1. How Jezebel is Hurting Women // DoubleX

    Finally, vindication!  I officially no longer feel like I’m missing anything, having cut Jezebel out of my internet diet.

    PS - I’m officially obsessed with DoubleX now.

    (via magicmolly)

     

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  2. Proposed Budget Eliminates Abstinence-Only Program Funding // Feminist Daily News

    Yes!

    Now maybe future generations of teens in Idaho (and elsewhere) will be taught about STDs in a way other than seeing slides of bewarted genetalia and being told something like, “This will happen to you if you have sex before marriage, kids.”*

    Thanks, President Dreamboat!

    *I actually missed this one day of health class my junior year of high school, but have substantive evidence that this is what went down.

     

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  3. Finally, Candy Makers Market Directly to Women with Food Issues // Mother Jones

    I guess I missed the memo about how eating sparkles is totally fun.

     

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  4. Iceland's First Woman, Gay Prime Minister Sworn In // Feminist Majority Foundation

    Well, this is obviously v. exciting for a number of reasons.  And at the risk of losing any semblance of feminist cred I have somehow accumulated, may I just say: I could not be more pleased with the recent influx of hot leaders both here and abroad.

     

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    President Obama Signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act // Feminist Daily News Wire

    I kind of don’t even know how to react to good news in my Feminist Weekly News eblast.  Has someone made a YouTube video of our President’s face superimposed over Aladdin’s singing “A Whole New World”?  Because they should.

     

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  6. Get Your Virginity On

    This one goes out to my mom, because she’s been having a hard time figuring out what to get me for Happy Winter Present Week.  Problem solved, Mommie!

    I want the artificial virginity hymen!

    That’s right, ladies, you can fool your partner into thinking you’re as pure as the terrifying amount of climate-change-induced snow falling outside!  Who needs honesty in a relationship when you can trick that special dude or lady into thinking your cherry’s just been popped with “a liquid that look like blood not too much but just the right amount”?

    Just kidding, Mom, I don’t actually want this.  I mean, er, I don’t actually need this…

    (via feministing)

     

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  7. Portrait of The Sontag as a Young Woman

    Susan Sontag’s personal journals have arrived.

    WANT.

     

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  8. Five Sexist Trends the Advertising World Just Can't Shake // Alex Leo // HuffPo

    Hooray for people decontructing advertising outside of my junior year Mass Media and Society class!

    “I would like to start a ‘things that are not interesting’ campaign, which would include men insecure enough about themselves that they can’t talk to women who aren’t physically degraded. I would also include cognac.”

    Me too, Alex Leo.  Me. Too.

    (via trishtumbles)

     

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  9. Guess who I saw in a bar last night!  Sarah Haskins!  We even awkwardly crossed paths in the bathroom!  No one else was as excited as me (okay, at all), but it was hands down my favorite LA ‘celebrity’ sighting thus far.

    Haskins’s Target Women is definitely the highlight of Current’s altogether great show, InfoMania.  And I pretty much wanna be her BFF.  Like, to the point where I would even be on a Paris Hilton/Brody Jenner-style reality show about it.

     

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  10. 9-Year-Old Dating Expert Not Exactly a Ladies Man // Jezebel

    I recently started reading Jezebel again from time to time.  While I used to be completely obsessed with the site, it seemed to me that there was executive decision made around January 1st of this year for it to totally suck, so I cut it out of my daily routine.  Now that procrastinaion is, once again, a major player in my world, I’ve brought it back into circulation.  But get this.  I was right - Jezebel totally sucks!

    Take the above link, for example.  This is the stuff gender-based pop culture parody dreams are made of, and all Dodai (one of the only remaining bloggers from the golden days) does is transcribe a few lines from the video!  I mean, no need to be making fun of kids - especially those who have been endorsed by Ellen - but come on!  This book looks completely absurd.  Where is talk of heteronormativity?  Kids growing up too fast?  The fact that this is considered newsworthy by The Today Show?

    Jezebel and blogs like it are so obsessed with page views that their content has gone to shit.  They’re satisfied to write some thoughtless snipppet and leave it to the commenters to tear one another apart.  Which brings me to this comment:

    I guess it is okay to make fun of kids, but only if making fun of them involves calling them gay.

    Jezebel, you’re dead to me

     

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