Guess what word gets you banned from participating in a debate on an abortion bill in Michigan.
vagina
BFTP: Slash and Teh Magick Testicles of Perspicacity
Like all good evolutionary psychologists who focus on gender, Don hasn’t bothered to talk to any actual *whispers* women. Especially not to any women who write and/or study this, erm, *whispers* smut. Because women can’t define their own experience, can’t tell their own stories, can’t have any useful insights into their own motivations. Because women’s fan academia doesn’t really exist in any meaningful sense, not until chest-beaters come along and put their stamp of Knowledge onto it. Because women’s culture is there to be picked apart with tweezers and analysed with a touch of distanced fascination, a modicum of distaste, and a whopping serve of wilful ignorance. For lo, he has Teh Magick Testicles of Perspicacity. Here, let him show you them.
Slash and Teh Magick Testicles of Perspicacity
Via glandujakiss and sqbr. You don’t even have to know anything about slash to get a few giggles and more than a few eyerolls out of this interview with evolutionary psychologist Don Symons, author of Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution… Read More ›
Knickers off for Obama!: Fauxgressive douchebaggery at Fivethirtyeight
Fivethirtyeight.com is a polling wonk’s delight. If you have a fraction of a passing interest in psephology, you can lose hours of your life there. I screenshottified this comment (image text below*) because I’m still having trouble believing my eyes:… Read More ›
Ladies Products and The Gruen Transfer
This guest post is from Mindy, a regular commentor here and a contributor to the For Battle! group blog. The Gruen Transfer last night revealed that men in advertising still don’t understand ‘lady bits’. Jane Caro did her best to… Read More ›
Quick hit: Rape sorcery in far north Queensland
In today’s “Damn dirty sluts just keep on asking for it!” news, the Cairns police have blamed drunk women for bringing on their own “sex attacks”. (Hint: Rape is not “sex”.) And somehow, these attacks magically materialise out of thin… Read More ›