Author Archives: Ann Bartow

From Eschaton: The Gay Menace Kudos to Feingold for supporting gay marriage. It’s the right thing to do, and we’re the party of the gay anyway so we might as well be right on the morality. It’s not as if … Continue reading →

So I had the misfortune to read “Sadly No” this morning. There was a post up called “Are Y’all Read for Some DERANGED LUNACY??? Damn Right You Are,” the point of which was to castigate a right-winger for the odious … Continue reading →

Lots of great links at This Ain’t Livin’ about weight, beauty, body image, dancing, art, food, eating, not eating, all kinds of things.

It’s about time. NYT story here.

Available at Written World! Random mostly unrelated observation: What an odd word “twelfth” is. It sounds like a Tolkien character. Here are some posts via the Carnival that are terrific (check out the Carnival site for even more): “In Which … Continue reading →

By Jessica Valenti of Feministing, it’s called “No Fear,” and accessible here.

You can buy the above tee shirt, or a jacket that says “porn sucks,” or free “accountability software,” or a dvd of a porn documentary called “Missionary Positions” at XXXChurch.com. The site is probably “work safe,” unless you work for … Continue reading →

It’s up at Blackademic, featuring all kinds of great links and content.

“On Wilding (or ‘My social studies teacher was right’)” at Black Feminism.org “Obscuring the Male Gaze” at Official Shrub.com “Where Are the Influential Advertising Women?” at the Huffington Post “No Room in the Big Tent” at Alternet “I Hate Prudence” … Continue reading →

This post is so perfect it has been supercopied exactly from its site of origination, A Brooklyn Bridge: “During an address to law students at the University of Freiberg, Scalia made an interesting observation: “Question comes up: is there a … Continue reading →

From the Guerilla Girls website: We took Kong, gave him a sex change and a designer gown, and set her up in Hollywood, just a few blocks from where the Oscars [were] awarded March 5, 2006. Why? To reveal the … Continue reading →

In my academic writing I am developing a thesis I call “the pretend war over pornography.” My position in part is that many right wingers love invoking the spector of poronography against liberals so much that they really don’t want … Continue reading →

The Aphrodite Project: Platforms, by Norene Leddy …One of the main concerns of contemporary urban sex workers, even in areas where prostitution is legal, is violence. Each sandal will have an audible alarm system, which emits a piercing noise to … Continue reading →

“News” story about middle school administrator who is distracted by eighth grader’s hair here. It contains all the usual plot points: She is “a straight-A student,” which apparently is somehow supposed to make her more of a victim of repressive … Continue reading →

And 613 is how many photos appear in”The Playmate Book: Six Decades of Centerfolds,”by Gretchen Edgren, according to this article in the New Yorker entitled “The Girls Next Door,” by Joan Acocella, in which one learns: In January of 1958, … Continue reading →

Jill Carroll freed!

Ariel Levy wrote a book called Female Chauvinist Pigs, which received the following review from Publisher’s Weekly: What does sexy mean today? Levy, smartly expanding on reporting for an article in New York magazine, argues that the term is defined … Continue reading →