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* Brightest Young Things' Meg Z ruminates on Metrosexual men's makeup habits. * In an interview with the Blade, comedian Margaret Cho calls Sarah Palin the "worst thing to happen to America since...
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* Megan at Jezebel tells dudes "How Not to Get it On": Don't pre-emptively tell me you have a small penis. Don't text me on a Tuesday night after midnight "I could totally eat ur puss now if u r...
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Our daily roundup of sex and gender in the District and beyond. * Melissa McEwan over at Shakesville says a cat's place is in the cleavage: this morning, after [the cat had] been driving me bananas for...
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* New Columbia Heights reports on a rash of violence that hit an underground Petworth brothel this month. According to an Examiner piece on one incident, wherein a robber lost his thumb to a...
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Hate Palin? Rent a Storage Locker
Via Feministing, a photo of a new ad in New York subways for Manhattan Mini-Storage—and against Sarah Palin. When will the kitschy pro-choice advertisement strategy hit the District?
View ArticleInappropriate Rape Joke Video Corner
Ha, ha, oh, women are always lying about being raped in order to get out of sticky situations. That's why the Office is a renowned, award-winning comedy program—because it's so true to life! But...
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The Morning After: Go G0y! Edition
* The New Gay reveals an "an exciting new way to internalize homophobia": It's not gay, it's g0y! G0ys (pictured) hate anal sex, femininity, and gay dudes, but love God and casually bro-ing out with...
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The Morning After: Upstairs, Downstairs Edition
* Daily Intel has some answers on why Alex Kuczynski's New York Times spread on her experience with a surrogate mother made her out to be a "vain," "self-centered" "Lady of the Manor" (really, check...
View ArticlePatricia Blagojevich: Well-Pay-to-Played
The feminist blogosphere is up in arms about coverage of Patricia Blagojevich's role in her husband's scandal. Lady Blagojevich is reported as saying, among other things, that they ought to "hold up...
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The Morning After: Joe Biden Fantasy Edition
* Evil Slutopia dreams of Joe Biden: I had a Joe Biden dream the other night. I was at some event where he was speaking, and I snuck backstage so I could talk to him. (Apparently there are no Secret...
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[youtube:v=5GJiIXn87BQ] * PETA makes overly sexual, vegan Superbowl ad (above). NBC rejects it, counts the ways: - licking pumpkin - touching her breast with her hand while eating broccoli - pumpkin...
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The Morning After: Kidney Vagina Edition
* Slate intrudes on the Sexist beat, telling you how to donate a kidney through your vagina ("Good news: You can now get a kidney from a vagina. . . . The kidney doesn't start in the vagina, of...
View ArticleBeauty Pageants Are for Feminists
[youtube:v=MTLp1TVKY4w] Jessica Valenti is right about the Miss Universe Pageant: As offensive as the public ranking of female swimsuit parts may be to the feminist eye, there's something very...
View ArticleBeck Too Sexist To Be Palin’s VP
[youtube:v=pn9MbQscz1w] Via Feministing: Glenn Beck has slapped down rumors of a Palin-Beck presidential ticket in 2012. Why? Because Glenn Beck would be an even worse Vice Presidential pick than Sarah...
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Can Having Three Condoms In D.C. Really Get You Arrested?
Over 1,200 people have signed a petition to demand the right to carry three condoms in the District of Columbia without fear of arrest. Why do 1,200 people think that carrying more than two condoms is...
View ArticleReader Beatdown: On “Thick Skin”
New feature alert! Introducing Reader Beatdown, in which Sexist readers respond. The Sexist is lucky to benefit from readers who are also writers. In Reader Beatdown, I'll publish pieces that offer a...
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Trigger Warnings and Being an Asshole
I've been fascinated by the dust-up over "trigger warnings" that's inched across the feminist blogosphere this week. "Trigger warnings," for the uninitiated, are warnings placed before blog posts that...
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The Morning After: Dana Scully Edition
* The Chronicle of Higher Education on how pop culture figures can inspire "people of working-class backgrounds to pursue academic careers": Among the interview subjects, whose names Ms. Wright kept...
View ArticleThe Morning After: Fabulous Ex-Gay Scarf Edition
[youtube:v=wD5mFQkenqI] * Via BLOgT: Even ex-gays are allowed to wear fabulous scarves. * Feministing points to a Brightest Young Things piece on how some LGBT folks define queer virginity. * At Tiger...
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