News flash! Ladies have real human flesh and know how to talk about their realities! Check out this article: The Great Girl Gross-Out: Female Writers are getting more graphic than ever about the messy realities of their bodies. Too much information or enlightened honesty?
An excerpt:
“Oversharing is in. And for a lot of people who are doing the sharing, or experiencing it, it’s not so much “too much information” as it is the next, necessary step in personal-is-political, enlightened honesty about the female body. It’s a tack that has been taken in the past, by second-wavers who threw parties at which women were encouraged to take a gander at their cooters with hand mirrors, and by Riot Grrrls, whose zines and music teemed with expressions of female body anxiety. But all that communal celebration or shouted fervor for the female body and its effluvia was always a little too marginal, too embarrassing, reeking of moon-tides and red tents and creaky second-wave earnestness.
Today’s version of these revelations can also be celebratory (see “My Little Red Book”), self-punishing (Tkacik and her tampon) and angry (the “Ring of Fire” essay). But it is also often funny and conversational, casual and exhibitionistic. Here are frank, explicit physical descriptions in glossy women’s magazines, on a blog that also covers celebrity fashion, from teenagers who are allowing their period stories to be published in a book that everyone might read!”
Thanks to Jess for passing on this article to us!
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…and now! A youtube video about monsters + sea creatures! You may have noticed at our shows lately that we’ve been playing a song about monster fish…so yeah! This video has horrible music (in our opine) please keep the sound off:
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