Since my not-really-a-breakup with Pandagon (I still refresh obsessively /o\ ), I’ve been on the hunt for new feminist blogs to fill the void. Thankfully, I Blame the Patriarchy has been briefly active, so I enjoyed and was dismayed by many of the commentariat during Science Week, and thought about a lot of new things [...]
Things that happen often: I read Pandagon.net for a feminist analysis of the world around me. This analysis is often combined with general pop culture. Today we got a post about the soccer and the World Cup which is about to go down soonish which much of the non-USA parts of the world Really Really [...]
A few months long time ago, when this movie came out, pretty much everyone was telling me how fucking hilarious it was. Even the more feminist-leaning ones were apologetically liking it. “Hilarious!” they told me. I finally got my Netflix up and going again, and it showed up last week a while ago, and I [...]
The Watch It Now thing from Netflix is actually pretty cool. You can watch those crappy movies and TV shows that don’t really seem worth the several day wait for the disc to be mailed to you, and you can see the things you actually care about in DVD quality with the regular mail service. [...]
Craftzine posted about a new embroidery pattern shop called PimpStitch (tagline: “Keep Your Stitch Hand Strong”), and after admiring the adorable patterns, the name finally registered and I could feel my jaw dropping. Really? Someone thought that was a good name? I mean, they got racism, sexism, and domestic violence all in one go. I’m [...]