Oh hey, look. AXE Body Spray has new products for women! The smell will make you feel like, um, an anarchist! Or maybe a street cop that can’t keep her clothes on, or do her job! I bet it smells like success…
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LADIES!: Helen Mirren Wants to Be a Timelord, and Other News
ABC Get it?! URINALS! Soooo funny. So today is my last day at the Mercury offices*; my internship is over! I’d mock-up an exit interview, but I think I already did that. For what it’s worth, everything is the same, except they started paying someone else to do most of the intern work. Instead, I […]
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Occupy Kitchen (A Plea to Womankind)
I could go into a long lengthy explanation why this guy thinks his sign and everything on it is a good idea… but, as he says himself, “Read Bible for Details.” via
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Is The Walking Dead a “Pro-Life Zombie Show”?
Hey, did you read my very interesting post on how The Walking Dead delivered some very wrong info on the “morning after pill” in their latest episode? If you didn’t, read it here and now. I’ll wait until you get back. (… humm hummm… hummm… hum… hummm… hummmm…) You’re back? Good. So this issue has […]
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Note to The Walking Dead: “Morning After” Pills Aren’t Abortion
I remember raising my eyebrow about this during last Sunday’s The Walking Dead, but promptly forgot about it because this particular episode was so GODDAMN BORING. That being said, do you remember the scene where Rick’s wife Lori discovers she’s pregnant, and sends poor Asian errand boy Glenn off to the zombie-infested pharmacy to pick […]
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Girl News You Can Use
Earlier today I was regretting not seeing either of the Wild Flag shows this week, because I kind of miss the period of time (late 1990s) where seeing a rad all-woman band was just what I did on weekends, NBD. So I liked this segment of Kate Carraway’s “Girls and the Internet,” a post in […]
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Bishop Romney Tried to Force a Woman to Go Forward With a Risky Pregnancy
From the NYT’s long piece yesterday about Mitt Romney’s tenure as a Mormon “lay leader”: Mormons oppose abortion, except in extreme cases like rape, incest or where the life of the woman is in danger—and require that church elders be consulted. In 1990, Exponent II, a Mormon feminist magazine that Ms. Dushku, the Suffolk University […]
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House Republicans Pass a Jobs Bill
Look at ’em! They’re creating jobs! For coroners, undertakers, florists, and funeral homes: Today the GOP-led House of Representatives, with the blessings and encouragement of the United States Council of Catholic Bishops and extremist religious groups such as the Family Research Council, passed a bill in a vote of 251 to 172 that would, among […]
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Scare of the Week: Birth Control Recall
Arguably the worst medication to have unknowingly fail on millions of Americans is, oh Gawd, poised to fail on millions of Americans. Alabama-based pharmaceutical company Qualitest is issuing a recall of 1.4 million packs of birth control pills. If you take these types of birth control pills, you may already be pregnant: Cyclafem 7/7/7, Cyclafem […]
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Totally Unfunny Crisis Pregnancy Center Comic
Comics journalism website Cartoon Movement (which is edited by local Matt Bors) has a great new comic up about Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPC). Artist Susan Cagle visited a couple CPCs in the Bay Area and mixed drawings of her experiences with some outside reporting. Check it out: I feigned pregnancy at Crisis Pregnancy Centers around […]
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Divine Rags: The Shop for “Fascinating” Women (And the Men Who Love Them… and the Dogs They Kiss)
The secret of every woman? She wants to be “fascinating” to the men! She want to be out on the dance floor, gluing the eyes of the men to her. She want to hold her dog. She want the man to kiss the dog!! She want to shop at “Divine Rags” which is in the […]
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Buy Goodyear Tires: Your Wife’s Shitty Driving Depends On It!
There are a lot of good reasons to buy Goodyear tires instead of some other brand—but the most important reason? YOUR WIFE. When she’s behind the wheel, the world turns into a psychedelic nightmare of signs, and pedestrians, and exits, and potholes, and rapists that spin around and around and remind you that every second […]