By Jessica • 18 years ago

Shop with a Bunny, my ass!

You gotta love Katha Pollitt.
In response to yesterday’s Broadsheet story about Saks Fifth Avenue’s less-than-classy shopping event, Pollitt sent the following letter to the store manager:

I am writing to express my shock and outrage at Saks Fifth Avenue’s “Shop with a Bunny” Day on December 7. To have these half-naked breast implantees taking men around to shop for their wives and other women is an insult to the women whose patronage has made your store prosperous and successful– to say nothing of the women who work there and had to smile their way through this sexist spectacle, and the women who will be the recipients of Christmas gifts purchased not with love but with a ...

You gotta love Katha Pollitt.
In response to yesterday’s Broadsheet story about Saks Fifth Avenue’s less-than-classy shopping event, Pollitt sent the following letter to the store manager:

I am writing to express my shock ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

The Abstinence Agenda: It’s more than great shirts

The website that featured yesterday’s classy abstinence product of the day is clearly the funniest/most disturbing thing ever.
Geared towards teenage girls, Proknowledge.org touts itself as “helping woman of all ages get straight facts on relationships, sex, birth control, teen pregnancy, abortion STDs and more.” In reality the site is just a sneaky anti-choice, anti-sex group trying to appeal to what they think teen girls would like.
Pandagon and Feministe pointed out the scary though hysterical advice the site gives on relationships and sex. Outside of building your perfect guy (cause gays are just a myth), the most horrible feature on this pink-toned monstrosity of a website is ...

The website that featured yesterday’s classy abstinence product of the day is clearly the funniest/most disturbing thing ever.
Geared towards teenage girls, Proknowledge.org touts itself as “helping woman of all ages ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

NYC Department Store offers Shop with a Bunny Day


This is just creepy. Broadsheet reports that the upscale department store Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City launched a shopping event designed to get more men to spend big bucks–Shop with a Bunny. Sigh.
The store actually hired Playboy playmates to shop with the male customers. From Rebecca at Broadsheet:

According to Sun reporter David Lombino, it worked; a bunch of sharp-looking guys in pinstripes showed up to be led around the store by playmates. “We’ve got bankers and we’ve got construction workers here tonight,” playmate Jennifer Wolcott from St. Louis told the Sun. And playmate/veterinarian Colleen Marie described a recent five-month bus tour of the nation as a whirlwind of “shopping and ...


This is just creepy. Broadsheet reports that the upscale department store Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City launched a shopping event designed to get more men to spend big bucks–Shop with ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

Classy abstinence product of the day (again)


I love the idea that someone would put this poster up in their teen daughter’s room. Forget about being pregnant–I wouldn’t want to tell my dad anything with bug eyes like that. It looks like lasers are about shoot out of those motherfuckers. And is that a halo around his head? Shiver.


I love the idea that someone would put this poster up in their teen daughter’s room. Forget about being pregnant–I wouldn’t want to tell my dad anything with bug eyes like that. ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

Is Bush against birth control?

Amazingly, the President still hasn’t answered this question.
38 members of Congress, led by Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), sent President Bush a letter asking him whether he is for or against birth control.
This is the fourth letter sent to Bush on the subject since White House Press Secretary Scott McLellan refused to answer this question earlier in the year.
“I thought that in the 21st century, answering a straightforward question about birth control would be easy, but apparently it isn’t for the Leader of the Free World,” said Maloney. “I was hoping that the president would be able to answer whether or not he supports birth control in less than 165 days. Since we received no ...

Amazingly, the President still hasn’t answered this question.
38 members of Congress, led by Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), sent President Bush a letter asking him whether he is for or against birth control.
This is the ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

New survey says unwanted births on the rise

Federal researchers say that more American women are having children they didn’t want–women surveyed in 2002 said that 14 percent of their recent births were unwanted. In 1995, only 9 percent were unwanted.
The reason behind these numbers is unclear. Of course anti-choice groups are claiming the survey as a victory, saying that the research indicates a “pro-life shift” in the nation. (Leave it to anti-choicers to think unwanted kids are a good thing.)
Others–like myself–believe that the research reflects the rollback of reproductive rights and decreased access to contraception and abortion. For example, the Guttmacher Institute says that the number of abortion providers in the U.S. has fell steadily in the ...

Federal researchers say that more American women are having children they didn’t want–women surveyed in 2002 said that 14 percent of their recent births were unwanted. In 1995, only 9 percent were unwanted.
The ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

No prostitutes here


Germany is clearly expecting a hell of a lot of sex work going on during the 2006 World Cup.
Prostitution is legal only in designated areas in Germany, hence the oh-so-helpful “no prostitutes here” signs. The signs are supposed to stop fans from bothering women who aren’t sex workers and stop sex workers from moving out of the legal areas.
Working girl or not, I think we can all agree with the sign’s sentiment that thigh-high boots are not acceptable under any circumstances.


Germany is clearly expecting a hell of a lot of sex work going on during the 2006 World Cup.
Prostitution is legal only in designated areas in Germany, hence the oh-so-helpful

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