Category Archive: The Beauty Ultimatum

Women had better do everything in their power to be beautiful, or else.

Jul 17 2005

The Vagina Dialogue

Actual size. I’ve seen’em twice as big. And, god help us all, they fucking fly. In case you were wondering whether there is any downside to living in South Austin, I bring you Periplaneta fuliginosa, the giant flying Smokybrown Cockroach of Zilkerland. Now, as the director of the Twisty Center for Urban Varmint Research, you …

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Jun 17 2005

We Wear Short Shorts

Salvador Dali "Self-Portrait as Mona Lisa" (1954) American women, and I suppose some American men, too, if they are pretending to be progressive, view the Veiled Woman as a grim symbol of Muslim paternalism run amok. In the US, the veil is the logo of terrible oppression. I’m not saying veiled women aren’t oppressed. In …

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