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Sexist Beatdown: Not Gonna Milk Passin’ That Ball The Fish Slime Also Sarah Palin Resignation For Ya There Edition

Friends: when is the right time to mourn the passing of something great? When, if that thing is specifically Sarah Palin’s political career, vital as it is to the Extremely Lazy Comedy Industry? Do we discuss it the day of its death? The day after? When whatever insane dirt caused this passing (LATE-TERM MOOSE ABORTIONS) […]

Tales of Performative Gender PRESENTS: Humpday

So: I took this morning’s post down! Whoops. In my defense, it was pretty dumb. Also, I consider it my responsibility, as a person who writes blog posts, to give the people what they want! Strangely, no one ever e-mails me to request poorly thought-out and pretentious ramblings about a book I am not finished […]

Geeks Do Not Have Pedigrees, Or Perfect Punk Rock Resumes: In Which I Spring to the Defense of Diablo Cody

You guys? I think I really like the “Jennifer’s Body” trailer. I mean it! I am excited for the upcoming feature film “Jennifer’s Body!” Which is by DIABLO CODY! Now: I am not a cool person. I know some people who are cool! And one of the things that the cool people enjoy, apparently, is talking […]

AND NOW, A GUEST POST: Fuck Your Fascist Body Standards (And Also Face-Devouring Bread Mold, Because That’s Just Scary)

Friends, there is a new tradition arising at Tiger Beatdown: the tradition of me, Sady, haranguing one of my favorite commenters until she finally agrees to do a guest post. Today’s guest post comes from Chelsea! She comments as ChelseaWantsOut, and also sometimes as Chex. All other information pertaining to her life is mysterious; this […]

Shut Up, Cunt! The Cultural Logic Of 97th-Wave Feminist Band Millionaires

Ladies: I have bad news for you. Feminism is over. No! I am serious! Feminism – that is, the belief that women deserve full autonomy, full participation in the public sphere, and the right to make their own choices – is totally dead. No sane person can believe in it now. Why is that, you […]

Sexist Beatdown: The True Meaning Of Sex Edition

Greetings, fellow adult humans! Do you know what “sex” is? I have news for you: no, you totally don’t! At least, not if you are an American. There have been studies, and they tell us that none of us actually knows what the word denotes! “Sex,” therefore, should be legitimately impossible to use in a […]

Bathing Suit Areas and Sex-Positivity: A Post In Which I Talk To Your Children, Sort Of

*** WARNING: IF YOU KNOW ME IN REAL LIFE, YOU SHOULDN’T READ THIS POST *** *** WARNING: I AM SERIOUS, IF YOU KNOW ME AND WE GO OUT TO DINNER AND YOU HAVE TO MAKE POLITE CONVERSATION DURING WHICH IT IS NECESSARY TO LOOK ME IN THE EYE, YOU MIGHT REGRET HAVING READ THIS POST […]

Sexist Beatdown: "Year One" As Explanation For, Basically, Everything Edition

You know people: nostalgia has kind of been dominating the news today! But what of our nostalgia… for times long past? For CAVEMAN TIMES, in fact! This is basically the entire point of the “science” known as evolutionary psychology! In case you are wondering. In this “science,” we take common stereotypes and facets of “human” […]

Michael Jackson, Celebrity, Empathy, and the Culture of Silence

The thing is: celebrities, they belong to you. This isn’t completely true, of course. They’re people. They don’t, or shouldn’t, belong to anyone but themselves. But to be a writer, an artist, a musician, or any sort of entertainer, is to give people little shreds of yourself – over, and over, and over again. This […]

Dear John – John DeVore, That Is!

Hi, John DeVore. How are you? I hope you’re well. As you know, you and I have exchanged approximately 3 to 5 e-mails with each other, which makes us officially the Best Friends in the History of Forever. I even wrote about it! And told everybody how nice you were! And how I regretted assuming […]