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From the Well, That Didn’t Take Long department: Marketing and sexism dominated the election cycle last year, and no one was more responsible for that than Barack Obama himself. Thus is the irony of Ty, the toy company, thinking it was perfectly acceptable to capitalize on the Obama’s success by marketing their daughters as dolls. Michelle, I hear, is pretty pissed, which is the proper response here. Good for her. And lay off her wardrobe, peeps. That kind of shit is petty and is itself sexist, unless you’ve honestly been commenting on Barack’s suits, shoes and ties for all these months. Yeah, I thought so.
Blue Lyon has been working over the hamsters at her place, prolifically blogging some damn fine posts in the last few days. I suggest just wandering the front page for whatever catches your eye, but I was particularly drawn to Low Hanging Fruit and her redirect to Random Thoughts from Reno’s post on expanding prostitution in Nevada. What can I say, sister-girl, except: fuckity-fuck-fuck!
Ever heard of dedicated spinsterhood? I hadn’t, until Margaret Jamison started blogging about it at The Fabulous Kitty Glendower’s A Room of Our Own.
Which reminds me, late in December, Murphy posted the most fabulous post on Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own that I have ever read. She absolutely nailed the misapprehension and the truth of it. Perfect. Go read it.
