NYC Feminist Holiday Fun.

Reminder number one.

Regardless of which holidays you’re celebrating or subverting, we thought this time of year called for some feminist cheer. So we’re going to be getting our drink-on in NYC for the holiday season and a coming new year full of great things for the feminist movement.
So if you’re in the area, join us and spread the holiday love.
The Village Pourhouse
64 Third Ave. (on 11th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Wednesday, December 19th
6:00 PM

Happy Hour Holiday Specials Until 7 PM include:
$1 Bud and Bud Light Drafts
2 for 1 Sauza Margaritas
2 for 1 Level and Absolut Vodka Cocktails
Hope you can make it!

Reminder number one.

Regardless of which holidays you’re celebrating or subverting, we thought this time of year called for some feminist cheer. So we’re going to be getting our drink-on in NYC for the holiday season ...

Reclaiming the abortion debate.

Last night in the CNN/YouTube Republican debate, the candidates were asked what the punishment should be for women if abortion is banned.

The question of “How Much Time Should She Do?” is one that we heard from Anna Quindlen this summer and is now resurfacing once again. Now that the political heat is high, this message – while it’s certainly not new – might just reframe the abortion debate and put conservatives on the defensive for a change.
Pro-choice candidates have consistently been forced by anti-choice rhetoric into positions where they end up compromising on reproductive rights issues; this is no big news. But asking anti-choice individuals about criminalization isn’t an easy question to answer, ...

Last night in the CNN/YouTube Republican debate, the candidates were asked what the punishment should be for women if abortion is banned.

The question of “How Much Time Should She Do?” is one that we heard from Anna ...

Wonder woman writes Wonder Woman


Within the first time in the comic book character’s 66-year history, a woman is serving as an “ongoing writer” for Wonder Woman, reports the New York Times.
With issue No. 14 hitting the stores a couple of weeks ago, Gail Simone began her new title. Her thoughts on the character:

“She’s just the best kind of person. . . She was a princess who didn’t need someone to rescue her. I grew up in an era — and a family — where women’s rights were very important, and the guys didn’t tend to stick around too long. She was an amazing role model.�

Awesome.


Within the first time in the comic book character’s 66-year history, a woman is serving as an “ongoing writer” for Wonder Woman, reports the New York Times.
With issue No. 14 hitting the stores ...

Rape case reform in the UK.

Not one week after UK women Reclaimed the Night on Saturday, we find that juries will now be “briefed” before rape cases in order to dispel “rape myths” that studies have shown to contribute to a severe decrease in rape convictions in the UK.
In 1977, 33% of reported rapes ended in conviction. By 2005, that percentage had dropped to 5.4%. So in one form of response, a number of doctors, judges and academics are in the process of putting together a packet to be presented to juries which addresses these myths (such as the fact that not all rape survivors report the crime immediately, or that not all will act emotionally on the witness stand).
Despite the ...

Not one week after UK women Reclaimed the Night on Saturday, we find that juries will now be “briefed” before rape cases in order to dispel “rape myths” that studies have shown to contribute to ...

Move over, Ani.

Aretha and Annie are here. This has got to be within the top three feminist music videos of all time.

Thanks to Michael.

Aretha and Annie are here. This has got to be within the top three feminist music videos of all time.

Thanks to Michael.

Not Oprah’s Book Club: Getting Off

For most of my young life, I’ve avoided thinking about or watching pornography. Sure there was that time that my gal pals and I got a porn flick in a hotel room on spring break “just to see� or the afternoon Gareth and I spent researching feminist porn and finding scary titles like Dungeon Mistress. I’ve browsed Nerve.com and I like to check out Bust’s one-handed read, but generally I’ve steered clear of porn or, even, truth be told, erotica. (Somehow I even missed studying pornography in college or grad school.)
I never made a conscious decision; it was just one of those subconscious, self-protective moves. I think I sensed that there was a “point of no return� ...

For most of my young life, I’ve avoided thinking about or watching pornography. Sure there was that time that my gal pals and I got a porn flick in a hotel room on spring break “just to ...

More in misogynist pencil products (who knew?)


Apparently there’s more than one woman-hating pencil product out there. First there was the headless doggie-style sharpener, and now Shakes shows us this: Lusty Linda the pen holder.

You’ll note from the packaging that Lusty Linda can utter “8 lusty sayings,” which fall into one of two categories—”good mood” or “bad mood,” controlled by the click of a switch. Says one site (screen cap) that sells Lusty Linda, “too bad all women did not have such a switch.” Ho ho ho!

Her “bad mood” sayings include “Ow,” “Help, Help!” and “Get out you, you dirty old man.” You know, because rape is hilarious.
Recently “men’s rights activists” scoffed at the idea that we were offended ...


Apparently there’s more than one woman-hating pencil product out there. First there was the headless doggie-style sharpener, and now Shakes shows us this: Lusty Linda the pen holder.

You’ll note from the packaging ...

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