Posts tagged "Feminism"
[BRA BURNING] Lana Del Rey's Take On Feminism Isn't Wrong

[BRA BURNING] Lana Del Rey’s Take On Feminism Isn’t Wrong

(image via The Fader) Here’s a fun new game the media has apparently decided it needs to play: interview a female celebrity (usually a pop star), demand to know her thoughts on feminism, then crucify her for her answer. Everyone gets one million clicks! Everyone wins! Except, of course, feminism itself. There are a lot...
[POP CULT] Fashion's Creepy Uncle: Still Creepy

[POP CULT] Fashion's Creepy Uncle: Still Creepy

Someone really ought to to write a pamphlet for models who reach a certain editorial status in their careers. It should outline the following: “Hey, so congratulations on making modeling your main source of income. Is, too! Began apply thicker are used company. I smelling I everytime using scalp canadian pharmacy cialis products as allows...
[CONFESSAY] Please Stop Telling Me To Make A Kid

[CONFESSAY] Please Stop Telling Me To Make A Kid

The other day, I was sitting at my office, about to step into an important meeting with a few powerful female superiors, some of whom are German and impeccably dressed in neoprene two-piece-suits and come to an intimidating six feet two inches tall in Louboutin heels, when I received a text from a friend of...
[POP CULT] Today In Small (S)hero Victories, Lorde Wins

[POP CULT] Today In Small (S)hero Victories, Lorde Wins

For the most part, the Internet is a desperate, traffic-thirsty entity lacking any semblance of conscience and integrity. It’s so quick to RT, reblog, comment, chime in on, and aggregate almost everything, it’s gotten to the point where’s there’s nothing left to lazily click through but a heaping pile of unoriginal bullshit, 93.7 % of...
[BUY SHIT] Slutever Vag T-Shirt

[BUY SHIT] Slutever Vag T-Shirt

There’s a new head vagina in town (haha, head vagina, get it?), and her name is Slutever. You guys are probably old butties from VICE, or maybe you’ve been following her provocative and insightful Breathless column for Vogue. However you knew her before, maybe you met at a Forever 21 in a suburban mall and bonded...
[BRA BURNING] Reaching For The Pie: Embracing Your Domestic Side

[BRA BURNING] Reaching For The Pie: Embracing Your Domestic Side

When I first received my Paperless Post invitation to attend an event categorized as a “Gathering Of Pies,” my armpit hair immediately grew 1/4 of an inch and I rushed to dig my picket sign out of retirement. According to the invite, I’d been chosen, along with a handful of other “great” women, to congregate...
[LISTS] My Thoughts on a ARWEAR (Anti-Rape Wear)

[LISTS] My Thoughts on a ARWEAR (Anti-Rape Wear)

Doing what it does best, the Internet has recently brought it to my attention that a truly innovative brand called ARWEAR is seeking funding for a new line of comfortable and “elegant” anti-rape wear. No, I haven’t misspoken, these things look like bike shorts, but are the next best thing to having Vagina Dentata. In...
[TRUE STORY] I'd Fuck Myself

[TRUE STORY] I’d Fuck Myself

A plot twist in a recent sci-fi film lead the protagonist into an unexpected collision with a clone of himself.  I couldn’t help but wonder, “What would I do if I met my own clone?”  And without hesitating, I answered in my head, “fuck myself.” I began noticing my own autosexuality sometime in high school. ...
[POP CULT] Jessie Kahnweiler Makes "Meet My Rapist," Is Our Hero

[POP CULT] Jessie Kahnweiler Makes “Meet My Rapist,” Is Our Hero

Sorry to be a downer; I know nobody wants the girl spouting out sexual abuse statistics showing up at the party. But here I am, fashionably late, rape stats in tow (every two minutes someone in the US is sexually assaulted), and in the spirit of compromise, I’ve brought a gift: it’s Jessie Kahnweiler’s “Meet...
[BRA BURNING] What's The Big Deal About Petra Collins' Bloody Vag Tee?

[BRA BURNING] What’s The Big Deal About Petra Collins’ Bloody Vag Tee?

If you haven’t heard, some people are repulsed by artist Petra Collins’ Period Power Tee featuring a menstruating vag with a warm welcome mat of pubic hair. Also, if you haven’t heard, some people are repulsed by vaginas, pubic hair, women, the female body, menstruation, masturbation, tampons, talking about tampons, buying their girlfriend tampons, unwaxed...
[LISTS] Things I Thought While Watching The Marina Abramovíc Documentary + More

[LISTS] Things I Thought While Watching The Marina Abramovíc Documentary + More

It’s 9:30. I’m home alone, except for the dogs. Good thing they can’t judge me. I have writer’s block. My boyfriend is next door shooting a lookbook with lots of American Flags and drinking Bourbon with our slightly misogynist neighbor who I used to be friends with but don’t speak to anymore (which can get...
[TRUE STORY] I Cried At Home Depot

[TRUE STORY] I Cried At Home Depot

If you’ve read this site at all, you may have astutely pegged us as the gender-equality types, and we are (we are, right Jane?), but every once in a while I think a thought that is so unflinchingly non-feminist that I start to question my own ideals a bit. (I know Jane does too, but...