Hah! My first paper ever for graduate school was a research paper on the history of both anti-feminism in Shrew criticism and feminist responses to the play. So I totally have half that paper written already.

Do it! Do it!

Andrea Dworkin has an amazing essay about WH and sadism. Brilliant.

Yeah but did you notice the part where Portia commits suicide by eating burning coals?!?!?!?!

Wha? There was all kinds of gay in Shakespeare. Not gay sex, but gayness. Or I suppose homoeroticism, which is about as close to sex as you got in any of his plays (there wasn't any real heterosexual sex either, at least not until the later plays).

I agree that most teenagers don't like R&J. But that's not the play—that's the teachers.

How old is she? This is what my 14 year old students used to say about feminism when I worked at a high school. It's a really good way to make sure boys still really really like you and make sure you're not threatening them or their superiority or privilege in any way while still being able to look at yourself in the…

R&J is my favorite Shakespeare tragedy. And this entire post is dead wrong.

This is nice and funny.

No, he definitely noticed. But it wasn't like one day we were fucking every day then it just stopped out of nowhere. It slowed to a trickle then stopped entirely.

We just use condoms now. But if I ever got pregnant I'd get an abortion; I'm luckily in a situation where it would not be terribly difficult to get one (in terms of both affordability and geography—I live in New England) and emotionally (because I have no qualms about abortion at all).

I have no blind worship for the Democrats. I don't even have sighted worship. I have pretty much total disdain.

I stopped having sex with my partner for like 6 months (it was about 6 months before I even noticed) because being on birth control killed my libido. It was like I forgot that sex even existed. Seriously. It was crazy. And terrible.

Really? He's less popular as a political candidate than Sarah Palin?

I disagree.

I used to be a young republican.

You could also make syrup and then add it on a drink-by-drink basis to some club soda. I chop up some ginger and a little bit of lemongrass, and boil it with a bunch of sugar. I like my soda quite un-sugary, so my ratios won't work for most anyone else, but you can just figure out yourself what you like. And then when…

I do this too. My legs get itchy as fuck if I don't shave my legs for over a couple months in the winter. I really think it's the tights and the skinny jeans. Then I have to shave.

I stopped shaving altogether a while ago, but sometimes when you have very hairy legs and you try to wear wool tights it gets very itchy. And so then I shave my legs. And then once I shaved my armpits for a now-forgotten reason after having hairy pits for several months or a year.

This is definitely real. Well I don't know about this picture, but I know that scolds' bridles were real. The only extant first-hand account of a woman who was punished with one is horrible, but her description involved something slightly different. It had a bit that they put in her mouth (like you do to a horse) and…