Category Archives: Feminism and Culture

There’s a story about these photos at the Columbia Journalism Review.

Kathy Griffin emcees a cookoff for GenderPAC in Chicago, on YouTube. Via Welcome to the Nut House.

l feel like I’m whistling into the wind with this, but here goes anyway. The cover of the August issue of a free magazine (of the sort that is given away in pediatricians’ offices) called Babytalk looked like this: Babytalk … Continue reading →

Atrios reviews Da Ali G Show movie “Borat” as follows: For those who know (and like) the character from the Ali G show, the movie will not disappoint and will in fact surpass your expectations. It’s very very funny, and … Continue reading →

Over at Center of Gravitas, Gayprof has this to say about Apple’s new Mac commercials (which you can watch here but why would you want to?): Mac wants to pretend that they are not a giant U.S. corporation guilty of … Continue reading →

I’ve been an Ani DiFranco fan for many years, and was pleased to see her performing “Decree” on the Conan O’Brien show, off her new album, Reprieve. I’d guess “32 Flavors” is her most widely known song, though possibly it … Continue reading →

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang, is being made into a documentary. WaPo news report here. Jenn at Reappropriate expresses some concerns here.

Transcript here. Via IndianWriting.

Full story here, excerpt below: Canada’s gay and lesbian organizations want to trademark the word Pride, leading to a fight that is taking on Olympic proportions among gay activists. Vancouver transsexual Jamie Lee Hamilton was told earlier this summer she … Continue reading →

One of the interesting paradoxes of copyright law is that although copyright protections are supposed to incentivize the creation and distribution of “useful” works, when copyright owners decide to stop publishing a work, no one else can keep the book … Continue reading →

A while back I posted this about the “Foxy Felons” dispute. This gist is that a website operated by Court TV called “The Smoking Gun” posted pictures of attractive women culled from the Florida Department of Corrections website, which gave … Continue reading →

Real photos of real women before, during and after pregnancy. Via Dr. Bitch.

It is entitled “Bastardy: for thousands of young girls it will always be a legitimate choice.” Excerpt below: About the only strategy available to any quango that aims to reduce teenage pregnancy is to increase sex and relationship education in … Continue reading →

1. This is a link to her humorless feminist side. 2. This link demonstrates that she is hilarious, though not altogether worksafe. 3. Here she does a really cool book review of “Manstealing for Fat Girls.”

Really good response to the Bussel article by Amananta at Screaming Into the Void. Below is an excerpt: …little did we know, oh radical feminist bloggers – who probably make up something like 0.5% of the entire blogosphere, if that … Continue reading →

1. Read this. 2. Now read this. 3. And read this. 4. Finally, read this. 5. Do a feminist analysis of the above. Neatness counts. Show all work!

Take it here!

Rachel Kramer Bussel published an article in the Village Voice titled “Fucking and Feminism.” In it she says things like this: We’re in the middle of a culture war around sex, and it goes beyond left vs. right. Many of … Continue reading →

Nope, not to worry, this isn’t another Go Fug Yourself diatribe. This one is about swimsuits. At Reclusive Leftist, Dr. Violet Socks posted this photo with the caption: “If you wear this bathing suit, no one will know you have … Continue reading →

At Notes From The Trenches: “The Unspoken Conversations in Our Heads.” Here is an excerpt: She said,”Are all those kids yours?” I heard,”Is that impossibly large number of children yours? Have you ever heard of birth control?” I said,”Yes. They … Continue reading →

Yes, the title to this post would indeed be sarcasm. I avoid Go Fug Yourself because I think it is meanly misogynistic, and I thought I’d said about everything I had to say with respect to the Great Feminist Fug … Continue reading →

I saw posts about “Safe!” at Shakespeare’s Sister and Feministing. According to this article: [Safe! is] a police magazine [that is] advising women planning a drunken night out to ensure they had waxed and were “wearing nice pants” in case … Continue reading →

Here is the urinal in question: Now here is the full text of this story, entitled “McDonald’s removes mouth-shaped urinals,” bolded in the regular font, with my questions and comments interspersed in italics: AMSTERDAM : A McDonald’s fast-food outlet in … Continue reading →

Read an interview with her here. Below is an excerpt: Liz Cox Barrett: As a rule, columnists/opinion writers tend to be older white men. You are none of the above. According to a recent study prompted by the Associated Press … Continue reading →

“Bush Gardens” is a great multipage comic about body hair by Rachel Nabors. Here is an excerpted page:

Ugh. Learn more about it here and here.

Read them here!

Here, at The Nation. And can I add: Woot! It’s good to have new Pollitt columns to read. –Ann Bartow