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God’s law and man’s law
Frank Bruni in an NYT opinion piece, “Too Much Prayer in Politics: Republicans, the Religious Right and Evolution” on February 15th: Faith and government shouldn’t be as cozy as they are in this...
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Sluts
Forwarded to me by Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky, this posting on tumblr, with: She: What’s the boy word for slut? He: hey still haven’t come up with one yet. But I’m sure they’re working on it. The...
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Mansplaining in the comics
Today’s Dilbert has Alice exploding at the mansplainers in her department: The pointy-headed boss can’t help mansplaining mansplaining. On this blog, mansplaining and straightsplaining on 9/20/14....
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Magnum
Just went past me on television: an ad for Magnum Ice Cream Bars: (#1) (from the Magnum Ice Cream site; “Magnum Ice Cream Bars are made with creamy Ice Cream and Belgian Chocolate”). The bars are big...
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fellow sisters
In the NYT Sunday Review 5/3/15, in “What Black Moms Know” by Yvonda Gault Caviness: Thankfully, I am a black mom. Like many of my fellow sisters, I don’t have time for all that foolishness [about...
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Like a rock
Yesterday’s Dinosaur Comics, on remembering names: (#1) The feminine counterpart to the name Peter is Petra, both ultimately from Greek πέτρος (petros) ‘stone, rock’, but there are also women called...
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blond(e)
A while back, a friend complained about people who referred to a man as a blonde: blonde is a French word, my friend said, and in French it can be used only for women. So He’s a blonde is a vulgar...
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Androids on the march
Sexy Friday continues, with the war between the sexes in today’s Scenes From a Multiverse: First, misogynoids launched against the women, then misandroids launched in retaliation, sowing the...
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Two books
From the NYT Book Review of last Sunday (May 10th), bits from two reviews that caught my eye: Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts reviewed by Jennifer Szalai; and Speak Now by Kenji Yoshino (a memoir...
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LFL
You can pick up a lot of random information in popular genres, like detective fiction and police procedural television shows. Murder mysteries are typically set in some small special world, so that you...
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Feminist pirates and their chanteys
A recent Key and Peele segment has pirates singing chanteys.”Pirates trade swashbuckling stories about how they’ve treated the women in their lives.” No, it’s not what you think. (Hat tip to Gregory...
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Zippy and the Icon at the Bluebonnet
Today’s Zippy, which leads in several directions: (#1) Zippy at the Bluebonnet Diner in Northampton MA, trading warning signs at the counter with an icon representing a (generic) person. Stuff here:...
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Double standard
In today’s Dilbert, Alice complains about a sexual double standard on language use, with women held to a stricter standard than men: Alice refers to, and rejects, two expectations of women: that they...
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Geoffrey Nauffts
On Law & Order: Criminal Intent on cable this morning, an episode with a very familiar face that I couldn’t put a name to. The man turned out to be named Geoffrey Nauffts, but I still couldn’t...
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cowboy up!
Recently run across by accident, a reference to a Kindle “book” (apparently a self-published manuscript) entitled “How to cowboy up and stop being such a pussy” by “Max Powerz”. The author’s...
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X queen
I’ll be posting mostly about a family of snowclonelet composites of the form X queen, in which the queen component is a word going back to Old English, with the meaning ‘woman, wife’, though a lot of...
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Two Dilberts
From the 8th, featuring Alice: (#1) and from the 20th, featuring Wally and the pointy-haired boss: (#2) On #1, note that “good communication skills” involve both the way you speak and use your body...
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Misogynistic urinals and sinks
(This posting is packed with pretty direct talk about bodies (women’s and men’s) and sexual practices (mostly, but not entirely, straight, and some kinky). While NSFW, the images are technically not...
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Five from Barsotti
It started with a cartoon by New Yorker cartoonist Charles Barsotti (from 1/18/10) in my doctor’s examining room yesterday: (#1) Angry doctor upbraids a smugly smiling patient (hugely obese, cocktail...
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Sara and D’ijon double-team Jeremy
The Zits from the 21st takes up a recurrent theme in the strip: Over the years, Mark Liberman and I have posted about the Chatty Girls trope on the strip, retailing the (basically false) stereotype...
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