SEX(-positivism and the war over feminism)!!!
Posted: March 29, 2012 Filed under: Women | Tags: damn it i told myself i wouldn't write about tim tebow, Feminism, Women's History Month 1 CommentNow that I have your attention.
Reader, as I’ve made abundantly clear in a previous post, I’m no expert on feminism or female sexuality (curb the “That’s what she said” jokes, please), and I encourage any who are of the fairer and increasingly better educated sex to weigh in on this post, but I’ll soldier on, as this is a topic that I find very interesting and one that has contemporary relevance.
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Garry Trudeau’s take on “shmashmortion”
Posted: March 16, 2012 Filed under: Art, Comic, Politics, Women | Tags: Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau, Sandra Fluke, Women's History Month Leave a commentThis past week, Garry Trudeau’s syndicated political comic strip Doonesbury pretty succinctly captures the GOP’s recent War on Women. Specifically, it references slut-shaming in the case of Sandra Fluke and a particularly noxious law in Texas. It’s so literal that it can hardly be called satire.
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What’s March 8th?
Posted: March 8, 2012 Filed under: Women | Tags: International Women's Day, March Madness, Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, Women's History Month 4 CommentsSeveral weeks ago, I was asking someone dear to me for blog entry suggestions when the following conversation ensued:
“You should write something for March 8th.”
“March 8th?”
“Yes, March 8th.”
“Um, what’s March 8th?”
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