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Sniffly, scratchy Saturday

There’s no Feministing Five interview this week, as I’m rather sick and sound a lot like a country music singer: scratchy, sexy and suddenly super pleased to be living in a small town.

Instead, here’s a link to last week’s interview with Rachel Maddow, in case you missed it, and a here’s a video that I sometimes like to watch when I’m feeling phlegm-y and gross:

This clip, taken from Perez’s favorite movie, has everything you could want on a cold, sniffly Saturday morning. Motorcycles! Scandalized ballerinas! Awkward on-stage sex re-enactment! Twenty-something foutté pirouettes (you do NOT want to try those with a runny nose, believe me. Snot + centrifugal force = disaster)!

Happy Saturday, everyone. Be well!

There’s no Feministing Five interview this week, as I’m rather sick and sound a lot like a country music singer: scratchy, sexy and suddenly super pleased to be living in a small town.

Instead, here’s a link to ...

By Miriam • 13 years ago

What We Missed

This tweet has been a favorite today. (via)

California Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman admits that she would have her undocumented housekeeper deported to win the election. It’s hypocritical and heartless.

Lambda Literary has a round-up of ten LGBT books for teens that tackle the topics of bullying and suicide.

Campus Progress reports on a study of college sex columnists.

Some good news: Three months into the Arizona anti-immigrant law, there have been no arrests. The bad news: there has been a lot of fear, intimidation, anti-immigrant sentiment and many immigrants have left the state altogether.

This tweet has been a favorite today. (via)

California Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman admits that she would have her undocumented housekeeper deported to win the election. It’s hypocritical and heartless.

Lambda Literary has a

By Maya Dusenbery • 13 years ago

Sharron Angle Wins Most Racist Political Ad of the Year

Yesterday, Nevada’s Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle pulled slightly ahead of Harry Reid in the polls. But, regardless of what happens on November 2nd, she’s already won one contest—against some pretty tough competition.

Angle’s first two race-baiting, anti-immigrant ads (here and here) made her an early favorite in Salon’s Baity Awards for Excellence in the Field of Race-baiting, but it was this latest video that secured her victory in the category of “Best Attempt at Convincing People That Mexican Immigrants Are Drug-running Cartel Assassins.”

Transcript after the jump.

This has got to be the most overtly racist piece of political shit I’ve ever seen. Waves of scowling Mexican thugs (with tattoos! and bandanas! the horror!) force little white ...

Angle’s first two race-baiting, ...

By Miriam • 13 years ago

Still looking for Halloween costume ideas?

Last year Ann posted some amazing non-sexist, non-racist Halloween costume ideas. I’m reviving the tradition with today’s post, which includes all of Ann’s suggestions from last year, with a few updates.

2010 edition:

(Warning, I’m not as funny as Ann, but I will try my best)

Constance McMillen (she was the star lesbian youth activist this year, and what better way to commemorate her?)

Needed: Rainbow sash, large dark wig, serious bravery. Alternative: Tux to dress as she would have, if she could have gone to prom (like this maybe).
Related ideas: Any of the brave young LGBTQ folks who tried to go to prom, or be elected prom king/queen this year.

Lady Gaga

Needed: Big sunglasses, ...

2010 edition:

(Warning, I’m not as funny ...

By Miriam • 13 years ago

Wesley Meredith Wins Most Sexist Political Ad of the Year

Via Feminist Law Professors

I’m sure there are some other close contenders. Leave your pick in comments, and stay tuned for Maya’s version later today with “Most Racist Political Ad of the Year.”

Transcript via Care2 after the jump

Via Feminist Law Professors

I’m sure there are some other close contenders. Leave your pick in comments, and stay tuned for Maya’s version later today with “Most Racist Political Ad of the Year.”

Transcript via Care2 after ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 13 years ago

Twitter Responds to #GawkerFAIL on Christine O’Donnell

If you were within a stone’s throw of the interwebs yesterday, odds are you read the piece Gawker ran by anonymous dude (of course, it looks like the race to uncover his identity has already been won) about his (almost) hook-up with Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell.

It was a piece so grossly sexist and sexlessly gross, it forced many feminists, who hate every last thing about O’Donnell’s politics, to not only condemn the article and the decision to run it but also note that it made O’ Donnell seem like a rather sympathetic, relatable figure. Yes, that’s how much this piece backfired.

Twitter also had lots to say about this #gawkerfail. So if you ...

By Miriam • 13 years ago

Arkansas school board member will resign over anti-gay comments

Via CNN:

A school board district member in Arkansas who came under fire for an anti-gay post on a social networking site regrets the comments and will resign his seat, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday.

“I’m sorry I’ve hurt people with my comments,” Clint McCance, vice-president of the Midland School District in Pleasant Plains, Arkansas said. “I’m sorry I made those ignorant comments and hurt people on a broad spectrum.”

McCance wrote on his personal Facebook page that he wanted gay people to commit suicide, according to The Advocate, a newspaper focusing on gay news.

McCance used the terms “queer” and “fag” repeatedly, promised to disown his own children if they are ...

Via CNN:

A school board district member in Arkansas who came under fire for an anti-gay post on a social networking site regrets the comments and will resign his seat, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper ...

By goddessjaz • 13 years ago

Sons of Anarchy Pokes Fun at Sarah Palin

I’ve never watched the TV series Sons of Anarchy and had to rely on good ol’ Wikipedia to find out that it’s a fictional show about a motorcycle club in California of the same name. It appeared on my radar yesterday via Twitter after seeing numerous anti-choice users getting salty about the show’s coverage of abortion. What got their blood boiling was that the porn star character, Lyla, goes to an abortion clinic to have the procedure and gives the nurse an alias: Sarah Palin. Bwhahahahahaha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja3lkUuaEYE&feature=related

I’ve never watched the TV series Sons of Anarchy and had to rely on good ol’ Wikipedia to find out that it’s a fictional show about a motorcycle club in California of the same name. It ...