Today’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 […]
Archive for the 'Mass Media' Category
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. 47 CommentsThe 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. 58 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. […]
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 […]
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: […]
Hey ladies: Bummed out? Bend over!
Published March 21st, 2008 in Keep your bias off my gender, Mass Media and Junk Studies. 39 CommentsMany sciencey researchers, if my Blaming Alert inbox is any indication, like nothing better than studying the mystifying sexual habits of women. Likewise, news editors like nothing better than to summarize this research in cornball patriarchy-friendly terms that even their readers can understand. Take today’s study, which purports to conclude, among other things, that depressed […]
Ex-journalist blames patriarchy
Published March 17th, 2008 in Men Hate You, Mass Media and Sexploitation. 15 CommentsIf “So what about some good news, Twisty?” is your constant refrain, today is your lucky day. Now don’t get too excited, it’s not like Dripping Springs, TX has passed a resolution banning the word “Lady” from its high school sports team or anything. But here’s a piece in the Vancouver Sun drawing attention to […]
You know how I was complaining that nobody in the mainstream media is taking the opportunity to discuss prostitution in the wake of TawdryFest ‘08? I was wrong. An AP article in today’s Dallas Morning News devotes about 300 words to the topic. Oh wait, that’s right, no mention is made of prostituted women as […]
Spinster weighs in on Spitzer
Published March 14th, 2008 in Knobjectivism, Politics, Men Hate You, Mass Media and Sexploitation. 71 CommentsI’ve been away from my desk, but even without having spent the past 4 days jacked into the blogular Matrix of Snipe I know there have already been 57,932 posts about Eliot Spitzer. Here’s 57,933. Sorry.
But the reader can dance the rhumba of relief, because I’m not gonna dwell on the surpassing extent to which […]
Apparently only virgins can publish books now
Published February 21st, 2008 in Knobjectivism, Men Hate You and Mass Media. 50 CommentsCheck out this clip of TV newsblob/patriarchal minion Diane Sawyer questioning Madonna’s 1st Amendment rights. Why is Sawyer trying to keep a sister down? Because 15 years ago Madonna published a saucy coffee table book depicting simulations of human sex acts, that’s why. Which of course completely invalidates whatever claim to fully human status Madonna […]
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 […]
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