“Butch Lesbian” Is A Halloween Costume

With Halloween on the way many bloggers are indulging in some “ironic” cosplay. One such blogger is “Mish Lovin’ Life”, who decided this year to go as a “butch lesbian”.

I think what scares me the most……is just how easy it was for me to convert to a lesbian {or perhaps a little Filipino boy?}.
No really, I’m just a hair slick, tummy stuff, sports bra wearin’ step away.
And boom.
There ya have it.
Meet Mitch, my lesbian alter ego.

She then included a picture of herself in full costume:

The LGBT community is still fighting for marriage equality and anti-bigotry in general. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think they should be turned into costume characters. I’m honestly starting to think Halloween is just an excuse for some people to try really hard to be either offensive or skanky. But maybe I’m being oversensitive?

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Issa Waters Thinks You All Hate Fat People

In case Issa, thinks everything is anti-fat people, wasn’t clear in her last rant about things she doesn’t want you to say, she has provided yet another long list of things not to say entitled “21 Things to Stop Saying Unless You Hate Fat People”.

The numbered list includes such forbidden phrases and topics as “anything about dieting, eating less, or exercising more”, saying “a specific size, shape, or weight that’s less okay”, “any statements about “childhood obesity””, and, with a stunning lack of self-awareness, she adds “[g]oing on and on and on about your opinion” to the list of “things that contribute to the very real abuse of and discrimination against fat people”.

Predictably this latest edition of “let’s talk about how everyone hates fat people omg stop talking about how you hate fat people!” attracted comments that she didn’t want to hear. This prompted Issa to add a couple of lovely postscripts to her original post:

Okay, gloves off people. If you read this post and then decide to make a comment explaining how fat is unhealthy, congratu-f******-lations, you hate fat people. What you are doing is ignorant, hateful, and harmful to our lives…We get it. You hate us. This list is for people who DON’T and who want to make changes in themselves….If your comment amounts to more lecturing about health, it’s going straight into the trash.

I don’t understand why someone would post a list that is basically the internet equivalent of a waving a red flag in front of fat haters, and then get pissed off when a bunch of people come in and try to tell them why being fat is wrong. And I really don’t understand why someone would do it repeatedly. Is she expecting a different result?

Issa I’m sorry you’re getting comments that displease you, but face it: you’ve been doing these “FAT IS AWESOMEEEE!” posts for a long, long time. You know what the typical response is going to be every single time you hit ‘publish’. If you can’t just turn on moderation and handle the comments by now without tacking on some aggro bird flipping addendum to your post , then maybe you should just turn off comments altogether.

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Jenna Cole Knows What Women Want

Jenna Cole, has a degree, knows all about politics and the economy. More importantly, she knows what women really want out of life: babies!

That’s right folks: Jenna knows that if you want to have kids you cannot have a heavy duty career as well. That’s why there are simply no women with children working in high powered job positions! And while we’re at it, let’s just admit a few other home truths as well:

Thank you, Jenna! Finally someone brave enough to acknowledge the truth: diversity in the workplace is bad for business! I’m so tired of people thinking that trying to have different types of people in the workforce is good for the economy. Everyone knows that the best way to run a company is to hire the same type of person over and over.

Let’s all take a moment to applaud Jenna on her well-informed and thoroughly thought out statements. It’s people like Jenna who will truly move America into the 21st century.

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Mandajuice Is Just Like A Burn Victim

Amanda, runs the mental image inducing named blog Mandajuice, is struggling with the greatest challenge known to a woman’s self-esteem – successfully losing weight. Apparently losing 30 something pounds has now left her “literally…half the woman” she used to be, and her mind is breaking under the Janus like reactions of her ego and her feminism:

There’s nothing sweeter to a fat girl’s ego than being called skinny. It actually turns me on to hear it. But then my inner feminist says FUCK YOU! I am not the number in the back of my pants!

And lest it remain unclear that she is super way totally thin now, she will provide anecdotes to prove that she’s super way totally thin now:

Now I’m literally a bag of bones and skin. Don’t even get me started on how Joel thinks I need to start wearing flats because heels make my legs look “too skinny.” Even the kids have complained – when I lay on my back to snuggle them, my ribs and hip bones are apparently too “pokey.”

Not to be rude, but here’s an idea – eat more food if you are having trouble being a “bag of bones”. But I guess being logical would rob Mandajuice of the opportunity to work through her former fat girl syndrome in front of the internet:

My life has been painful and twisted in ways I’ve only just begun to understand. And my skin – all of it – is the way I wear that history on my body for everyone to see. I’m like a burn victim – permanently scarred. My skin tells the story of how I survived a jump out of the 20th floor window of a burning building and how much braver/stronger/better I am for it.

Wait…what? Amanda jumped out of a burning building? Where’s THAT story? That would be much more interesting than listening to some woman talk about how she “ISN’T a size 14” anymore after months of being someone who eats “juuuuuust enough and then pushes her plate away sans regret”. I mean, congratulations and all, but you didn’t accomplish anything more exciting than what Jessica Simpson is getting paid to do.

Maybe Amanda should spend more time asking her “inner feminist” what an actual burn victim would think of her comparison that having floppy boobs is just like having disfiguring injuries, and less time back door back patting herself via blog post.

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That Wife Might Stop Blogging, Or Not

Jenna Cole, high educated, may or may not be taking a blog break:

I’ve been blogging consistently for around 5 years now, and I thought that nothing would ever slow me down…Bloggers come and go, but I thought I would be posting on an almost-daily basis for the rest of my life. That Wife had become an integral part of who I am. Others dropped their blogs completely, or took long month- or year-long breaks, but I assumed that would never be me.

Yes, Jenna had dreams- she would never quit blogging, and it would fuel her “photography business”, and she would be somebody. But now she’s pregnant and tired. She opines that every day “feels like a race” and that by the time she puts her kid to bed, “the thought of sitting at my computer and drafting a post feels overwhelming”. I’m not sure what’s so overwhelming about uploading some pics and telling the world about your vagina, but ok.

She then vagueposts that she might quit blogging. Or she might not. Who knows.

I’m not going to make any promises about what I will or won’t do in the future. Maybe T2′s arrival will mean the end of That Wife forever or at least for a long time…Maybe I will need the outlet and start posting more than ever before. For now I’m not going to beat myself up, and post when it works for me. It’s much better for my stress levels if I don’t let it become a thing.

First of all, if your blog is an “integral part” of who you are, you no longer get to say anyone else on the internet is pathetic. Second, I think we can all assume this a Flounce Threat post designed to get people to beg the person to continue blogging. Come on, you are married and about to have two kids and you have a new house to set up; your 50 readers will understand if you drop off posting for a while. Close your blog and go live your life, no waffling indecisive ego boost fishing post needed!

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Brit Morin Will Sell You A Craft Box

Brit Morin, can totally be trusted with your information, is using that $1.25 million in free money to buy boxes and supplies for her new “Brit Kit” venture.

Claiming people never get around to doing all those DIYs they post on Pinterest because they “don’t have the time to go shopping for materials”, Brit has decided that the way to serve humanity is by charging them money for a box of crap so they can do all those “projects we’ve showcased here on Brit + Co. as well as from around the web”. For only $19.99 per month Brit will send you her used yoga mats and rolls of duct tape along with instructions for her amazing DIYs:

Our whole schtick is that people don’t have a lot of time these days, so we don’t want to take up more of it! These projects are simple enough to do in a half hour or so. In fact, they are so simple that your kids could probably even do them with you (that being said, we promise they aren’t as lame as the Arts & Crafts projects that you used to do in 1st grade).

And just in case you don’t have DIY equipment, Brit will happily sell you a hole punch, a hot glue gun, an exacto knife, and some other random crap for $29.99 in her “DIY Starter Kit”. “Quantities are limited” while they “get things off the ground”, so be sure to stampede over there and give the Morins your credit card info today!

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Mormon In Manhattan Will Tell You How To Get A Man

Natalie Hill, a Mormon in Manhattan, is (I suppose) both Mormon and living in Manhattan. Apparently she knows all about dating and wants to help you slobby, non-exercising, sad single ladies find a man:

Everyone knows a really incredible girl who just doesn’t date as much as she should…. or maybe you’re that girl.

Yes ladies, you “should” be dating! So why aren’t you? Well Natalie and her pal from Shabby Apple were talking about their sad pathetic non-dating friends recently and they discovered these pitiable beings were lacking three things – Fitness, Fashion, and Flirting. Your goals are to be “healthy, not skinny”, “dress to flatter your body”, and mostly listen during dates because “men love to talk about themselves”.

Basically it all seems like she regurgitated “The Rules”. Maybe these guidelines work for some women, but they aren’t exactly new information. It’s the same “stay in shape, dress nicely, and let the man do the talking” advice that has been shoved down our throats for centuries. If you want to give man-snagging advice at least bring some new insights to the table. Otherwise it’s just the same ish from a different bish.