the moon

{balmain pre-fall 2016, photos by aj numan courtesy of balmain by way of vogue.com/fashion-shows}

first blush

{alexander mcqueen pre-fall 2016, photos courtesy of alexander mcqueen by way of vogue.com/fashion-shows}

brows

{barbara bui pre-fall 2014, photos courtesy of barbara bui by way of style.com}

ff

before we get to the not-as-nice-feminist-friday-postings, let us just take a second for the golden women of canada...

 {photo credit clockwise from top left:}
{olympics.ca, jonathan hayward/the canadian press, global news, john lehman/the globe & mail, adrian wyld/the canadian press, the national post}

PRETTY GREAT!!! okaygoodwork! back to our scheduled programing.

* trigger warning - sexual violence

and then...
* for the men who still don't get it 

"What if

you had to explain what's wrong with your car

to big sweaty women with greasy hands

who stared at your crotch

in a garage where you are surrounded

by posters of naked men with hard-ons"

{and}

"What if
the doctor who examined your prostate
was a woman
and called you “Honey”"

carol diehl wrote and performed this poem 21 years ago. 21 years. that is almost my entire lifetime ago. definitely more than my entire adult lifetime. it is an argument i have constantly. here today in 2014. hi. howdy. if you have the stomach to look at the comments at all, you'll notice that diehl's post has been targeted by mras cuz misandry. fun times, 2014. super fun fantastic times.

happy friday or whatever.

gild

{dolce & gabbana spring 2014, photos by yannis vlamos for indigitalimages.com by way of style.com}