Sunday Night Social: Time To Kick Back And Relax

It's that time again, when I take my leave of you guys. Thanks to Jessica Coen for inviting me back. And you know what to do below. [Image via Me-Liss-A on Flickr]
It's that time again, when I take my leave of you guys. Thanks to Jessica Coen for inviting me back. And you know what to do below. [Image via Me-Liss-A on Flickr]
The problem with trying to write about women's sexuality on the internet is that it is either pegged to one newsy event or it devolves into everyone taking one side or the other. Or both. And I hate that.
[The Bronx, October 16. Image via Getty Images.]
Meghan McCain, who quite handily parlayed her time blogging for her dad's failed President campaign into a journalism gig and a book deal, said today on ABC's This Week that Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell's inexperience should disqualify her.
"I fuck while feminist by insisting that there is nothing submissive about getting fucked. Accepting the standard bullshit narrative of 'penetration as dominance' or 'penetration as corruption' is ridiculous and arbitrary." -Garland Grey [Tiger Beatdown, Image via Phillipe Leroyer]
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating Justin Bieber after a 12-year-old boy claimed Bieber hit him during a game of laser tag. The boy's father reported the incident, and the countdown to a lawsuit starts now. [TMZ]
Author Helen Boyd, on how celibacy, monogamy and being picky (which can cause the other two) can be sexier (and more feminist) than actually doing it. [My Husband Betty, Image via Sarah G. on Flickr]
Nebraska Senator (and former Bush Agriculture Secretary) Mike Johanns is sponsoring federal legislation to make doctors tell women having abortions that fetuses can feel pain at 20 weeks despite there being no scientific consent on that. Silly "science." [AP]
[Los Angeles, October 16. Image via Associated Press.]
The first article by Jessica Wakeman that stuck in my head was about her reconciling her feminism with being spanked. It didn't get the best reception, but I asked her to talk more about reconciling feminism and BDSM.
But writer and filmmaker Abiola Abrams asks, "So who was having all the fun while I was upholding the honor of my race and gender?" The "sluts," whose failures and successes weren't attributed to their race, gender or behavior. [AbiolaTV]
[Los Angeles, October 16. Image via Getty Images.]
Last summer, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morell suggested, and then strongly denied, that the military was considering segregating gay and lesbian servicemembers when Don't Ask Don't Tell is repealed. A look at the Pentagon's Friday appeal suggests that they really are.
A set of never-used German stamps featuring Audrey Hepburn were sold at auction yesterday for $600,000. The proceeds will benefit UNICEF Germany And the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, which educates children in sub-Saharan Africa. [AP]
[Los Angeles, October 16. Image via Getty Images.]
"we do think, on some level, that our individual actions need to be held up as some sort of heroic feminist acts, and that's where I think we've taken the political too far." -Rachel Kramer Bussel on the personal-political divide.
Given the need for Secret Service Protection, Jill Biden says, "So now when he says, 'Let's go out to dinner,' if I want time alone together, I'll say, 'Let's not. Let's stay home.' "[Self via NY Post]
Barbara Billingsley, best know for playing June Cleaver on Leave It To Beaver, passed away yesterday at her home in Santa Monica, California after a long illness. She was 94.
[Berg en Bos, The Netherlands. Image via Mirm on Flickr]