It seemed appropriate.

+ Rebecca Traister interviews Amy Poehler about Baby Mama ad the fact that feminists are funny! Poehler says, “You can get a point across better by making people laugh than by stridently telling them anything.”

+ Equal-opportunity nudity or, “look, nekkid men!” The message seems to be: yes, women’s bodies are objectified, but objectifying men also makes it okay. Right.

+ Speaking of racism, Holly at Feministe writes about feminism and the Sean Bell trial verdict.

+ The media’s bizarre obsession with the virginity of teen celebrities.

+ I wrote what I had to say about Take Our Daughters to Work Day here. (Scroll down.)

+ Okay, not feminist related as such, but the NYPD is sending cops with MP5 machine guns down to the subways to prevent terrorism and that? Scares the crap out of me.

+ And, uh, while we’re objectifying people, half-naked men with cats.