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The passionate ladies over at Feministing released a listicle today outing some feminist poseurs. Some of their entries are brave, others are obvious, some are missing. Like all sexual-political polemics, though, all the entries are conversation sparkers. So, behold, here are Feministing’s Top 5 Feminist Posers:

5. The Spice Girls: As much as their music was [...]

With high-profile international shoe terrorism spiking over the weekend, in this installment of our weekly financial column Big Money Mondays we take a humbling look at the costs of this string of crimes that often go unreported (possibly because they are, more often than not, perpetrated by reporters).
Circa pre-recession times – but just in time [...]

In this edition of our weekly catch-up list of lists, we take an especially close look at the holiday gift list trend that is kicking into high gear. With every publication producing at least one gift guide around this time, Listicles brings you the silliest (number 5), most budget-savvy (number 3), quickest (number 4), most [...]

Leading proponents of the slideshow list format and new champions of germaphobes everywhere, Forbes brings us this scary list of microscopic holiday health risks. Informative though it may be, if we all abide by this list’s directives the holidays will simply not happen. Among the dangerous activities, objects and surfaces:

Shopping cart handles, meaning no massive [...]

In this weekly series we, the hard-working list-sniffers of Listicles, fess up to the fact that the Internet produces infinitely more lists than we could possibly cover and critique. In Weekly Wednesdays, we present five great lists from the last week that we weren’t able to do full justice to.

Top 6 Gay Movie Heroes: The [...]

With Thanksgiving upon us, the real news is that the holidays are just around the corner (notice, window-shoppers, the brown and orange arrangements being displaced by gaudy red and green displays). This holiday season, rather than disappointing a younger sibling, cousin, niece/nephew, child, etc. with the wrong action figure, achieve gift-giving immunity through obscurity. To [...]

In keeping with today’s wintry posts, and ahead of the greenest holiday shopping season ever, here’s a way to keep healthy in cool temperatures and reduce contributions to global warming. Amid imperatives to hydrate in cold weather and stop expanding the Pacific’s plastic continent, why not pick up a reusable water bottle for you, your [...]