From the LA Times: A panel about ladies convened by the right-wing Heritage Foundation avers that “feminism is bad because women are not as happy as they used to be.” Discuss. [I’ll check in later from the car repair waiting room, pity me. But before I go, let me just say that of course women …
Category Archive: Open Threads
Feb 27 2014
Spleenvent Thursday: Arizona guv vetoes godbag bill
I know, I know, I’m phoning it in, but, in the interest of keeping up a blaming head of steam, the Spleenvents are going to be a semi-regular feature until such time as I whip my blaming schedule into something resembling a shape. I’ll probably have a real post up by this afternoon, but until …
Feb 16 2014
Spleenvent Sunday: South Austin graffiti edition
Aloha, blamers! It’s Spleenvent Sunday, so this here’s your weekly open thread. Today’s photo: charming graffiti on South Lamar next to Lulu B’s Vietnamese sandwich trailer. I am so pleased to have documented this priceless artwork when I did, because the last time I drove by it had been painted over with the letters “FAGS.” …
Feb 03 2014
Spleenvent Sunday (a day late): Anti-Pantyites Unite!
My New Year Resolution was “blog, ya twit!” Consequently, I’m making a smallish bit of an effort to get up offa that thang and resume scribbling, with increased frequency, the odd trenchant remark and/or pithy observation on Our Busy Sexist Society. For example, many blamers appear to share my aversion to the word “panties.” This …
Mar 10 2013
Spleenvent Monday
Omigod, the week I’ve had. You know the week I mean. Sick horses, sick horse-girls, daylight savings time, 80-year-old mom gets a new computer, yadda yadda. So I almost forgot about Spleenvent. I know! I suck! But please enlarge, with all speed, on whatever theme weighs upon your spleen, even though it’s Monday. Here’s my …
Mar 03 2013
Spinster aunt launches SpleenVent Sundays!
Given that I Blame the Patriarchy is adopting the ponderous 7-day post cycle, with the likeliest post day to be Thursday or Friday, I thought it might be fun to institute a Sunday Open Thread tradition to fill in the gap. I am dimly aware that there’s a reason this probably won’t work, but I’ve …
Mar 15 2012
Le sacre du printemps
___________ Lyrical abstract expressionist painting? Hell no! It’s a chrysanthemum stamen magnified 50 times! Perceptive readers will have percepted that it’s gettin to be spring again. At Spinster HQ, this development can mean only one thing: get the fuck outside, chump! Which is exactly what I have done. Instead of assiduously poring over horrible news …
Feb 22 2012
For your lady eyes only
No time to blame; I gotta spend another afternoon out in a pasture with a chainsaw, so I’m just gonna leave you with this link. Fine, it’s a cop out. You get what you pay for here at I Blame the Patriarchy. Anyway, the linked blurb is about an experimental billboard in London that uses …
Jan 24 2012
Please enjoy this open thread while I do something more interesting than write a blog post
When this remark Yup. This is the only place I don’t comment under a male pseudonym. showed up in the comments this morning I got to wondering. The Internet is even more openly hostile to Vagina-Americans than real life is. Do you ever use a dudely nom de blog when you flit about the matrix? …
Dec 03 2011
The thread about Siri
“I’d rather talk about why Siri is sexist.” — blamer Josquin, on a thread about Rape-X. Well, have at it, Josquin! For my part, I haven’t been able to determine whether Siri is sexist or not, because she declines to function properly on my phone. I have come to actively dislike her. Just now I …
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