Objectify This

First of all, this post is long overdue. Listenbetter and Life on Uranus are both excellent contributions to the discussions about life, politics, thongs, and horseracing, among other things. Listenbetter, a wry yet approachable blog, is the brainchild of an proto-journalist whose cutting tongue has won her the admiration of at least one of the [...]

Sit back and grab a drink, because this might be a long haul. You’re back! Sweet. Here goes: a good friend recently brought up self-objectification in a frank conversation about sex. “Really, I don’t see what’s wrong with it,” she said, “I like feeling sexy.” I listened to her argument, but I remain skeptical that [...]

College is a place where people talk about sex. Most have sex, too, of course, but everyone talks about it: sex in general, their friends’ sex, the sex presumably causing the moaning that they can hear through the flimsy wall. The talk about sex is sometimes writing about sex. After Sarah Jessica Parker’s portrayal of [...]

  As Shakesville puts it, “Note to Timbuk2: If a man “steals” a woman’s virginity, it’s called rape. Even if it is “prom night” or whatevthefuck an underage-looking girl in a tacky party dress is meant to represent.” Ok, so I am thoroughly disappointed in Timbuk2. I really thought they were about something beyond the [...]

Okay, so there’s this issue that I haven’t exactly addressed yet, and it occured to me while I was reading a comment on Alas!’ post How I Became a Feminist. This comment, by Kate L., says, “does anyone who knows Jessica [Valenti, whose book, Full Frontal Feminism, is being discussed] anywhere that I can find [...]

I recently came across some discussions of gender by- wait for it, wait for it – men. Thomas Brakar and Clif of Blown Glass are in a heated (blog) discussion over their differing perceptions of the masculinity crisis. For starters, Brakar believes that there is one, while Clif thinks that “Quite simply, it’s a generational [...]