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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 […]
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The 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 CommentsSneer 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, […]
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, […]
Feminizers without borders: Moscow edition
Published March 29th, 2008 in The megatheocorporatocracy and Femininity. 45 CommentsPhoto of empowerful vodka originally uploaded at the New York Times.
The persistent feminization of unisex commodities certainly bodes well for Dude Nation; if every day weren’t already a big ole lap dance for patriarchy, I’d say they should book the Diamonds Cabaret and its lineup of prepubescent strippers for a giant Feminism’s-Goin’-Down pole-a-thon. Because the […]
A short history of banana-mongering in the late 20th century
Published March 22nd, 2008 in The megatheocorporatocracy. 17 CommentsAs the spinster aunt knows too well, a committed blamer can turn up almost any rock, take a step back, and watch in flabby-jawed horror as the slimy offenses against truth and beauty — in some of which we are ourselves complicit — come scuttling out, blinking in the dimming sun.
Take bananas.
While sauntering through […]
The spinster aunt and the funeral parlor
Published March 16th, 2008 in The megatheocorporatocracy and Easy Persiflage. 46 CommentsJust a few of Funeral Nation’s bronzed conceits.
I promised you an acerbic dissertation on American funeral culture, but I can’t deliver. I just spent two interminable weeks immersed in the production of my late father’s last hurrah, and now that it’s finally over, the last thing I feel like doing is rehashing the whole gaudy […]
Stanley: now with even more invective
Published February 22nd, 2008 in The megatheocorporatocracy, Sexploitation and Varmint Center. 148 Comments“By creating the [Animal Compassion] Foundation, Whole Foods Market is pioneering an entirely new way for people to relate to farm animals […].” — Whole Foods CEO John Mackey
Tell me more, John Mackey; I look forward to hearing about this new relationship with farm animals that you so compassionately chop up in cellophane packages in […]
Bacon, I bid you farewell
Published February 18th, 2008 in The megatheocorporatocracy and Blogulation. 135 CommentsBack in the pre-blog Age of Darkness, when I was a callow young feminist in a vacuum who did not enjoy the instantaneous policing of my views by thousands of invisible critics, numerous facets of my worldview were as yet embryonic. If a facet can be said to be embryonic, which I think it probably […]
Thursday memoirette
Published October 25th, 2007 in The megatheocorporatocracy and Austin. 96 CommentsPhoto originally uploaded at Phillyburbs.com.
Patriarchy-blaming tends, on this blog, to be expressed in broad strokes. I’m forever making with the feminist aphorisms. You know. “Pornography is the graphic representation of women’s oppression.” Or, “Being sexually manipulative is not an expression of personal sovereignty.” Or, “Irony is the enemy of dinner.” These glib remarks sound majestic […]
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