Speaking of tubs and lids! This wacko tableau totally blew my mind!
I’d like to take this opportunity to beg yall’s indulgence for just a little longer while I laze around not blogging. I Blame The Patriarchy, contrary to what longtime blamer MzNicky has suggested, is not dead. It is merely in a coma. I promise […]
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Sunday storage tub blogging
Published October 21st, 2007 in Dear god what about the men?, Keep your bias off my gender, Femininity, Easy Persiflage and Austin. 63 CommentsThe long-awaited labiaplasty update
Published September 4th, 2007 in Men Hate You, Announcements and Femininity. 39 CommentsA chorus of yips went up at Spinster Aunt HQ when the news broke: a couple of national doctor clubs have experienced an uncharacteristic moment of lucidity and come out in opposition to cosmetic vagina surgery. In a Bloomberg report, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reveal […]
Ask a Spinster Aunt: giggling, feminism, and you
Published September 3rd, 2007 in Femininity. 72 CommentsBlamer Alexandra writes:
Q: I was (seriously) wondering: Is it feminist to giggle? I’ve never known a man to giggle. Is giggling a natural thing, or should I blame the patriarchy?
A: You’ve come to the right place, Alexandra! I am Director of Hollow Mirthless Laughter at the Twisty Institute, where I am also widely considered the […]
AntifeministWatch 2007: Ana Marie Cox
Published September 1st, 2007 in Blogulation, Mass Media and Femininity. 32 CommentsLast night I thought I’d do something uncharacteristically current-eventish, and watched McLaughlin on PBS. It was another one of those “are bloggers legitimate journalists/whatever will become of poor print media?” discussions. Counting McLaughlin, the panel was Y-chromosome heavy, with a ratio of four dudes to one woman. The woman, of course, was plucky DC wit […]
A pink airline just for chicks who love to shop will launch next month, says Jess McCabe, blogging at The F Word. At Fly Pink, “a boutique airline designed especially for women,” femmy passengers will board a flying pepto phallus, look young and fabulous in the bubblegum glow reflected from every surface, and be given […]
Pose of the week
Published June 8th, 2007 in The Beauty Ultimatum, Mass Media, Sexploitation and Femininity. 193 CommentsA mainstream music magazine has put a naked chick on the cover. This stunningly unremarkable event in the pornulational continuum induced not the slightest blip on my obstreperometer. Magazines put naked chicks on their covers roughly 82,697 times a day; it’s all part of the general background noise created in pop culture by the constant […]
Marriott proposes girl ghetto
Published May 18th, 2007 in Dear god what about the men? and Femininity. 149 CommentsBlamer Jennifer alerted me to this gambit by Marriott to use the well-known predatory nature of men to their advantage. Marriott proposes to lure women business travelers to their crappy hotel in Grand Rapids with a ‘women-only-no-men-allowed’ floor. There will also be a women-only lounge where women can “relax over a drink without getting hit […]
Lessons in blaming from the celebrities
Published May 10th, 2007 in Men Hate You, Sexploitation and Femininity. 47 CommentsNot all discourse on the subject of celebrities has to be vapid. Sometimes the cynosure class’ exploits, as reported by the legion of professional watchers charged with the duty of exalting them to an insatiable public, can be instructive. I won’t say that the “Free Paris” thread scaled any unmastered pinnacles of blaming greatness, but […]
I live a pretty vivid inner life, but some things are so sinister, so creepy, so vulgar, that even I couldn’t make’em up. As an example of a real-life horror scenario, I give you the Sugar & Spice Spa Camp for Girls.
That’s right. No archery or horseback riding or canoeing or lanyard-making will interfere with […]
R.I.P: dignity, shelf bras
Published April 28th, 2007 in Femininity and Crazy sexy cancer. 113 CommentsRipped mercilessly from their tankinis, these former over-the-shoulder-boulder-holders are destined to hang limp forever more.
It’s like this: as of last July, I ain’t got no boobs. So today I initiate what is certain to become an annual ritual: the Spring Shelf-Bra Slice-Out. I expect to complain about it every year, too, so don’t be surprised […]
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