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France  has long been aligned with romance in the American imagination, but recent events have got me going all Public Enemy on that ish: Don’t Believe the Hype. It all centers on the discussions of the behavior of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the chief of the International Monetary Fund currently sitting in Riker’s Island without bail awaiting [...]

Dearest Interested Parties and Thinking People, Here at ObjectifyThis, you may have noticed that we’re in the midst of a haitus. Suffice it to say that with the demands of applying to graduate school, the radical notion that people are people is not getting the attention it deserves. And so, it is my pleasure to [...]

Since I’m getting some traffic from Ms. Chen, I’ll make it easier to find the post she refers to: Here’s a discussion of sex columnists and sex blogging, called Carrie On: Sex and the College Sex Column, and here’s a Vindication of the Rights of Sexbloggers. The argument (whose title is drawn from Mary Wollstonecraft’s [...]

Hat tip to Bust for their coverage of this well-heeled event in their August/September issue: there’s a a new annual parage of feminist men who strut their stuff and walk the walk, literally. The “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes,” which bills itself as an “International Men’s March Against Rape, Sexual Assault and Gender Violence” [...]

I’m still in the process of cleaning out my room after college. Bear with me — I know I graduated (ahem) more than two weeks ago, but I also am doing a deeper cleaning than I’ve done in my room since, well, I was about eight, apparently. I recently came across a Valentine that local [...]

– okay, I did watch Empire Records approximately fourteen million times between the ages of 13 and 17, and I know that’s not the exact wording used (see clip after the jump for verbatim). But what’s shocking me is the new post from Apostropha, or more precisely, its content: new cellphone technology that teaches users [...]

Loie Fuller is not a famous name. Chances are, though, that you’ve heard of her contemporaries, like Isadora Duncan, who actually studied with Fuller in the beginning of her career. Yes, like Muriel Rukeyser, this is a female genius whose name still registers as a spelling error (with everyone except, of course, the FBI). The [...]