Okay, here’s my question for Caitlin Fucking Flanagan: Who are all these feminists who aren’t putting out?
I know a lot of feminists. Many of them are married to men. Not a one of them is all, “Ha ha! I got married, so now I never have to have sex again! Fooled you, bucko!” Most of [...]
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I love Stephen Colbert beyond the telling of it. I would so buy a copy of Fuck this Partnership Shit: I’m the Husband. In hardcover.
Also, is she seriously wearing black leggings under a green skirt? Seriously?
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Ugh. This is hard to read. Even a relatively balanced article by a writer I admire gets my hackles up, so I can’t fucking wait for the War on Fat to really gear up.
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R.I.P., Muriel Spark.
Love her. Also love everything about this sentence:
Novelist Graham Greene gave her a monthly allowance and some wine when she was poverty-stricken, on condition that she did not thank him or pray for him.
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The headline: Most obese people don’t see themselves that way.
The point: Fat people are such fucking idiots they don’t know they’re fat.
The real story: Most “obsese” people know exactly how much they weigh and classify themselves as “overweight,” but don’t happen to know the arbitrary BMI cut-off that categorizes them as obese.
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Broadsheet remarks today on a fascinating/infuriating Washington Post article about how girl toys are tanking. And about how this baffles toy execs, who believe girl toys have to “hit the emotional buttons … such as nurturing or making things pretty.”
Jesus Murphy. I’m no toy engineer, but I can spot a pattern in one article and [...]
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There’s one obvious point I rarely see made in discussions of the Emergency Contraception controversy: most of the women who take it aren’t pregnant, and wouldn’t have become pregnant. As those who’ve spent thousands on infertility treatment know too well, unprotected sex does not lead directly to pregnancy. According to a couple of different sources, [...]
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Notes from the Fatosphere
