Bad Ass Brownie

I joined and left* Brownies for the exact same reasons as Cath Elliott but sadly I didn't stay long enough to get any badges, I do however have this lovely pic of me:



Wow. I'm certain I wanted to wear the uniform so I'm not certain what the hell's wrong with all that attitude, I seem to recall the hat hurting my ears so it was a choice between vanity & pain or bat ears & no pain. You can see I went for the latter. Or maybe my mum chose for me hence the face.


*Also the 'owls' were really bitchy, I didn't like them. I loved the girl guides though, they got to do all the cool stuff and I wanted to be one so bad but refused to accept I had to be a brownie first.

Links.

Boiling Point Blog: Toon: Movies for Ladies!

LoL You're a feminist

Nerds leave Fortress of Solitude for Playboy Mansion

Declaring a moratorium on the phrase 'sex sells'

No, sex – in all its troublesome, glorious, tragic, funny reality – can’t be sold to people who’d rather die than admit themselves to be sexual creatures.

What does sell is women’s bodies. The idea of “women’s bodies=sex” is so deeply ingrained in our culture that most people are unable to separate the two. So they go around parroting “sex sells” like fucking idiots, just because they see pornified women everywhere being used to sell shit.

Abyss2hope wrote about a feminist authors troubling position on rape in response to comments Ellie Levenson made on her guest post over at the F Word.

Oh sister, I haven't misjudged beauty pageants or Why I don't agree with India Knight

The travesty is that women in sport are so undervalued that Rachel had to fund her athletics training through beauty pageants, and some journalists feel the need to qualify her achievements by highlighting a famous sportsman uncle. Nobody valued this amazing sportswoman until she has proved herself to be beautiful, and now she has society will reward her, with cash prizes, with sponsorship deals.

This is what rape culture looks like.

Too easy........

....but I could not resist.


Edit: The Daily Quail makes it right.

Linkage!

Breasts & Beer - Mother is arrested for 'drunk breastfeeding'.

If women make movies is it automatically feminist?

All Hail to the Mail! & Ewwwwwwww!!

On Burlesque [Essay] at Racialicious.

Magazine Newsstands: Hos Before Brünos over at Gawker

Why chicks cry in romance comics.....

Man Jailed for sex act with sister in the park - this is pretty horrible, the title seems to suggest that this was a consentual incestuous act between the siblings. Except that the sister was passed out on the park bench and the brother sexually assaulted her.

The woman was intoxicated and unconscious throughout the incident. The mother of the pair told McFadden she hopes her son didn’t realize the woman was his sister

......Eh? It's pretty awful that he could do that to his sister but consoling yourself with the thought that your son had drunkenly assaulted a passed out woman who wasn't family is quite awful too.

Yet another woman cries rape as crazed wife tries to murder disabled husband from The Daily Quail.

Short hair & Tattoos = bisexual paedophile?

The above is a link on the front page of the Fail to this story. The woman featured in that story is not the woman above so I can only assume that short hair & tattoos is Fail code for bisexual, or from now on 'evil bisexual paedophile who is out to get your daughters by exploiting a disturbing trend'