16pm

Tomorrow, some people from OPB’s “In House” are coming to the Bitch office to ask us about our top five favorite albums of 2009. This means that we have been spending a fair amount of time racking our brains to come up with a serviceable top five list that won’t reveal to the public radio-listening public that at least one of us (hi, that’s me) has been mostly jamming...

New Moon's success means women hate sex. Obviously.

by Kelsey Wallace

November 30, 2009 at 11:24am

OK, I’ll be the first to admit that the whole Twilight phenomenon is interesting. Here at Bitch we’ve written about the movies, the books, the parody videos, and tons of other sparkly vampire stuff over the past year. People are obsessed! It’s compelling! However, lately it seems like every single teenage behavior is being connected to the franchise in some way, from...

Sapphic Salon: We're Here, We're Queer, But Our Successors Think We're Incapable of Change

by Natalie Stein

November 30, 2009 at 10:49am

I think I'd have a love/hate relationship with Karla Jay, were she my professor. As a Distinguished Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Pace University, and the author of books like The Gay Report: Lesbians and Gay Men Speak Out about Sexual Experiences and Lifestyles and The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renée Vivien...

Transcontinental Disability Choir: Emo - a hip way to police emotional expression

by abby jean

November 30, 2009 at 7:56am

"Emo" means a whole lot of things in a whole lot of contexts. It's a musical genre. It's a style, with distinctive clothes and hair. It's a type of poetry, type of drawing, type of dance. There is even an emo cow.

While I'm as guilty as the next person for snarking on diagonal-cut bangs (how do you see??), I'm concerned that at the core of the "emo" label is a judgment of both the...