The War on Women and Girls

The Republicans aren’t the only ones out there fighting the “good” fight against the evils of female sexuality.  Just recently Adrian Chen of Gawker outed uber-troll “Violentacrez” on Reddit as Michael Brutsch, a Texas grandfather, who as Violentacrez hosted forums on Reddit...

No More Jolly Fats

So, over at Skepchick the least Skeptical* and totally not a Chick member, Sam, posted about the obesity crisis and asked if people thought it was the government’s fault or down to individual responsibility, blah blah blah…  And while a good many of the comments were the usual fat-hating,...

I Love Lindy West!

I don’t usually recommend articles at Jezebel, because the quality of their articles has gotten so uneven.  But I love Lindy West more and more every time I read her.  She’s got an article up at Jezebel about HBO’s new series on weight and the obesity crisis.* Basically the point of her...

#mooreandme on Twitter and why it matters

I’m going to talk about #mooreandme, and then send you on over to Sady Doyle’s blog Tiger Beatdown to read the genesis.  Why read me first?  Because I don’t want my take on it to suffer in comparison.  I feel really strongly about this, but for different reasons.  She grew up idolizing...

Yoko Ono

The Curvature, a stunning Feminist and HAES blog, just recently did a series on the Myth of Yoko Ono. http://thecurvature.com/2008/12/15/yoko-ono-a-feminist-analysis-introduction-oh-yoko/ I don’t want to rehash her points here, but the series is excellent, well-written, well-researched, and one of the...

Can you point to an event or time period that turned you off something important?

I can name a couple right off the top of my head. I’m actually pretty good at math. However, I am also highly avoidant of math. I could have been even better at math, except for my seventh grade math teacher. I’m pretty sure I mentioned this before. In seventh grade, my math teacher...