And actually, there is such a thing as men's cosmetics. Gillette does animal testing. So does Axe, Bic, Right Guard, Rogaine...

Estee Lauder's current CEO, Fabrizio Freda, is indeed male. He succeeded William P. Lauder last year. Mary Kay's CEO is David Holl. David is a man's name. Elizabeth Arden's CEO is E. Scott Beattie, another dude.

Shouldn't what we call female sexuality be determined by female sexual desires? Not kinky male ones? I think I get what Kirov1934 is saying that we want to separate what's thought of as "female sexuality" from what's designed to get heterosexual men off.

Women buy the products, but we're not the ones who own or execute most of the big cosmetics companies or the testing laboratories or determine the laws about animal testing. Most of our power lies in individual purchasing decisions, but it's spitting in the ocean if you don't address the big wigs about it, and they're…

Just having the male testee be a couple inches shorter and thinner than the male tester ought to do it.

Oh you definitely should. It's so great. Just know going in, penguins have a rough life.

I respect what Traides was trying to do and her willingness to subject herself to this, but we've seen so many dehumanized commodified tortured women all over art and popular culture, I don't think you can even put a woman in that piece and have the impact they were going for. If you want people to really see a human…

I know right? I know this knowledge isn't inherent or common sense, and I know our public schools have their limitations, but it's the kind of thing you'd know from just skimming some news and picking up a book a few times in your life.

I like Obama's strategy of talking about Reagan's actual policies to highlight what batshit extreme wingnuttery the GOP's turned into.

There's that Young Guns Woman Up thing, which looks like they're saying if we get behind them they might let us into the treehouse. You know all the good stuff is in that treehouse.

It doesn't sound like they sampled Yello, they just did a poor imitation of that song. That and the Miami Vice / Tron / Valley Girl font confirms where the Republicans are pop-culturally. They're just lucky the 80s are an in thing right now. That wasn't intentional.

Have you seen March of the Penguins? Now that I think of it, that probably won't help.

It's news to me that Snooki's one bit thinner than Jessica Simpson anyway.

That was some political back-handery. I honestly think I prefer Ann Coulter's balls-out seething hostility to S.E. Cupp's passive-aggressive cutesy bullshit.

I defy you to find a bra that's not a sports bra that doesn't have wires. DEFY YOU! *shakefist*

That ad is so 80s, with the pink and green Miami Vice font and the nod to Yello.

Do I blame our educational system? I'm not sure.

I'm not even sure what argument she was making, really. Adjusted for whateverthehell-I'm-not-an-economist the U.S. doesn't seem to be doing much better. If anything Obama pumping in stimulus money has stopped some of the hemorrhaging, which is the opposite of austerity and what the Republicans want.

Republican shill S.E. Cupp was on Bill Maher last night saying the U.S. has been more economically "austere"* than Britain, which is probably true, but she said it like it was an argument for more "austerity."

There's no sexism against men. There's also no racism against white people. No systemic anti-Christian bigotry. No "heterophobia." No classism against the rich. No anti-able-bodied prejudice. No ageism against non-elderly adults...