A Mixed Bag: A Straight, White, Feminist Woman’s Take on “Bruno”

There will be spoilers for the movie Bruno in this post. Consider yourself warned.
Speaking of movies, interpretations, and feminist critiques, I finally saw Bruno last night. I do realize I’m a bit late on the subject (even though the movie was officially released in the US only a week ago), but I wanted to share [...]

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Guilt-tripping and the Art of Critique

I know: Just a couple days ago I said I couldn’t be bothered to blog. Well, that has changed, because I remembered something that bothers me  and that prevents a lot of people from listening to and considering feminist perspectives.
Let me illustrate this something with an anecdote.
Earlier this year, I went to see [...]

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Asshole Music, Part Deux

My mp3 player’s been dead for the last two weeks, so I’ve had a lot of chances to listen to the radio lately — unfortunately.  I listen to one of the very, very few radio stations I can stand in this area: KTCL 93.3.  The rest of the stations in this ridiculous state are “soft [...]

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Asshole Music

Speaking of calling out sexism where I see it, this song bothers the ever-living shit out of me.
It’s a song by a local group called 3OH!3 (it’s a “clever” name because that’s the area code of Boulder, their hometown) called “Don’t Trust Me” — it’s their breakout song and it gets played on the radio [...]

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On Misogyny and McCain

It’s really no surprise that Republican presidential candidate John McCain doesn’t have women’s best interests in mind.  Do a search for “McCain hates women,” and you’ll find plenty of evidence to support the query.  If you go neutral and search for “McCain women,” and you’ll find some pretty damning evidence of his misogyny as well.
If [...]

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