February 2011
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January 2011
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GOP plans to redefine rape. →
“This bill takes us back to a time when just saying ‘no’ wasn’t enough to qualify as rape,” says Steph Sterling, a lawyer and senior adviser to the National Women’s Law Center. Laurie Levenson, a former assistant US attorney and expert on criminal law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, notes that the new bill’s authors are “using language...
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Remember this post I reblogged about the ridiculously sexist article “Hard Core” and its can’t-smell-my-own-shit pretentious argument that male sexuality is unconditionally violent and evil?
Well, no one liked it at Fleshbot either.
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Self-cooking soup packaging... →
I know it’s not like Pump Six. I know it’s just an electric can. But I can’t help but think about Pump Six nonetheless.
Pump Six, a series of stories by Paolo Bacigalupi, not for the faint of heart. The title story is set in a future where chemicals in self-heating food are in the middle of turning everyone into illiterate, horny troglodytes. It’s one of the best...
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Hard Core →
idostuff:
When a 13-year-old girl can sit in math class, hide her Hello Kitty smart phone behind her textbook, and pull up such an extreme video in less time than it would take her to text a vote for her favorite American Idol contestant, we’ve certainly reached some kind of new societal landmark. It’s important, however, to distinguish between what has changed and what hasn’t.
“Men, so the...