FYCL #23 – My Dubious Valentine

Gushing enthusiasm about Victorian social history, advising on how to enrage a Creative Anachronism person (mind the sword), venting about Google Buzz, pointing and lauging at Esquire and wounded masculinity in Superbowl ads, and failing utterly at finding a dubious sex toy for V-Day.

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Linkers:

• Read more of SJ’s Victorian culinary adventures, as well as those of several other lively contributers at The Queen’s Scullery.
• Esquire’s embarrassingly sexist survey of women, and women’s reactions to it on Jezebel.
• SJ recommended Happy Couples Kiss and Tell for V-Day appropriateness.
• Not everything is brilliant, but there are a couple of especially funny posts on Wrong K Miller.
• Slate’s Jason Fagone talks about the Tebow ad.
• Tom Wayman’s “Did I Miss Anything?” poem.

Closing music was “I Enjoy Being a Girl” because it was clearly what those chaps at Esquire were listening to.

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FYCL #22 – Hang up and pee.

Shy pee-ers hand out some advice on relationships, just in time to confuse you before Valentine’s day. We follow up on SJ’s experience with the vulva dye, discuss what’s bad (and good) about Cosmo, contemplate the romantic politics of gifts, and give you a ton of recommendations to have fun with.

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Linkitude:

• Intelligent discussion and analysis of magazines at Glossed Over.
• Dubious mole vibrator from some wacky German company.
• Even the website selling the Liquid Virgin seems to think it is dubious: “I have never tried it but our sales rep. says it works.” Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
• Go immediately and read the genius that is Silent Koala on Good After Mornings. He just put up a fabulous new tale of going completely mental.
• The Onion hit the perfect note in its obituary of J. D. Salinger.
• Amazon.com thinks that the Compleet Molesworth is some kind of rare book, which you can get from a dealer for over $150 (chiz), but you can utterly find Molesworth books on Amazon.co.uk, if you haven’t read them. The ReelMolesworth twitter will give you a good feel for the books, if you are such a wet and a weed that you have never even heard of Nigel Molesworth, the goriller of 3B, before.
• SJ recommended a review of Dustin Diamond’s book (Behind the Bell), that she found on ONTD.
• If you haven’t read Sleep Talkin’ Man, you are behind the viral wave.
• Smack-talk fans may enjoy Poop on Peeps.

Closing music was “Our House” by Madness.

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FYCL #21 – Legally drunk.

Feeling like you need some healthy lifestyle advice? There’s none here. Instead, there’s snark about ballet gear, early mornings, special snowflakes, whether feminism sucks the fun out of stuff, how fucked up we have to be to need vulva dye, and our usual recommendations.

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Linkuary:

• Check out Shauna at The Amazing Adventures of Diet Girl, whose work we are clearly attempting to undermine by being such dreadful examples.
• Speshul snowflake Raging Wildflower, who keeps changing his post, but doesn’t sound any less entitled.
• The Jezebel article on the bra colour phenomenon that sparked the “feminism kills the fun” comment.
• Since we talked on the podder, SJ got her vulva dye and reported on it in the interests of SCIENCE. Yay, science! She also got a mention on the Consumerist. Awesome.
• Heidi Montag and her plastic surgery, as reported on Jezebel.
• Dubious, but clean: Sex in the shower.
• The sisters I couldn’t remember the name of are the ones behind Rodarte, apparently.
• Charlie Booker analyses the Susan Boyle phenomenon.
• Amusing assessment of websites as foods.
• Awesome, snarky, intelligent coverage of the Prop 8 trial from our chums at Autostraddle: Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5, plus this overview post.
• Letterman bagging the guy who fired Conan O’Brien.

Closing music is Love TKO by the late Teddy Pendergrass.

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FYCL #20 – The Art of Podcasting.

Break your January slump with advice (and smack talk) about divorced spouses and step-parents, babysitting and how to avoid it, tetchy ranting about goddamn anti-feminists, and we Ask a Dude about Manliness. As usual there are recommendations, and a highly offensive Dubious Sex Toy.

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Link! the Hero of Time:

• Annoying and inappropriate reebok ad.
• Interesting commentary on groping and feminism in The Sexist.
• Oh, good Lord, do we really need Booty pop panties?
• The “Art” of  “Manliness” blog, and specifically this post about men’s expectations of women.
• Oh, and I found the Manliness stuff from I Blame the Patriarchy, which, if you don’t read, you should.
• Liz Jones hates on detoxing and Special K.
• Arianna Huffington resolves to sleep moar.
• Warning! Extreme dubiousness! Head O State.
• Jezebel article on Women and the Work Place.

Closing music is “Sound the Trumpet” by Purcell sung by the James Bowman and the luscious Daniel Taylor, because all that talk of Manliness made me long for some really fruity counter-tenors.

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FYCL #17 – Wildly Undisciplined.

Dubious advice on enjoying the holiday season, including dealing with family, feminist hypocrisies, and Generation Snow. Extended Dubious Sex Toy discussion is about fundamentalist Christianity and kink; we also have a non-dubious sex toy amongst our recommendations.

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Linkage:

• SJ’s post asking for readers to confess their feminist hypocrisies.
• Non-dubious sex toy this week is Gigi.
• The Marriage Bed’s surprisingly sane discussion of sexuality for straight-laced Christians.
• A selection of online marital aid vendors for the prudish or religiously averse to porn: Book22 seems to be one of the first, Wholly Love shows it is not just a USistani phenomenon, Christian Love Toys is pretty standard, while My Beloveds Garden seems more liberal (read: it has buttplugs, but not apostrophes).
• The main Christian Domestic Discipline site – hoax or real thing? The more I read, the harder it was to decide.
• Taken in Hand – same skeevy ideas, less Christian overlay.
• This blog entry really encapsulates some of the issues I have with the whole wife-disciplining movement.
• My recommendation this week was Thinkgeek, perfect for Xmas shopping for the geeks in your life.
• Amy Goodman gives the dirt on the Canadian border guards. At least she didn’t get deported to Syria.

Music at the end was “Gabriel’s Message” by Sting, an excellent advent carol, because now that it is on advent, I am on a mission to see how much Christmas music I can get in to the podder before SJ’s head asplode.

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FYCL #16 – Sexy, sexy hamsters.

Dubious advice on making cocktails with bacon, whether couples can make friends, confronting the idea of humourless feminists when people make sexist jokes, and the homework denial controversy. As usual, we have Dubious Sex Toy and our recommendations for the week.

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For further reading:

• Recipe and demonstration for making the bacon-infused old-fashioned.
• The offending t-shirt paperkingdoms’ student was wearing.
• The homework discussion started with this piece about the Calgary couple who signed a no-homework contract. There was supportive response from the Globe and Mail, and smackdown from an ESL teacher and someone who analysed the parents’ statements on RYS.
• Hamster Hotel report (with video)!
• Monty Python’s discussion of The Mouse Problem.
• The infamous Orangina advertisement.
• Awesome MuppetsStudio Channel on the youtube.
• Damn Cool Pics has a daily post of some kind of interesting visual.
• LoTR weaponry controversy on reddit.
• Gastroporn galore on Feasting on Art.
• Turkey jello mold contest winners: I was apparently talking about 2008, but 2009 is now up as well.

Apologies for the coughing husband in the background.

Closing music is a shout-out to Mr Falor; it’s Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros.

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FYCL #15 – GGB on BBG

Dubious advice on being angry about holiday cooking and/or marking, encouraging girls to do science, indoctrinating young men into the ways of feminism and dealing with scheduling during the holidays. Ask a Dude returns to consider the logistics of a BBG threesome; there’s an extremely Dubious Sex Toy, and some great recommendations.

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Linkzors:

• Belle de Jour’s blog, which is hotting up at the moment with juicy back and forth about the revealing of her identity.
• Times news story and follow-up on Belle de Jour and the revelation of her identity.
• Caroline Moore is the teenage astronomer we uselessly could not remember, and she found a supernova.
• For those of you who have been living under a rock – Sarah Bunting’s awesome Yes You Are.
• Looks like Double X is getting folded back into Slate.
• Wildly inappropriate gnome dildo video. Click at own risk!! Further research determines that it was intended to be a sex toy, but I haven’t seen a vendor of same online. Even google is shocked and horrified.
• HUGE props to the Bugger for finding a reference to the actual gnome dildo, although it appears they are not currently available for purchase.
• Gay Sex in Dragon Age: Origins, pointed out on the Queerty blog, which is worth a bit of a browse for its other content, too.
• On being a Bad Mother, by Sandra Tsing Loh, from the Atlantic online.

Apologies for sound quality – both of us were having internets issues this week. I have sorted mine out (fingers crossed).

Closing music is 3 by Britney Spears, chosen OBVIOUSLY, for thematic rather than musical merit.

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FYCL #14 – Champagne Quality Podcasting

Dubious advice on how root beer is not ginger beer, drinking, especially champagne, dealing with people you disagree with, the pursuit of feminism, whether helicopters can be brought to Jeebus, and what to do when your child is menaced by a dog on the way home. Dubious Sex Toy has a holiday theme, and as always, there are our recommendations.

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Linkinimus:

• Tame-style pornaments which may or may not be purchasable (NSFW if you work at a daycare or parish office, perhaps).
• Adorable, adorable Style Rookie.
• Popwatch blog on EW.

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FYCL #13 – Exploding Soup

Dubious advice on how not to pack soup in your bag, lost and found, making choux pastry, dating someone with kids, having a feminist epiphany, whether biography is a dead art, and how to recognize a chick flick. As always, we have a Dubious Sex Toy of the week, and our recommendations.

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Not much linkage this week:

• Alison Bechdel’s seminal comic defining chick flicks, and a nice list of movies rated according to the definition.
• I suggested SJ needed to check out espe for a new wallet.
• Freakonomics blog – Superfreakonomics is homework reading for a future podder.
• Terry Pratchett talks to the Guardian about Alzheimers.

Dubious Vintage Sex Toy – a first! We have no idea where this came from originally, but here it is in all its glory. (I was going to put a modesty line, but seriously, it doesn’t even look that rude, or perhaps my perceptions of “rude” have been warped.)

Fascinating side note: FYCL now comes up if you do  a google search for “dubious genitalia”.

Closing music is “Smells like Teen Spirit,” as rendered by the Flying Pickets. Just because.

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FYCL #12 – The Unprepared Podder

Dubious advice on quitting and getting fired, learning to cook, negotiating the fine line between supporting women and being uncritical of nonsense, and the gendering of Halloween costumes. As always, there are Dubious Sex Toys and our recommendations for the week.

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See alsos:

• boing boing pointed out the horrid Ana Rexia costume.
• Baby cannibalism from Martha Stewart – check the horrified look on the poor babby’s face.
• Dubious sex toys, as always click at own risk: bear with unreal vagina from regretsy, and dick thickener.

No comment on closing music; looks like it wasn’t just the knitting that was home-made this week.