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Yesterday, Jezebel pointed to a recent study which argued that Disney films were guilty of "elevating heterosexuality" with their butterfly-laden, musical-accompanied girl-meets-boy match-ups:
"Characters in love are surrounded by music, flowers, candles, magic, fire, balloons, fancy dresses, dim lights, dancing and elaborate dinners," the researchers observed. "Fireflies, butterflies, sunsets, wind and the beauty and power of [...]
It would be difficult for any advertising campaign to convince me to drink a Bacardi Breezer anywhere—much less in a shopping mall. Unfortunately, Bacardi's "Get An Ugly Girlfriend" campaign has managed to produce the same feeling of nausea in me, but without the 4 percent alcoholic buzz!
Feminism: Oooooooooover it.
In this edition of Sexist Beatdown, Sady of Tiger Beatdown and myself of the Sexist talk of DoubleX, Slate's new online magazine for women—it's just like us, except we're the problem! Also, people who don't report their own rapes. It is mostly them (and not, saaaay, rapists) who are the problem.
Oh, problems. They [...]
For that last-minute New Years party trick punch: Megan at Jezebel instructs you how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue (easier blogged than done), and accompanies her tutorial with this vintage David Lynch gem: Aubrey O'Day performing the cherry trick in Twin Peaks.
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* Lately, at times, I've felt like Jezebel has dipped ever so slightly into safer ladyblog territory, the one largely claimed by magazines featuring Amanda Bynes on the cover. Then came Tracie Egan's post on how to allay pregnancy symptoms when you're just going to abort the thing anyway, so fuck-all to fetus-safe medical care [...]
Wee anti-abortion activist Lila Rose, 20, has a fun undercover video project where she pretends to be a 13-year-old girl dating a 31-year-old guy who goes into a Planned Parenthood seeking abortion, set to the tune of a sweet underage abortion jam:
Well I'm a big girl now
Eyyyeeeauuughhhhh
Repeat.
In this video, shot in a Bloomington, Indiana Planned [...]
Jezebel has been collecting evidence lately of self-proclaimed "experts" (i.e., random dudes) who claim that women only cut their hair short to avoid sex. Let's hear it from the dudes:
Dr. Aline Zoldbrod, sex therapist, says, “If you cut your hair you might be making a statement that says, ‘I don’t want to be seen as [...]
Today I thought I'd just cut to the chase and find out what ladies on the Internets think is sexist today. Modern sexism, reveal yourself!
* Gender Goggles reviews Yoko Ono's feminist video project Cut Pieces, thinks jokes are sexist, but not as sexist as sexual assault: "You might argue that there is a world [...]
* Richard Cizik, the VP for Government Affairs for The National Association of Evangelicals, stepped down yesterday after making comments on NPR "that he backs same-sex civil unions" [via Shakesville].
* Jezebel—along with the rest of the Gawker universe—gets a massive face-lift to "increase pageviews." Agh, what? But we're still working on our redesign that will [...]
* Tim Dickinson for Rolling Stone on why Prop 8 failed. (Hint: It wasn't Mormon or black voters, but it might have been you).
* The Gay Recluse reports on the shielded statues in Union Station (photo above), indicates that behind the shield are uncircumcised Roman penises, calls it "the biggest scandal in the history of [...]
