The Stupid Stupak Amendment

Fuck fuckity fuck fuck FUCK, NO.

Reclusive Leftist: "House Democrats pass health care reform for men"

Shakesville: "You Have No Rights"

The Confluence: "Just so we're clear"

I would now like to yield the remainder of my time to the following distinguished gentleladies. . .

BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE Lindsay Lohan BLUE

I just finished watching the film I Know Who Killed Me, goodness knows why. A couple years ago when it came out, I heard it was awful. I found out tonight that it was OnDemand. . . and I actually watched this thing. Oh, m'Lord. Not only is it bad, it's bad and BLUE. Beat-you-over-the-head BLUE. I briefly looked up the movie before watching it to decide if it was that type of bad movie that might be worth watching just for its intense terribleness. I came across this blog post, but only lightly skimmed it (just enough to see some rough plot elements and the mentions of awful color usage). I just read the whole post a minute ago, post-movie, and it is so spot on. I am refusing to look too much more into the film, because I don't care enough to now, so this may have already been said by someone else: I Know Who Killed Me is like The Parent Trap meets Saw, drenched in blue -- and it's really shitty.

Probably the Only Beer Commercial I Have Ever Laughed At

I'd like to think it's a professional stunt poodle.

Quotes: A Strategy for Sanity

Catherine A. MacKinnon, from "Sexuality":

Pornography is a means through which sexuality is socially constructed, a site of construction, a domain of exercise. It constructs women as things for sexual use and constructs its consumers to desperately want women, to desperately want possession and cruelty and dehumanization. Inequality itself, subjection itself, hierarchy itself, objectification itself, with self-determination ecstatically relinquished, is the apparent consent of women's sexual desire and desirability. "The major theme of pornography as a genre," writes Andrea Dworkin, "is male power." Women are in pornography to be violated and taken, men to violate and take them, either on screen or by camera or pen, on behalf of the viewer. Not that sexuality in life or in media never expresses love and affection; only that love and affection are not what is sexualized in this society's actual sexual paradigm, as pornography testifies to it. Violation of the powerless, intrusion on women, is. The milder forms, possession and use, the mildest of which is visual objectification are. This sexuality of observation, visual intrusion and access, of entertainment, makes sex largely a spectator sport for its participants.

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All women live in sexual objectification the way fish live in water. With no alternatives, the strategy to acquire self-respect and pride is: I chose it.

Radical Idea To Not Try: Sleep with Pornosexuals

Fellow Radical Feminists,

tired of being called anti-sex or having it implied that you are against sex? Well, have I got the solution for you!

Next time you meet some guy who's totally into porn and like, "Yeah, I just watched this one last night where this girl gets it up the ass by two dudes and then they ejaculated onto her tits".... identify yourself as a radical feminist who is against pornography and prostitution and then have sex with him. See, this way, he'll get the idea that being a radical feminist means that you are not anti-sex, yeah?

Now if enough of us do this, I really think we can finally take that "sex-positive" term from the pro-porn folks. What do you say, gals?

Abusive Husband?

The first time I saw this, I thought it was going to be a PSA about resources for victims of domestic violence. Nope.

Cheers and John Kerry

When an episode of Golden Girls ended the other night and Cheers came on (which I don't watch), John freakin' Kerry was in the opening part of the show, and it was hella weird.