If you were on Port Republic Road two Sundays ago, you may have noticed several members of Dukes for Life positioned at various places, holding up signs with messages like “Abortion: Harmful to Women” and “Adoption: Still an Option.” Catchy as these anti-choice slogans may be, they are fundamentally detrimental and harmful to women. When […]
Read More Mythbustin’ Mondays: The truth behind catchy anti-choice slogansThere’s been a lot of talk lately about the Size Acceptance Movement, which promotes the idea that people should be given dignity and respect, regardless of their size, and argues that overweight people face more discrimination than “average” sized individuals. I can totally get on board with size equality- people should be judged by their […]
Read More The Size Acceptance Movement and “Real Women”Read this. Sound crazy and not something that would happen in America, where Roe V. Wade constantly protects a woman’s right to choose? I often hear these arguments that consist of “Women all around the world have it worse.” Hell, as one my professors pointed out in class the other day: the media uses the Middle East […]
Read More I Hate To Be An Alarmist, But…So last friday, I wrote a piece on Street Harrassment. By using our very scientific WordPress bar graphs, Venn diagrams and the Table of Elements, our team of mad scientists at ShoutOut! JMU have determined this article struck a nerve! (If you doubt their credentials, they wear goggles. So there!) Readers, we want you! We want you […]
Read More Call Out: Send Us Your Stories On Street Harassment.Welcome to the Bitchin’ Table. A forum where two young gents of the feminine persuasion shoot the shit about the latest issues concerning women. Today’s topic: Halloween: To Slut, or Not To Slut? That is the Question. BlondeRedhead: Hey, Lauranium, what are you gonna be for Halloween? Lauranium: I’m not sure, but I guess the […]
Read More The Bitchin’ Table: Forget About the Treats, ‘Cause the Trick’s Right HereWhen I was in the eighth grade, my mom and her friends started a mother/daughter book club. So once a month from the time I was in eighth grade until I left for college, my friends and their moms got together to discuss a book over tasty food and coffee. Adorable, right? Right. And I’ve […]
Read More Her Two CentsToday is the 12th anniversary of the vicious hate crime committed against Matthew Shepard. On the night of October 7th, 1998, openly gay Matthew, resident of Laramie, Wyoming, was coerced into an open, rural area, tortured and left tied to a fence to die by two men from his town. Matthew was found in the […]
Read More Revisiting Laramie: 12 Years After the Matthew Shepard MurderLast Tuesday (Oct. 5th) Sarah Palin spoke at a fundraiser in Texas, in the course of her speech Palin pulled out some alarming words to describe pro-choice opponents. Our political system is no stranger to fear mongering and playing politics with words, especially considering the past 2 years. During her speech Palin plays on many of the […]
Read More Sarah Palin’s gonna scare me straight… and pro-life.It’s been all over the media. Ellen is talking about it. Sarah Silverman is talking about it. There’s even a post by our very own BlondeRedhead on the topic. I’d like to think that the whole world grieves the loss of these young lives, and yet there always seems to be a voice beckoning us […]
Read More Dan Savage the Demi-God.If you have a Facebook profile, you’ve probably noticed a lot of women have been posting pseudo-sexual status updates that usually start with “I like it on the [floor, kitchen table, couch, etc.]”. It actually applies to where your handbag is at the moment you’re updating, and is meant to…raise breast cancer awareness? Wait, what? […]
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