Tuesday, May 22, 2012

We Heart: Funny or Die Counsels Rick Santorum on “Aborting” His Campaign

We Heart: Funny or Die Counsels Rick Santorum on “Aborting” His Campaign

April 18, 2012 by · 3 Comments 

Rick Santorum likes to tell women to “make the best out of a bad situation,” but he didn’t take his own advice with his own presidential run. After trailing Mitt Romney, he officially ...Read More

We Heart: Tough-Talking Older Woman Tells Off Congressman For Dissing Planned Parenthood

We Heart: Tough-Talking Older Woman Tells Off Congressman For Dissing Planned Parenthood

April 7, 2012 by · 5 Comments 

Finally, a voice of reason! As GOP members flood mainstream media, scrambling to debunk the “myth” that women actively care about reproductive health and dismissing any fears of conservative ...Read More

We Heart: Geena Davis

We Heart: Geena Davis

August 17, 2011 by · 9 Comments 

Geena Davis is a powerhouse actor, best known for her strong and often comical roles in such Hollywood films as Thelma & Louise, A League of Their Own and The Accidental Tourist (for which she ...Read More

We Heart: Pakistani Actor Veena Malik

We Heart: Pakistani Actor Veena Malik

June 30, 2011 by · 5 Comments 

Earlier this year, Pakistani actor Veena Malik, a participant on the Indian television show Big Boss (a variation of the reality show Big Brother), was accused on Express News of shaming Pakistani ...Read More

We Spleen: Wisconsin Justice David Prosser

We Spleen: Wisconsin Justice David Prosser

June 29, 2011 by · 2 Comments 

Political tensions have reached a point of violence in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Or, rather, for one Supreme Court Justice in particular, David Prosser, who allegedly physically assaulted fellow ...Read More

We Heart: “Nerdy Misanthrope” Using His Art to Aid Cheerleader

We Heart: “Nerdy Misanthrope” Using His Art to Aid Cheerleader

June 11, 2011 by · 4 Comments 

If you’ve been following the case of Texas cheerleader Hillaire S., who was assaulted at a party by star athlete Rakheem Bolton and then kicked off the cheerleading squad for refusing to chant, ...Read More

We Heart: Texas Rep. Thompson’s Badass House Floor Speech

We Heart: Texas Rep. Thompson’s Badass House Floor Speech

May 27, 2011 by · 2 Comments 

We haven’t had much reason to “heart” Texas in the last several months. Its Senate is trying to defund Planned Parenthood, and its governor just signed a bill requiring that women ...Read More

We Heart: YouTube Response to Beyonce

We Heart: YouTube Response to Beyonce

May 26, 2011 by · 7 Comments 

Recently, we posted about the problems with Beyonce’s brand image: We love the girl power, not so much the racialized and sexualized fetishization. As blogger Janell Hobson wrote, Beyonce’s ...Read More

We Heart: Westboro Baptist Church (Not Really)

We Heart: Westboro Baptist Church (Not Really)

May 23, 2011 by · 2 Comments 

The Westboro Baptist Church, infamous for picketing funerals among its other anti-gay activities, is donating $50,000 to the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC). Sort of. After comedian and gay rights ...Read More

We Heart: Minnesota Rep. Steve Simon

We Heart: Minnesota Rep. Steve Simon

May 7, 2011 by · 2 Comments 

How many gays must God create before we accept that he wants them around? Amen. Rep. Steve Simon (D-St. Louis Park) posed this question to his peers at a Capitol hearing on May 2 in a speech against ...Read More

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