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  • In honor of this phallo-rific paperback cover that Hang Fire Books proprietor William Smith recently stumbled upon, he has created an "Artists With Issues" tag for the "Ugly and Bizarre" category of his Pulp Fiction Cover Gallery.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Excalibur reference, or just garden-variety phallo-worship?

    Consumerist's Super Bowl Ad Liveblog - The Consumerist 2009

  • Here via the Feministe link promotion thread, and I just wanted to throw in that this approach also privileges a phallo-centric conception of rape, both in cause and in consequence, which is disastrously simplistic.

    Castration: Justice, or Nazi Revival? « Gender Across Borders 2009

  • Whether it's a touching drama of childhood and loss, a languid mood piece that says more about Azerbaijan than we dare to say about ourselves, or a stinging indictment of the oppressive, warmongering logo-phallo-globo-fisco-patriarchy, he's always there with a gimlet eye and a wry Ken Nordine impression.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006

  • And many liberal-arts “intellectuals” exhibit a downright arrogant attitude towards the maths and the sciences - when they are not too busy deconstructing the phallo-centric bias of the theory of gravity (for example).

    Bell curves Sean 2005

  • Surtout (ok parceque moi c un sujet que j'maitrise mais quand meme) que la petite amie a bien dit "AVANT c'ETAIT une fille" donc j'sais po moi j'aurais tout de suite pensé qu'il avait eu l'droit a la phalloplastie (au fait une phallo c une greffe de penis)

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • I was advised by a friend this morning that in yesterday's Alberta budget, funding for SRS was delisted effective immediately, with only a very limited grandfathering for those who are in the midst of a surgical proceses (e.g. a trans guy with a multi-step phallo procedure, who is part way through.)

    unknown title 2009

  • Like in Japan, this fertility ritual is also pretty phallo-centric: the boys and men fashion whips out of branches that they braid together (see the photo of the young boy with his soon-to-be-sauced father).

    feminist blogs 2009

  • If a woman's hook-ups are sexually fulfilling and provide her a safe space to express her own, non-phallo-centric sexuality, this is * not* good news to the people who endorse Grossman's book.

    feminist blogs 2009

  • I was advised by a friend this morning that in yesterday's Alberta budget, funding for SRS was delisted effective immediately, with only a very limited grandfathering for those who are in the midst of a surgical proceses (e.g. a trans guy with a multi-step phallo procedure, who is part way through.)

    unknown title 2009

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