I love Feministing, and I’ll tell you why. It’s a convenient and obliging source of women’s news. It’s chock full of useful links. It’s a group blog with prodigious updates on current events (in contrast to, say, the gratuitously ornate theorizings of a stone lone crone with a moan-prone tone honing her funnybone on a …
Monthly Archive: April 2008
Apr 14 2008
Sneer of the week
It is possible to avoid going to shopping malls. If you’re imprisoned by Fundamentalist Mormons in the middle of West Texas. The other day, for no very interesting reason, I was hot-footin’ it through one of these whirling vortices of polyester lust when I happened upon the above-pictured wretched display of consumerist bogosity. Simon Property …
Apr 13 2008
L’esprit du porn
Few phrases in the English language generate greater hilarity down at Spinster HQ than “Feminist Porn Awards.” They have’em in Toronto. What, you don’t remember? Then let us leap together, you and I, down the Femblog Drain of His-tor-eye. Google says it was May of 2006 when Jessica at Feministing published the first “Vixens + …
Apr 11 2008
Atheist go home
The spinster aunt is, I suppose, what is generally described as an “atheist.” The term is regarded with a narrowed eye here at Blaming HQ, on accounta it presumes a natural state of “theism” from which the “atheist” is deviant. The dominant culture — is there anything the dominant culture can’t do? — forces us …
Apr 09 2008
Manure
“Actress and humanitarian” Eva Longoria philosophizes, in return for money, on how great it is to be beautiful. Seen the commercial celebrating the heartwarming accomplishments of that woman who hooks up disabled people with service dogs? It’s so nice, because service dogs are expensive, and although it may surprise you, not all disabled people are …
Apr 08 2008
Same oppressive paradigm, different fascists. No wait, it’s the same fascists
Remember the old days — they were good old days, weren’t they? — when you could make a prank call from your own phone and get away with it because nobody had invented Caller ID yet? Remember when you were at work and could look at Peter Pan guy [MIDI soundtrack alert] or whatever cute, …
Apr 06 2008
Homegirl blames patriarchy, scores book deal; spinster aunt actually buys book
I’d like to add a title to the Remedial Feminist Reading List, as well as to the OK, So I’ve Blamed The Patriarchy; What The Fuck Am I Supposed To Do Now? list, and to the Books You Must Do Everything In Your Power To Make Sure Your Teenage Daughter Reads Before Leaving For College …
Apr 04 2008
No post today; it’s all on you
Despite my ceaseless asseverations about my lack of interest in conducting remedial blaming lessons, novice blamers are constantly emailing me for a radical feminist reading list. I have never compiled one of these, mostly because doing so would be something like work, but I’m tired of getting these emails and giving lame responses. So help …
Apr 02 2008
The continuing exploits of the fetus-lovers
Echidne’s views on the misogynist subtext of the story about the middle-schooler who recently miscarried on a plane precisely mirror my own. In case you missed it: 14-year-old kid is unwitting host to opportunistic growth. Growth becomes non-viable, and is summarily expelled by kid’s body while en route from New York to Houston on airliner. …
Apr 02 2008
The new virgin menace
There’s a virgin at Harvard. Unusual, perhaps, but still, no big whoop, right? Wrong! It’s such a big whoop that the New York Times Magazine has run a story on her. In order to vaguely sort of ridicule her. Because no matter what a woman does in this world, it’s the wrong fucking thing. Especially …
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