It doesn’t show online, but I’m a pretty nervous person. I’m eager to please and I over-apologize, as women are socialized to do. I hate it. I’m working on it. This nervousness comes with some reactions that I don’t seem to have much control over, though, and that’s my biggest problem. One of the worst …
One of the biggest and last problems that I have with streaming television is seeing the same three commercials over and over again. It’s not a big deal in the scheme of things, but when the commercials are annoying they’re very annoying. Lately I’ve seen one particular Similac commercial like a dozen times. The commercial … Continue reading Keep Your Acceptance
I’m sitting on my porch today fielding phone calls and being generally available to local voters. One of my favorite jobs as Chairperson of a Democratic County Committee in Pennsylvania is being the here to make sure that our voters have all the information they need…and maybe a donut and a coffee into they bargain … Continue reading On Voting: It’s Primary Day in PA
I went to Target today, and of course that entailed a trip through the toy department. You may know that there’s a new set of Simpson’s Lego minifigs and I thought I’d pick up two more. Having been there the other day, I wanted to snag a picture of a Marvel Super Heroes play set … Continue reading Marvel/Disney and Their Continuing Inability to Market Female Characters
Women – at least in the United States* – are socially engineered to belittle our houses as an extension of ourselves. That’s a thing I told someone today. The person I was emailing back and forth with is a guy and his fiancee felt that their house wasn’t “nice” enough to host a particular event. … Continue reading Ritual Invalidation
I didn’t want to pile onto Jeremy Renner. Frankly, as pissed off as I was by his really crappy commentary on Black Widow, I just wanted to move on. Chris Evans/Captain America made a reasonably sincere sounding apology. Renner gave us the standard “I’m sorry if you were offended” non-apology. It was bullshit and it … Continue reading Oh, Jeremy Renner…
I have a friend, and he’s a feminist. Yeah, he’s a him and he’s a feminist. The other day, he texted me to tell me that a young woman friend of his said that she thought it was weird that he “disowned the male gender” by being critical of men and masculinity. After I picked … Continue reading You Can Call BS on Masculinity and Still Be A Man
So, SeaWorld is awful. From Blackfish to Beneath the Surface, we’re hearing a lot about how crap SeaWorld is. SeaWorld would rather that we don’t buy the hype, but I’m buying. It has been bought. I’m not an anti-zoo activist…or really any kind of animal rights activist. It seems to me, however, that it’s time … Continue reading I’m Tweeting @HuluPlus About SeaWorld And You Should Too
I tried the Diva Cup. Last month I bought a diva cup after reading a blog article by someone who really loved their diva cup. Menstruation is the worst. It’s probably less the expelling of my endometrial lining once a month and more the hellish cramps that go with the process. There isn’t enough ibuprofen … Continue reading Becoming a Diva
I occasionally submit letters to the editor to various local newspapers. As a person active in politics, it’s a thing that I do. Sometimes I write them because I’m personally inspired, sometimes it’s because a particular political campaign has asked me to do so. Just for the sake of context here is the letter that … Continue reading Pay for Play Opinion
Unavoidably Feminist 