Dear PETA: Sometimes you have pretty cool campaigns. Sometimes you miss the mark entirely and produce crap like this. I don’t know who thought “YES, this is a great idea! Let’s use one of the most derogatory words for fat women and put it on a HUGE billboard and imply that women are whales that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘gendered insults’
Lose the blubber? More like lose the douchebaggery.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advertising, animal rights, beauty, body image, fatphobia, gendered insults, media, objectification, PETA, sexism, shaming, vegetarianism on August 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Penis Graffiti
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anatomy, chauvinism, education, gendered insults, graffiti, media, power, terrorism on June 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Remember in high school when people were constantly drawing penises everywhere. I always chalked this up to immaturity/silliness. But I was talking to orkinson the other day and she thinks that it is a manifestation of patriarchy, and even a form of terrorism, not that different from, say, drawing swastikas everywhere. Although the people I [...]
Hamell on Trial, no Righteous Babe
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ani DiFranco, comedy, gendered insults, Hammel on Trial, misogyny, music, objectification, raunch culture on April 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
So last night Irene and I went to go see Ani DiFranco (which was super great especially the super cute/talented drummer) but unfortunately we found ourselves stuck listening to the opener, Hamell on Trial. Hamell on Trial sang poorly, had mediocre guitar skills, but worse than that he was incredibly offensive. Literally everything that came [...]
Funny Bone Not Included: When Good Women Make Bad Dick Jokes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comedy, gendered insults, media, sexism on January 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This started out as a post about how guilty I felt about listening to crude comedy, but it turned into something almost completely different. The stand-up profession is horribly sexist, and this perpetuates the assumption that (I’m sure you’ve heard it often) “women aren’t funny.” In fact, Christopher Hitchens, a writer I usually really like, [...]
maybe not the most momentous thing to post about
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gendered insults, hate mail, language, sexism on January 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
…but: just a moment ago, i was going to express surprise at something someone said online. i wanted to say “lol oh man!” then i was like, that sounds off, maybe “lol oh boy!” and then i realized that i didnt like that they both had maleness. im confused. is saying “oh man” or “oh [...]
words behind words
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "bitch", gendered insults on December 17, 2008 | 11 Comments »
is it anti-feminist to call people “bitch”? – orkinson
