Yeah. And just one image per issue? Dear god, is it really that hard to not be awful?

I would hyphenate kids names: HIS-MINE. Because whenever it’s hyphenated HER-HIS, hers is usually the one that eventually gets dropped (like an awkward middle name of sorts). Though the hypothetical ‘he’ may have a MINE-HIS preference, for much of the same reasons, I believe as the parent who’d bear the burden of reproduction I’d be entitled [...]

The first time I had sex, I was so incredibly prepared that I can hardly believe it now. It was 12 years ago (I was 15), and he wore a condom with spermicidal lubricant, and I also inserted a spermicidal “film” thing inside of my vagina. We were both so petrified of the idea of [...]

I understand the tradition to be that the woman’s name comes first, then the man’s last name. My husband and I did it the opposite way, though. My last name is pronounced “strike,” which just sounds awkward before just about anything else… One other interesting point about that is that I always hear people drop [...]

That’s an excellent point. Thanks for bringing it up. The county I live in allows people to change their entire names when getting married, if the couple wants. One couple I know, in which one of the women is trans, used the opportunity to legally change her first name as well, and they both decided [...]

I like your idea! A lot!
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We talk about the same thing, with our future kids. We’ll give them our hyphenated names, and once/if they get married and have kids, they can decide what works best for them.

Fresh out of Womens Studies 101, and clearly a drama major. I understand.

All right. Well, I am certainly sorry that my casual generalizations about my personal experiences made you feel excluded. You’re grasping at straws now trying to make me sound like I was deliberately excluding trans women in who I considered to be “women,” and while I understand that that’s a valid concern, I’m not the [...]

I should expand… whether they’re good for anyone’s skin. Eyelids. Lips. Whatever; just the physical part of the body they’re being applied on.

I didn’t mean to imply that your humanity is an abstraction. I’m sorry that it came out that way. Perhaps I should have been clearer in the post, but I explained in my previous comment that after I allowed for other arguably accurate definitions of the word “need,” I was discussing any potential needs related [...]

Vexing, in the post, I said,

Unless you argue abstractly and want to talk about women getting fired in some field for not wearing it or something similar, no one needs makeup.

I realize there are reasons why certain circumstances might actually make makeup a necessity, and I was allowing for those exceptional circumstances with [...]

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I notice the same thing when people say that they don’t believe bisexuality is real, because they can’t imagine that someone could be attracted to both men and women. To which I reply, “then you’re clearly not bisexual. Doesn’t mean no one else is.”

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Not really sexist. They’re not painting her as a gold-digger in the way that women are usually portrayed, but a gold-digger to support her business.

Meh. There are more sexist ads out there than this one.

Happy… Columbus… Day?

I critique the tone and implications of Shroedinger’s Rapist.
http://ethecofem.com/2010/08/17/1205/

Who can be a feminist?
http://ethecofem.com/2010/08/18/who-can-be-a-feminist/

Who cares if most women and most men are biologically different? What does that change? What does that prove? Pretty much nothing.
http://ethecofem.com/2010/08/19/this-just-in-biology/

imnotme wrote a guest post about the conflict between reason and emotion in relationfhips.
http://ethecofem.com/2010/08/20/a-serious-problem/

Why “negative option” marketing is evil: http://ethecofem.com/2010/08/09/my-beef-with-negative-option-marketing/ Danny writes about masculine/feminine “sides”: http://ethecofem.com/2010/08/09/who-needs-a-masculinefeminine-side/ My mom votes Republican, and that is REALLY CONFUSING: http://ethecofem.com/2010/08/10/politics-me-and-my-mom/ I voted in my first primary! http://ethecofem.com/2010/08/11/voting-day/ Wells Fargo is ordered to pay back consumers millions of dollars with of overdraft fees, and I love it: http://ethecofem.com/2010/08/12/wells-fargo-ordered-to-pay-back-millions-of-dollars-worth-of-overdraft-fees/ I turned 27 and thought [...]