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Is that photo of Willow Smith a) inappropriate or b) no big deal?

Trick question — the correct answer is c) not your concern.

Willow Smith and all of her #blackgirlmagic have put people’s proverbial tits in a twirl once again. This time it’s because a photo of her in bed with shirtless 20-year-old actor Moises Arias was posted online. The former Hannah Montana star is a mutual friend of Willow, her older brother Jaden, and Jaden’s bae, Kendall Jenner (a piece of celebrity news I didn’t know). As you can see, they aren’t touching or engaged in any way, but they’re in a bed, and he’s not wearing a shirt. So per usual, the internet has lots of things to say, most of it about inappropriateness and “raised eyebrows.” ...

Trick question — the correct answer is c) not your concern.

Willow Smith and all of her #blackgirlmagic have put people’s proverbial tits in a twirl once again. This time it’s because a photo of her ...

By Vanessa • 12 years ago

South Carolina county requests purity pledge to become a Republican

Oh, this is going to be fun. In Laurens County in South Carolina, the Republican Party decided that in order to be on the ballot, you should pledge that you’ve never had pre-marital sex and will never watch porn again.

This is part of a 28-point pledge concocted which also includes hating gays, abortion and all that good stuff, but what has brought about the most attention is the piece that aspiring candidates would vow that they’ve never done the deed before marriage. The language states:

You must favor, and live up to, abstinence before marriage.

You must be faithful to your spouse. Your spouse cannot be a person of the same gender, and you are ...

Oh, this is going to be fun. In Laurens County in South Carolina, the Republican Party decided that in order to be on the ballot, you should pledge that you’ve never had ...

By Samhita • 12 years ago

Purity bear take two: My love is like a box of pizza

Wow, these videos are getting better and better. Valentine’s Day purity bear was creepy, but pizza box purity bear’s arguments are downright illogical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB1G8YF-B4Y

This is the worst ad I have ever seen to try and get people not to have sex. If someone eats pizza and then doesn’t dump the box what happens? They just save pizza boxes. And most likely their virginity because you won’t be able to find them under all the pizza boxes. If you are running an abstinence campaign of “circumstances that will never get you laid and lead to ant problems” than they have a point. But frankly, what I just said doesn’t make sense and that’s because this video doesn’t either.

Wow, these videos are getting better and better. Valentine’s Day purity bear was creepy, but pizza box purity bear’s arguments are downright illogical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB1G8YF-B4Y

This is the worst ad I have ever seen to try and get people ...

By Katie Halper • 12 years ago

This Valentine’s Day celebrate Purity Day with the Purity Bear

No, this video is not satire. It is real, as the couple explain in a follow up video. The video supports the Day of Purity, “a project of Liberty Counsel and is designed for students of all ages who commit to remain sexually pure until marriage.” The Day of Purity is a response to the “concerted effort in the schools and media to turn our youth away from traditional values.” DOP (I’m going to call it that, from now on) is particularly distressed that:

“the push to experiment at a young age has led to a nationwide phenomena among teen girls knows is bisexual chic–declaring themselves bisexual for attention and because it’s cool. Experimenting with sexuality may be seen as cool but what’s not cool, and ...

No, this video is not satire. It is real, as the couple explain in a follow up video. The video supports the Day of Purity, “a project of Liberty Counsel and is designed for students of ...

By Vanessa • 13 years ago

What We Missed

This really happened: A college basketball player has been kicked off his team for violating the school’s “honor code” — by having premarital sex.

A fantastic post by an abortion provider on the realities of the work and her patients. Melissa on the Community blog has more. (Related: Also check out the amazing blog, The Abortioneers.)

Five months after Tyler Clementi’s death, Rutgers University has approved housing for LGBT students.

A high profile anti-choice rep is saying many Republicans will vote against the spending bill if it doesn’t defund Planned Parenthood.

Anna Holmes on Charlie Sheen and violence against women.

This really happened: A college basketball player has been kicked off his team for violating the school’s “honor code” — by having premarital sex.

A fantastic post by an abortion provider on the ...

By Jos Truitt • 13 years ago

Black Swan: A Feministing Discussion

Black Swan is winning awards and stirring up discussion left and right. The film engages a number of feminist themes in the story of Nina, a ballet dancer obsessed with achieving perfection. In this post Feministing writers discuss our reactions to the film.

*Warning: lots of major SPOILERS for the film follow*

Body transformation.

Actors get a lot of attention for changing their bodies in dramatic ways – putting on a lot of muscle or losing a lot of weight. Natalie Portman, who was small already, didn’t just get even more skinny, she got a body that looked like that of a ballet dancer. Portman’s talked about how starving herself for the role was almost like method acting. Certainly the body fit the ...

By Jos Truitt • 14 years ago

Twilight, tweens, and abstinence

So you might have noticed the latest installment in the Twilight film series came out a couple weeks ago.
A lot has been written about the anti-feminist messages of the Twilight books and films. Stephanie Meyer wrote a very thinly disguised book about Mormon dating from a fundamentalist pro-abstinence perspective. Her books normalize gendered violence, present their young female protagonist as unable to think, defend herself, or even be a whole person without a man, and hammer home an abstinence message. And don’t even get me started on the anti-abortion, pro-sexual violence, pro-pedophilia mess that is Breaking Dawn.
These messages are being targeted at tween girls, Twilight’s intended audience (obviously its popularity has grown beyond this ...

By Chloe Angyal • 14 years ago

Chew it over, you dicks

Did you get busted calling your friend a slut? Do you now need time to think up an excuse to feed to her father, who is creepily invested in his daughters’ sex lives? Here, have a Twix!

Mmmm, sexism. De-lish!

Transcript below the jump

Did you get busted calling your friend a slut? Do you now need time to think up an excuse to feed to her father, who is creepily invested in his daughters’ sex lives? Here, have a Twix!

Mmmm, ...