Have you ever, while you were packing into cardboard boxes all your spinster auntly accouterments (I allude to the complete Proust — in French — that you keep on the mantle, as if ; ceramic baby-smoking-a-cig figurine; giant rubber toad; 80’s vintage 4-track w/ gazillion basement recordings on cassette) run out of newspaper? Requiring an […]
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Cardboard jungle causes smoking
Published August 19th, 2008 in The Spinster's Finger on the Pulse of Today, Crazy sexy cancer, Austin and Patriarchy-blaming. 68 CommentsOh hell, I got vlogging software.
Published August 9th, 2008 in Pre-recorded Twisty and The Spinster's Finger on the Pulse of Today. 123 CommentsShare This
What a coincidence. SFGate corroborates girly math skillz
Published August 1st, 2008 in The Spinster's Finger on the Pulse of Today, Keep your bias off my gender and Mass Media. 29 CommentsIt must be true if it’s in SFGate:
Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, “Math class is tough!” girls are proving that when it comes to math they are just as tough as boys.
Because even after a sexist toy maker fails to successfully market imbecility, the onus is on girls to “prove” they’re human. In terms […]
Pornulation empowerfulizes us, say humorous ironic hotties
Published July 20th, 2008 in The Spinster's Finger on the Pulse of Today, Women hate you, Sexploitation and Femininity. 148 CommentsGawd, remember that hipster burlesque crap from the 90’s? I thought it was over, but no, it lives on. An article in today’s Kansas City Star about a “neo-burlesque” show in town is headlined thusly: “Burlesque’s practitioners find humor, art and feminism in their risqué shows”.
Fun feminism, that is.”Neo” burlesque is funny and ironic, see. […]
Now baby can wear heels in bed, just like Mommy
Published July 17th, 2008 in The Spinster's Finger on the Pulse of Today, Mind-blowing and Sexploitation. 82 Comments
I haven’t looked, but I suppose tidings of baby’s first high heels have already made the rounds of the feminist blogs. No matter; this ain’t no news blog.
Anyway, what I allude to are these grotesque novelty shoes for infants. Sexy animal prints with spike heels. Thirty-five bucks a pair. Celebrity-endorsed. Blamer Melissa, who rang […]
College junior purports to grasp something
Published July 16th, 2008 in The Spinster's Finger on the Pulse of Today. 65 CommentsNot to come off as one of those “busy” bloggers who doesn’t have time to write a proper post — that I suck profoundly as a blogger has already been established — but here’s a curious little item from the University of Texas student paper with which I am going to leave you before biffing […]
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 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. 47 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. 28 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. 36 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 […]
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