The Love Your Vagina Song, Dr. Pooper and The End of Gender ….

A friend from Miami sent me these three bits and I thought y’all might get a kick out of them as well. First up The Love Your Vagina Song:

Secondly, this nauseating ad – it negates women and ushers men into the hell of dieting and body image issues, yea!:

And finally of great interest is this NPR article that claims gender may be a thing of the past! Of course noting the pink-nailed J Crew ad and the couple who has chosen to not gender their child – but also “Andrej Pejic, an androgynous Australian model, worked both the male and female runways at the Paris fashion shows earlier this year:”All very cool stuff to see. Thank you Mr. Fitzgerald!!

Dr. Mindbeam does it again!

Check out this post Healthiness is Manly. Really interesting exploration of how advertising genders everything – and then in turn we gender ourselves – even if what we’re doing is unhealthy.

15 Books Every Feminist Should Read

1. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir2. Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly

3. Borderlands/La Fontera: The New Metiza by Gloria Anzaldua

4. The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor

5. Goddesses and Monsters by Jane Caputi6. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature by Val Plumwood7. Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins8. Maternal Thinking: Towards a Politics of Peace by Sara Ruddick9. Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture by Janelle Hobson

10. The Unbearable Weight by Susan Bordo11. Pornland by Gail Dines 12. Guyland by Michael Kimmel13. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler14. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks15. The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
by Paula Gunn Allen

Today I Love My Family of Feminist Bloggers!

Female Impersonator posted a heads up that Men’s Health Magazine has created a Men’s Health Feminist Blog! The very first posting uses the old feminism is the F-word concept – and I am proud to say that the intention seems genuine! [Despite a ridiculous shot of a girl in a bikini today, which supported a genuine conversation about why cutting your pubic hair into the shape of your partner initials objectifies women] You should totally check this out - 

Oh and by the way did you know that juicy bit of info – you can go to a salon and get your pubies clipped to reflect your lover’s initials? I didn’t and in some ways I wish I was still ignorant of this beauty ritual -

What do you think gang? Are you running out to the nearest salon so you can sport a T.R., T.J., J.G., A.P., P.M, V.L., D.L., or any other random combo of letters in you netherlands?