CITI BANK: WHAT NOT TO DO

(click for bigger, original here)

RAGING GRANNIES

SHEWEE FTP

The shewee will help you FTPee:

"Shewee is a moulded plastic funnel that provides women with a simple, private, and hygienic method of urinating without removing clothes whilst standing AND sitting."

Flipper FTP.

Because every dolphin dreams of the day she'll become a bride.

"They're pretty cool, ya know, there are some girls that are just gonna come here, strip off their clothes, and jump in the jacuzzi. Then there are some girls that are respectful, that you have to just actually treat like girls, like human beings." - MTV's Jersey Shore

Because not every kind of girl deserves to be treated like a human being.

(click to enlarge)

booooooooooooo. FTP.

original here

Michael Pollan. FTP

I know, I know, who doesn't love Michael Pollan? I was all about Michael Pollan when Omnivore's Dilemma first came out, and even more into him after his Letter to the President-Elect in last year's New York Times Magazine because he finally addressed the interconnectedness of class and food access.

But Michael Pollan is still a sexist. By lamenting the way food is currently prepared in the United States, Pollan romanticizes a past where women were devoted housewives who could spend entire afternoons preparing a healthy meal for family members to enjoy together. In his earlier writings, he ignores the correlation between women returning to the workforce and the demand for fast and easy food in the United States. I strongly believe that our current food system needs to change, but I came away from his writing wondering what burdens were being placed on women in slow food movements.

While looking for a Pollan quote from In Defense of Food that talks about how it is the woman's role to pass down a culture of food from generation to generation (in relation to his claim that the United States has no real food culture), I came across his article, "Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch," which was published in a July 2009 issue of the New York Times Magazine. In this article he blatantly blames women for our food crisis.

He begins the article with a discussion of Julia Child, who he feels like he personally owes because he benefited from the dinners his mother would cook him after watching "The French Chef." He then describes the movie Julie and Julia as an "exercise in nostalgia." He arrives at the 'paradox" of television food culture, in which the rise of Julia Child and other foodies (Alice Waters, Martha Stewart, etc.) coincides "with the rise of fast food, home-meal replacements, and the decline of everyday home cooking." That decline has several causes, the first being "women working outside the home." When women returned to the workforce, did men rush to help them with cooking dinner? If not, shouldn't they share the blame for the decline?

As Suzanne Reisman, another critic of Pollan says, "It is not the fault of feminism for encouraging women (and men) to pursue what interests them, but the fault of society for placing so little value on cooking for one's family that no one has interest in doing so anymore...We may pay lip service to the people who slave over a hot stove or oven, but in general it is not appreciated nearly as much as other work. Just like most traditional women's work is not valued. Small mystery, then, that when people have options, they choose not to do it."