Body Image, Magazines, Tyra Banks
Okay, so I love Tyra Banks. I have seen every episode of every season of America’s Next Top Model several times, I have seen quite a few episodes of her show and would probably see all of them if they were available online, as I don’t particularly spend much time out of my office and there’s no television in here. All things considered, I think that Tyra Banks is a feminist role model, so this isn’t an un-feminist guilty pleasure. And with that, this is perhaps my READ MORE »
Day of Blogs Was a Whopping Success!
I always end up missing some amazing news when I pull a disappearing act and this time was yet another one of those cases. Day of Blogs took place on July 26th to the 27th to raise money for RAINN. If you don’t know anything about RAINN, it is the rape, abuse, and Incest National Network, the nation’s largest anti-sexual assault organization and also one of America’s 100 best charities. The work RAINN does is absolutely amazing. They operate the National Sexual Assault READ MORE »
Super Cool New Look!
I had started a very small project a few days ago that was supposed to take about an hour or two, tops. However, because this always seems to happen at the most opportune moments, simply changing the theme here up a little bit proved to be a little more difficult than I had first anticipated. Instead of Menstrual Poetry being the feminist/political/what-have-you blog of me, Holly, the chick who writes this stuff, I really wanted this website to be mine, as well as yours. Yes, yours!!! READ MORE »
Missing My ‘Don’t Taze Me, Bro’ Moment
It’s been way too long since I’ve had the time to sit down at the computer for more than a few minutes or haven’t been too overwhelmed with work that needed to be done for other people, so yet again, Menstrual Poetry has been neglected and for far longer than I had expected or anticipated for. To those who still visit, thank you, I love you and for those who have given up on Menstrual Poetry, well you won’t be reading this anyway so it’s all good. I received an READ MORE »
I Certainly Don’t Wanna Discuss that Issue–Birth Control or Women
McCain was recently answering questions when something he hadn’t expected happened–Someone asked about the fact that many health care providers will cover Viagra but refuse to cover birth control. Apparently a man’s ability to get it up and have sex is great, just as long as the woman isn’t using birth control and exercising her right to safe sex. Before the woman even finished asking the question, as soon as McCain heard the words birth control, he said that he READ MORE »
Fox News: Nothing But Racism, Sexism and Smears
As soon as Obama was even considered for the presidential candidacy, Fox had been showing their true, biased and racist colors by digging anything and everything up they could about him and when he landed the Democratic nomination, they went out in full force after him and his family. The smears against the Obama family have been so ridiculous that on Barack Obama’s website, a section titled Fight the Smears has been added specifically to fight the right wing smears that keep getting READ MORE »
We Know McCain=Bush, So What’s the Problem?
Two days ago, a 61 year old librarian was escorted from a public McCain campaign event at the Denver Center of Performing Arts in Denver, CO. What was this woman doing wrong to get her not only escorted off of city property she had every right to be on, but also served with a court date (July 23, for those interested) for trespassing? Letting everyone know that McCain=Bush; but that was already common knowledge, wasn’t it? I don’t see the problem here and just as I READ MORE »
India Gets It
You go to great lengths to achieve sexual pleasure and with multiple partners, so never forget the friend that can keep you happy and safe–the condom. Used as an educational video in the Telugu language from Nrityanjali Academy, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, this absolutely hilarious video of several men dancing and singing dressed in cardboard cutouts of condoms is used to educate and prevent against sexually transmitted infections and diseases. READ MORE »
Fox News is A Lot of Things
Such as “a parade of propaganda” and “a festival of ignorance” and not only I think so. Don’t you just love how as soon as someone speaks up about the amount of one-sided news Fox delivers, they immediately turn your attention to something else so it doesn’t seep into your brain and you start to believe them–Just in case the amount of “McCain is good, Obama is bad” stories and the amount of coverage on Hillary Clinton eventually all READ MORE »
Sexy Nerd Girl Fanaticism
The fanaticism surrounding “sexy nerds” is not new, however, it is more publicized and when I really got down to thinking about it, what exactly does it take to be a “sexy” nerd? And why are all of videos, blog posts and news stories I’m finding on the subject all making sure that you know that they’re talking about girls when they’re talking about intelligent people? And, as an obvious sidenote, why are they always referring to intelligent females READ MORE »
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