February 2012
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January 2012
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Down with cultural mandates! [Occupy Valentine's...
occupyvday:
I hate the idea sad single women must drown their sorrows in ice cream and rom-coms one day a year because they can’t take the pain.
Who needs Valentine’s day when boxed wine and insta-netflix are already available 365 days a year!?
<3 Andrea
Occupy V Day!
December 2011
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Obama’s phony paternalism: The president...
When will Barack Obama learn how to talk thoughtfully about women, women’s health and women’s rights?
Apparently, not today.
On Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius unexpectedly overruled the Food and Drug Administration’s recommendation that emergency contraception be sold on drugstore shelves and made available without a prescription to women under the age of 17....
November 2011
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October 2011
5 posts
Black pregnant woman killed while protecting kids... →
carnivaloftherandom:
aphoticoccurrences:
and apparently, there is no coverage of this and no arrest. a gunman on the top of a building starts targeting children at school and a number of people are injured and one killed.
yet none of this is on the news?? like the link says, if this had happened in Manhattan, there woulda been coverage to no end. the racial segregation of the schools in NYC...
NO MEAT FOR YOU: Veggidelphia Cheesesteak →
CAN of mushrooms? You know there are fresh mushrooms 2 aisles over at the market, right? If you’re getting fresh onions pick up fresh mushrooms. God damn, people.
nomeatforyou:
2 tbsp olive oil 1/2 small onion 1 small can mushrooms 1 tbsp garlic (minced) 1 Morning Star Veggie patty 1 tsp crushed red pepper salt & pepper hoagie roll Swiss cheese Heat olive oil in skillet. Add...
Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure... →
This post was intended to be shared privately and was accidentally made public. Thanks to +Steve Yegge for allowing us to keep it out there. It’s the sort of writing people do when they think nobody is watching: honest, clear, and frank. The world would be a better place if more people wrote this sort of internal memoranda, and even better if they were allowed to write it for the outside...
I'm going to have to go with a big old wtf is... →
September 2011
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When Hockey Fans are Awful
I don’t understand why people boo the US/Canadian anthems at hockey games. Like clockwork everyone booed during the Canadian anthem as soon as the singer began, “Oh Canad—” “BOOO!!!!” at the Sharks game last night. I have no real team affiliation when it comes to hockey (ask anyone, I cheer for everyone) so I wore a Montreal Canadiens shirt at the game, and...
July 2011
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May 2011
3 posts
WTF: Video: A Mom Who Gives Her 8-Year-Old... →
Vote for Dominique Crenn as the top innovator chef... →
Please vote! You don’t need to register, all you have to do is click! Dominique is an amazing chef in the SF Bay Area who is totally deserving of the award! So please, go vote for her.
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When Five-Year-Olds Appear on the Pages of a... →
Skechers is still marketing the same type of toning shoe… they’re not targeting women who want to look like Kim Kardashian in a sexy Super Bowl ad. They’re targeting little girls….
They show slim, confident girls rocking out in their Shape-ups and being followed around by surly, slack-jawed boys dressed up in junk-food costumes.
We’re not sure what message...
March 2011
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“I am a feminist and stand by the feminist agenda. I just wish it would be a 365...”
– Sinikka Marjaana
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“Shouldn’t there be an International Men’s Day?” “Yeah,...”
– Yeoryia T
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I Will Never Understand Why...
People always say, “What gives you the right to speak for something that doesn’t have a voice?” I always say, “What gives you the right to speak for someone who does?”
Fetus Set To ‘Testify’ In Favor Of Ohio Anti-Abortion Bill: This upsets me so much. It’s always the same thing, “Why should you speak for something that can’t even think...
February 2011
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January 2011
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Lady Gaga: Using Ignorance to Sell Records...
Dear Lady Gaga in regard to the offensive lyrics in your new song, “Born This Way” which are linked here,
I really wish you’d just go back to singing about getting drunk, dancing, and sex because you’ve got to be kidding me with these lyrics. Oriental? Chola? Do you not understand that these words have meanings? Not-so-good meanings? Oriental s an antiquated word with...
“As Ed watched, Ben pulled the girl right into the hot tub, in her clothes! She...”
– BECAUSE WHORES WOMEN ARE PEOPLE TOO. STOP LETTING PEOPLE GET AWAY WITH THIS SHIT. I DON’T CARE IF THIS INSTANCE IS FICTION. IT HAPPENS IN REAL LIFE. STOP IT, ALL OF YOU. THE ONLY PREVENTION THAT PEOPLE SHOULD BE LEARNING IS DON’T RAPE PEOPLE. IT’S NOT NICE. IT AMAZES ME I HAVE TO...
More on Brett Favre, Sexual Harassment, and LOL in...
Last week I wrote on how ESPNW writers (poorly) commented on the Brett Favre scandal involving Jenn Sterger. The people I called out specifically responded to me on Twitter, called me crazy, that they didn’t mean what I thought they meant and well lol okay, yeah sure fine. My current attitude after my posts and their responses to it is mostly based upon the original comments from the ESPNW...
December 2010
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Dear @SarahSpain: Thanks for your response...
Dear Sarah Spain:
Thank you for your response to my post from yesterday titled Sexual Harassment: “A Victimless Crime”? According to Writers at @ESPNW, that’s how it is!
You responded to my post in several Tweets not being sorry for what you said because you felt there was nothing wrong with what you said, and you know what? I’m sorry I wasn’t more clear on why I had an issue with...
Sexual Harassment: "A Victimless Crime"? According...
In a post titled Responding to Brett Favre’s punishment: ESPNW Writers Respond to the Brett Farve Punishment on ESPNw, a site for sport lovers who happen to be women that’s also written by women, women blatantly show off their inherit sexism! And it’s a lot of fun.
Sarah Spain kicks things off with: ..Only Favre and Sterger know what really happened, but I’d bet the...
#MooreandMe: On Progressives, Rape Apologism, and... →
So, here are some cheerful statistics for you: According to RAINN, about 60% of rapes are reported. In those cases, there’s about a 51% chance that the 60% of reported rapes will have an arrest made. There’s an 80% chance of prosecution. And, given various factors including conviction and sentencing, there’s only about a 16.3% chance that someone who commits rape will serve time for that rape....
Helping a homeless family in need in Salinas, CA:...
I’ve been trying to put together this (hopefully large) care package for this homeless family that lives in their van nearby my office. Everyone in the area knows who they are, or has seen them. The dad of the family cleans windows at a gas station for money and goes to Monterey every week for dialysis. Last week he came to my shop asking if there was any work he could do. I had to deny him...
HAY GUISE IT'S ME AGAIN, INFORMING YOU THIS IS ME...
I find it amusing at how some people update every moment of every single day of their lives on Twitter. I know I’m very guilty of the daily, inane and boring “This is my life, look at it! LOL at it!” kind of tweets, but I think it’s safe to say there’s a fine line between making a few casual updates, and writing a novel in 140 increments, 796 times a day. A handful of...
November 2010
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Your Argument is Invalid: Feminism, and Being a...
It’s almost fun finding flaws in people’s defense of something. One little word can derail a whole long winded argument, and holy cow, it’s amazing. Well now, wait. I take that back, It’s very fun pointing out how people’s method of arguing something is completely invalid. Take for instance MotherPucker and PschoLadyHockey’s defense of Puck Bunnies. I am...
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RIDE IT, ZAMBONI
Sung to My Pony, and dedicated to Hockey Joe :
“That’s right, we’re giving out nightly Zamboni rides. No, this is not a pick up line. Although it should be…”
It’s just an ice truck,
Looking for a driver
Someone who knows how to skate
Without even falling down
Don’t gotta be Canadian
Knows what the Joe is
Oh when I pick you up
I promise...
October 2010
2 posts
This is my life: Don't cry for me, that's my job.
This past weekend someone told me to be creative and to start writing again. We had been talking about a La Mission, a movie set Mission District of San Francisco starring Benjamin Bratt. I told her that although the movie had flaws, I really enjoyed it and that if done right it could very well work as a TV show, the gritty, raw kind that play to the likes of Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad, or even...
September 2010
2 posts
