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We’re on HuffPo Today!
Remember that article I wrote for the Good Men Project earlier this week? A lot of people left some really nice comments and made me feel all warm and fuzzy. A lot of people also left some not-so-nice...
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Sunday Scraps 16
1. MUSIC: John Legend covering Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep.” Sidenote: Heard a dance remix of “Rolling” in a Boystown bar last night and it was excellent. 2. SEX SYMBOL: Watch Jon Stewart trade fire...
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“A Rich, Raunchy, Elemental, Down to Earth Sound”
Here’s poet Alice Walker on the word “slut” and the SlutWalk movement: Alice Walker I’ve always understood the word “slut” to mean a woman who freely enjoys her own sexuality in any way she wants to;...
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I Don’t Like Places That Discriminate Against My Friends
A few months ago, we had a bad experience at a local bar when a waiter referred to my latina friend as “the tan one.” What may have just been poor word choice turned ugly when the owner of the bar...
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Snooki: “When it comes to sex, I’m definitely a guy.”
Feminism is a tricky word. I’ve posted my definition on this blog before: My feminism is about allowing individual desires to take precedence over societally proscribed roles and assumptions. It’s...
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Word of the Day: Anomie
You know how when you study for a test, you reach a point where you just cannot cram another fact or figure or strategy or whatnot into your brain without forcing some previously committed idea out...
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HuffPo and the Changing Iconograpy of the Abortion Debate
Have you seen the front page of the Huffington Post today? As of 12:58pm CT Yowza, kinda smacks you in the face, doesn’t it? I’m not a huge fan of journalistic sensationalism, of which this most...
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Female figures are, by definition, “feminine.”
Let’s take a break from our regularly scheduled rape programming today and talk about something else. Back with more rape news, rape commentary, rape apology, rape debate, and...
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Sunday Scraps 72
1. ZOE: British Olympian Zoe Smith strikes back at body haters in an extremely articulate and extremely badass blog post. 2. RACE: Nicole Moore at the Huffington Post addresses the recent announcement...
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Sunday Scraps 79
1. BINDERS: Amanda Hess for Slate makes a similar argument to mine earlier this week, and I’m into it. Binders full of women leads to cabinets full of women. Not an ideal process, not an ideal phrase,...
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Can Sex Positivity Be Negative?
Last week, Kelly Rose Pflug-Back wrote for Huffington Post about how the mantra of sex-positive feminism has actually been negative for her. She, like many people, had suffered sexual trauma, and the...
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