Welcome, POMEs! As you peruse this weekly Afternoon Snack, you might notice a new coat of paint on our site. We’re stoked to bring a fresher, crisper look to POME! We hope you dig it, and we hope you enjoy this small snack to get you through the rest of your day.
Romance novels are often derided for being cheesy “women’s fiction”, but, TURNS OUT women have been building a powerful space where they can tackle all the things men fear — love, sex, pleasure, class, money, feminism, masculinity, and equality. We’ve been writing our own stories and defining what it means to be happy on our own turns. Romance novels are the best.
We hate this but we are also drawn to it. This is the event horizon of content.
In case you want to suffer along with me, here's a compilation. The videos (I am using the word loosely here) are an initiative of Dilbert creator (and MRA extraordinaire) Scott Adams https://t.co/qAeBxmls6u
— Flavia Dzodan (@redlightvoices) January 30, 2018
Cops raid several New Orleans strip clubs in the name of “anti-trafficking” and make no actual arrests, further displaying the distrust and lack of respect given to the sex work community by the police.
A good piece about how an elective hysterectomy removed the physical pain one woman had been suffering from, and then led her to realize she could remove other things from her life that were also holding her back.
“The Good Place” is very good and it’s nice to feel good about a show and its characters in this ass trash piss baby world.
Brian Michael Bendis has left Marvel and is now writing a Superman exclusive — the Bendis DC takeover has begun.
Ivan reis' first four man of steel covers! pic.twitter.com/ntHnh4zJQO
— BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (@BRIANMBENDIS) February 1, 2018
AHP wrote a piece for her tinyletter on why Uma Thurman deserved better than Maureen Dowd. AHP continues to be great.
An extremely pastel & floral ceramic pipe shaped like a Hitachi magic wand???? Uh, yeahhhhh
Onwards!
