Dang it. My obstreperatrician has diagnosed me with LLD (Lounging and Loafing Deficit). It looks like I’m going to be forced to retire deep into the Texas Hill Country for a couple of days. The prickly pears are in bloom. You haven’t loafed until you’ve spent an afternoon sitting under a post oak tree in […]
Archive for the 'Patriarchy-blaming' Category
Spinster takes a holiday
Published May 8th, 2008 in Announcements, Austin and Patriarchy-blaming. 34 CommentsThe Spinster Repore
Published May 5th, 2008 in The Spinster's Finger on the Pulse of Today, The megatheocorporatocracy, The State-Owned Uterus, Mass Media and Patriarchy-blaming. 26 CommentsBecause I am the world’s leading authority on world news, I am uniquely qualified to bring you world news from around the world. Let’s go!
Malaysia: The Foreign Minister has proposed that grown women traveling abroad must produce notes from their mommies before being allowed to leave the country alone. This is because drug smugglers like […]
Spinster aunt continues to tiptoe through the treacherous tulips of student newspapers
Published May 4th, 2008 in The Spinster's Finger on the Pulse of Today and Mass Media. 44 CommentsToday’s selection: The Brandeis Hoot, “Shopping for Truth: Feminist and proud” by Chrissy Callahan, May 2, 2008
I kind of envy Chrissy Callahan, who has carved out something of a college journalism career chronicling the eye-opening revelations she’s experienced simply by paying attention in class. When I was her age all I did was lie around […]
Spinster aunt reads blog, cracks sad smile
Published May 3rd, 2008 in The Spinster's Finger on the Pulse of Today and Patriarchy-blaming. 27 CommentsIf it’s education people need, school must go.
Check out hellonhairylegs’ synopsis of a day spent imprisoned in a modern institution of patriarchal indoctrination.
Of course, it is astonishing to discover that there are any feminists in high school at all. This kid may well survive the dread junior English major year without looking like an ass.
[Via […]
Junior English major pooh-poohs anti-violence campaign
Published May 3rd, 2008 in The Spinster's Finger on the Pulse of Today, Knobjectivism, Dear god what about the men?, Men Hate You and Sexploitation. 32 CommentsWhen I finally slogged to the end of this essay (on how “average” men are deeply injured by activists who enjoin them to stop raping people), a cold, mirthless laugh erupted from the Twisty obstreperal lobe. The essay was signed “A.J. Cooke, junior English major.” Now it made sense.
I was a junior English major myself […]
The vital mission of intimate apparel
Published May 2nd, 2008 in The Spinster's Finger on the Pulse of Today, Mass Media and Crazy sexy cancer. 55 CommentsAs a spinster aunt whose monthly cancer drug bill could put a kid through Harvard, I always enjoy getting emails from people named Andrew at the National Boob Job Awareness Foundation who love my blog and are certain that my readers would equally love hearing about the Lap Dance For the Cure event or whatever. […]
Obnoxious Female Feminist Korner
Published April 30th, 2008 in Knobjectivism and Dear god what about the men?. 82 CommentsThis guy, writing at the Guardian, is under the impression that, not only is feminism about “equality,” but that he should be awarded “full membership” in the “feminist movement.” Why? Because of, apparently, his “remarkable imagination and sense of empathy.”
Yeah, and I’ll be a woman of color blogger, too.
Opinionator Khaled Diab purports to speak for […]
Fetuslove, Canadian-style
Published April 28th, 2008 in Compulsory pregnancy, Politics, Godbagism, Men Hate You and The State-Owned Uterus. 52 CommentsAs a Texan lesbo spinster aunt, I am the world’s leading authority on Canadian abortion law, so when I got an mass email from Bonnie Gembey at LEAF Manitoba that said, “Ladies, the Harper government is up to its usual shenanigans again,” I knew just what to do.
I went straight to Google and looked up […]
There were a couple of tornadoes swirling around the Texas Hill Country last night, so this morning, upon springing from the TempurPedic like Morning-bright Apollo, I fire up the Weather Channel to assess the probability that I will find my horse Stanley stuck in a tree when I nip off to the barn later today.
But […]
MO State House: “Women are morons”
Published April 22nd, 2008 in Politics, Men Hate You and The State-Owned Uterus. 43 CommentsLet us now turn to an abortion story that ought to be a hoax but isn’t.
And so it came to pass that the Missouri state House gave a big thumbs-up to a bill that, among other things, would require abortion providers to “offer pertinent information” to women 24 hours prior to their procedures.
The actual pertinence […]
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