The Morning After: Phallic First-Person Shooter Edition
* Attention feminist nerds: "Portal," the first-person shooter that Games Radar described as "the most subversive game ever," is being offered for free until May 24. What Portal is not like:
* Attention feminist nerds: "Portal," the first-person shooter that Games Radar described as "the most subversive game ever," is being offered for free until May 24. What Portal is not like:
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* Human centipede: It's a thing. A horrible, horrible thing.
* An anonymous Columbia University student details her re-traumatization via the school's sexual assault response system:
* Christopher Hitchens: Ex-gay, kind of! In his forthcoming memoir, the writer who does not think this is very funny refers to his continued sexual relations with men—past his regular gay dalliances at boarding school—as a "relapse":
''Every now and then, even though I was by then fixed on the pursuit of young women, a [...]
* The Chronicle of Higher Education on how pop culture figures can inspire "people of working-class backgrounds to pursue academic careers":
* I am one of those magical unicorns who suppresses her period with hormonal birth control. I do this for three reasons:
* On Holla Back DC, a group of women endure street harassment by teabagger.
* How to Have Sex in Texas points us to Trojan's new "HEY LOOK I HAVE A HUGE DICK!" sized condoms. Officially, they're known as the "Trojan Ecstasy Her Pleasure" condom, and they're not actually any larger than your standard Trojan, but hoo-boy look at that wrapper!
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Good morning, Sexist readers:
* Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams got me all excited when she titled this post "Fighting for Ke$ha's Right to Suck," because . . . come on, she does. But isn't it interesting how aggressive sucking is pretty much exactly the vibe that Ke$ha's music is going for? I mean, the woman is auto-tuned within an [...]
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Hi, Sexist readers. Welcome to a new daily item, in which I link to the sex-and-gender pieces of note from around the Internets. I'd love to link to what you're reading, as well; file your suggestions here!
* After writing a diatribe against rape victims that begins "I agree with Alex Knepper," [...]