On Saturday, I had the honor of marching in the 2010 Capital Pride Pride alongside Miss. D.C. Jen Corey and other City Paper luminaries. Here's what I learned:

Since the rest of my day is tied up in company meetings concerning our "future," let's open this up to the peanut gallery: What would you like to see from The Sexist in the coming year? What topics would you like me to cover? What topics do you desperately wish I would stop covering? What [...]

Having recently written a story about the sex and repression at the Catholic University of America, I was interested to read Vox Populi's interview with D.C.'s most infamous Catholic sex writer, Julia Allison. Allison graduated from Georgetown in 2004, where she wrote “Sex on the Hilltop,” the Hoya's first sex column—and quite possibly the [...]

And now, suddenly, a new tradition: Every Friday, the amazing Sady of the New York-based lady blog Tiger Beatdown and myself, of the Washington, D.C.-based blog you are reading now, will discuss the lady issues of the day.
In this episode, Sady and I dissect a Congressional morality play, in which President Barack Obama convinces [...]

You should too. I may look serious, but really I'm just coming down from a serious endorphin rush from voting for the first time in the District. Check out more voter and polling place photos at washingtoncitypaper.com. —Amanda

Boing Boing points us to a Gender Analyzer which asks the question, "Man or Woman: Who Is Writing That Blog?" The program is developed to use "Artificial Intelligence to determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman" using a "text classifier" that's "been trained on 2000 blogs written by men and [...]

* So, the vice presidential debate was last night. Read my live blog of the event here and post-debate response here.
* Quick recap on women's and GLBT issues because there's not much to say. The candidates (and moderator Gwen Ifill) were largely silent on women's issues, beyond Biden name-dropping the Violence Against Women Act and [...]