Thing 1: I am sick. I am not really sick enough to get out of doing stuff, and this is kind of a slack week because my profs are SCMS-ing, but I had a bunch of stuff I wanted to catch up on this week, as opposed to catching up on forming opinions about American Idol contestants.

Thing 2: I missed marking International Women’s Day yesterday, except by reading about the prevalence of rape in the US military, including the story of one woman, who was jailed for desertion after her complaints that she was raped by her superior officer fell on deaf ears. Also, Rach pointed me to this Feministe post, about a creepy law school message board that sexually harassed Jill and a bunch of other women. Ooh, and let’s not forget about Feminist Icon McG’s stance that the Pussycat Dolls represent “third-wave feminism.” Meanwhile, Canada has fewer elected women representatives than Rwanda and Afghanistan. (PS Remember how when Belinda Stronach switched parties, at least one prominent conservative man called her a whore?) I hate the world.