The feminist blogosphere is up in arms about coverage of Patricia Blagojevich's role in her husband's scandal. Lady Blagojevich is reported as saying, among other things, that they ought to "hold up that [expletive] Cubs [expletive] ... [expletive] them." Which is so [expletive], I can't even tell what it means! But some bloggers aren't into [...]
* Daily Intel has some answers on why Alex Kuczynski's New York Times spread on her experience with a surrogate mother made her out to be a "vain," "self-centered" "Lady of the Manor" (really, check out the photo that ran with the story, it's a doozy). From NYT Public Editor Clark Hoyt's column:
Kuczynski, who said [...]
* The New Gay reveals an "an exciting new way to internalize homophobia": It's not gay, it's g0y! G0ys (pictured) hate anal sex, femininity, and gay dudes, but love God and casually bro-ing out with other dudes and blowing them. And they spell their sexuality with a zero. Sign up here!
* Slate tapes an interview [...]
Ha, ha, oh, women are always lying about being raped in order to get out of sticky situations. That's why the Office is a renowned, award-winning comedy program—because it's so true to life! But spoilsport Jessica Valenti over at Feministing didn't like the Office's recent rape joke. "I generally really love The Office and think [...]
Via Feministing, a photo of a new ad in New York subways for Manhattan Mini-Storage—and against Sarah Palin. When will the kitschy pro-choice advertisement strategy hit the District?
* New Columbia Heights reports on a rash of violence that hit an underground Petworth brothel this month. According to an Examiner piece on one incident, wherein a robber lost his thumb to a machete-wielding victim after trying to lift cash from the bordello and gambling house. Earlier, two men were shot inside the brothel, [...]
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* Melissa McEwan over at Shakesville says a cat's place is in the cleavage:
this morning, after [the cat had] been driving me bananas for about an hour with this new routine, I tucked the bottom of the tanktop I was wearing up under my [...]
* Megan at Jezebel tells dudes "How Not to Get it On":
Don't pre-emptively tell me you have a small penis.
Don't text me on a Tuesday night after midnight "I could totally eat ur puss now if u r interwssetted." I'm not.
Don't ask if it's okay to fuck me up the ass because you don't have [...]
* Brightest Young Things' Meg Z ruminates on Metrosexual men's makeup habits.
* In an interview with the Blade, comedian Margaret Cho calls Sarah Palin the "worst thing to happen to America since 9/11."
* The New Gay, which already has a gay male comic strip, Curbside, has added a sister comic: Lefthanded Lesbians by Mag.
* Feministing [...]
