I am angry.
Quite Angry.

The UK Telegraph published an article by Richard Alleyne (a "science correspondent"), the title of which was "Women who dress provocatively more likely to be raped, claim scientists" (link).

Hooray.

Then Feministing pointed out that the researcher who wrote the study is pissed because the article completely misrepresents ( Read more... )

Have you ever experienced the thing where you are spending so much time with someone else and so much time at work/on school work that when all of that is over, you have no idea how to just sit alone in a house with nothing to do ( Read more... )

Via Democracy Now Headlines (link) -
Ex-Soldier Convicted in Iraq Rape, Murder Case

A former US soldier has been convicted for the 2006 rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the killing of her family. On Thursday, a federal jury found Steven Green guilty on all seventeen counts. Prosecutors say Green was the ringleader in raping and killing ( Read more... )

Naomi Wolf? What in the fuck!

Ok, over half a decade ago (before I was big-into feminist analysis) The Beauty  Myth really helped me out. Then I went out and picked up Fire with Fire (as in, saw it in a store and picked it up) and was OFFENDED by the premise. In university I forced myself to read it so that I could included it in an essay I wrote ( Read more... )

Ok, I'm terrified of pregnancy - from the mere idea of it to the reality of it.
In grade 12 I passed out when I had to look at a drawn diagram of a black and white pregnant torso.
Really, I hate it and respond with extreme nausea.

But a ...um, a commercial for mattresses pretty much changed my mind? Check it out - you won't vomit, I swear.

I want to move to Portland.


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Ohhh,
I want all of these things! Whoa!


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I bought a VERY trendy sweater (red and gray argyle!) that is also VERY distinct (though I'm sure many fashionable people also own the same sweater) and I'm VERY afraid that this will turn into one of those situations where people will say "there goes Keri, wearing THAT sweater again" or "every time I see you you're wearing THAT sweater!" even if I ( Read more... )

The NB Rebelles are up to tons of stuff.

I guess we're using our web page as a blog now, but have a side bar that links to our "details" (which are hosted on google pages). I think this is pretty fair, as it is a blogspot page, but I just want it to stay tidy looking.

I had a prelim meeting today with another member and she expressed two great ( Read more... )

So, I had heard of Laura Ingraham before, but never had I heard her talk radio show. That is, until Jessica Valenti was a guest (link to the page where you can listen).

Did you know that Laura Ingraham is pretty awful? Yes.

Reading her wiki page was interesting - her three books being (link): 

• The Hillary Trap: Looking for Power in All the Wrong ( Read more... )