Posts Tagged ‘The Morning After’

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:

The Morning After: Human Centipede Edition

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* Human centipede: It's a thing. A horrible, horrible thing.

The Morning After: Sexual Assault Policy Fail Edition

* An anonymous Columbia University student details her re-traumatization via the school's sexual assault response system:

The Morning After: Ex-Gay Christopher Hitchens Edition

* 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 Morning After: Dana Scully Edition

* The Chronicle of Higher Education on how pop culture figures can inspire "people of working-class backgrounds to pursue academic careers":

The Morning After: Reasons I Skip My Period Edition

* I am one of those magical unicorns who suppresses her period with hormonal birth control. I do this for three reasons:

The Morning After: Street Harassment By Teabagger Edition

* On Holla Back DC, a group of women endure street harassment by teabagger.

The Morning After: Too Gay For Sports, Not Gay Enough Edition

* 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!

The Morning After: The Brave Suckiness of Ke$ha Edition

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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 [...]

The Morning After: “I Agree With Alex Knepper” Edition

What are you smiling about?
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," [...]