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 lime […]
Archive for April, 2008
Sneer of the week
Published April 14th, 2008 in The megatheocorporatocracy and Crazy sexy cancer. 58 CommentsIt 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 Group, […]
L’esprit du porn
Published April 13th, 2008 in Blogulation, Mass Media and Sexploitation. 75 CommentsFew 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 + Visionaries: […]
Atheist go home
Published April 11th, 2008 in Mind-blowing, Knobjectivism and Godbagism. 63 CommentsThe 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 […]
Manure
Published April 9th, 2008 in The megatheocorporatocracy, The Beauty Ultimatum and Femininity. 44 Comments“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 millionaires […]
Same oppressive paradigm, different fascists. No wait, it’s the same fascists
Published April 8th, 2008 in The megatheocorporatocracy, Compulsory pregnancy and The State-Owned Uterus. 30 CommentsRemember 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, pornulational, […]
Homegirl blames patriarchy, scores book deal; spinster aunt actually buys book
Published April 6th, 2008 in Easy Persiflage and Patriarchy-blaming. 90 CommentsI’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 […]
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 […]
The continuing exploits of the fetus-lovers
Published April 2nd, 2008 in Mind-blowing, Men Hate You and The State-Owned Uterus. 74 CommentsEchidne’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. Kid […]
The new virgin menace
Published April 2nd, 2008 in Strawfeminism, Men Hate You and Femininity. 67 CommentsThere’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 if […]
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