[I]f you want your activists front and center out there doing the work to combat the Forces of Intolerance and create a better liberal-progressive world, the reality is we need to get paid so we can comfortably live our lives and fight for you full time. ““ Monica, TransGriot There’s been some controversy over a [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2010
What I read today (Abstinence video games and douches)
So…yeah. Apparently there’s a creepy video game that teaches girls (and only girls?!) how to remain abstinent. In news that isn’t entirely shocking, Dr. Phil is a douche to stay-at-home-moms who don’t wanna be. Also a douche: the editor of Deadspin. In non-douchey news, Prop 8 was overturned!
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Slut-shaming and misogyny as traffic bait
We all know that on the internet (as in life), there’s a special disdain reserved for women who write about sex – especially women who write about sex bravely and without shame. Which is why I shouldn’t be shocked by the nastiness that followed Jaclyn Friedman’s characteristically wonderful post, My Sluthood, Myself. But I guess [...]
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