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Meghan Trainor – “NO” Music Video

MissBleecker — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 22:05:32 +0000

Meghan Trainor of "All About that Bass" fame premiered a music video for her new single "No" today. "No" chronicles the tale of a young woman at the club who's being courted by a plethora of men who just can't take NO for an answer. Trainor has come under fire for giving mixed messages in her music, is she promoting female empowerment with hits like "Bass" and "Walkashame"? Or she is mocking the feminist movement with songs like "Dear Future Husband" and "3am"? Trainor has previously stated that she did not consider herself a feminist, but has since grown into the issue, stating:

“That was me at 20. I hadn’t read enough about it. I’d been told: ‘Don’t say you’re something if you don’t know what it is.’ So I was like: ‘Well, I’m not a feminist,’ because I didn’t really understand it and then I was like ‘Oh, s**t!' Obviously I am a feminist. My songs are women’s anthems across the board. Some people don’t get it, and I’ve had girls on Twitter writing: ‘I hate you,’ and calling out some of the lyrics that I wrote.”

So she was 20 and made an uneducated statement and has since educated herself, kudos for admitting your faults girl! There are many young women in the public eye that don't consider themselves feminists because it's an unpopular term with a lot of negative connotations, but that's another article for another time. For now I leave you with some stills from the video. Though I have to admit, I'm getting a bit of mixed messages myself between all these outfits and dance moves. What is this long gold jacket? Why are these ladies in this electric plant? What is happening with this fishnet Bob Fosse number? I'll just chalk it up to being too old to understand pop music anymore... [See image gallery at www.radioactivecookies.com]

10 Things to Say to Men Who Tell You to Smile

MissBleecker — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:00:49 +0000

Stop telling Hillary Clinton to smile!
Why are these male pundits telling Hillary Clinton to shout less and smile more?
Posted by Fusion on Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Since Hillary has been a front-runner for the Democratic Nomination there have been lots of news covering her that, well, doesn’t really have anything to do with politics as much as it has to do with her being a woman in politics. What happened with her recent victory has been noted in the video above and shared over a number of news sources. But what’s happening to HRC goes beyond just her, it speaks to a “cat-calling” culture that has embedded itself across the world in various forms. Being a woman and being told to smile happens constantly, across the country, and as a woman in New York, the city of resting bitch face, it happens to me constantly. Now you can always choose to ignore a cat-caller by remaining silent, however if you find yourself particularly annoyed with rubbing Vaseline on your front teeth to keep your lips from covering your sexy teeth, here are 10 things you can say to a man who’s telling you to smile:

Say, "Tell me a joke: [insert insult here] funny man, clown, jackass, ect..."
Start smiling like an insane person, extra points if you can start drooling from the side of your mouth.
Say, "That's what I told your mom after I went down on her."
Growl and start chomping in his direction.
Say, "You're right I just killed my husband, I should be happy!"
Say, "You would be much more handsome if you didn't speak."
Bite into a blood capsule you have stashed at all times and then give them a bloody grin.
Start crying and say, you're dog/mom/dad just died, you lost your job, you got diagnosed with VD, ect...
Say, "I'm being like Posh Spice, because smiling gives you wrinkles and no man wants a prune face after all, so I just got angry-face Botox and now I'm stuck like this. Who's your favorite Spice Girl?!"
Do as Abby and Ilana do...

Best Of RadCooks 2010

MissBleecker — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:12:22 +0000

What a year it's been! 2010 was Radioactive Cookies' inaugural year and I think we did a pretty great job! Since it's inception on February 24, 2010, RadCooks has received almost 30,000 hits and I couldn't be happier! In honor of the New Year, we of course need to recap all the amazingness of 2010. So here's a best of list that'll make you laugh, cry and probably cringe. 5 Most Visited Posts 1. PHAT GIRLS: 25 Hot Full Figured Women In Hollywood: All you skinny bitches can move aside because 2010 was the year of the big girl! As a proud curvaceous woman myself, I am so happy that the chubby chasers of the world have made Phat Girls my #1 most visited post the year! 2. RadFem To Watch: Jaclyn Santos: Thanks to a Tweet from the RedFem herself, Jaclyn Santos, this post received 2nd honors! Thanks Jaclyn, we hope to see more of you in 2010! 3. HAPPY MILF DAY: 40 Hot Hollywood Moms: Mother's Day 2010 was my busiest day of the year. With the most posts I've ever done, I also received the most viewership. Shame on you all for reading my glob instead of spending quality time with your mommy! 4. THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE: A Look At Ass-To-Mouth Surgery: The Human Centipede, what can I say? Those of you that read this post along with honorable mention THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE Review I just want to let you know that you are all very sick and you are not alone! 5. VAJAZZLE With A "J" & VAGAZZLED aka Swarovski Pubes: Let's not forget my Vajazzled posts! The pair, tied for 5th place were some of my very first posts! Though I can't take all the credit, I have to give a shout out to Bryce Gruber who took one for the team and had her lady garden bedazzeled on camera! MissBleecker's Top 5 Posts 1. KATY PERRY: The Ironic Feminist: Who could forget my massive and incredibly late Katy Perry post? Not only was this one of my most extensive posts but it was also one of the funnest. Let's not forget it introduced Prof.PurplePants! 2. CHRISTINA AGUILERA'S "NOT MYSELF TONIGHT": A Lesson In Radical Feminism: One of my top rated posts, NMT was a great song that I felt was seriously underrated. And of course, I'll always have a spot in my heart and on my glob for my #1 girl Christina Aguilera! 3. AUTO-FELLATIO: Sampling Your Own Pancakes: Oh auto-fellatio, you almost made it into the top 5! What can I say, it was a simpler time when I could write about a man pleasuring himself orally, though I have heard of a slight demand for an autolingus post... 4. The No Makeup Week Series: A great week of my life was spent au natural for you good people. It was a really great experience and hopefully the first of more to come in personal experiments! 5. RadFem Of The Century: The Ho That Boned 13 Duke Athletes And Wrote A Thesis About It: How could we forget the Duke Fuck List author Karen Owen? This was your year girl, relish in it! 5 Posts You Didn't Read But Should 1. The Interactions With An Anonymous Stranger Who Will Remain Nameless Series: This series is a personal favorite of mine. With three volumes down, I hope to keep you updated on the awfully bad attempts made at yours truly. 2. The 2010 Oscar Predictions and Outcomes Posts: I really cannot believe that there were so few readers of my 2010 Oscar posts. Not only did I predict nearly all the winners (yeah, you could have cleaned up in your office pool) but I analyzed the Oscars through a feminist and political lens. Let's not have the same fate for Oscar Watch 2011! 3. MissBleecker Goes To Washington: I was on a bus for 10 hours in one day, I missed all of my friends, I wore cookies on my breasts, and I came home to keep the party going for Halloween as Ke$ha and you still didn't read my post?! 4. The Theory of Sexual Economics Pt. 1 & Pt. 2: I have to admit these posts were a bit off collar for RadCooks but interesting nonetheless. Check them out to see what personality type is your best match according to me! 5. “THE RUNAWAYS” REVIEW: Men, You Can’t Stomach This Kind Of Gore: Now I will admit, having seen The Runaways, it was not the best movie of the year, it wasn't the worst either. It just didn't get much recognition either way, as my review did. However, I attended a screening with Joan Jett and she had some insider scoop that any rock 'n roller would love to read! Well there you have it, the Best Of RadCooks Lists 2010! I hope you all had a great year! I can't wait for 2011, I'm sure it'll be as disastrous a year in pop culture as 2010 was!

A Feminist’s Guide To Clubbing

MissBleecker — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:08:17 +0000

Let me just go on record with saying that I HATE clubs! I think there's nothing more vile than a bunch of drunk bridge and tunnelers rubbing against one another in adorned t-shirts to bad remixes of played out songs in seizure inducing strobe light. With that being said, I somehow found myself at a club this weekend and it brought me back to a time in my life (that I'd rather forget) of when I was a club rat. Yes I know, it's shocking but true. I never really dug the club scene, it was more the dancing I liked, and when I was a younger thing, boy did I like me some dancing. So as I was sitting in this loud, throbbing club, getting a lap dance from three beautiful men at the same time (what can I say? That's how I roll), I pondered to myself, how had I done it and managed to keep my dignity? Let's explore this with the age-old 5Ws & an H! How To Drink? Now for most of the people I know, the general consensus is if you want to enjoy a club you need to be drunk (my freshman year of college testifies to this.) If you want to maintain your swagger and not be all bloaty (a problem if you're donning your Saturday Night Worst) then nix the beer, wine will just make you sleepy, cocktails are an arm and a leg, go with hard liquor... and lots of it! Side Note: I'm not encouraging anyone to get drunk... not unless you want to. Also: Flasks = Friends Who To Avoid/Befriend? Anyone with spiked/gelled hair... so all men in the club. Anyone who dances with their hands, unless they're from Europe. Bouncers. Other girls. Side Note: Girls that you did not go with are not your friends, stick with your own and don't stray from the pack. As for bartenders, they're good-looking for a reason, they want your money. Don't try flirting, they're too busy. Now who you want to be in with is the bathroom attendant, they've got the goods. As the night goes on people drink more and more and with the mixture of skinny bitches, vodka/crans and skin tight hoochie dresses the bathroom line will be long and they will run out of TP. Now unless you're willing to drip-dry, you've got to make friends with the bathroom attendant and she'll hook you up: TP, lollipops, cigarettes, condoms, a spanking paddle (I've been offered all of these.) Also, promoters, if you have a vagina, you get in for free. Now this goes in with drinking, you want hard liquor, who has that? Men who want to meet women get table service, you have to flirt for it, but you can hook yourself up with a free Grey Goose... or in one shameful case, slyfully grab a bottle of Captain Morgan from a group of machismos when they're not looking. I said it was shameful! Read more after the jump! What To Wear? Now there's a couple ways you can go with this and it depends on the "where," but in my clubbing heyday I only wore pants. Tow words: wandering hand. If you're a lady who likes to shake her groove thang, then you're going to attract attention from the not-so-fairer sex, and with that comes creepers who like to paw. If you're going to be brave and wear a skirt or dress, always go with opaque tights or leggings, you don't want to be flashing your Britney to everyone. As far as heels go I don't really dig them. Don't get me wrong, they're beautiful, I have a mini-collection, and I'm pretty short so I could definitely benefit from them, but they're so damn uncomfortable, especially if you're going to be dancing. I like the flashy flats, no sandals, I've gotten my foot stepped on by a stiletto, I wanted to cut a bitch it hurt so bad. If you want a lift, go short, if you don't want to go short, I was a big fan of high wedges, you've got support to dance all night and you won't break your face if you drink too much. When To Go? Friday night is amateur night, in the City at least; you get your bridge and tunnelers, you get your fake IDs, the typical club rat trash that wants to get wasted because it's Friday and they had such a long hard week at the customer service call center or the local garage. If you want to go to a club, go on Saturday, by then people have gotten most of their absurd behavior out of their systems so you'll only have to deal with the typical bullshit. If you want to get in free you've got to know a promoter, get on a list, show up before midnight, you'll get a seat and a spot on the dance floor as well as a chance to empty your bladder before the bathroom turns into Vomit Central or Coke Whores 'R Us and you'll get a change to chat with the attendant. Leave before 3AM. Trust me when I say, the last thing you want is to stay until last call and see the lights get flipped on in a club. That is not a sight you can just bury in your brain, that shit stains your eyes. Where To Be? Again, a few ways you can play this: tables, dance floor, bar, seating... or poles. You can always find a table that will let you join in on the fun. In clubs, women are a commodity and if your hot then... well you get the picture. The dance floor is for brave chicas, but you ladies know the drill, dance in a circle with YOUR girlfriends, if one of your girls gets sequestered by a gentlefellow and she gives you the "get him the fuck off me" eyes then help a sister out and casually dance her away from the offender. If you go to the bar, you can certainly meet a bunch of people, perhaps even use your lady-skills to commission a $10 beer, but it's crowded and cramped, and if you're short, you might as well not. Seating, seating is where it's at, but you have to be strategic. It's hard to get seats in a club, so you hover and then you pounce, and then you never leave. Now I know all you pervs (which means all of you) are interested to hear about the poles. Normally dancing on a pole or a bench or a speaker could be interpreted as objectifying and displaying yourself, however, with my twisted logic I think not and I have decided to take back the poles! I repeat ladies: TAKE BACK THE POLES! I must admit to dancing on an elevated platform or two in my day, and here's why; men cannot touch you. Just like if you're an actual stripper shaking your ass at some dude, you're untouchable. You're above them, they can look, but really you're on a pedestal, dancing around with other girls, and if you want, you can slink in the back or on the side, because some of those hos are serious. Why? Just, why? I don't know, I really don't know anymore. Why does anyone go to a club? Because you're 16 and you just got a fake ID. Because you just broke up with your boyfriend and you want to find some poor schlub to drown your sorrows and your saliva in. Because you have a hot dress. Because it just opened. Because it's Girl's Night. Because it's free. Because there's nothing else to do. Because you just want to dance. Because you want to burn off those calories while simultaneous ingesting a days worth in vodka. Whatever your reason for going you've got to use the MissBleecker motto and keep it Kla$$y. So follow these simple rules and you might just leave the club unbruised, with some cash in your pocket, and without an STD. And remember ladies, if you're looking to find a man, go grocery shopping, because no one ever met her husband in a club!

CHRISTINA AGUILERA’S “NOT MYSELF TONIGHT”: A Lesson In Radical Feminism

MissBleecker — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:37:36 +0000

Cover art for Aguilera's upcoming album, Bionic.

Okay kids this is an educational post so Miss Bleecker is going to use her impending college degree to do a super, special, fancy post. Get ready to get schooled! Smarty pants language starting in... 3... 2... There is a strongly held belief that to be a radical feminist one must contradict all traditional aspects of feminitiy. In the Bleecker's opinion, the strongest feminist embraces her femininity. If you know mah homegirl Christina Aguilera, you know she feels the same way. There's been a lot of controversy surrounding the release of Christina Aguilera's latest music video, Not Myself Tonight. The main arguments involving the video are: that Aguilera is selling her sexuality for shock value and that Aguilera is copying other female artists. Both of these statements are true, but not for the reasons the online media explains them to be. Introduction: Aguilera's Feminist Manifesto Chapter 1: Aguilera's Music Video Anthology Chapter 2: Analysis Of The Not Myself Tonight Lyrics Chapter 3: Madonna: Holding Out vs. Putting Out Chapter 4: Freedom 90: Musical Bondage & Breaking Free Chapter 5: Sex and the City: When Is Sexuality Acceptable? Chapter 6: Beyonce: Getting Out Of Relationships Chapter 7: Lady Gaga: The Line Between Benefits & Heartbreak Conclusion: Getting The Mixed Message If you haven't seen the video don't even bother reading this post. But you really should watch the video. Probably the uncensored version too.