One of my hobbies is playing board games, and I like a good sale as much as the next guy (o.k., probably more than the next guy). Imagine my elation, then, when I saw the 50% off sign in the window of a game store in a local mall yesterday. Though I didn’t have a [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Man Laws and Woman Rules, Episode 1
Posted in games, tagged board game, man laws, woman rules on January 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Loving your bits
Posted in cultural commentary, television, tagged genitalia, Great Wall of Vagina, Perfect Private Parts, plastic surgery on January 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I recently watched a BBC America documentary (part of the BBC Reveals series) called Perfect Private Parts. The hour long documentary is about labiaplasty and other genital plastic surgery. Labiaplasty, for those who don’t know, involves cutting and reshaping one or both sets of the labia, to make them smaller. The documentary is adamantly opposed [...]
Paint it Black
Posted in cultural commentary, internet, tagged bra, breast cancer, facebook, Huffington Post, mashable on January 8, 2010 | 8 Comments »
By now you’ve probably heard, read about, or experienced the odd Facebook meme of women posting their bra color as their status, supposedly in order to raise awareness of/for breast cancer. Mashable’s brief article about the phenomenon was picked up by The Huffington Post, but I can’t find any other media coverage. Moreover, no one [...]
Back to the Future
Posted in music/music videos, tagged Beyonce, Britney Spears, female sexuality, Madonna, music videos, The Weather Girls on January 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was channel flipping tonight and came across One Hit Wonders–Sex Hour on VH1. Now that’s quality TV! And one of the songs they played was “It’s Raining Men” and I was reminded of just how fabulous it is, so I had to share it (thank you Youtube):
The Goldilocks Dilemma
Posted in books/magazines, cultural commentary, internet, tagged cankles, Cosmopolitan, femininity, gender, masculinity, msnbc, plastic surgery, radish calf on January 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A week or so ago, I saw a slide show of “strange plastic surgeries” on MSNBC’s web site. While I’m pleased that the site listed these procedures as extreme (even “oddball”), I was struck by one thing in particular. Two of the surgeries were meant to remedy complaints about women’s calves. If a woman had [...]
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