Since this year is the 50th anniversary of the pill, there are lots of interesting retrospectives on its history and significance. TIME has a cover article with some really interesting tidbits. In 1873 Congress passed a law banning birth control information as obscene. So women seeking ways to limit the number of children they bore had [...]
Archive for the ‘Stupidity’ Category
You will pry my Ocella from my palsied old lady hands
Posted in Feminism, Stupidity on May 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Somewhere, Paul Kinsey is still writing copy
Posted in Sexism, Stupidity on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Because I can’t come up with a better explanation for the existence of this horrid ad: Or these: Someone needs to tell these guys that for women, being ogled is a significant deterrent to exercise. I used to dread going running whenever I was home on break from college, because there was this guy who [...]
On second thought, he probably just took his son to Hooter’s so he could blog about it.
Posted in Consumerism, Sexism, Stupidity on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today my ex-boyfriend (who knows me well) sent me this little gem of a blogpost. It’s written by a guy–no, a dad–who got in some really precious father-son bonding time by taking his eleven year old to that exemplar of family-style chain restaurants, Hooters. The post and its comments are chock-full of stupidity, and I [...]
“Goblet of Fire,” huh?
Posted in Stupidity, The New York Times is Whack, The Wretched Harmony on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When you saw the latest Harry Potter movie, were you appalled by the beloved trio’s flagrant use of alcohol as a crutch to ease the pain of their terrorized adolescence? I, for one, have seen many, many episodes of Intervention, so I know when to get worried about the substance abuse of random (fictional) people, [...]
Katherine Heigl’s acting career: piteous
Posted in Stupidity on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This movie* is either about a) a blowjob b) blah blah single girl blah marriage blah blah blah empowerment blah If you guessed b), you are (unfortunately) right. Here’s the trailer: *Based on the preview, I’m assuming this poster is meant to convey that women are starry-eyed, tender, emotional, and CRAZY, while men are simply [...]
Try to be logical, even if you’re not
Posted in Hacks, Stupidity on March 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There was an article in the Boston Globe a few days ago which addressed the sad, sad fate of women who want a career and children. It’s pretty standard fearmongering: blah blah blah women who wait until their 30s to get pregnant give birth to babies with flippers so you need to get married and start procreating [...]
