I am pleased to announce another addition to The Monologues’ compendium of female public urination. As I noted in Another girl urinates in public!, Ecofeminists are prone to accusing guys of being solely responsible, among the sexes, for despoiling the environment, including by supposedly being the only gender that urinates in public. Of course,...
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Yesterday, the New York Times ran an article about a Ralph Lauren advertisement appearing in Japan which features an electronically-enhanced picture of a very thin model. The article debated the merits of legislation, similar to that pending in France, which would require a warning that the image of the model is digitally-enhanced. Typical of the Times,...
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I’m sure, like me most of you guys have been rudely honked at while riding a bike or walking down a relatively isolated pedestrian strip of road. In my experience, it has nothing to do with safety or my gender - its usually just a couple of guys in a pickup truck or similar vehicle that see my...
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In a recent post, Amanda Hess was calling using the “m” word in reference to marijuana ads featuring scantily-clad women, at http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2009/09/23/weed-culture-is-boob-culture/: “Here’s what these advertisements say to women: Weed isn’t for you. It’s for men. (Also for men? Your boobs). And the targets of those advertisements—high school and college guys—often echo those misogynist...
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As a result of my recent posts in Amanda Hess’ “The Sexist” blog, many of you are reading the Monologues for the first time. Before you read my earlier posts, there’s something I want to clarify, but first, I will quote a recent Commentator on “The Sexist” in response to my post, “Murder and...
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Blood libels are false accusations that Jews use human blood in certain aspects of religious rituals and holidays. Surely, there has been some Jewish guy somewhere that has used human blood in some aspect of religious ritual, but it isn’t part of Judaism. The libel of the entire religion persists in certain circles nonetheless. Of...
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