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Double your standards, double your fun
A couple parting items to chat over between hoops playoffs this weekend...
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Cleats or Ballet Shoes?
Most people, regardless of gender, are born with 206 bones. Experts say human beings have between 640 and 850 muscles (they’re so difficult to count, a precise tally is impossible). Boy, girl, and in-between, we all share the same number of eyes, appendages, nerve endings. We have the same... Read more »
For Realz?: Caucasian America's Next Top Model
Why is it always a race war on America’s Next Top Model?? Natalie, the contestant who got booted this week (upside down at right), has... Read more »
BitchTapes: Gender-Bendy Covers Edition
It’s Friday, and that means BitchTapes! (Located on the sidebar to your right as well as after the jump, for you newcomers out there.) Today I thought it would be nice to visit the fabulous land of cover songs. Because this is BitchTapes, I thought it would be even nicer to hear some covers... Read more »
Bill O'Reilly's Fair-weathered 'Concern' For Women
Almost invariably, Bill O’Reilly yells from the confines of the television in my Nana’s living room. Nana likes to keep the TV on for background noise and she loves Fox News. I typically do my best to ignore Bill’s rants, but once in a while, I just can’t look away... Read more »
Ladies ARE funny, says Portland's Bridgetown Comedy Festival
As of late, I have had a lot of exposure to stand-up comedy. I have always been intrigued by this art, since I appreciate a good healthy dose of wit and I grew up watching Paula Poundstone, Lisa Lampenelli and Margaret Cho. I even toyed with the idea of trying to perform at one of these events,... Read more »
Sexual Fluidity Is So Hot Right Now
Along with hot pink and oversize handbags, women's magazines are pushing a new trend this season: lesbianism. At least, that is the impression given by this article in this month's O Magazine (featured also today... Read more »
Rad Ladies Who Draw Comics: Erika Moen
You don’t have to look further than “Girl Fuck: An introduction to girl-on-girl lovin’ ” to see that Erika Moen is all about sex, and completely unafraid to talk about it. The 16-page zine is a starter course for... Read more »
A black Muslim, a priest, and an Episcopalian walk into a bar
*wait for it*
…and they are all the same woman.
Meet Ann Holmes Redding:
Until recently, she was a womanist biblical scholar, an Episcopal priest with more than 20 years under her robe, the Director of Faith Formation at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle—and a convert to Islam.... Read more »
Literature to lose your lunch by
Upon completion of Wetlands by Charlotte Roche, two major questions remain unanswered for me. First, what is it exactly about this book that made it the first German-language book to ever become the number-one Amazon.com bestseller, worldwide? And second: What in the name of Mary Wollestonecraft... Read more »
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