Whenever I’m sick I give myself license to watch whatever trashy TV I want. And since my toddler started daycare, well… I’ve had a lot of colds lately! And with all this bed rest, has come a lot more time in the world of reality TV. It’s my guilty pleasure! While watching Kourtney & Kim…
This was originally posted on Christmas Eve 2010 but my sentiment is the same. Please enjoy this classic post from The Tired Feminist: Christmas has never been my favorite time of year. In fact, my favorite holiday is Halloween. Perhaps it’s because I grew up near the poverty line and we struggled so much to…
Today the HERVotes Coalition is hosting a blog carnival (follow posts from across the country on twitter via the #HERVotes hashtag) about women and the economy, and in particular unemployment insurance. I know, I know. Unemployment insurance. Glamorous stuff. But that’s just the thing. Unemployment insurance, like so many aspects of the down economy —…
As regular readers know, The Sin City Siren has joined with organizations and concerned individuals — many of them parents — to urge the Ultimate Fighting Championship to enact a code of conduct to discipline fighters and management when they have used offensive and inappropriate language, including a rash of recent episodes of hate speech…
I hope you are having a wonderful Halloween! Here at SCS headquarters, I’m nursing a sick toddler with the hopes that she will be feeling good enough later for a little holiday fun. In the meantime, here’s a few treats for All Hallow’s Eve courtesy of The Tired Feminist: Everything old is new again: Seeing…
I hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July weekend! Please take time to enjoy yourself and spend time with people you love (or at least like). I hope you don’t have to work, but if you do, try to steal a moment of fun when you can. (Sparklers on your break, perhaps?) And…
Just a quick note to say Happy Father’s Day to all the people who father out there: hetero dads, gay dads, trans dads, stay-at-home dads, work-outside-the-home dads, single dads, single moms who must also be a father figure, grandads, fathers of children who died before them, step-dads, brand new dads, dead-beat dads who saw the…
Has it really been two years since Dr. George Tiller was shot while walking into a Kansas church by an anti-choice terrorist*? A frequent name in lists of “targets” on anti-choice terrorist websites, Tiller worked at a medical clinic in Wichita, Kansas which was known as one of only three nationwide that provided abortions after…
Friends, fans and random readers: Today is a very special day for me and my family. Today is my daughter’s first birthday! So, I’m taking a personal day. But, well, this blogging gig is really an unpaid labor-of-love. Can you have a personal day from work you do for no benefits, money or other compensation?…
Have you seen the Toy Marketing FAIL! (TMF!) feature on The Tired Feminist? If not, here’s your chance to catch up and get in on the action. TMF! is a recurring feature where we can all vent about the absurd gender politics in marketing, toys, clothes and even food to kids. And I love to…
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