Action Fatigue
Today I was talking to my buddy Charles about the blow-back from the Supreme Court’s decision on gay marriage, and this came up. After such...
Category: Commentary
The Fuckable Butch
John Stewart pointed it out last month with Caitlyn Jenner’s triumphant coming out, but it bears repeating. Every woman in our society is sorted on...
Equal Marriage, Bitches!
Today is the day that equal marriage became the rule of law in the United States. Thanks to a supreme court decision, minority rights have...
The Emmanuel AME Church Shooting Was Domestic Terrorism
Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church isn’t just a church. It is a historic symbol of black resistance to slavery and racism. “I have to do it....
President Clown Shoe
Donald Duck Trump is running for President. If you don’t know, now you know. This fucking guy. The only good thing I can say about...
Disordered Eating and Paleo Eating
I tried to be articulate about this, but in the end I just wasted 500 words on bullshit that is completely irrelevant to my context...
No, YOU Go Back to Your Point of Entry!
My name is Marina Rose Martinez, I came into this country on January 14, 1985 at 5:52 p.m. at the Little Company of Mary Hospital...
Nobody Cares What I Think About Caitlyn Jenner
But that’s the glory of having my own blog. I get to share my thoughts anyway. Mike “I’ve obviously never showered with a girl before”...
AMEX Condescends to Women of Color, Pats Self on Back
I had a totally different blog planned for tonight, and I’ll get to that tomorrow, but this bullshit just popped up on my TV about...
You Can’t Schick With Us
It’s not nearly as dramatic as it sounds. Somebody saw a dude pulling the pickle in his car, it turns out it was the CEO...
Who to Vote for in the May 19, 2015 Special Election in Multnomah County, Oregon
I live in Southeast, in school district #1JT, so I may have ballot options you don’t, or visa versa. This is, of course, my personal...
You Can’t Thug a Thug
“There are some people who never make it out of that puffed up adolescent phase. And some of those people go on to be police...
Cop Cams Could Have Saved Freddie Gray
In light of recent events, I wanted to bring this out. You may remember this graphic from August 2014, the height of the Michael Brown...
Dove Chooses Obnoxious
“It was my choice, and now I will question myself for the next few weeks, maybe months.” That’s the opening sentence for this advertisement. I...
Why I Will Probably Vote for That White Racist, Hillary, Who I Dislike
You guys may or may not remember that time I called the election for Obama in 2012 (it wasn’t hard to do). But my premise...
McDonald’s, Stahp
If you’ve read a book on branding lately (I mean, who hasn’t?) you’ll notice that they probably have McDonald’s listed as the “DON’T” example. Unlike...
The Perfect House
It’s been over a year since we moved to Portland, and the housing market is hot right now. A lot of Portland developers like to...
Female Ambition
I am so fucking tired of people mentioning how shit it is that high-achieving women are bitches in the same situations where high-achieving men are...
If God Actually Loved You, He Wouldn’t Have Made You So Ugly
This goofy looking weirdo wants a new jet. And you know what he’s doing to acquire it? He’s asking for his ministry to provide it...
Interview with Ethan St. Pierre on #WeJustNeedtoPee
Transman and long-time activist Ethan St. Pierre started lobbying Congress in 1995 on behalf of transgender hate crime victims and survivors after his aunt was...
Unveiling My Brownness
Today my friend Heina and I traded blog posts. You can find their regular blog at www.freethoughtblogs.com/heinous where they write about race, gender, being an...
The Fear of Men
“Do you like living in this house?” I nodded, too busy crying to say anything intelligible. Even so, it was a lie. I hated living...
Ben and Marina Answer 15 Honest Questions
Ben found this article about 15 honest questions the person you marry should be able to answer. We don’t really believe in the sanctity of...
Stop Telling People They Deserve to Be Happy
I am so tired of people telling other people they deserve stuff. You know what you deserve? Exactly what you have. The truth is, if...
Stop Saying Charli Hebdo is About Free Speech
This morning, 12 people were murdered at the headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Since then, the world has gone frantic with...
Good News: God Says You’re Fine
I just wanted to let you know that I have been contacted by the Lord, our God, and this is what they said: GOD’S LOVE...
Because Rich People Think Jail is Fun
This is one of those posts I’ll write but not publish for six months. Because, of course, none of this actually happened and it is...
Hell is for Children – We’re Raising Our Kids Wrong
We often think of the concept of a mother’s love as being an immutable force of nature that no earthly power could overcome, and yet,...
How not to write about minority characters
Minority consumers have heard every lame excuse in the book for monoculture creators to make up for their constant and recurring failure to including us....
Diamond Ads
Are fucking stupid.
“I have been throwing up since I started running.”
I know, I know, I’m on vacation, but I can’t fucking sit here at the beach anymore while this is happening in the real world....
Eat and Grow Fat: How to Be Happy
The thing about being insecure and unhappy, is that’s not a conditional reality. If you’re insecure and unhappy, you’re going to be insecure and unhappy...
Rape-quit: Cool New Fad
With all this gamer gate shit hitting the fan, and everybody, once again, realizing that rape threats are not conducive to political activism, I have...
Did You Fucking Vote?
I already voted. By mail. Because Oregon, hooray. Enough about me. Did you fucking vote? Because if you didn’t vote, it’s just a rule of...
Good News: Your Dick is the Least Important Part of You
An anonymous reader requested that I talk a little bit about penis size. Namely, how very sad it is that porn seems to have made...
The Most Thought Provoking Slave/Master Porn You’ll Read This Year – Review of “Anchored” by Rachel Haimowitz
Anchored by Rachel Haimowitz Thanks to NetGalley and Riptide Publishing for the review copy. Riptide does it again. There’s no wrong way to go with...
Verizon and The NFL Want You to Be That Guy.. That Rapey Fucking Guy
I’ve been catching up on my Teen Wolf, and part of that involves the MTV site and watching the same 4-8 commercials over and over...
Why I Stayed and What I Learned
It’s hard for me to talk about domestic violence, but not for the reasons you might think. Yeah, all the predictable reasons are there: Because...
Okay, Let’s Talk About Suicide
So Henry Rollins got lambasted after tearing into Robin Williams for killing himself, for which he has already apologized in his Rollinsey way. And I...
An Argument For Cop Cams
Share this image. Cop cams can’t prevent all police brutality, but cities where they’ve been instituted show marked improvement. And not just for the people....
Black Lives Matter – Ferguson Update
So, remember when I said that it looked like things were looking up in Ferguson? Not so much. What can I say about it that...
What It’s Like to Go Through a Papers Checkpoint in America
Things look like they’re getting better in Ferguson now that the highway patrol have taken the lead in the area. Yesterday I wrote in passing...
Police Brutality Redux
In light of the week we’ve had, I thought it would be nice to have a little retrospective: If you are looking for a no-nonesense...
How to Talk to Cops So They (Probably) Won’t Kill You
Don’t yell at the cops, people. Don’t gesture at the cops. Don’t look cops in the eye. Cops are more scared of you than you...
Too Fat for Photoshop
[Link to the article, for the curious] Oh man. I’m too tired to think of my own topic, so tackling the wasps nest that is...
Being Shitty to Service Staff Isn’t Liberal Activism
Wanna know how I know that you’ve never worked in retail? Because you do shit like this at the local Hobby Lobby: This is probably...
What a Woman Really Means When She Says…
I’m Sorry, This is Supposed to Make Me Like Soccer?
If you didn’t know that the World Cup is upon us, you must be living under a rock somewhere in the American mid-west because it...
Now is the Time to Turn and Fight: My Feelings on #YesAllWomen
I’ve been reluctant to participate in the #YesAllWomen thing, namely because my experience is not the experience that “all women” have. Yes, one in four...
The Brass Ring of Fire: Why You Don’t Have to Get RT-ed by Amy Poehler to Be a Successful Woman
Ordinarily, I love Amy Poehler, and on any other night I would probably be totally into her RTing tweets from accomplished women, recent grads especially....