Monthly Archives: July 2009
New study says feminists aren’t manhaters after all
I find it both deeply troubling and kind of awesome that this study in the Psychology of Women Quarterly was done. I mean, aren’t we past the whole feminists-hate-men thing yet? (I know, I know – that one will never get old.) Three researchers from the University of Houston found that feminists aren’t “man-haters” and [...]
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Girls Rock (Stephanie/Green Day edition)
This is just too cool: At one point during Monday night’s Green Day show at Madison Square Garden, Billie Joe Armstrong announced that he needed someone on stage who could play the guitar. And not just for a “three-chord song,” he added, “for one with four, five, maybe six chords” — “Jesus of Suburbia.” After [...]
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One more reason feminists are awesome
They have a sense of humor. You may remember a while back I wrote something about getting married for The Guardian. In it, I mentioned that some super cool dude online called me a “ball-cutting cybersuccubus” – and wondered if I could get that descriptor on a business card. Well, thanks to the awesome Maia [...]
The Lorax coming to the big screen