Tag: sexism
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#writereditorproblems
I make the majority of my living on proofreading and copyediting books for major publishers on a freelance basis. This leaves me with many #writereditorproblems. Case in point: I just finished proofreading a novel that I found utterly repugnant, and I need to relieve some pressure.
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The Autoblow Vaginal Beauty Contest… is… a thing.
Lunch meat–much like sexism–is a tradition that is bad for everyone, but which is considered totally acceptable because it’s so normal.
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Using My Brain While Menstruating
I am sitting here in front of my computer and my brain is telling me I should be blogging. I have been staring at the screen for a while, telling myself I’m certain I have something–SOMETHING–to type about. And I do have somethings. They’re in there. They flit across my consciousness, one after the other,…
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Sex in 2012: Hooray for Sex, and Fuck You, Maxim
I was thinking about doing a year-end roundup of public sex in 2012, but a few other people with much more significant means than myself have done it already, so I give you the best of the best-of lists! The Year in Sex from Salon, a short round-up from Tracy Clark-Flory that reminds us how…
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Men’s Health is Unhealthy for Everyone
At first I responded a little huffily to this article on Jezebel, which takes to task the (ostensibly female) writer of a Men’s Health piece called “11 Qualities of the Perfect Woman.” In it, Lindy West rants about how the article is one more insidious way for women to feel bad about themselves and while…
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A Con, by Any Other Name…
Before this weekend, it had been years since I’d been to a convention that didn’t revolve entirely around sex. Adult entertainment conventions, sex-positivity conventions, adult novelty conventions… Sex, sex, sex. So this weekend I was excited to attend New York ComiCon 2012 to see what people do when they gather in massive numbers to talk…
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Feminism Shrank Rush Limbaugh’s Dick. Poor, Poor Rush.
I know it’s kind of silly to get annoyed by Rush Limbaugh at this point. The man has been making his living by pissing people off for years, so pretty much anything that comes out of his mouth is designed specifically and only to do just that. He’s held to no standard of decency or…
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The Female Sex and Punishment: rape fatigue and fear of the feminine
First, go to Jezebel and read Erin Gloria Ryan’s excellent article on “Rape Fatigue” (and equally excellent picture at the top–hehehe). I don’t always agree with everything that goes on over at Jezebel, but this article mirrors my own thoughts precisely. I am so sick of hearing about issues of women’s health, rape, and abortion…
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Considering “Sex is Cheap” and the Outrage it Caused
When Slate published an article called “Sex is Cheap” by Mark Regnerus earlier this week, people went a little apeshit about it. Regnerus’s main point in the feature was that while young men these days seem to be falling behind the benchmarks made by their predecessors in the academic and professional arenas, they are still…