By Jessica • 15 years ago

Making politics “sexy.” For dudes.


Reader Michelle tipped us about this, uh, interesting MySpace application, Sexy Politics.

As you get yourself informed about politics, a beautiful model of your choosing will coach you through the process. Get questions right and the model will reward you with removed pieces of clothing.

Charming. Outside of the disgusting way this application is using women’s bodies, I also find it really irritating that assumption is that it’s just men who are interested in politics. Bad news all around.
Also, annoying usage of the mudflap girl!


Reader Michelle tipped us about this, uh, interesting MySpace application, Sexy Politics.

As you get yourself informed about politics, a beautiful model of your choosing will coach you through the process. Get questions right and the ...
By Jessica • 15 years ago

The queer argument against same sex marraige?

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, editor of That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, has an interesting piece in Alternet where she argues that “gay marriage does nothing to address fundamental problems of inequality.”

What is needed is universal access to basic necessities like housing, health care, food, and the benefits now obtained through citizenship (like the right to stay in this country). Legalized gay marriage means only that certain people in a specific type of long-term, monogamous relationship sanctioned by a state contract might be able to access benefits. While marriage could confer inclusion under a spouse’s health-care policy, it does nothing to provide such a policy. Marriage might ensure hospital visitation rights, but not for anyone without a spouse. ...

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, editor of That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, has an interesting piece in Alternet where she argues that “gay marriage does nothing to address fundamental problems of inequality.”

What is needed is ...
By Jessica • 15 years ago

End of the day embarrassment question: What’s the first concert you attended?

Since our posts are usually about the sad state of women’s rights in the world, I thought it would be nice to end today with something that’s always fun: self-humiliation. So the question is, dear readers, what is the first concert you ever went to? And no, I don’t mean some cool jazz thing that your parents dragged you to when you were a kid – I mean what musician(s) did you desperately try to scrounge up tickets for, and then go freaking out with the hope that maybe, just maybe, they’d see you from stage. (Okay, maybe that’s just me from my NKOTB phase. I was in love with Joey, so sue me.)
My source ...

Since our posts are usually about the sad state of women’s rights in the world, I thought it would be nice to end today with something that’s always fun: self-humiliation. So the question is, dear readers, ...
By Jessica • 15 years ago

Teen girl attacked after rebuffing catcaller

This horrible story is via Racialicious.
18-year-old Mildred Beaubrun from Florida was getting some gas with her friends at a local 7-Eleven when a car full of men pulled up.

“Hey, baby, what’s your phone number?” they called out as the cars traveled west through Orlando.
Then the banter grew more aggressive. The men threw a T-shirt, then an AA battery, at the Nissan. One of the women threw a broken cell-phone charger back. At one point, the HHR swerved into the Nissan’s lane and tried to run the car off the road.
When the Nissan turned north on John Young Parkway, the HHR followed. Then, at Princeton Street, a shot rang out. Shrapnel flew as the bullet ...

This horrible story is via Racialicious.
18-year-old Mildred Beaubrun from Florida was getting some gas with her friends at a local 7-Eleven when a car full of men pulled up.

“Hey, baby, what’s your phone ...
By Jessica • 15 years ago

Hillary participates in the oppression olympics

Through Cara, I see that Hillary is wading into the oppression olympics pool.

Q. Do you think this has been a particularly racist campaign?
A. I do not. I think this has been a positive, civil campaign. I think that both gender and race have been obviously a part of it because of who we are and every poll I’ve seen show more people would be reluctant to vote for a woman [than] to vote for an African American, which rarely gets reported on either. The manifestation of some of the sexism that has gone on in this campaign is somehow more respectable or at least more accepted. And I think there should be equal rejection of the sexism ...

Through Cara, I see that Hillary is wading into the oppression olympics pool.

Q. Do you think this has been a particularly racist campaign?
A. I do not. I think this has been a positive, civil ...
By Jessica • 15 years ago

No cookies for you!

Many of you have emailed us about this Klondike commercial. And I agree, it’s atrocious. Not only does it feed into the sexist idea that men deserve a cookie for being halfway decent human beings, but it also denigrates men by suggesting that they’re animals, unable to resist any ass that that happens to pass their way. Thumbs down.

Many of you have emailed us about this Klondike commercial. And I agree, it’s atrocious. Not only does it feed into the sexist idea that men deserve a cookie for being halfway decent human beings, ...
By Miriam • 15 years ago

DC Event Tomorrow: Intentional Motherhood

I’m excited to announce this upcoming Washington DC event for three reasons. One, I helped to organize it. Two, it brings together two of my favorite topics, birth and abortion. Three, it happens to fall on my birthday!

Intentional Motherhood: Connecting Abortion, Pregnancy, and Birth
Considering the full range of women’s reproductive rights:

The right to affordable birth control.
The right to parent.
The right to choose abortion.
The right to midwifery care.
The right to determine a birth plan.
The right to prenatal care.

Our Bodies Ourselves has provided indispensable information on women’s health and sexuality for more than 40 years. Their newest book, Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth addresses the questions and needs ...

I’m excited to announce this upcoming Washington DC event for three reasons. One, I helped to organize it. Two, it brings together two of my favorite topics, birth and abortion. Three, it happens to fall on my ...

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