* Wow! Creepiest ending to a Craigslist personals ad in recent memory: "There is a unique kind of yoga I've been doing...when I'm not at the gym"

* Womenstake's Melanie Ross Levin describes the scene at the signing of the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. "Surrounded by a “who’s who” from the women’s movement, I couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed by the significance of this occasion," she writes. "As a newbie to the White House signing ceremony world, I ran around the room trying to capture the moment by taking as many photos and talking to as many people as possible." Ha ha, n00b!

* Gender Goggles reviews "Violet," an "interactive fiction game in which you are a graduate student attempting to finish your dissertation"—and in which you can make your protagonist a lesbian by choosing the "heteronormativity off" option.

* Lisa Schiffren of the National Review is unsurprisingly nonsensical, this time about the Obamas hiring a new White House chef, like every other Presidential family has done from the beginning of time ever. She writes: "But today, news comes that the Obamas will not run a national Top Chef competition—because they are bringing their own, private chef from Chicago to the White House. Well, isn't that nice?"

Short answer: It is not nice, it is terrible in every way except that it now allows Schiffren to smugly dangle in front of us all this incontroversial evidence of what Michelle Obama has been all along—an elitist servant-driver and a shitty mom. "I believed all that stuff about how Michelle was an overburdened modern working mother, rushing from school dropoff to her high-paying, demanding work at the hospital, to dress fittings, to whatever it was she needed to do to support her husband's political aspirations, back home to take care of her daughters," writes Schiffren. "Call me naive, but that model usually includes making dinner." It gets better—later, Schiffren evokes Sarah Palin!

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If Sarah Palin and Barack Obama teamed up to kill "feminist" this election cycle, Kathryn Jean Lopez will have it spinning in its grave. In a National Review piece detailing her experience at last week's "March for Life," Lopez calls Pope Benedict XVI the "real face of feminism." She writes:

Ms. Magazine got some attention—and grief—recently for putting Barack Obama on its cover in a Superman pose and announcing “This Is What a Feminist Looks Like.” After these last few days in Washington—and knowing what I know about the beauty of the Catholic view of women—I’m tempted to do the same with, say, Pope Benedict.

Lopez goes on to write that "all you need to do to realize the harm abortion does to women is browse around the net." Let's do a little clickity clicking of our own, shall we? When you click on Lopez' link on "the beauty of the Catholic view of women," you find a piece she wrote in 2003 declaring Mel "Sugartits" Gibson a feminist, too! "Mel Gibson might be my favorite feminist," she writes. "If he's not number one on my list, he's pretty close, in competition with Pope John Paul II." Because "feminist" is now simply secret conservative code for "anti-feminist."