One For the Road
“You’re going to get this treatment your whole life. What are you going to do, stand up every time?” Well… YEAH.
Money Shot:
“For some men, the only thing more intolerable than the sight of a powerful woman is the sight of a powerful woman they don’t want to sleep with.” Zing! Runner up, from the end of the article:“Still, nonsense about women, weight, and “health” is particularly pervasive and destructive. Indeed, if we were really concerned about
And Sometimes You Stand and Fight
A 17-year-old high school marching band student beat up two assailants who tried to mug her as she walked to school in this high desert community about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, sheriff’s officials said Tuesday. My martial arts teacher once said that the cowards are the ones who attack you from behind. This
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Why Lazy Writing Screws Women Over
Hollywood at work: Kevin and I started with a concept: What if we did the entire thing in one shot? We follow a girl from her bathroom mirror, to a car ride, to a convenience store, to a seedy party where she finally shoots and murders someone. All in one shot. Problem then, became exposition.
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4 to 46
I do wonder when we’ll hit the tipping point. Think it’ll take as long as 10 years? The buildup, sure, I understand that taking 10 years, but once you hit the tipping point, the rest should come on down just like dominoes. Til then, keep on truckin.
Is This was Women’s Suffrage was Like?
It’s fascinating to watch the three steps forward two steps back tidal wave of social change. I can’t help but think this is what it was like with women getting the right to vote… This slow, building tide. One state here, one state there, until the whole country finally realized: 1) The world’s not going
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Empowering our Daughters
“Men don’t want to fuck feminists, and if no one wants to fuck you, what power have you got as a woman?”
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Penelope
My God, James McAvoy is hot. The pictures just don’t capture it. He’s pretty and all, but he goes from nice-looking to hot really quickly on camera. The first few scenes I’m like, “Huh, yeah, generic lead.” Then he starts warming up and I fall for him hard. He gets hotter every damn time I
Public Responses to Sexist Behavior
I love how absolutely dazed and perplexed he looks in this video, like he has no idea he did something completely rude and inappropriate. This is what got me about the whole boobgate thing. I realize that we, as women, are taught to make nice. We’re taught to just smile and take it. “Ha ha,
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Bound
A first reader of God’s War argued that there must be a better term for the wraps/cloth one uses to bind one’s breasts other than, “breast binding.” I finally sat down and did some research tonight, and I’m telling you: I still can’t find a better term. The closest I came to finding a less