Femmostroppo Reader – May 23, 2009

Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

• Quote of the Day

- A quickie but goodie

• What Can White Women Do?

- “Familiarity is routinely assumed to grant the right to use oppressive and or demeaning language because what is a joke between friends? Though I would speak of its hurtfulness, it was my sensitivity that was ultimately deemed the problem.”

• Nude Photos of Rihanna and Prejean Which One Is The Slut?

- The double standard in action elsewhere than the gender divide

• A little shout out to my laptop who tried valiantly to save me

- FP dissects Miranda Devine’s latest so that you don’t have to

• Lessons for Girls : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present

- 8 classic posts listed for your perusal (via Zuska)

• Horrifying

- A report about known abuse covered up by the Irish Catholic church for decades

• Leaving "The Lifestyle"

- interesting

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