+ The next generation of Phyllis Schlaflys are kind of scary. Sort of like the Cafe Press store I saw yesterday that I won’t dignify with a link; they were selling T-shirts that said, “This is what a subordinate housewife looks like.” I mean, really. Are these women for real?
+ Tina Fey on Hillary Clinton: “Bitches get stuff done!”
+ Are you an unmarried woman? You could be denied health care in Canada.
+ The LA Times wants you to know that it’s because of all those sluts that women in college get raped.
+ Abstinence-only drivers ed! The sad thing is that, in my high school, we actually had comprehensive sex ed but the in-car driver’s ed program got cut, so the knowledge of driving I acquired in high school was mostly theoretical. The argument could be made that my high school got it right. The odds of a teenager getting seriously hurt in a car wreck are probably higher than he or she getting seriously hurt by sex, right? (I don’t know if this is actually true, just making up statistics. Kind of like an abstinence-only sex ed class, m’iright?
+ Swing voters and what magazines they read.
+ More on crazy activists and bloggers getting a little fundamentalist over their candidate of choice. I’m starting to think that the vast majority of people with widely-published opinions are growing increasingly out of touch with what the majority of voters are actually thinking. I mean, if what the conservative talking heads said were anything like what normal people actually think, McCain would not be the most likely Republican nominee, you know?
+ Challenge! Name all the presidents in 8 minutes!. I only missed 5. I’ll help you out by naming them: Van Buren, Pierce, Cleveland, Harding, and Benjamin Harrison.
+ The Times gets giddy over semicolons. Only the Times doesn’t always get it right.
Link-o-rama!
+ It turns out that sixteen-year-old boys think about things other than sex. Shocking, I know. But a new study says that today’s sixteen-year-old boys are actually interested in girls for their personalities. (Although, as Jill at Feministe points out, forcing boys into the “teenage boys are sex-crazed beasts” box is pretty darned sexist, and so is the Times’s headline.)
+ Were you aware that it’s not legal to be a female president? This guy’s argument is that the 19th Amendment gave women the vote but it doesn’t say anywhere that women can run for president. Of course, there’s no law forbidding a female president, and it’s not like HRC’s even the first one to run, so this guy’s just blowing smoke, and it’s smoke that reeks of desperation, no?
+ Some dude figures out what any woman who’s ever tried online dating already knows: some of the guys are really frickin’ creepy. There’s probably something more to say here about gendered expectations and being a “hot girl” and, I don’t know, the whole article kind of gives me the shakes. I don’t want to look too deeply, so I leave that to you.
+ The feminists are baffled by Senator Clinton. Probably this is symptomatic of the activist fundamentalism happening on teh interwebs wherein the hard core [circle one: Clinton Obama ] supporters are trying to paint their opponent’s supporters as crazy or delusional, and, conversely, there’s a lot of blind devotion to a candidate and… look, neither is perfect. And, yes a woman president would be tremendous, but if we’re going to take back the country, there are other factors, you know?
+ Elle says men do want anorexic chicks.
+ There’s a new book out on women and mental illness.
+ New toys teach girls social responsibility and boys how to play air guitar. Riiight.
+ Shakesville’s Senior Shakesville Teen Analyst and 18-year-old Man-Boy of Leisure Kenny Blogginz learns an Important Lesson about feminism.
+ xkcd gets it right.
Oh, man. So much sexism, so little time.
The election as summed up by baked goods in Brooklyn.
Also, fshk blog scoop! Tales of disenfranchisement in the Big Apple! Add yours in the comments!
I’m curious to find out how the Giants ticker tape parade affected voting in Lower Manhattan. I understand the parade blocked access to polling places.
I’m also hearing tales of disenfranchised Republicans, although not deliberately. Seems some of the poll workers were not properly apprised of how the machines work, making it hard for those registered Republican to vote and have their votes counted. I realize that these machines used in New York have been since before Brontosaurus, but the poll workers haven’t and there’s no excuse for them not knowing how to enable the machines for Republican voters. (The poll worker at my polling place this morning didn’t know there was a difference. True story.)
More later.
The Giants won, so we got that taken care of. Now we just have to deal with Super Duper Tuesday. I will be getting up early tomorrow morning to cast my vote. But for whom? The news media’s still trying to tell me who to vote for. Are you also feeling put out?
+ This pretty much sums it up.
+ OMG, I can’t believe someone with PMS might get near the big red button! (*sigh*)
+ Do hot chicks ruin good athletes? Seriously, you guys, it’s like sexism just exploded on teh internets today.
+ Mac vs. PC? Obama vs. Clinton? If I am a Mac user, does this mean I have to vote for Obama? All these arbitrary criteria are confusing my poor feeble female brain.
We here at the fshk blog are nothing if not New York sports fans, and, sure, we prefer baseball, but it’s hard not to get wrapped up in a Super Bowl featuring your home team (and I spent most of my childhood in North Jersey, so I mean, for real home team) and that of your chief rival city. I like Boston fine, but not when our sports teams are competing. And it’s on!
Fun and games to tide you over until kick off:
The mayor of both cities have made their bet. I gotta say, Boston gets the better end of this one.
Boston bet:
* 100 cups of New England Clam Chowder from Legal Sea Foods
* 42 pounds of coffee from Dunkin’ Donuts (in honor of Super Bowl XLII)
* 12 dozen Boston Cream Pies and 12 Dozen Parker House Rolls (in honor of Tom Brady’s #12) from Boston’s Omni Parker House Hotel
* 100 Old Tyme hot dogs and 100 Alfresco chicken sausages from Kayem
* 20 pizzas from Sal’s
* 5 cases of Brigham’s Boston You’re My Home Ice Cream
* 5 cases of Cherry on the Top Frozen Yogurt Bars from Elan
* 100 servings of Stonyfield Farm Organic Yogurt
Lame. I can get Dunkin’ Donuts and Stonyfield Farm yogurt and Legal Seafoods clam chowdah right here in New York. That’s not much of a bet.
New York is betting:
* 42 pastrami and corned beef sandwiches from Carnegie Deli
* 42 “Big Blue Cheese Eli Mann-Eater Burgers” from Gallagher’s Steak House
* One case of beef cocktail patties and one case of chicken cocktail patties from Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill in the Bronx
* A selection of five pizzas from Goodfella’s Pizzeria on Staten Island
* 42 pounds of rugelach, 42 pounds of assorted layer cakes and 42 black and white cookies from Junior’s
* One 2.5 gallon tub of lemon ice and one 2.5 gallon tub of ice of the flavor of Boston’s choice from the Lemon Ice King of Corona
* 100 servings of Manhattan clam chowder and one bushel of Blue Point Oysters from the Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant
* 20 pounds of “Super Steak” from Peter Luger Restaurant and six bottles of Peter Luger steak sauce.
That’s a lot of meat.
Bonus: Gawker compiled the 25 most memorable Super Bowl ads.
+ This article in the Times about Jessica Valenti and Marcia Pappas (the NOW-NY president who said last week that Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama was “a betrayal of women”) is interesting. As an Edwards supporter, you can guess how I come down on this debate, but I’ll add: Gee, Marcia, thanks for setting us straight because it’s not like women can make their own choices about who to vote for.
+ Speaking of voting, I’ve been having a very hard time choosing who to vote for now that Edwards is out of the race. Amanda has some pretty compelling reasons to consider Obama. But if you needed another reason, not to vote Clinton, she’s been endorse by Ann Coulter. Kind of.
+ Here’s a kind of hilarious list of complaints about TV to the FCC. Kind of makes you wonder; I haven’t seen most of the episodes of TV referenced, and I watch a far amount of TV. It’s sort of like complaining about porn on the internet; it’s not just there when you turn on your computer, for the most part, you have to go look for it. Do these people just surf channels looking for things to write to the FCC about?
+ Speaking of TV, in entirely unsurprising news, Karl Rove joins Fox News.
+ West Virginia wants to teach kids how to use guns.
+ Mississippi wants to keep fat people from eating. (Shapely Prose has a good round up of opinions on that. See also Feministe.
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