Bros Like This Site. Jessica Valenti. Witness Rachel Jeantel gives testimony during George Zimmerman’s trial. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Jacob Langston) In the spirit of end-of-year lists, a small offering: my favorite feminist writing of 2013, complete with quotes. Here’s looking forward to a new year of feminist analysis, activism, and general bad-assery.
Cyrus did not just have black women gyrating behind her. She had particularly rotund black women. She gleefully slaps the ass of one dancer like she intends to eat it on a cracker. —Tressie McMillan Cottom, “When Your (Brown) Body is a (White) Wonderland” For decades, the challenge facing anti-rape activists was to take what is often an intensely private crime—54 percent of sexual assaults are estimated to go unreported—and bring it to national attention as a pervasive crisis. —Ann Friedman, “When Rape Goes Viral,” Newsweek Shock turns into disbelief and then rage when Roosh is rejected by heaps of “the most unfeminine and androgynous robotic women” he’s ever met. The Most Enjoyably Cantankerous Notes Ever Posted In The Workplace. The most enjoyably cantankerous notes ever posted in the workplace.
The prophet Isiah said one day a female Messiah shall deliver women from Aunt Flo. Dietary harassment is a growing problem in the modern, fat workforce. That mug is the reason local news now shows Ceramic Alerts. Something tells us that guy likes to push everyone's buttons a lot. After all, if you don't throw out the box, no one else can put in food to steal. That lack of self-control also applies to resisting the urge to write passive-agressive notes. Posted 9/13/12: Incredibly Ill Conceived Headline Photo Pairings. 17 incredibly unfortunate headline and photo juxtapositions. posted 03/07/2012 One of the most vital components of any successful newspaper — aside from rampant, conspicuous phone hacking — is choosing the right photo to help tell a story. These newspapers somehow accomplished the exact opposite, pairing serious articles with poorly placed, or just poorly chosen, photographs. It must be kind of embarrassing, but at least they can rest easy knowing Fox News will always be more idiotic on purpose than they are by accident.