By Samhita • 16 years ago

I never liked beer, sorry to all you beer lovers, I just never have.

But this is one of the reasons for sure. There is nothing weirder than the cyborg woman fetish. Well, except the cyborg woman who multiplies and exists to be gutted and filled with a beer keg. I am sure this ad campaign is supposed to be edgy and (post!) modern, but really it relies on some pretty standard notions of what the *purpose* of a woman is and that it is all good to watch her being cut up, spliced and reproduced like starfish or something. Clearly, anything but edgy.

Cara has more, including info on where you can lodge a complaint.

But this is one of the reasons for sure. There is nothing weirder than the cyborg woman fetish. Well, except the cyborg woman who multiplies and exists to be gutted and filled with a beer keg. I ...
By Samhita • 16 years ago

Judge blocks Missouri abortion law

The law, which was scheduled to take effect on Tuesday, would put more abortion clinics under state supervision by categorizing them as outpatient surgery centers, requiring them to meet specific state building, staffing and health standards. The law would apply to any facility that performs more than five first-trimester abortions a month, or any second- or third-trimester abortions.
Planned Parenthood argued the organization would have to halt abortions at its Columbia and Kansas City offices – either permanently or while expensive and “medically unnecessary” renovations were made.

It is temporary ruling and will be decided at a later date. The ED of the local Planned Parenthood was pleased with the ruling. It didn’t appear to me that the judge was explicitly ...

The law, which was scheduled to take effect on Tuesday, would put more abortion clinics under state supervision by categorizing them as outpatient surgery centers, requiring them to meet specific state building, staffing and health standards. The ...
By Ann • 16 years ago

Call it what it is.

Moe at Jezebel writes:

[T]his one time about nine years ago I got locked out of my house and went home with some vaguely smarmy hair-product using type from my ex-boyfriend’s frat. I had slept with maybe two or three guys prior to that — it was the summer between sophomore and junior year of college — so when he, after about a half hour of fooling around, put on a condom I was like, “Whooooah, what are you doing?” But I’d had two forties and I kept drifting in and out of consciousness — my tolerance, obviously, wasn’t what it is today — and I woke up to find him sticking it in. I’d said ‘no’ a bunch of ...

Moe at Jezebel writes:

[T]his one time about nine years ago I got locked out of my house and went home with some vaguely smarmy hair-product using type from my ex-boyfriend’s frat. I had slept with maybe ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

Quick Hit: Army Policies Don’t Keep Women Off Front Lines

From NPR:

Sixty-one women in the U.S. military have been killed by hostile fire in Iraq — more than twice as many female casualties suffered since women were allowed to join the military after World War II. The number indicates that women are playing new roles in combat zones.

Listen to the segment here.

From NPR:

Sixty-one women in the U.S. military have been killed by hostile fire in Iraq — more than twice as many female casualties suffered since women were allowed to join the military after World War II. The ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

Clorox’s history of women’s unwaged labor

Okay, not really. But this ad for Clorox does end up unintentionally showing how women have been doing household grunt work for generations.
The worst line in the commercial says that “even a man or two” has done the laundry. As if all the women watching are supposed to have some little laugh to ourselves about the inequitable division of labor. “I do shit work for free, tee hee!”
(Also, as was pointed out by tipster Jessica Hicks, depending on how you listen to the line–it could be read as a little dirtier than intended.)

Okay, not really. But this ad for Clorox does end up unintentionally showing how women have been doing household grunt work for generations.
The worst line in the commercial says that “even a man or two” ...
By Vanessa • 16 years ago

Write Cosmo a letter

As an update to Cosmopolitan‘s article on the crock-o-shit “gray rape” theory, The New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault has initiated a letter-writing campaign which says it simply, “No Such Thing as Gray Rape.”
If you’re not in the NYC area, why not start your own letter-writing campaign? Or at the least, write your own letter to Cosmo at cosmo@hearst.com.

As an update to Cosmopolitan‘s article on the crock-o-shit “gray rape” theory, The New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault has initiated a letter-writing campaign which says it simply, “No Such Thing as Gray Rape.”
By Jessica • 16 years ago

Anti-choice journalism at its best

What better way to gain support for your cause than make shit up?
The Times Online has literally one of the worst reported, anti-choice pieces of nonsense I’ve seen in a while.

Amnesty International risks alienating some of its high-profile rock star backers in the row over its decision to support women’s access to abortion.
The group has been accused of “duping� the singers Christina Aguilera and Avril Lavigne [by the organization Rock for Life], who have both made statements against abortion and are among contributors to an Amnesty CD released to raise money for survivors of the atrocities in Darfur.

And what are these “statements” against abortion that Aguilera and Lavigne made?

But Aguilera, 26, is a devout American Catholic. ...

What better way to gain support for your cause than make shit up?
The Times Online has literally one of the worst reported, anti-choice pieces of nonsense I’ve seen in a while.

Amnesty International risks alienating some ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

Monday Monty Blogging


This weekend was his first big adventure–we went to my grandparents’ house in upstate New York. Afterwards, he was just a tad tired. (Seriously, he didn’t move from that position for over an hour.)


This weekend was his first big adventure–we went to my grandparents’ house in upstate New York. Afterwards, he was just a tad tired. (Seriously, he didn’t move from that position for over an hour.)

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