Happy International No Diet Day!
It’s that time of year again, folks. As Fillyjonk wrote two two years ago: Of course, we strive to make EVERY day No Diet Day, but if you’ve been teetering on the edge, today is the day to try it …...
View ArticleOut of Office
Hey, it’s another post where all I do is explain why I’m not really posting! I’m out of town until mid-next week, and at this writing, my internet access is not quite as robust as I hoped it would be....
View ArticleA Post
…in which I write some things other than “Hey, I’m not going to post for a while.” Specifically, some reasons why I haven’t been posting and probably still won’t for a bit. 1) Two nights ago, a spider...
View ArticleNew Stuff
Those of you who hate change, brace yourselves. In addition to the new template, I’ve got news. Over the last few months, three of my longtime co-bloggers have moved on (well, Sweet Machine wasn’t...
View Article5 Ways of Looking at “Sarah Palin Feminism”
Here is me telling you about a thing I wrote elsewhere! For Jezebel, specifically. A sample: So, can’t I just agree to disagree with Sarah Palin – or at least to ignore her use of the term and continue...
View ArticleGuest Blogger Elysia: Evo Psych and Icky Girls
Friend of Shapely Prose Elysia (who writes the blog Born That Way) is an evolutionary biologist, and she had some choice words for the latest dude to use evolutionary psychology as an explanation for...
View ArticleCall for Participants: Size Acceptance Survey
Posting this on behalf of Michaela — if you have any questions, please contact her. — Kate Hi, my name is Michaela A. Null, and I am a doctoral student in Sociology at Purdue University. I am doing a...
View ArticleWelcome to the Shapely Prose Archive!
Doesn’t that headline sound nicer than this? But yeah, it basically means the same thing. Full details and notes on the future are available at kateharding.info. Thank you so much to everyone who’s...
View ArticleThe Last Three Paragraphs
I wrote another piece for Broadsheet yesterday because this Daily Beast piece made me tremendously ranty, and I figured I might as well get paid for it. I've been thinking a lot about the social...
View ArticleCommenting Issues
So, hey, here's a screenshot of one chunk of our recent spam queue. If you click to embiggen it, you will see that there is one actual spam comment in there. Additionally, there are comments by...
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