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A blog dedicated to bringing you daily news stories and current events regarding gender equality, racism, and discrimination. Everyone is welcome to comment and offer their input! I want to help keep people up-to-date on these important issues, while
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Say it with me now: rape is not something to joke about. EVER.
The folks in charge of the casting of the newest Real World season, set in Washington, D.C., picked a real winner when they cast Andrew Woods. Since I'm a Real World junkie, I was excited to watch the recently aired pilot episode of D.C., only to dis...
Rachel Maddow interviews gay conversion \'therapist\'
Watch Rachel Maddow take on one of those "gay people can become straight with therapy!" nuts. It's awesome.Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy...
Porn doesn\'t affect how men view women... says 20 dudes
There's no other way to introduce this story than Tracy Clark-Flory's (of Salon.com) way:It's official: Pornography doesn't affect men's view of women. This breaking news comes by way of 20 young men who ... just say so, OK? Stop asking so many quest...
Anti-feminists are still telling lies
If you need your daily dose of disgust, head on over to Men's News Daily to check out Paul Elam's charming article, "The Myth of Women's Oppression." In it, he so ignorantly compares women's oppression to the oppression faced by people of color, dedu...
Not even equality in the after-life
Governor Carcieri, of Rhode Island, has decided that "domestic partners" can't be buried next to each other, i.e. same-sex couples."This bill represents a disturbing trend over the past few years of the incremental erosion of the principles surroundi...
Maine repeals same-sex marriage law
Yesterday, in a move that resembled the famous Prop 8 debate in California, voters in Maine decided to repeal the state's new law that allowed same-sex marriage.I was horrified when I heard this. It's to the point where I'm so hesitant to celebrate a...
Fox \'News\' loves to distort facts
Why I love Huffington Post: they do things like compile a list of "The Ten Most Egregious Fox News Distortions."Aww, only ten?Among those on the list: taking Obama's and Biden's quotes out of context, calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist, giving seemingl...
LA judge denies interracial couple a marriage license
I just have a question: WHAT YEAR IS THIS?Because clearly it must be 1960. Surely it isn't 2009 because I thought we left this bullshit in the past.The racist judge, Keith Bardwell, said he denied the interracial couple a marriage license out of conc...
Worst anti-gay marriage ads ever
The Huffington Post put together a list of the worst anti-gay marriage ads ever made. And wow, are they brilliant. My favorites are the ones that try to convince us that the gays are out to destroy children:Hahahahaha. You have to laugh....
'Secret Girlfriend': Comedy Central's new sexist show
Did that make you want to puke? Then you're going to love this:We all know that Comedy Central is no stranger to disgustingly sexist shows, but "Secret Girlfriend," a new show about single guys in their 20s who act like they're 14, might just take th...
When "preexisting conditions" go too far...
We know all too well the infamous "preexisting condition" debacle when it comes to health care coverage, which Obama's plan seeks to destroy. We hear horror stories of people being denied coverage for the most ridiculous of reasons, such as a woman w...
Rush Limbaugh plays poor oppressed white man card yet again
Following an incident that received news coverage in which a white student was beaten up on a school bus by black students, Rush Limbaugh had a thing or two to say:You put your kids on a school bus you expect safety but in Obama's America the white k...
Caster Semenya and the great gender debate
Because Caster Semenya has defined muscles and can run faster than most people we've seen, she couldn't possibly be 100% female. Undoubtedly, the right thing to do is to subject her to grueling, intricate, and humiliating "gender testing" to confirm ...
Re: Michelle Obama's shorts
I'm sorry, I really just need to take a minute to say one thing about people having a conniption over Michelle Obama wearing (HOLY CRAP ARE YOU READY FOR THIS) SHORTS:WHO THE HELL CARES?!Give it up, already! The way the media is acting you would thin...
Corporations ditch Beck after he called Obama a 'racist'
Remember when that sorry excuse for a political commentator, Glenn Beck, publicly stated that Obama is a racist who hates white people? If you don't remember, here's the video. Tie your hands behind your back to restrain yourself from punching your c...
Marriott Hotel engages in victim-blaming
From The Huffington Post:A Connecticut hotel where a woman was raped at gunpoint in front of her children says the victim was careless and negligent.The papers filed last month in Superior Court by the Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa say the victim "fa...
APA calls 'BS' on gay-to-straight therapy
Google "gay to straight therapy" right now, and you'll see dozens of news articles about the American Psychological Association publicly rejecting any "therapy" that tries to turn gay people straight. This news is coming at a good time, since that ho...
Quote of the Day
"I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that." - Karl Lagerfeld, said during an interview as Coco Chanel for Bazaar's upcoming issue.Hey, Gloria Steinem! Terry O'Neill! Jessica Valenti! You're all ugly bitches!...
New study: feminists aren't man-haters!
Wait, feminists aren't angry man-haters? Since when?!?!Well, since always. But still, we needed a study to prove it (hat tip to Feministing). According to the abstract:Despite the popular belief that feminists dislike men, few studies have actually e...
White model chosen to represent black character
Liar is a new young adult book by Justine Larbalestier that tells the story of a young compulsive liar, described in the book as a black woman with short, nappy hair. But you wouldn't know that from the U.S. cover.Clearly, the cover depicts a pretty ...
Defending Obama's comments on Gates
I haven't written yet about Barack Obama's comments on the Gates arrest because I haven't quite been able to put how I feel about it into words. But thankfully, journalist Greg Palast (who I saw speak at my school a little while back) did it for me. ...
Buffet of the Week
So much has happened. Some good news, some bad news.At the World Outgames, a multi-sport event for LGBT people, small bombs were thrown onto the track at the start of the relay run. Police are holding two suspects. Hopefully they're the assholes that...
More commercials I can't stand: KGB tackles nappy-headed hoes
Renee of Womanist Musings is less than pleased with this KGB commercial, and rightfully so.She writes:I suppose it's all good fun to laugh at the lengths that Black women must go to train our hair into submission because we live in a culture that has...
More Obama racism from right-wingers
I understand that right-wingers are threatened by Obama because his skin is darker than the other 43 presidents and he's also bringing new radical ideas to the White House like - GASP! - reforming our crappy ass health care system and - GASP! - givin...
Fatties need not apply
Oh, you didn't hear? Fat people are incapable of holding important political positions because clearly they're going to be too busy shoving donuts down their throats and expanding their muffin top to get shit done. And forget about fixing America's "...
Colbert mocks "reverse racism" argument
Heh heh heh....
Olbermann's commentary on Sotomayor hearing
I can't stop posting about the Sotomayor hearings, mainly because I want everyone to know how inappropriate many of the Republican reps behaved. The crap that spews out of their mouths is unbelievable. Get ready for your jaw to drop while you watch t...
Dumb Things Said by Republicans: The Greatest Hits Album
This is just too funny to not read: "The 10 Dumbest Things Republicans Have Said About the Sotomayor Hearings" from AlterNet. My personal favorite is Pat Buchanan's claim that Obama's list of the "final four" possible Supreme Court nominees being all...
Proof that online activism r0x!
Many of you might have heard about the storm of controversy surrounding the highly offensive "Tranny Alert" website. Essentially, the site would encourage people to submit pictures of what they perceived to be transgendered people and the photos woul...
Video of 'gay exorcism' circulates net
This is really disturbing, so beware.As shocking and upsetting as this video is, I think it's extremely important to circulate it around the net. Of course, the church who was so keen on scaring the ever loving daylights out of this poor young man in...
