Welp. Here we go again! Guess what: I’m at a 9 out of 10 right now on the BREAK SOMETHING scale…. Because, while I love the internet… and all of its “special” sites… I just came across this new Thought catalog? What is this s**t? Half of these articles are complete bullshit. Another quarter of […]
Read More My Nomination for Best Blog of The Year Goes to…In an interview for April’s issue of ELLE Magazine, Pamela Anderson muses about life as a short-haired chick since cutting off her long blonde tresses back in October. The former Baywatch star (I’m not really sure she’s done anything since then? Home Improvement?) reportedly thought her short hair would have an impact on her sex […]
Read More Quick Hit: Sex Isn’t Just For Women With Long Hair, Says Pamela AndersonSimone de Beauvoir was not taught in my two philosophy classes at James Madison University. I had two male professors who taught me the “important” philosophical thoughts- Aristotle, Plato, Kant, and the list goes on. I never questioned this in my classes, because hey, I was tired of questioning everything at every moment. Philosophy was […]
Read More Simone de Beauvoir and the Erasure of Female Philosophers“’Normal’ is just the name we give to the cleaned-up versions of sex that we wish to endorse on behalf of social stability and moral order” –J. Jack Halberstam
Read More What’s So Great About “Normal” Anyway?While browsing articles on goodmenproject I stumbled upon an article entitled “7 Things Sex Education Should Have Taught Us But Didn’t” and boy was it perfect!
Read More Quick Hit: What We Should Have Learned in Sex-EdA recent CNN article was published about a woman with Down syndrome, we will call her Jane, who was raped three times by a man in her own home. There are many problems with the following story. How judges handle rape cases, what men constitute as rape, and how cases involving people with disabilities are handled in […]
Read More A Sad Truth About Rape and Down SyndromeIn today’s world of entrepreneurship craziness, a new product has arisen that will surely have feminists everywhere collectively saying ” What the freaky freak is up with our society?” This so called product basically exemplifies the absolute ridiculousness that is the Double Standard, though it is being packaged as a helpful toolkit for us ladies. […]
Read More Walk of Shame KitIn the wake of spring break shenanigans across America, I want to stop and smell the roses—or, tequila, rather—and consider the weighty implications of spring break behavior. Cancun, Panama City Beach, Acapulco, Miami, Punta Cana…what do all these spring break hot spots have in common? Rampant female objectification. Sexism.
Read More Spring Break Forever?I was browsing through Buzzfeed when I stumbled upon this article that has seemed to have gone viral. It explores what happens when the women featured in advertisements are replaced with men. The YouTube video that accompanies the article is even more enlightening. The punchline at the end of the YouTube video reads: “Seeing men like this […]
Read More Quick Hit: Role Reversal? Yes, Please!Over spring break, while I sadly wasn’t on some amazing getaway, but in the comfortable quarters of my home in VA, I was doing the daily scroll through Facebook and came across a trending video. The video was for the “Ban Bossy” campaign started by Sheryl Sandberg—the chief operating officer of Facebook—and her Lean In […]
Read More My interpretation of #BanBossy
ShoutOut! James Madison University 