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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Kyle Payne is back — and as big of a douche as ever

Ugh, he’s so sleazy.
Background: here, here, and here.
I’ll echo the many others who’ve already said it: Kyle Payne is a sexual predator (whether or not there’s a “pattern of abuse”), and he is not welcome in my feminist blogosphere (whether or not he is interested in being called a pro-/feminist blogger).  
And, for the record? [...]

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Kyle Payne sentenced to six months in county jail!

Yay!  Yay!  Yay!!!
Stating that a major violation of trust had occurred, District Court Judge Don Courtney sentenced Iowa blogger and self-proclaimed male feminist Kyle Payne to serve time in the Buena Vista County Jail for invasion of privacy.
Payne received 360 days, with 180 days suspended on each of two counts of invasion of privacy, a [...]

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Swing Vote: Racist, sexist, asshole tripe

Well, Kevin Costner’s done it again.  He’s made me want to vomit all over a movie screen.  If he’s good at anything — which is up for debate — he’s good at making me feel absolutely nauseated.
sirhC/Nigel and I went to go see Swing Vote on Saturday night — it was either that or The [...]

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“Feminist” dude tapes self sexually assaulting a female college student in his care

Kyle Payne, author of the blog The Road Less Traveled (ha, I wrote “roach” when I first typed “road” — Freudian slip), has pleaded guilty as the result of a plea bargain to felony attempted burglary in the second degree and two counts of invasion of privacy, a serious misdemeanor.  What actually happened was that, [...]

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