Full Metal Jacket meets Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer: ~Riot.Jane
Full Metal Jacket meets Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer: ~Riot.Jane
Riot.Jane Lady T contacted me and asked me to write about workplace dress for her audience. This is a thorny topic with a wide variety of perspectives. I thought about the issues again and realized that I hadn’t changed my…
I’m at the same job I was in 10 years ago. The job has no path for advancement, either professionally or monetarily. I’m a walking knowledge base for everyone who comes into contact with me. I’ve been there so long…
While reading through this satiric list of useless Care Package items that deployed service personnel receive and responses from those, same personnel, it occurred to me that I haven’t sent an “Any Soldier” package. Female Soldier Training at Annapolis I…
An interesting video clip from BBC News recently crossed my desk. In it, Dr. Belinda Brooks-Gordon of the Birkbeck University of London, strip club owner Peter Stringfellow, and not-present news columnist Kevin Maguire (proxied by a BBC anchor) discuss the…
We recently introduced you to a disgusting full-page Woman’s Day magazine ad in Want a Raise? Wash Your Vulva, Dammit! (Part 1). As promised, here’s the follow-up . . . now that I’m clear-headed enough to write it. Let’s start from…
Male friend trident5 kicked a DemocraticUnderground link my way with the comment, “I am wholly unqualified to offer an opinion on this.” Kowing him, I was expecting to find something nerdy/political and bizarre enough that he, one of my Nerd Flock, would…
On her AuntMoxie blog, Mary Michael Townsend recently wrote about the motivation behind her decision to begin a mini-revamp on her personal image. While I tend to respond to such discussions with a “Meh” (I am just not a clothes and make-up…
I just got home from work. The hour is later than normal because I went out for a couple of beers with a co-worker after work. My co-worker and I are very good friends; we know lots of stuff about…
Cultural Dissidence 