06.01.09

I *love* this paragraph.

Posted in Feminism, Gender, Humor at 4:40 pm by Strumpet

“Case in point: men should pay for the first date. I’m sure this angers some dudes. They’ll complain about how this isn’t fair. How, if women want true gender equality, they better start paying up. Basically, I fully expect plenty of guys to bitch and moan and complain. I cannot stand men who complain about women. I mean, sure, you can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them, amiright? But let me tell you, successful businessmen never complain about how hard it is to make money, they just do. Mountaineers don’t complain about the summit. Chuck Yeager didn’t complain about how high he had to fly. Likewise, it just isn’t manly to complain about women the way Augustus Gloop complains about not enough chocolate. This world is nothing without women. It would be an absolute flavorless, pointless void. Men don’t complain. We bravely endure, pursue, and woo.”

- John De Vore, Mind of Man: Who Should Pay for the First Date?

05.07.08

“…in which our heroine cannot keep up with the asshats as their transgressions are too many”

Posted in Feminism, Gender, Politics at 5:17 pm by Strumpet

I can only read Feministing once a week; it takes too much of a toll on my blood pressure.

College student sexually assaulted as crowd cheers (This made me want to puke.)

Two years and a lawsuit later, CA man gets his wife’s last name (My favorite part? The 2004 PA court decision that it is in the “best interests of the child” to only have her father’s last name. What the fuck decade is this, people???)

American Life League launches anti-birth control campaign (I’m not shocked, but I figured I’d report it anyways, just in case any of you out there think that birth control is something that *everyone* thinks is a good idea in our, ahem, enlightened era.)

04.30.08

Posted in Ethics, Feminism, Politics at 5:08 pm by Strumpet

Saw this over at Feministing:

04.18.08

Disgusted: The *Outrage* Over “Abortion As Art”

Posted in Ethics, Feminism, Spirituality at 12:17 am by Strumpet

“i wonder… i wonder if the explanation here is that many people who consider themselves “pro-choice” don’t actually support the right to abortion because they genuinely think that it is morally okay. i wonder if they support it because they suspect deep down that if they were in that situation themselves, they’d make the decision to have an abortion even if they thought it was morally wrong. honestly, i am starting to suspect that a big chunk of those “pro-choice” people who we all consider to be progressive and scientifically minded are actually still thinking in terms of a puritanical moral code; they’re simply pragmatic enough to lobby for their right to commit sins when it suits them.”

I couldn’t have expressed my disgust any better, inkyblue2.

I don’t think human beings can handle/actually want true freedom- they just want a get out of jail free card when they need one. (EDIT: <—this statement is about those people who would identify as pro-choice and yet make comments like “she’s abusing her constitutional right” and the like)

Link to original article here.

04.09.08

Dangerous Dipshit of the Day: Nick Eriksen

Posted in Feminism, Gender, Politics, World at 11:25 am by Strumpet

“Rape is simply sex (I am talking about ‘husband-rape’ here)… Women enjoy sex, so rape cannot be such a terrible physical ordeal …To suggest that rape, when conducted without violence, is a serious crime is like suggesting force-feeding a woman chocolate cake is a heinous offence.”

Wow, thanks for your take on that, Nick! I’m glad to know your opinions on rape…and I now know why Jon says sunlight is the best antiseptic.

03.31.08

Wow.

Posted in Feminism, GLBT, Gender, Politics, Race at 10:58 am by Strumpet

Brought to my attention by titania_le_fey (language probably NSFW):

03.28.08

Hey Pittsburghers: Monday is Pgh Blog for Equality Day

Posted in Feminism, GLBT, Gender, Politics at 1:31 pm by Strumpet

Via The Pittsburgh Women’s Blogging Society:

“Just an FYI, the Pgh Bloggers Guild have deemed Monday, March 31, 2008 as a day for blogging about the proposed “Marriage Protection” Amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution.”.

Please join in to speak out against this amendment.

03.24.08

You Have Got To Be Kidding Me

Posted in Feminism at 8:22 pm by Strumpet

Wow. I’m infuriated by this, found at Feministing. Gotta love our wonderful, abusive Pittsburgh Steelers!

I especially enjoy how it is ok to abuse a woman if you do it *for a good reason*:

“What Jimmy Harrison was doing and how the incident occurred, what he was trying to do was really well worth it,” Rooney said of Harrison’s initial intent with his son. “He was doing something that was good, wanted to take his son to get baptized where he lived and things like that. She said she didn’t want to do it.”

Hmmm….that’s logic.