Stuff and Things.

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Note: Naked woman on the cover a magazine at the first link.

Beth Ditto on the cover of NME (I think it's the current issue of NME, but I haven't gotten NME regularly in a while.) It's getting a mixed response, with some people horrified that there's a naked fat woman with hairy armpits on the cover a magazine, and others talking about how empowering it is to see her there. And there's a variety of responses to what she said about gay men and celebrities being to blame for the body image/self hatred issues as well.

Also, interesting blog post on feminist messages and abstinence only education. Or rather, the anti-feminist/anti-empowered woman messages that exist in such programs.

And, in contrast, and for your amusement...abstinence only sites courtesy of Whitehouse.org ¹

Sex is for Fags-an abstinence only site for boys.
Iron Hymen an abstienence only site for girls.

1. Whitehouse.org is a humor site/spoof site, not a real site.

Comments

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

I totally want a 'Sex is for Fags' T-shirt now.

[katishna.livejournal.com]

I have no idea who Beth Ditto is, but I think I'm in love.

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

Off topic: This is the second time I've seen "Ditto" as a surname. The first was a the manager of a minor league baseball team in ... Walla Walla, WA. I was amused.

[margoeve.livejournal.com]

Aside from touching up stretch marks, I think they touched up that cover around her stomach (and possibly her backside). Something just doesn't look right in the way the skin is from her sides to the front. And if I'm right, I'm dissapointed.