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The Dating Game: Your Parents Know You Have Sex (A Memoir)

by Megan Carpentier
August 23, 2010 at 12:19pm

Why the pretense of "virginity" to my parents made so many things much more difficult. (Warning: the following involves sluthood, sexual assault and talking about either with one's parents.)

On Our Radar

by Katie Waldeck
August 22, 2010 at 11:52am

It's time again! We're rounding up some of the most interesting things we read this week in another edition of On Our Radar!

  • Muslimah Media Watch's Ayaan Hassan introduces us to the latest character from the Marvel Comics Universe: Faiza Hussain, a British Muslim super heroine!
  • SKM ponders why Google didn't have a doodle to commemorate the 90th anniversary of...

The Dating Game: The Other Woman, And Why She Isn't Your Enemy

by Megan Carpentier
August 20, 2010 at 11:03am

The person with whom you have decided to have a monogamous relationship owes you fidelity, as you owe that person the fidelity you also promised. If that person breaks that promise, I can guarantee one thing: he or she made the choice to do so.

BitchTapes: On the Road

by Sara Stroo
August 20, 2010 at 10:57am

Today’s BitchTapes is dedicated to that traditional end-of-summer treat… (no, not fudgesicles!) The Road Trip. So play on playa, cause you’re looking at 8 songs for, and about, the joys of the open road. Track list after the jump!

Genderlicious: Dear Olivia Munn

by Thea Lim
August 20, 2010 at 10:52am

Dear Olivia Munn,

There has been a lot of noise about you over the past two months. And it has mostly been about how you are a woman, and how that identity influences your career. Namely people have said that you are not funny, and that therefore the only reason why you got your incredibly coveted position at the Daily Show is because you are beautiful.

But I am writing...

Push(back) at the Intersections: Sluts, Bores, Attention Whores: How We Talk About Female Creators

by s.e. smith
August 19, 2010 at 11:27am

The polarization that surrounds discussions about works of pop culture created by women can sometimes make it really hard to fairly and honestly critique female creators. We all internalize misogyny to some extent and I am never surprised, though I am disappointed, when it expresses in pop culture critiques.

We have to be able to strike a balance.

It is necessary to evaluate...

B-Sides: Tila Tequila Vs. the World

by Katie Waldeck
August 19, 2010 at 10:37am

 Last Friday night, reality TV star/pop singer Tila Tequila was attacked by concertgoers at the 11th annual Gathering of the Juggalos in rural Southern Illinois. But you probably already knew that. It's a story made in gossip blog heaven; a Playboy-model-turned-Myspace-celebrity-turned-reality-TV-star being attacked by the fans of the self-appointed "Most Hated Band in Music." Yet,...

Douchebag Decree: Dr. Laura thinks you're being “hypersensitive”

by Andi Zeisler
August 19, 2010 at 9:05am

 

In more than three decades as an author, radio host, and moral proselytizer Laura Schlessinger has been called out more than once. In 1998, the woman lambasted the irrationality of her fellow vagina-Americans in the bestselling book Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives was confronted with her own moral lapses when nude photos of her—taken by the radio host Bill Ballance,...

Sparkly new articles from the Make-Believe issue of Bitch!

by Kjerstin Johnson
August 18, 2010 at 2:33pm

Have you seen the new covergirl of Bitch magazine yet? The Make-Believe issue is coming soon, but you have a chance to read three articles from the new issue before you get a unicorn of your own in your mailbox (wait, did I just invent the worst best euphemism ever?).

Sarah Jaffe remarks on the women of the Tea Party (“Tea Stained”), Tammy Oler covers the emerging trend of Tech Craft (“...

Size Matters: Bigotry's Last Stand?

by Tasha Fierce
August 18, 2010 at 12:17pm

Many times I've heard fat cisgendered women, mainly fat white cisgendered women, suggest that fatphobia is the "last acceptable form of bigotry." For women without multiple oppressions, I suppose that statement could be correct. But for those who are living at the intersections of many marginalized identities, nothing could be further from the truth.

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