Cosmo Aims To Sweep Her Off Her Feet With Bad Sex Advice
At Motherhood Metamorphosis, Deanna writes, “You Know Sex Ed Is Really Bad When… Cosmo can’t even get it right. In their instructions for Sex Position of the Day: Sensual Shower, their diagram for how to achieve erotic thrills literally misses the mark — the genitals don’t even line up.”
And then she proves the point, by [...]
Two Tickets To Erotica Novella-Land, Maxim Style
In a real shocker, Maxim publishes obvious sex information with girl-on-girl photos. (Just ‘cuz hubby got shafted with a Maxim replacement subscription when Stuff folded, does he have to keep re-subscribing? Maxim ain’t no Stuff; Stuff was Stuff. ‘Nuff said?)
Anyway, the article is all about how people have more sex (including kinkier sex) on [...]
Jon Replaces His 8 Plus?
October 30, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Absurd, Reality Self-Check, Toxic Relationships
Rumor has it that Jon (of Jon and Kate + may be doing a “reality show” dating the Octomom. I heard it on some TV show or other, but Christine Navratil’s talking about it too.
What I don’t get is how they could even hope to apply the word “reality” to such a show. [...]
Boo-Hoo, Poor Wife-Beater Complains
October 22, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Absurd, Toxic Relationships, Victimization
I was going to write a rabid response to this bozo who wrote into “Since You Asked” at Salon, whining that it’s unfair that he should have to worry about his current girlfriend’s response to discovering that he — on more than one occasion — abused his former wife:
On half a dozen occasions, during the [...]
Divorce: Is It Really Funny ‘Cuz It’s True?
October 14, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Absurd, Relationship & Dating Humor, Toxic Relationships, Victimization
At first glance, these “grounds for divorce” snippets from a 1949 issue of Quick magazine seem funny — but then you read them, and then…
You realize that it’s not funny when a husband controls and limits his wife. Sure, painting a car so that it’s too embarrassing to be seen in it sounds funny (and [...]
Pepsi Perpetuates Predatory Males
Pepsi’s latest foray into social media with an iPhone app for its AMP energy drink is more than trending on Twitter — it’s downright pissing women (and men who give a damn) off.
The “fun” application is called “before you score” — and yes, with “score” means what you think it does: getting laid. As in [...]
And Another Thing… Are You The Shallow Person You Refuse To Date?
September 16, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Absurd, Victimization
America, your apathy offends me.
Based on trending Twitter topics, popular blog stories, and popular keyword action, you are more concerned with the rude comments made by Kanye West and Taylor Swift’s hurt feelings than you are with the institutionalized victim blaming and other crimes of health care. What are the acts of one classless man [...]
How Rude!
September 11, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Absurd, Breakups, Reality Self-Check
An “Emmy Award Winning Talk Show” has placed the following casting call: I May Break-up With You…Because You’re TOO Rude!
Is it just me, or is the person who responds to this equally — if not more — rude as the person they are complaining about?
Even if the casting call insists, “Don’t write in unless both [...]
Divorce From Too Much Affection?
September 9, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Absurd, Relationship & Dating Humor
Published in the July 31, 1950 issue of Quick magazine, Mrs. Le Roy Nichols of Paterson, N.J., sued her husband for divorce based on “cruelty” — because “he sat her on his lap and kissed her too much, kept her from doing the housework.”
Feminism On A Friday
September 4, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Absurd, Safety, Victimization
Some quick responses to what I’ve been reading this week…
First, The Cult of Masculinity by Jennifer Kesler, which clearly articulates thoughts in my own head & heart; specifically the following:
I must caution casual readers: this article is not a “Men’s Rights Activist” platform. The form of feminism I grew up taking seriously was the kind [...]








