By Jessica • 16 years ago

Hey Slate: What. The. Fuck.


Okay, I’m all for sex issues. I’d just appreciate it if a leading online news magazine didn’t equate sex with a headless porned out asscracked woman.
I’m also all for articles on butts. But I’d doubly appreciate it if said leading online news magazine didn’t feature only women as part of their charming slide show expose on the history of the ass. (You know, because men don’t have asses. At least not in a sexual way–that would be like, gay or something.) It would also be great if Slate didn’t feature a picture of “Hottentot Venus” in this sexpose without any mention of racism. At all. (A pic of that ...

Okay, I’m all for sex issues. I’d just appreciate it if a leading online news magazine didn’t equate sex with a headless porned out asscracked woman.
I’m also all for articles on butts. ...
By Vanessa • 16 years ago

Quick Hit: Our pro-choice storage company takes a vote


Remember the awesome pro-choice Manhattan Mini Storage ad that attracted a shitload of media attention?
Well, it looks like there’s been so much hoopla around the ad that they’re asking the public to take a vote on whether you think they should give “just the facts” or continue to bring the “edgy” advertising we all know and love? So go vote.

Remember the awesome pro-choice Manhattan Mini Storage ad that attracted a shitload of media attention?
Well, it looks like there’s been so much hoopla around the ad that they’re asking the public to take ...
By Vanessa • 16 years ago

ShePhone makes me want to ShePuke.

While it’s no big shocker to most of us that women feel patronized by pink gadgets marketed to them, this is the ultimate blood-boiling “girly” gadget I may have ever witnessed.
Marie Claire’s October issue asked PopGadget’s founder to create the most “dream” cell phone for women — yes, the shePhone. (Look below the jump.) So according to this Phone of Fabulousness, women are drug and sex-addicted, neurotic (yet tanned, fragranced and flossed) alcoholics. Regardless of whether this is supposed to be humorous or not, it’s not.
Via The Underwire.

While it’s no big shocker to most of us that women feel patronized by pink gadgets marketed to them, this is the ultimate blood-boiling “girly” gadget I may have ever witnessed.
Marie Claire’s October issue asked ...
By Vanessa • 16 years ago

Trans/intersex advocacy org attacked by NYPD

This is just despicable. On the fifth anniversary celebration night of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, an organization that provides free legal services and advocacy to low-income people of color who are transgender, gender non-conforming or intersex, two of their community members were attacked and arrested without warning by the 9th precinct of the NYC Police Department, as well as others being pepper sprayed in the face. Via their press release:

A group of our community members, consisting largely of queer and transgender people of color, witnessed two officers attempting to detain a young Black man outside of the bar. Several of our community members asked the officers why they were making the arrest and using excessive force. Despite the ...

This is just despicable. On the fifth anniversary celebration night of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, an organization that provides free legal services and advocacy to low-income people of color who are transgender, gender non-conforming or ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

Well that was fast.

From The New York Times: Verizon Reverses Itself on Abortion Rights Messages
NARAL Pro-Choice America president Nancy Keenan says, “Let’s hope Verizon has learned a lesson today: citizen participation in democracy is neither ‘unsavory’ nor ‘controversial.’”
Indeed.

From The New York Times: Verizon Reverses Itself on Abortion Rights Messages
NARAL Pro-Choice America president Nancy Keenan says, “Let’s hope Verizon has learned a lesson today: citizen participation in democracy is neither ‘unsavory’ ...
By jen • 16 years ago

Presidential Dialogue with John Edwards and kids today

I’m at the University of New Hampshire right now, getting ready for a dialogue with Edwards hosted by MTV and MySpace. It’s interactive in the extreme, assuming everything goes well. Every “major� candidate (except Fred Thompson) has agreed to participate, and Edwards is up first. To learn more about this event, go to MySpace. You can submit questions via IM or text message, and you can play along at home:

Online viewers on MySpace.com or MTV.com will be able to access a simple ratings meter to indicate their approval or disapproval of a candidate’s response as they watch the Dialogue live with instant results displayed on the screen. A “popular vote” function will allow viewers to compare their ...

I’m at the University of New Hampshire right now, getting ready for a dialogue with Edwards hosted by MTV and MySpace. It’s interactive in the extreme, assuming everything goes well. Every “major� candidate (except Fred Thompson) has ...
By Vanessa • 16 years ago

Chess is for boys!

You gotta love old school SNL. As an enthusiastic chess player since childhood, I found this quite hilarious. (And a little creepy.)

The only similarity between myself and any of the girls in this video is that I also used to throw all the game pieces on the ground if I lost. Jessica can attest to it.
Via Feministe.

You gotta love old school SNL. As an enthusiastic chess player since childhood, I found this quite hilarious. (And a little creepy.)

The only similarity between myself and any of the girls in this video is that I ...
By Vanessa • 16 years ago

Verizon rejects pro-choice texting program

The New York Times reports that NARAL Pro-Choice America has been banned from using their text-messaging program to communicate to their activists because their messages are “controversial or unsavory.”
Text messaging has been increasingly used by political organizations and groups as a means of sending alerts or information to their members, yet Verizon has chosen to discriminate against the organization for sending messages such as “End Bush’s global gag rule against birth control for world’s poorest women! Call Congress. (202) 224-3121. Thnx! Naral Text4Choice.â€? How unsavory.
Verizon spokesman Jeffrey Nelson says they’re (of course) “neutral” on the issue of abortion and their decision wasn’t because NARAL is pro-choice, but claims “It is the topic ...

The New York Times reports that NARAL Pro-Choice America has been banned from using their text-messaging program to communicate to their activists because their messages are “controversial or unsavory.”
Text messaging has been increasingly ...

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