Friday Roundup

Belated, sorry. A weekly (intended as weekly, anyway) collection of posts that have caught my attention recently.

• Hard to believe, but apparently even feminists can be sexy… from AUDREY AND THE BAD APPLES by audrey- *crossposted at Larvatus Prodeo…* (longer comment thread)
• Manly men from Firedoglake by David Neiwert
• On Myths and Monsters
  from Having Read The Fine Print…… by Black Amazon
• The Scarlet O
  from kateharding.net by fillyjonk
• Today’s essentialism smackdown
  from Pandagon by Amanda Marcotte
• An American Brigadoon…
  from Feministe by Rosanne
• Fat-phobic sports news
  from Kindly Póg Mo Thóin by Zuzu
• Ask a Spinster Aunt: giggling, feminism, and you
  from I Blame The Patriarchy by Twisty
• Double standards
  from Pandagon by Amanda Marcotte
• Illegal abortion killing and injuring women in the Philippines
  from Feministe by Jill

The F-Word Blog has a collection of great posts:

• Glad to be grey?
  from The F-Word Blog by Samara Ginsberg
• Married men do less housework than co-habitees
  from The F-Word Blog by Jess McCabe
• Mind the gap!
  from The F-Word Blog by Samara Ginsberg
• Feminism declared dead, again
  from The F-Word Blog by Louise Livesey
• Cosmo renames rape – as not rape
  from The F-Word Blog by Louise Livesey