Objectify This

[trigger warning] What is this? Who defends women in the Department of Defense? Not Republican senators, apparently. When Al Franken brought forward legislation to combat the horrifically hostile and sexually abusive environment found in the Department of Defense and amongst  its contractors on October 6th, a block of thirty white men rose up in opposition. [...]

Christopher Hedges extemporized about his new book,  The End of Literacy and The Triumph of Spectacle, when he stopped in Berkeley, CA on his  tour last summer. But his take on the spectacular is not without some convoluted ironies. First, I feel that I should disclose that I have not read his book. In that [...]

On Fighting Corporate Mind Control: Yes,  the Yes Men are awesome. Yes, they are fixing the world, or at least promoting a movie about it. They’re committed to demonstrating that corporations’ dignity is not as important as human dignity. So is Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping, who are concerned with helping [...]

This video, featuring Dr. John D. Clarke, won the Center for Disease Control (CDC)’s contest and will air as their public service announcement about avoiding H1N1, the swine flu virus. Unlike Dr. Dre, Dr. Clarke has a medical degree, and unlike Jay-Z, his PSA is not about being “CEO of the ROC”. He’s been spitting”health [...]

Sometimes, the News Media has all the answers. The New York Times reports that a recent study shows that women’s shoes hurt their feet. Women mostly have sex because “it feels good,” according to a new study reviewed on Salon.com by Tracy Clark-Flory. Also, the only sexual assault prevention tips guaranteed to work are those [...]

Trigger warning: This post contains references to rape. Anyone who reads feminist blogs has come across “trigger warnings” before graphic images or descriptions of rape or violence to women. The intent of a trigger warning is to advertise the potentially emotionally triggering content of a piece, which might revive memories of rape or sexual assault [...]

In the words of Harper’s Magazine editor Roger Hodge, the magazine’s monthly Index is “a statistical poem.” He presumeably meant that it allows the reader to experience it and come to his or her own conclusions. Today, instead of explaining a position, I offer a ‘statistical poem’ about rape. Each statistic is preceeded by the [...]