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Bed, Bitch & Beyond: Rear-Ended by Porn
Since I wrote some posts blaming sexual behavior trends on porn--including the new enthusiasm for facial cumshots and FFM threesomes--I've gotten multiple reader mail requests to discuss one more staple of mainstream hetero porn: anal sex.
A disclaimer before we start: I am not arguing against... Read more »
The Body Electric: Whole Foods Tells Me What I Need
What does good health have to do with $$$? Whole Foods knows!
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I Can Has Feminizm?
This season has been unofficially dubbed The Summer of Death, and unfortunately this past week was no exception. As pop culture loving feminists, we are all saddened by the passings of... Read more »
The Body Electric: Man Pad
Is the Tampax campaign transphobic, sexist, subversive, or--somehow--all of the above?
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Douchebag Decree: The coffee table book
This week’s Douchebag Decree is a video book review of the new book The Quotable Douchebag,, a handy-dandy reference guide for knowing your d-bags!
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On the Map-In Your Facial: Queer Feminist Pornographers
Recently in Sweden, adult film director Mia Engberg received 500,000 kronor ($69,000USD) in public funding from the Swedish Film Institute to create a collection of... Read more »
The Supergirls: A feminist response to catsuits?
There’s a surprising gap of research, let alone feminist research, on female superheroes from comics. Trina Robbins has turned out some amazing books on women and comics, including one on... Read more »
The Original Potter
I'm sure you're all very familiar with Beatrix Potter and her famous
rabbit creation, Peter. I grew up with the books myself, but never
really appreciated the illustrations fully until I saw many of the
original works at the Smithsonian in a travelling exhibit. The detail
and warmth is... Read more »
Today's Twitter Trends: #DontTweetThem
Well, the verdict is finally in, and it looks as though it IS in fact possible to be a bizarro douche in 140 characters or less. Today’s trending Twitter topics include #dontcuffhim and #dontwifeher, and both offer a shit-covered window into the minds of... Read more »
Tube Tied: Betty Agonistes
Tami at What Tami Said recently had a great post about, among other things, why she doesn't like Mad Men's Betty Draper, noting that buried in Betty's blonde, blue-haired Grace Kellyesque perfection lies the "antithesis of black
womanhood":
Betty is enslaved, while also being the slave master.... Read more »
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