Posts from — October 2008

Stark and I have recently been taken on as volunteer bloggers for the Shameless blog, the website for Shameless Magazine. We’ve been tasked with ranting ceaselessly and in clever ways about the many ways that pop culture offends our feminist sensibilities. I’m excited about the prospect, as I was really burning to start a feminist ad-busting blog after the Canadian Club incident, but never could put together enough time to get it going. This promises to be equally as fun.

This weekend I wrote up my first post for Shameless. Y’all are free to head on over and leave comments so that we can trick my new editor into thinking I am really, really popular.

What follows under the cut is the unedited version of my post. I have a problem with being concise and have a hard time letting go of my long held belief that longwindedness is the soul of wit. So this is the much longer version that didn’t make it to print.

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