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That's What My Daddy's Made Me: Simian Mobile Disco's "Hustler" Videos

I’ve been listening to the London-based Simian Mobile Disco, a music production team who call themselves “Electro/ Psychadelic/ Alternative” on their Myspace page. They are composed of two guys named James (foreground, left) and claim to sound like “good, old-fashioned, analogue party music” (as their wacky Brit-ball spelling has it). Specifically, I’ve been listening to [...]

Equality: Not Satanism, Last I Checked

Recently I stumbled upon this website run by that beacon of truth and goodness, the Christian Right. In fine form, they announced at the beginning of the page, “FEMINISM IS EVIL! Beware of the feminists, many are LESBIANS!” Ah, yes, such tolerance and open mindedness is exactly what we have been taught to expect from [...]

'It's Not Rape if She Blinks Twice for Yes' and Other Phallacies of Rape Culture

The New York Times recently reported that yet another rapist is being let off of the hook – as the majority are. Nearly 95% of men standing trial for rape in the United States and the United Kingdom are cleared of all charges, which is a shocking number considering the social, personal and political consequences [...]

Whassup, Bitches?: Female Chauvinism's Place is in the Garbage.

This poll discussed over at Slate in the article “Man Up!” found that “Despite the recent frenzy of media attention over the issue of race in America, a new poll by CBS (PDF) suggests that gender may cause more problems for contemporary presidential contenders. Thirty-nine percent of those polled think that a woman candidate would [...]

Bitch Is The New Black, Says Tina Fey

I gotta say, I’m not a huge fan of Hillary, but I would vote for Tina Fey.

Fuck, Yeah . . . Safely: Young Feminism

Check this example of young feminism: Feministing reports that Tori Shoemaker and Cheyenne Byrd “two eighth graders in St. Louis protested their school’s abstinence-only education program by wearing shirts to school adorned with condoms, reading “Safe Sex or No Sex.” For daring to speak out, they were suspended for two days from school. The superindent [...]

Feminism Lives: Isabel Allende and Global Women's Rights

In need of a little new year’s inspiration? Broadsheet “recommends novelist Isabel Allende’s poignant and hilarious talk on passion, writing, beauty and feminism given in Monterey, Calif., at the TED conference last year in March. (It was just posted on the TED site in January 2008.)””It’s moving,” writes Broadsheet’s Katharine Mieszkowski, “to watch Allende exhort [...]