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Listen up, ladies! Now you can turn back time (well, if only for your V) with this ultra-creepy “tightening lubricant.” It does exactly what you think it does.

The Best Links:

1. “Doctor, Can You Help Me Feel Like a Teenager Again?”
2. Buy Liquid Virgin In Private! (Thank You, Internet)
3. Things We’re Afraid to Buy in Person
4. For Those of You Who Can’t Afford “Rejuvenations”

When somebody posts an unflattering picture of someone on their blog or Facebook page, then invites others to comment about how terrible the subject’s dimpled thighs look.

The Best Links:

1. The New Sport for Social Networking
2. “Insane State of Body Issues Drama Apparently Google’s Fault”
3. WSJ Article: “The Rise of Bodysnarking”
4. Is Technology Exacerbating This Cultural Phenomenon?
5. Young Girls Affected Psychologically by Blog Comments
6. Watch: Fox News Channel Covers Bodysnarking
7. Blight of the cellulite: Mischa Barton reveals her very dimpled thighs (Example of Bodysnarking)
8. Thanks to Bodysnarking, Young Females Now Have Even More Body Issues

Yale art student Aliza Shvarts’ senior art project documents a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminates herself while inducing miscarriages over and over. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

The Best Links:

1. Controversy Over Abortion Art
2. Yale Threatens to Ban Shvarts’ Art Project from Show
3. That Abortion Art Project, in the Artist’s Own Words
4. Aliza Shvarts Inspired Jewelry (!!!)
5. Aliza Shvarts’ Uterine Lining Inspires Jewelry Maker
6. Bleeding for Her Art
7. Further developments reveal the “art project” is a hoax.
8. Most people find this gross.
9. Did she punk us?
10. University calls art project a fiction; Shvarts ‘08 disputes Yale’s claim
11. Check Out a 2004 Photo of Shvarts
12. Can’t Start Conversation about Abortion; Too Busy Puking
13. Yale Student Lowers Historical Definition of Art to New Lows
14. How Did She Get the Donors?
15. Artist Or Violator of Ethics?
16. I Don’t Get It, But At Least It’ll Get People Talking
17. Poor Aliza’s Cry for Attention
18. Here Is Some of My Abortion Art…It’s Pretty Gross
19. She Claims It Wasn’t For Shock Value
20. Liberal Ivy League Art Project Not Appreciated by All
21. Yale Daily News - For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse

Feminist writer Jennifer Baumgardener has created a T-shirt that reads “I was raped” as part of multimedia rape awareness project.

The Best Links:

1. Would You Wear the “I Was Raped” Tee?
2. I Love Jennifer Baumgardeners New Project
3. “Rape T-Shirt Could Be Even Bigger Than Abortion T-Shirt”
4. I Was Raped: Wear Your Voice Out (Official Site)
5. “Rape Worn Not on a Sleeve, but Right Over the Heart”
6. “I Was Raped” T-Shirt Intended To Empower

The New York Times describes the third season of The Hills as having an “Antonioni plotlessness” and considers Heidi Montag to be some sort of “feminist hero.”

The Best Links:

1. Spencer: Othello?
2. The Hills: ‘I Want To Get My Hands In There And Make Myself Available To You’
3. Juliana Hatfield Has a Blog Where She Hates on the Hills
4. What We Read When We Read About The Hills
5. Very Sophisticated Psychoanalysis of LC and Co.
6. New York Times Calls Heidi Montag a “Feminist Hero”
7. Heidi Montag - the next Gloria Steinem?
8. How MTV Is Brainwashing You, from the Cinematography to the Soundtrack Choices
9. WSJ’s Very Long, Very In-Depth Profile on the Branding of Lauren Conrad
10. The Hills vs The Truman Show - Are they even comparable?
11. New York Times Reviews the Third Season of the Hills
12. “5 Ways In Which The Hills is JUST LIKE An Antonioni Film”

A T-shirt reading “NO MEANS NO. Well maybe if I’m drunk” is removed from a retailer’s website after widespread complaints.

The Best Links:

1. Offensive T-Shirts: No Means No, Always.
2. Ohh Snap! Coincedence or Feminist Paranoia?
3. “Re-victimisation for fun and profit: more Goliath, less David”
4. “No Means No (But Just Add Booze)”
5. “A Follow Up On the ‘it’s Ok to Rape Me if I’m Drinking’ Tee”
6. “Sweet, Sweet Feminist Victory”
7. “Disgusting T-shirt Making Light of Rape”
8. “Rape Shirt Pulled”
9. “How Did No Means No Become a Fun Rape Joke”

An article in the Washington Post entitled “We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?” is generating outrage from bloggers. In the article, she accuses female Obama supporters of being silly groupies.

The Best Links:

1. Katha Pollitt takes down Charlotte Allen
2. It’s time for another rousing round of “Let’s deconstruct this bullshit article!”
3. Political Mombloggers think Charlotte Allen is the dumb one.
4. Charlotte Allen is the Ward Connerly of Females
5. A Rant: “Is the Washington Post out of its mind? “
6. Blogosphere Up-in-Arms over Article
7. It’s Too Easy to Accuse Charlotte Allen of Being the Dumb One
8. How Did This Piece of Garbage Get Published in the First Place?
9. Let’s Take a Look at Charlotte Allen’s Past Writings, Shall We?
10. “Pure Conservative Crap”
11. Article Exposes Dumbness of Charlotte Allen, Not Womankind

The birth control pill that halts your period sparks a heated feminist debate.

The Best Links:

1. Offsprung’s Amanda Marcotte on the right’s obsession with menstruation.
2. Let’s stay on the rag, ladies. Let’s stay on the rag.
3. No More Tampons
4. A Boon to Suffering Women Everywhere
5. Think of all the Money You’ll Save!
6. Why is the Pill Always the Answer to all Menstrual Problems?
7. What’s wrong with the idea of women intelligently designing themselves?
8. Doctors Don’t Think You Really Need Your Period Anyway
9. Odd Feminist Reaction to Lybrel: Bad for Women’s Self Esteem??
10. Is your period obsolete?

A new book called Porn for Women features sensitive men in aprons.

The Best Links:

1. Porn for Women: A Review
2. Why Chicks Hate Porn
3. Looking for a Few Good Feminist Porn Writers
4. Feminist Porn Awards - Only in Canada!
5. There’s No Such Thing as Feminist Porn
6. “Porn for Women” Isn’t Even a Satire!
7. Hot And Bothered: A Documentary about Feminist Pornography
8. “X-rated films for red-blooded feminists”

Egalitarian societies show a link between forced gender equality and poor health.

The Best Links:

1. Women Probably Don’t Want to Trade Equal Rights for Better Health
2. Families Are Now Absorbing the Stress of Work-Related Pressure
3. Pressure Cooker Jobs Mean More Obesity and Heart Disease
4. American Women: Less Sleep Means More Stress Means Less Sex
5. Egalitarian Society in Sweden Not as Rosy as It Seems

International Women’s Day is today.

The Best Links:

1. Shout It, Sister!
2. Redefining Sexist.
3. I’m Mad at the Today Show and Meredith Veira
4. Link to Your Five Favorite Female Bloggers
5. International Women%u2019s Day Business Podcast for Women in Business
6. It’s Also Blog Against Sexism Day
7. Blogging is Empowering!
8. How Much Celebration Can You Fit into One Day?
9. Taking a Look at the Feminist Interweb.
10. African Women Blogger Round-up
11. Suffragette City!

51% of women are single and the hot new demographic, according to NY Times fluff piece .

The Best Links:

1. Britney Spears Thinks Being Single Is ‘Awesome’ - Starpulse News Blog
2. Mom and Auntie Are Appalled
3. Single Women Have More Clout than Married Women
4. This Means Single Women Can Find Other Women to Be Single With Very Easily
5. Marriage: Bad for Women, Breeds Violence
6. Single Women Say They’re Happy But Are Actually Miserable Old Spinsters
7. Yes, But How to Market to these Women and Make Profit off of Them??
8. Single Guy Says “Being Single is a Mixed Bag”
9. Condoleeza Rice Thinks Single Women are Capable of Understanding War
10. Conservatives Find This to be a “Crisis”
11. Single Women Shouldn’t Flaunt Their “Feminism” by Buying Homes
12. Single People Should Vote More and Be Heard

Or rather, Women Who Rule The World.

The Best Links:

1. Celebrity Armpit Photos on BuzzFeed
2. Fergie’s hairy, sweaty pits
3. NSFW fetish site for guys who like busted girls with hairy pits
4. Hollywood Ladies Have Hairy Armpits, Brazilian Waxes
5. Drew Barrymore Appeared Stunning Despite Hairy Armpits
6. Reuters Reports Back on A Star-Studded Breakfast
7. Sony Prez Amy Pascal Tops Annual “Women In Entertainment” List, Not Revealed If She Has Hairy Armpits
8. Ladies of Hollywood Not Perfect But Hairy