The True Price of Beauty is Needles in Your Face
I have been a big fan of Target Women done by Sarah Haskins who has developed quite the following with her hilarious and spot on humor about products and media targeted at women. So far, Sarah Haskins has brought us the ridiculousness how all women are angry because of Hillary Clinton losing the presidential candidacy and how McCain and Obama want us for our votes and target us on basic cable and think “Well all women watch Army Wives, Ellen, The View and insert other television shows READ MORE »
Is the Media Promoting Teen Pregnancy?
Earlier this month, Time magazine put out a story about 17 girls in Gloucester, Massachusetts, none older than 16, who had made a pregnancy pact stating that they would get pregnant at the same time so they could raise their children together. The number of teen pregnancies in this school alone has risen more than 4% in just one year and the number of teen pregnancies across the country this past year are astonishing. One must ask, given the statistics, why are so many young girls getting READ MORE »
Welcome to the McCain Clinic, Where You Have No Options
McCain has been very firm about his pro-life standing. By throwing in his “pro-life” stance into the mix and from what we have learned through the past few months about this stance, we know that McCain does not believe women should be entitled to the right to choose and to have control over their own bodies. What some might now know, however, is that McCain is also against a woman’s right to obtain birth control, (although it is about time he actually made a decision about READ MORE »
Pro-Lifers Say No to Habitat for Humanity
We all know that “pro-lifers” want to destroy everything relating to reproductive health care and limit the types of reproductive health care women seek and are given. We also know that pro-lifers hate hate hate Planned Parenthood because they are “baby killers” (even though not all Planned Parenthood clinics perform abortions) and they distribute that evil poison-in-pill form known as birth control! Another widely known fact is that pro-lifers also do not give a READ MORE »
The Secret to Completing a Woman’s Life: BABIES!
I saw a few posts on the movie Baby Mama when the movie was first out in theaters. I, however, being the kind of person who finds it much more enjoyable to watch movies at home mostly while I am working as I am a chronic multi-tasker, I waited and recently watched the movie online a few days ago. After seeing this movie in all of its cliche, hardly funny glory, I am beyond surprised that I didn’t see more posts regarding this movie when it had first hit theaters. Maybe it’s READ MORE »
Rape and Victim Blaming
Derek, a lovely feminist blogger and vlogger over at Doing Feminism has an incredible new vlog up over at his site on rape and victim blaming. With recent accounts of rape happening within 10 blocks of his house, he decided to make a vlog about rape and how so many people blame the victims for rape even existing and using such bullshit lines like “Well women shouldn’t wear short skirts or go to bars or stay out after dark.” You should go watch the video, it’s READ MORE »
John McCain Doesn’t Support the Troops
The current GI Bill as it stands today is the same GI Bill that was in effect during World War II. When considering the cost of living and how much more money is needed by every American just to keep a roof over their heads and eat has significantly risen since the time of World War II. The current GI Bill is also said to pay for the college education of an American soldier in addition to providing necessities; in reality, as of right now, American soldiers who are returning from several READ MORE »
Start ‘Em While They’re Young
The items people come up with for children astound me. First we have the toddler-sized kitchen sets which absolutely disgust me, sewing machines and kits for children, the insane popularity of dolls, and so on. Our culture does nothing but put out toy versions of the lives women have had to live for centuries. Women were and many still are expected to prepare all the meals, so little girls are given toy kitchen sets. Women must act as baby machines, so little girls are given dolls. Women READ MORE »
Woman Experiences 19 Hour Rape and Torture
Trigger Warning! On April 13, 2007, a 23-year-old Columbia University journalism student was followed from the elevator in her apartment building to her apartment door by Robert A. Williams. He asked if she knew where a Mrs. Evans lives and when she stopped and hesitated, her had the perfect opportunity to force himself into the woman’s apartment. After forcing himself into the woman’s apartment, Robert A. Williams, 31, put the woman in a chokehold and slapped her cellphone out READ MORE »
Apologies for Lack of Posts
Things have been a wee bit busy over here in Menstrual Poetry-land and I wish I had more time to update as much as I would love to, but sadly, with only 24 hours in a day and needing to sleep for at least some of those hours, it just isn’t possible. In the middle of working, working and more working and being yolked to Twitter, I began hearing more and more about a new social site, Plurk. Upon a closer inspection, I saw it as a site that desperately wanted to be Twitter, but with two READ MORE »
- Saw commercials for some bachelor-like show called "More to Love." Why must a show with curvy women be called that!? Thoroughly pissed off. 22 hrs ago
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- Six Feet Under never gets old. And @rainnwilson always makes me crack up as Arthur. 22 hrs ago
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