CONSTANCE MCMILLEN’S GAY PROM:
“A hearing has been scheduled in the case of Constance McMillen, the Mississippi lesbian high school student whose story has made national headlines after her school canceled the prom because she wanted to bring a female date. The ACLU is suing the Itawamba School District.” (@towleroad)
Hey guess what! Constance’s Mom is a lesbian! She sort of just throws it out there during an interview on the Michelangelo Signorle radio show. Our editor-in-chief’s mom is a lesbian as well, and like five of our team members think their moms are secretly gay. Anyone else wanna join the Gay Mom ‘n’ Daughter Club? Also in the interview with Signorle, Constance says she figures “maybe 70% of the kids at school are taking it out on her that the prom was canceled.”
She also says that the administrators told her that they’d forbidden same-sex couples because people were going with friends to save money with the couple discount and that was making the school lose money.
Our Queer Prom Gallery has been getting heaps of linkage (from Andrew Sullivan, Good Magazine and Feministing just to name a few) so thank you to y’all spreading the word! Based on what people are saying about it on other websites, we realize that most people honestly didn’t realize so many young women are now and have been proudly bringing their gay dates to the dance. Visibility is key in making people feel like they’re not alone. We hope after prom this year we get hundreds more photos!
Constance’s story has BLOWN UP. And we’re hoping that it means other schools will hesitate before making similar decisions — because it’s not gonna make them look so good.
BODY IMAGE:
The Express UK declares that “Curvy Cover Girls are the Future” because: “Not since the supermodel hey day back in the late Eighties have we seen so much bounce on the catwalks. At the recent Prada and Louis Vuitton shows, boobs were definitely one of the defining features.”
Jezebel calls bullshit: “We’d welcome any divergence from a standard that can be hauntingly gaunt. But let’s not get carried away with the Dove-style celebrations. These women are “curvy” in the way Lara Stone is curvy: They have tiny waists and very little body fat, but they have relatively large breasts. Neither feminine ideal breaks the mold particularly.”
Yeah. Here’s some actual curvy girls for ya though, if you’re interested.
GAY BABIES:
In case you didn’t know, there’s a new trend afoot, and I’m breaking the story for you here: Many people actually want their little boys to turn out gay. (@momlogic)
TAMPONS:
Kotex’s new ad makes fun of years of ridiculous commercials (@salon)
MARRIAGE:
Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld has some choice words about gay marriage and adoption: “I see more lesbians married with babies than I see boys married with babies. And I also believe more in the relationship between mother and child than in that between father and child.” (@towleroad)
9/11:
The gay terrorist who could have stopped 9/11: Roston theorizes that Shakir’s sexuality was part of the recruitment, since it left him open “to being flipped” under the threat of being exposed. (@gawker)
MISS ENGLAND:
The Miss England competition has replaced the bikini portion with a sports contest. (@huffington post)
GIRL GEEKS:
In this kickass response to a Guardian article praising LOTR’s few female heroines, Jezebel pretty much echoes Autostraddle’s reasoning for inventing our geeky blog Technostraddle, as it also applies to why geek culture is female/feminist-friendly in general: “Geek culture is, fundamentally, about outsiderness. It’s often literally about aliens (or, in LOTR’s case, about monsters and men/hobbits who become monsters), but it’s also a marginal subculture that appeals to people who feel marginalized.” (@jezebel)
DRUGS:
Is the war on drugs a lost cause? “Reform advocates say no other single federal policy is more responsible for gross racial disparities in the federal criminal justice system than the crack/powder sentencing disparity. Even though two-thirds of crack cocaine users are white, more than 80 percent of those convicted in federal court for crack cocaine offenses are African American.” (@racialicious)
FOOTBALL:
In case you didn’t hear, last week it was announced that the very first female football foach was hired. If that blew your mind too, you should just head on over and look at how happy she looks. (@jezebel)
BUNNIES:
Did your parents ever read The Country Bunny and The Little Golden Shoes to you when you were little? If they did, you have awesome parents who wanted you to grow up fighting prejudice! (@new yorker)
There has NEVER been a female coach in football??? Ever?! I’m shocked but I don’t know why!
That’s exactly what I thought. But, as women aren’t allowed to play football, right? I guess it makes sense.
However, it turns out that the first ever football coach is adorable. Is that sexist? Shoot.
There was a girl at my middle school who was on the football team!
(She was a raging bitch and horrible bully, but I’m sure that was a coincidence.)
I need to show some of my friends who have referred to Lara Croft as ‘curvy’ that article.
If she’s curvy, I’m a veritable mountain range
Lara Croft the cartoon or Lara Croft the Angelina Jolie? The cartoon is built pretty nice. But she has nothing on Ms. Rabbit. Have you noticed that cartoon animators/comic book illustrators really know how to make a woman? Wonder Woman, Storm, Daphne Blake,Betty Boop, Jasmine, Lola Bunny, Holli Would, etc. Actually that should be AS next list or gallery!
Anyway, and the Jolie is just hot period. Her body did look awesome in Tomb Raider though. I wouldnt really classify it as curvy but awesome none the less.
Oh she’s hot, but not curvy. She’s just got big tits lol.
Oh holy god, that’s the most brilliant idea I have ever heard proposed on here!
I could so get on it. I am already composing
I love you so much right now
lol. Who do I ask if I can do this?
go for it — if it’s mostly comics-related would probs be a technostraddle thing methinks as they are the geek-culture experts. but shoot whatever you come up with to sarah at autostraddle dot com.
The Kotex commercial is hilarious…and the Kotex lady is hot.
Word.
indeed
Autostraddle works on my phone! With pictures! Oh also, I’m glad someone made that tampon commercial. That wouldve been a better angle for the ppl to take who made that whoopi goldberg urine leakage ad.
Someone in Kotex’s advertising department has been watching a lot of Target: Women.
mte
That Kotex ad is genius. Seriously, why are pad/tampon commercials so fucking ridiculous? I would rather use dollar bills as pads than ever use Always after their damn “Have a Happy Period” bullshit.
I found out Satchi and Satchi were responsible for that and lost all respect.
Apparently the ad is a remake because the 1st one said “vagina” and God forbid we have that on TV:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/mar/16/tampon-vagina-kotex-advertising
I would not mind TV’s vaginalessness if there was a chance they were going to use a more exciting word instead, but instead they use no word at all, anyone would think they’re trying to deny the existence of c*nts altogether *mock horror*
I think I’d be sad if the uber-euphemistic ads disappeared though, they’re like one huge cultural in-joke.
Also screaming whoooooooah bodyform at the top of your lungs while envisaging what extreme activities one might get up to in the most inappropriate clothing no matter what time of the month will never grow old.
Which is one of the reasons I love the Mooncup people so much – their big ad campaign at the mo is http://www.loveyourvagina.com/
(That and the smug laughter every time I pass the feminine hygiene section at Coles.)
I LOVED THE COUNTRY BUNNY
THAT IS ALL
maybe they shouldn’t give couples discounts at prom.
i know right
why do couples get discounts, it’s weird, although also it was like that at my school for this winter dance thing, which i guess is also weird.
I used to coach baseball (teen – kinda ages), but the way I got spoken about post-game put me off. OH SHE’S JUST PLAYING FAVOURITES COZ SHE’S A GIRL!”
FUCK THAT, I WENT THROUGH A LOT OF TRAINING FOR THIS, AND ALL YOU CAN SAY IS ‘SHE’S A GIRL!”
So I haven’t even participated in baseball/softball for a while, becuse I’m afraid of the treatment I’ll have to face.
is this even relevant? Im too drunk (TRUE CONFESSIONS) to remember what I started writing about.
I haven’t found tampons that funny since I shoved one up my cousins nose.
Ugh, that crack thing sounds about right.
Country Bunny was my girlfriend’s absolute FAVORITE book when she was little and last year for her birthday I found a hardback copy of it from 1973 in near-perfect condition!
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