A little something to get your blood boiling on a Monday morning: A Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to up to 18 months in prison for obtaining so-called abortion pills online and providing them to her teenage daughter to end her pregnancy. Jennifer Ann Whalen, 39, of Washingtonville, a single mother who works as a […]
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Anita Sarkeesian Threatened with Rape and Murder for Daring to Keep Critiquing Video Games
Anita Sarkeesian, the woman behind a fantastic web series critiquing misogyny in video games, released another video this week. Funded as a Kickstarter project, Sarkeesian’s “Tropes vs. Women in Video Games” series is an accessible but scholarly look at video games through a feminist lens, in which Sarkeesian breaks down a bunch of common female […]
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Federal Judge in Alabama Cleverly Equates Abortion Rights to Gun Rights
Before an hour ago, I couldn’t have named one good thing to come out of Alabama off the top of my head, except maybe Helen Keller. But good news! Now I have one more thing: Last week, Judge Myron H. Thompson, a federal judge in that state, ruled that a new law requiring abortion doctors […]
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Mercenaries: Yay! They’re Stealing Men’s Jobs!
NOTE: The following trailer for the crazy action flick Mercenaries—another schlocky film from Asylum, the makers of Sharknado—does absolutely nothing to forward the movement of women’s rights. That being said, it’s really fun to see actresses stealing jobs from geriatric male stiffs like Arnold, Sly, and Bruce. From the Mercenaries press release: A diplomatic official […]
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Attack of the Bronies
<img Okay, to be fair: We probably should have seen this coming. But we didn’t. In this week’s Mercury, Elinor Jones reviewed A Brony Tale, a documentary about bronies. I recommend reading the whole review, but it’s the last part of it that’s earning the ire of bronies: Sure, most of the bronies we meet […]
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Today’s Most Terrible Person in the World
When divorce attorney Marilyn D. York says in this commercial that she “loves women,” I think what she really means is that SHE DESPERATELY HATES WOMEN. Or at least despises them enough to throw her entire gender under a bus, in order to profit from her betrayal. Why? Because Attorney Marilyn D. York is a […]
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New Tacocat Video! Surfing! Dancing Crabs! Menses!
I should’ve put a period in that headline… because Tacocat‘s new video for “Crimson Wave” is about dear ol’ Aunt Flo and her monthly stompings on all the ladies’ proverbial welcome mats (eew, sorry). And it’s super fun! Tacocat are a delightful Seattle fourpiece who rip into catchy, surfy pop in this adorable beachy video […]
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I Want to Talk About Lena Dunham for a Second
Some shit is just too ridiculous to engage. Let’s use our energy wisely, 2014.— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) January 17, 2014 As soon as Breaking Bad ended, I realized that my favorite TV show on the air right now is Girls. It’s hard to be a Girls fan and not continually want to do battle with […]
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Don’t be a Dick, Victim Blamers
Art by Carolyn Main Hey, did you guys forget that the world is a scarier place than a haunted house where a clown got murdered to death? I did for a second, and then I got reminded by the town of Maryville, Missouri that people can be awful. A teenage girl Daisy Coleman, (her mom […]
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Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow Hands Stupid Reporter His Stupid Ass
Okay, so this happened! The producers of Girls were doing a Q&A panel for the Television Critics Association, when an unidentified male reporter stood up and unfortunately asked this question. (From EW and Today.) “I don’t get the purpose of all the nudity on the show — by [Dunham] in particularly. I feel like I’m […]
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The Photographer Who Captures Images of Her Catcallers
Photographer Hannah Price lives in Philadelphia where she takes photos of men who catcall her in public places. Her work is thoughtful and noticeably un-angry: … she says she doesn’t know how the project will affect the behavior of the men depicted: “I don’t think it makes them re-think catcalling. ‘Cause I’m just one person […]
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Texas Women Now Have to Drive Hours for Non-Shamey Healthcare
A Texas A&M student says she was lectured by her doctor for having a hickey and asking for birth control. >:( Now, thanks to the implementation of the state’s new anti-abortion laws, her only recourse is to drive hours out of her way to acquire birth control and non-shamey healthcare: Athena Mason’s first doctor’s visit […]