First off, I want to address the presence of Google Ads on this blog, because I’ve gotten a few emails about them, though nothing at all mean or anything like that. As you can see, Marc and I spent some time this weekend rearranging the ads so they get better placement and make more money. The reason we did this was that we’ve been doing some research, and learned that decent ad placement can help make enough to make running this blog lucrative enough for me to make it a part-time job and still be able to pay by co-bloggers for their contributions here. It’s not full-time pay, by any means, but it helps. If you were hanging out on Saturday, you probably saw the 8 million variations of placement we went through before deciding on the ones you see here. I did try to match them to the color scheme so they are easy on the eyes.
No one seems to have much of an issue with my attempts to make this enterprise more of a profession than a hobby, but some people have emailed me about “questionable” Google ads. To make it very clear, I sympathize with those emails, and I try to be responsive. I want to reiterate here that the policy for BlogAds goes double for Google ads—Pandagon’s editorial and advertising are completely separate and it should be assumed that editorial does not endorse the ads. It’s industry standard in publishing to have a break between editorial and advertising, which is mainly there to protect the integrity of the editorial. I am trying to learn more about Google’s analytics, which may make the ads more seemly over time, but I’m officially going to state that there’s no reason whatsoever to think that giving advertising space to ads is about anything more than making money, just like any other publication that runs ads. While advertising bothers a lot of people, it’s well worth remembering that it’s the best revenue source available for liberated content; if you have to make money from being directly paid for content, then the people paying you have more control over what you write. The dreck that shows up in the mainstream papers shows the downside of direct payment, whereas the relatively* good journalism of many of our country’s fine alt weeklies shows how accepting money for ad space (not endorsement) can finance a better level of news, opinion and analysis.
Okay, now that the boring stuff is out of the way, now for the fun stuff. As some of you no doubt have heard me mention briefly, I have a book deal with Seal Press, the same publisher that put out Jessica Valenti’s book Full Frontal Feminism. It’s due to be released next spring, and I’m getting fairly close to finishing the rough draft. Regular readers will know that I’m not half bad at coming up with insanely long titles, and in fact regularly have 3 line ones for posts here at Pandagon. Because of this, I’ve already got the subtitle for the book:
A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
But right now, we don’t have a good title-title. Snappy two- or three-word titles isn’t so much my strength.
So, as I often do, I throw myself on the mercy of the Pandagon community. Here is the contest: Please leave your idea for a title for my book to accompany that subtitle in comments. If my editor and I pick your title, then I will thank you in the acknowledgements of the book and send you a free copy. And no doubt mention you gushingly in a blog post here when it’s finally okayed by my editor.
Have at it, folks!
*Apologies to the absolutely good journalists out there. I was thinking of that one article that one time about that one thing that irritated me. I forget.
Have you told us elsewhere what the book is about, and I just blanked out on that post, or is the subtitle enough to go on as far as coming up with a snappy title?
Big-mouthed Babes, as a play on sexist language/derogatory terms used to silence “loud” women. So, “Big-mouthed Babes”: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments. You could also use a variant, like Big Mouthed or Big Mouth or something, depending on aesthetics. Yay alliteration!
How to be a Good Girl: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Don’t Smile and Nod: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
It’s basically a humorous “survival guide” thing, mocking everything from religious wingnuttery to “post-feminism”.
The four small ad set-up is vastly preferable to the one big banner ad.
Let’s see, I’m not good at the short and snappy either, but here we go…
“Justifiably Shrill (or Strident, your choice): A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments”
“Their Hang-Ups, Your Problem: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments”
“Our Opinions, Ourselves: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments”
Walking on Water
Bicycles and Fish
Coming in from the Cold
That’s all I can come up with this early in the morning, though.
Bite Me!
You could use the word “Fempowerment”.
“ULTERIOR MOTIVES”!
Wait, that’s just the ad that’s staring at me between the end of the comments and the reply box. I can’t quite place the faces, but it looks like a 12-year-old Britt Daniel from Spoon and a 13-year-old Rosario Dawson are about to get it on. How about:
“CATS CATS CATS”? No?
“DAY BY DAY”? I think it works. On several levels. I’m not kidding.
Hm. How ’bout:
“Dealing with Mouthbreathers: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments”
“Mouthbreathers, Neanderthals, and Fundamentalists: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments”
“Fun with Fundies: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments”
“Fending Off Fundies: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments”
I also like Stormcrow’s.
Are We (or Am I) Human Yet: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
They’re the Crazy Ones: AFSGtPIE
It’s Not Just You: AFSGtPIE
BTW, I do love the “suvrvival guide” type of book, even bad ones are fun reading for me. So, I’d probably buy it even if someone else (as in, a writer that I didn’t already like) wrote it.
“Uppity Bitch: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments”
“Nailing Jello To A Tree”
“Primitive Skills”
“Search & Rescue”
Playin’ with the Big Boys: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
“Feminist Grin-Fucking: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments”
They probably won’t publish that one.
Shrill would make a good one-word title.
Of Catholics and Strawfeminists: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
What They Don’t Want You To Know: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
Strawfeminism: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
Living Off Snark and Water: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
Immaculate Perception: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
or How to Be Shrill — but I’m probably the only one who remembers George Mikes’ old humor books.
Or how about:
Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments”
I keep thinking of stuff like “Behind Enemy Lines” or “Enemy Territory” but that sounds too serious.
Maybe “Mirrors in the Glass Ceiling” or “Invasion of the Boobie Snatchers” or “The Magina Vonologues.”
Bah, this is too hard.
“Take the Free Drinks: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments”
cynicism, the greatest American past time…
“Scream, Bitch, Scream” would definitely turn heads at the bookstore, and us ironic and obsessed sodomites up here in NYC would just LOVE it.
hmmm, maybe “Dealing with Perverts”, or “Handbag Not Required”
Perhaps “Iron Ovaries”, yeah, thats a great one!
(I knew there was a reason this journalism major ended up in graphic design…)
Why Yes, I am a snarky bitch: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments�
I like “the
relativelygood journalism of many of our country’s fine alt weeklies” as a subtitle.Okay. Seriously, I think you need to work ‘Mary Magdeline’ into the subtitle somehow.
Deserted Women: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
(a play on desert = inhospitable environment)
“Drive Your Enemies Mad: AFSGtPIE”
“No Accounting for Taste: AFSGtPIE”
“Surly Pandas: AFSGtPIE”
“Because You Can’t (legally) Kill Them: AFSGtPIE”
“Mistress of the Internet [or Internets or Tubes]: AFSGtPIE”
“Conquer Being a slut by Being a SLUT!: AFSGtPIE”
“Full Dorsal Feminism: AFSGtPIE”
I would recommend not mentioning Catholics in the Title.
Also, will the cover be a montage of all your best pictures?
“So, You Like Your Body: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Hostile Environments”
This comes out of a quote from a column by Meghan Daum in Saturday’ Los Angeles Times:
Existing While Female: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Fucking While Female: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Who You Calling a Lady?: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Fuck!: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Fuck Off!: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Shut Up And Listen Already! :A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
How ’bout GAME FACES & GUTTING UP (or visa versa)
—or—
I AM, I SAID
—or—
CLENCHED TEETH.
Grappling with the Patriarchy: [subtitle]
Besting the Patriarchy: [subtitle]
Kick them in the face: [subtitle]
Why is Jon disparaging the good name of our noble cousins, the Neanderthals?
“You Want to Do What?!!?: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environmentsâ€?
“Just Say No to Sex With Pro-Lifers: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environmentsâ€?
“Leave my vagina out if it!: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environmentsâ€?
“Keeping Sane: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environmentsâ€?
“WTF!?!?!: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environmentsâ€?
“Chicks Among Dicks: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments”
Personally, I suck at titles, even for my own stuff, so I’m not even going to try.
Google ads crack me up because they conform themselves to both the post and the comments, so if the conversation goes off on a tangent, the ads start to follow.
At least your Google ads don’t try to figure out where I live the way Tbogg’s do.
“Bill Donohue is a Big Fat Idiot, and Other Observations”
The Patiarchy Surival Knife?
Or My Life in a Bubble?
Gah.
I’m sound like a troll. I’d just best give up now.
Right Back Atcha: [sub]
(Spice Girls lyric apparently)
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: [sub]
How could this one not have been said yet?
Blaspheme!: [sub]
This one is nice since it ties to your post button, so technically it’s not my suggestion, and it would appear to tie into a number of themes from the website and book.
I really like the idea of putting Bitch and Fuck and Fundies somewhere in that title (as do several people who have already commented), but then I’m afraid that women who really need to read it (conservative women) will be turned off by the title. I’m just a middle of the road person overall.
Some title ideas, sans subtitles:
In the Trenches - a la Wally Whately (see his comment), playing with the war metaphor . . .
I’m Not Your Martyr - maybe its too Jesus-y . . .
Defying Popular Opinion - A little too wordy, really
Coexisting With Oppression - Still wordy, argh…
The New Tradition - Hee hee.
Avoiding Sacrifice - use the word sacrifice and slap a cross on the front and it’ll sell like hotcakes!
Good luck with the book, Amanda. Hopefully, us commenters have given you some ideas with the title.
My $.02
Don’t Apologize You’re Alive: AFSGtPIE
You Can’t Make This Shit Up: AFSGtPIE
From Feminazi to Beer Commercials: AFSGtPIE
Ovaries Not Wanted: AFSGtPIE
Shut Up and Smile: AFSGtPIE
When titling my last book, something at which I am also notoriously awful, my Harvard-English-grad friend suggested “Felt Up” (it was about knitting/felting). Needless to say, the publisher didn’t approve. Ah, well. With that, I give you:
Get Out of the Kitchen: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Oh, Andrew…. You made me laugh.
I have to admit - I love Day By Day, norbiz.
Not only for the reference to Muir, but also for the sublime snark of referencing the title of the song from Godspell, “Day By Day”.
“Screeching to the Choir”
“Dicks”
Go Amie, I was afraid if I went with Cavemen she’d be hearing from the Geico people.
I second Djinna’s “Am I Human Yet?” and submit for consideration a modification of that idea (thank you, Djinna): “Not Quite Human Yet.”
“June Cleaver’s Heresy”
“Taking Off The Pearls”
“Transmissions From Venus”
“Parthogenesis”
“Equally Human”
How about
“Stick it to the Man: a Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.”
The Sisterhood against Sophistry: AFSGtPIE
“No Woman’s Land”
How about
“By Whose Rules?”
“Get Your Own Coffee” or “Get Your Own Damn Coffee!”
“Patriaching”
“It’s Been Fun, But I Have to Scream Now.”
“Enough Is Enough.”
How about:
You know that scene in a zombie movie where a character is utterly surrounded by moaning, flailing zombies, and they’re dragged down screaming? Well, that’s sort of what happened to me. Except I survived. And, zombies are smarter than the people who attacked me, and they probably smell better: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
In honor of Mikes — who Dr. Science and an old Dog still remember — “How to be an Alien: AFSGtPIE”
Okay, then maybe “How to Win Friends and Influence People: AF…”?
“If They Can’t Take a Joke: AF…”?
“‘Ace of Spades’ Is A Euphemism: AF…” (yep, it really is … that boy has Issues)
“Me Jane, You Idiot: AF…”
“XX: AF…”
“Chromosome Poisoning: AF…”
“whY Chromosomes? AF …”
Okay, they’re terrible. Fooey. I guess you could use the title to my novel if you want; no one’s doing anything with that…
With kind regards,
Dog, etc.
searching for home
The book will be funny, I presume? So how about:
“Just remember to laugh: AFSGtPIE”
(or, “Don’t forget to laugh” - same thing)
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Another one:
“Slaying trolls and slogging through bullshit: AFSGtPIE”
(That sounds like something from some sort of fantasy genre. Maybe something other than “slaying trolls?”, but I can’t think of anything.)
It’s not like there aren’t already a bunch of great suggestions, but what the hell?
Burn the Witch!: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Kyso K was the first to make me laugh.
I always get a kick out of the discussions of the googlads since the Adblock plugin blocks ‘em all & I’m left to guess what the ad might be.
No new ideas, but I like Shrill!, Uppity Bitch (or Uppity Woman), and Nailing Jello to a Tree.
Ooh, I like Medbh’s “Stick it to the Man”!
:)
So Long, and Thanks for All the Pricks: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
Discoballmousetarianism: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Yeah, I like “Stick it to the Man” too.
Take No Prisoners: A Feminist’s Guide To Surviving Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Millenium Women:
Retaking Lost Ground:
Round Three:
“Wading Through the Bullshit: AFSG….”
or
“Babes, Bimbos, and Ballbusters?: AFSG…”
less seriously,
“I DON’T have Cooties: AFSG….”
“Kitchens without borders: AFSG…”
“You Want Rights With That?: AFSG…”
“Liberty, Equality, Sorority: AFSG…”
“Equality is Not a Dirty Word: AFSG….”
When I saw “Iron Ovaries” I couldn’t help but think of the spoof abstinence-only website, Iron Hymen. Great site (there’s a version for boys called “Sex is for Fags,” but it’s blocked at my workplace).
How about:
The Uppity Woman or Uppity Women: (subtitle)
Kicking Against the Pricks: (subtitle) - actually a Nick Cave album title, but it’s good.
That’s all I can think of for now.
The Secret
Going Commando: A feminist …
(gist: you hide nothing, no ladylike underwear, etc.)
No Apologies: A feminist …
Making Room for A Woman: a feminist …
Elbow Room: a feminist guide …
Holding Out: a Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Exempt! A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Dogmaccination: a Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Out Of Line: a Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Give ‘Em Hell, Girls: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
The Social Jungle: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Field Guide to North American Sexism: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Sticky Situations: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Planet of the Sexists: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
The Feminist’s Guide to the Galaxy: Survival in Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Lost in Spin: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Dames of Hazard: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Get Smart: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
The Hot Zone: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
The Dangerous Game: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Into the Wild: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Lip Checked: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Survival in the Lion’s Pit
(I just thought it’d be an interesting twist on history and you could poke fun at the christianists as well).
You should copy your own Post button and call it “Blasphemer.”
Poltergeists In The Machine: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Hey, Is This Thing On?: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
We’re Mad As Hell: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
The Blogmaid’s Tale: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Where Are We Going, And Why Are We In This Handbasket?
A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Speaking Truth to Patriarchy: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
…
A short title? That’s what I thought “Marcotte®” was for!
So do you guys get more money if we click through on the ads?
I don’t have any title suggestions, because I am hopelessly un-clever.
How about “A Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environmentsâ€?
Taking Up Space: A Feminist’s Guide…
Existing While Female: A Feminist’s Guide…
not-so-seriously:
Take This Cock And Shove It (elsewhere): A Feminist’s Guide…
My favorites so far:
Clenched Teeth
Chicks among Dicks
Burn the Witch!
Yet more suggestions:
Out of the Kitchen and Into the Fire
The Kingdom of the Blind
Normal in a Strange Land
If You Can’t Beat Them, Consider Clubbing Them
Sharp Elbows
When Camouflage Won’t Do
Stand Back, I Don’t Know How Big This Is Gonna Get…
I really like some of the other titles that have been propsed! My first thought was _Guerilla Feminism_.
Man up, Nancy: AFSGtPIE
Not in my place: …
How about “Subversive Equality:”
Folksy: Whoaaaaa, Thelma, look out for that Fracas!!
Historical / Kearns-Goodwin slash Bechloss: Feminism: We Have Reached a Rendezvous with Density.
Erma Bombeck: Oh for the love of Crap, what’s the Patriarchy Want Now???.
With Punkinhead Russert invisible ink subtitling (ie, Ergo My Dick’s Name is Little Russ) …
Well there goes my afternoon. I’d tinker with (Feminism) inside the Fray till you got a good mouthfeel.
Arguing with the Choir: AFG…
Channeling Suffrageists: AFG…
Don’t Play Ball Games: AFG…
or alternatively,
Playing Ball Games: AFG…
Live Feminist Walking: AFG…
I like Guerrilla Feminism (it popped up while I was thinking up my list)
Access to Witchcraft & Stuff
Competition Time!…
Yes, it’s a truly wondrous competition time! The winner will get a personal thanks, a note of thanks inside the book and a free copy of the book itself! But which book? Why, the one subtitled: A Feminist Survival Guide…
Sexism 101:
Pink’d:
Call Me Bitch Again, Asshat:
Taking the Bullsh*t by the Horns:
Where Nice Girls Finish Last:
My Blog, Your Problem:
Sexism, New and Improved:
Don’t You Know Women Oppress Themselves?:
The New Cockfight:
When Every Which Way is Wrong:
Asking For It:
Bra Burning in the Wild
I Can’t Explain Ann Coulter:
Act Like a Lady:
How To Wear Pants:
Broads and Babes:
How about “Taking the Gloves Off?”
Or maybe “Taking the Pearls Off” or maybe “Being Shrill With Style”?
Forgetting Your Place: AFSGtPIE
So far, “Where Are We Going, And Why Are We In This Handbasket?: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments” gets my vote.
Jane, You Ignorant Slut: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Surrounded by Morons: (Tag Line)
Politely Loathing: (Tag Line)
Don’t Shoot the Conservative: (Tag Line)
Jail Isn’t Worth It: (Tag Line)
My Life as an Equal OR
My Life as a Feminazi: (Tag Line)
Jane, You Ignorant Slut: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
ah hahahaha! if only that were possible…
How about “Shut Up And Castrate,” or “The Patriarchy on One Vagina A Day.” I imagine it won’t only be about reproductive rights, but your title from a post a little while ago, “Take My Uterus, Please!” might work. Otherwise, I like Planet of The Sexists or Guerrilla Feminism.
On the ads–some of them are kind of tasteless, but I don’t really care. But I don’t know how the ad revenue works, but I’ve been seeing ads for like a summary of Bill O’Reilly’s new “book.” If people actually need to click through, more appropriate ads might help. By the way, does it matter if we actually buy anything from the site? Does just clicking through the Amazon ad give you money, or do you get more if we actually buy something after doing that?
Oh, and I like the new “send” button.
Play Ball: [subtitle]
My eyes are up here: [subtitle]
More than suffrage: [subtitle]
How to roll your eyes: [subtitle]
Standing tall: [subtitle]
Show me a smile, sweetheart!
You’d be even prettier if you’d smile!
Or something to that effect. I share your pet peeve about strange men demanding I smile at them. Congratulations on the book deal; can’t wait to read it.
Don’t know if it was suggested, wanted to get it up before I forget them! So many great suggestions too! Awesome guys..
So here are mine.
A message from the “get it” club: AFSGtPIE
Why the hate?: AFSGtPIE
I Am Standing here! : AFSGtPIE
The Invisible Woman : AFSGtPIE
I had a few more, but I have to get out of here and get somethings done! I post later.
Can’t help it, I had to post more.
Who Died And Made You God? : AFSGtPIE
What do you mean you can’t hear me? : AFSGtPIE
On what planet is that even viable? : AFSGtPIE
I am talking, I am talking, Now I am going to scream : AFSGtPIE
That was NOT what I meant! : AFSGtPIE
I did not say that! : AFSGtPIE
The rubber kitchen, I am going Insane : AFSGtPIE
oki Now I gotta go, I am late already!
later
Being Female Is Normal: AFG…
Boxing Helena: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Or does that come a bit late?
Come to think of it, how about “Bacon and Play-Doh.”
Lashback?
How to Escape From Quicksand? (…walk on quicksand?)
Got Protection?
Feminist Survival Manual?
OK, I love “Chicks Among Dicks,” “Full Dorsal Feminism” and “Sticky Situations.” And of course there will always be a place in my heart for “Bite Me.” Still, Snark for Freedom: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments, with a suitably patriotic book jacket, might be nice. Because, you know, women’s freedom isn’t free. It requires sisterhood — and snark.
Talking Loudly Without a Stick : A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
How about, instead of “Uppity Bitch” or “Uppity Women,” just “Uppity: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments”
Damn you, Bérubé! None of us is evah gonna have a chance!
Pearl Clutching 101: AFGtPIE
Babes in Boyland: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
Dodging Balls: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
A Womb of One’s Own: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments (Probably unoriginal — has it been used a million times already? And the book’s not just about reproductive rights, so maybe not.)
I dunno about that, idiosynchronic. “Talking Loudly without a Stick” is pretty good.
My last one, because at some point I must do work today.
Bitchslapped:
Y’all have clearly missed out on the best one, by Medbh, way up the thread:
Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
I can’t top that, and neither can anyone else. You might have to ask Margaret Atwood for permission, though.
My Favorites are:
AM I HUMAN YET? AFGTPIE
Uppity Bitch: AFGTPIE
CLENCHED TEETH: AFGTPIE
Mouthbreathers, Neandethals, and Fundamentalists: AFGTPIE
Out Of Line: AFGTPIE
Forgetting Your Place: AFGTPIE
of Babies and Blowhards:
Navigating the Idiotosphere: (or Idiotsphere)
Emasculation for dummies:
I really, really like the suggestions made above of Shrill: A Feminist’s Guide To Surviving Politically Inhospitable Environments
although maybe strident is better.
I have another. “Swimming with the Sharks.”
Hmmmm
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? AFGTPIE
Revulsion or revolution? AFGTPIE
The stupid, it burns! AFGTPIE
I quite like bitchslapped.
Chainsaw optional: AFGTPIE
Nurture This!
Not Sleeping On the Wet Spot
Girls Gone WildLife As We Know It
call it P.I.E.
Am I the only one who likes ‘Burn the Witch!’?
In homage to the disco ball, I humbly suggest the following…
Staying Alive: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
How about “Women’s Work” (if no one already suggested that)?
“Woman, Know Your Place!”
I vote for “Existing While Female: . . .”
Field Guide to North American Sexism: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
I would suggest a slight rewrite of this one, just to avoid reduncdancy:
A Field Guide to North American Sexism: Feminist Survival in Politically Inhospitable Environments
It’s gotta be “Life As We Know It.” That one is, like, the bestest book title evah.
That’s Revolting! A feminist …
Red Faced and Blue: Afg….
Be an Asbestos Witch: AFSGTPIE
Some other random suggestions of dubious utility:
Feminazi StormTrooper!
I don’t have a dick, so I think with my head: AFSGTPIE
Pussy in a World of Assholes: AFSGTPIE
It’s not about my tits: AFSGTPIE
Not Leaving Texas: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Not Your (pick your own explictive) Maid: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
We’re Heeeere: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Baking with Beverly LaHaye:A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Red State Rose: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Fighting Bush:A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Reversing De-evolution: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments�
Ms. 45: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Smiles and Loathing: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
In My Sights: A Feminist’s Guide To Surviving Politically Inhospitable Environments
Stealthy Does It: A Feminist’s Guide To Surviving Politically Inhospitable Environments
Fuck Noble: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
You could always go with the generic:
Living in America: A Feminist Survival Guide to a Politically Inhospitable Environment
with your favorite quotes in comments rolling around the cover.
World War W: [subtitle]
Behind Enemy Lies: [subtitle]
Catch More Flies With Napalm Than With Honey: [subtitle]
Red State, Blue Heart: …
I like Red State Rose too, thorns and all! Roses are badass, even though they look nice and smell nice, they are hearty and bear nasty thorns!
Working the Room
Don’t Tell Me to Smile
Who You Callin’ Uppity?
The Shrill Is Gone
Bass Fishing In High Heels
Don’t Eat The Cocktail Weenies
Guerrilla Feminism gets my vote.
Girl Outgrown (or Girl No More): A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
Damn, y’all are good. Anyone want to weigh in on my next book title?
http://www.knitgrrl.com/?p=490
Girl, Uninterrupted: AFSGPIE
Mission In Progress:
DeBitched:
Backwards and in Heels:
Onward, Through the Fog:
I do think flea has a great idea with “Blasphemer:”
I just now noticed the google ads at the bottom of punkass. What the fuck is on our page that inspired the link to sugardaddie.com?
I make the worst golddigger, and I can’t imagine junk science or god forbid, R. Mildred would be any better.
Girls Gone Snarky
The DaBitchy Code
The S.N.A.R.K. Manifesto
No Means Know
Fundament Means Ass
But I like “Bitchslapped” and “Taking Up Space” the best. Nonetheless, Play-Do and Bacon made me snort humorously.
Way upthread is the suggestion “Iron Ovaries;” I like it, but want to pitch my own variation on it:
Ovaries of Steel: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
Ok, how about using a line that’s been said about you, something like:
‘Undermining America:’
or
‘I Eat Babies:’
Just as long as it’s not the Hymen of Steel, Jessica.
Or maybe it should be.
Pearls Ain’t Gonna Clutch Themselves: [subtitle]
How ’bout…
She Said What?: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Taken from the reactions of many, many good ol’ boys I’ve shocked with the idea that I’m somewhat different from a doormat.
I also thought of some along the lines of “Backwards in High Heels” and “Fraternizing with the Enemy”, but I can see those sentiments have mostly been covered.
And back to lurking I go.
The Bay of Pigs: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
The Well of Lousiness: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Feminism Undignified: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Where’s My Pedestal? A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Sugar and Spice My Ass: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
I’m from Venus, You’re from Somewhere Else Entirely: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Snow White And The Seven Dickheads: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Babe This! A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Much Ado About Very Little:A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
The Merchants of Penis:A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
The Unleashing of the Shrew: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Lothario and Juliet:A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
King Leer: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
(Well, okay, so I trolled through literary sources. Sue me.)
I like “Elbow Room” and “Forgetting your Place.”
I liked Staying Alive.
Other options might be:
Woman Alive
Live!
Living Women
(etc)
Something that will tie into the idea that this is a survival guide, and also hammer again the point that patriarchy changes and sometimes takes women’s lives. As you’ve noted so often, abortion discussions usually completely ignore the fact there’s a living being surrounding and providing to the fetus. A lot of suggestions are great and funny for folks who already know your writing, but getting your points across to a new audience means a title that will draw people in.
What’s The Worst That Can Happen?: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
…
Why Bill Donahue Hates Me: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Goodbye Earl: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
So many great ones! I’m cracking up. I’ll have to cull 10 finalists and beg my editor to make a choice.
No witty suggestions here. I’m too disgruntled. “DISGRUNTLED! (subtitle).”
I, too, would like to know, however, how the blogads thing works. Do you get paid every time we load the front page? do we have to click the ads for you to get paid? If someone’s using Adblocker, do you get paid?
Please enlighten, as I’m too disgruntled to look up the answers myself.
Bleeding Around Bears: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
okay, everybody’s probably going to think this way too sick, but I still think it’s funny…
Medea: A feminist guide…
I Think, Therefore I’m Female
Laughing Myself New Holes
Close Your Eyes and Think of England
Cross Your Legs
In Her Combat Boots
Looking for Mr. Goodbrain
Rock the Boat
A Season in Hell
Kitty with a Whip
The Iron Maiden
congratulations on the book deal, Amanda! Yay. Sadly, I can’t think of any cool titles right this minute, as should be concentrating on own PhD thesis, but Hooray for You!
Bitch at the Dog Park: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Life in the Real Land of Odd: AFSGPIE ?
I like both “Bite Me!” and “Uppity”, too.
This *Is* My Place”
Yes, I Do Belong Here
Don’t give up
Don’t Give In
Not Your Slave
Surprisingly Equal
Refreshingly Equal
Front Of The Line
Not Stepping Back
Not Shutting Up
Not Buying It
I worry a little about the ones like “backwards in high heels” because I’m afraid they make people think that it’s okay that we have to do everything the hard way, that a real woman doesn’t complain that she has to work twice as hard for half the money and never get the praise men do. It’s got the old “can do everything a man can do and still make him feel like a man” feel to it. But maybe that’s just me.
I also don’t like “full dorsal feminism” because, hey, that means you’re turning your back, but doesn’t say on what; unless the foreword describes what you’re turning away from, it’s kind of vague. And I fear there will be all kinds of snerks about your ass. And it also brings to mind the ugly claim about the only position women have in the movement is “prone”.
Pearls Off: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Neanderthals in the Mist
More among the Survival Guide Theme —
1. Don’t Forget Your Sunglasses in the Artic: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
2.Don’t Drink the Water: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
3.Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid:A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
I think you should shorten the subtitle to:” Feminist Survival in Hostile Enviornments” - just because the subtitle by itself is already a mouthful and its own title anyways.
Don’t Forget Your Sunglasses in the Artic: Feminist Survival in Hostile Enviornments
Don’t Drink the Water: Feminist Survival in Hostile Enviornments
Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid:Feminist Survival in Hostile Enviornments
See? There’s less verbiage, and more room for hookiness.
Breathing While Female: AFGtPIE
I love “Burn the Witch”
+++
More along the witch theme:
I Turned Them Into Newts
Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble
We Bitched
I Put A Spell On You
We’re Out of the Woods
+++
Potpourri:
An Affair to Dismember
The Lady Doth Protest(s)
In the Smelly of the Beast
An Accidental Purist
Amazon Goddess Unleashed!
Got My Coat, Grabbed My Hat
The Five People Who Will Try to Fondle You In Hell
Mrs. Dalloway’s Revenge
Venus Rising
+++
I was so ready to do a Bill Donohue is a big fat liar thing, but someone beat me to it. I promise, however, that if “Bill Donohue” appears in the title, I will make the book required reading for all future courses that I teach. That’s easily 30 guaranteed sales a year. And I get desk copies that I can raffle off to friends. Think about it…
Lessee:
Bonnie and Clods: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Nobody’s Girl Friday: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
One Crapped Over The Cuckoo’s Nest: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
The Japes of Wrath: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
B*A*S*H*: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
From Here To Inanity: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Rebels Without A Clue: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
The Silence Of The Loons: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Withering Heights: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Dances With Dodos: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Mutiny Of The Booty: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Abort the Patriarchy
Just kick ‘em in the nads: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Mutiny of the Booty??
Oh my… [chuckles…]
MUTINY of the BOOTY? Oh, lordy, why didn’t I think of that?!
Giving Cath the Flick:AFSGtPIE
It’s gotta be “Life As We Know It.� That one is, like, the bestest book title evah.
YE55!! Cuz that TV show was liek totally teh r0xx0r!!
Not sure if someones already suggested this upthread, but how about:
Nice Girls Finish Last : A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Hm, I’m late and it’s tired, but I’ll see what I can do. I mean it’s late and I’m tired.
You Want What?: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Stuff Your Balls: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments (maybe not)
Brains Over Balls: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Not Your Girl: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
When Pro-Lifers Kill: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Beyond Male Rule: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Dicks with Dicks: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Anne Coulter Must Die : (tagline)
*puts checkbook away*
“A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments”
Anyway to work in the notion that, on our patriarchy-saturated planet, there is no such thing as a non-politically inhospitable environment? Like:
Life, the Universe, and Everything: AFSGTPIE
or maybe reverse the order like this:
A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments (NOTE: This includes all environments)
Not exactly clever plays on words I know…
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Marcotte: AFSGTPIE
The Ditches, For Bitches.
(Note the comma is very important here
)
Pearls Among Swine: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
I really, really like:
Are We Human Yet?
Planet of The Sexists (global issue + WTF, sexism is nuts!)
Chromosome Poisoning
Snark for Freedom
Girl, Uninterrupted (equality = normal, or should be!)
Can’t think of any more snappy ones myself right now, but I’ll let you know if I do.
PS: Congrats on the book deal! Yay!
With Microsoft Internet Explorer set top a text size of “larger,” the old right-hand sidebar, starting with the search tool, now appears at the bottom of everything, and the space for the right hand side bar is just blank white. I tried reducing text size all the way down to “smallest,” and it was still the same way. Maybe that’s what you intended, but it seems to me that a lot of people won’t see the ads at all.
By the Short Hairs
Springboarding off mjs,
Amazons in the Mist:
Title ideas:
No Honey
or
Your’re “Miss”ing My Point
granted I am a guy and educated as a phyicist, not a writer but my take on the “long title syndrome” is that you have a very precise idea you want to convey…need more words for more precise meaning. But a title could as well be poetic, no? i.e. ambiguous so long as the alternative meanings all reinforce your agenda. Fewer words will do in that case.
and BTW, good for you! Count on one copy sold to a guy in Massachusetts.
Ad opinions:
As I sometimes drag the text of the wildly inappropriate ads into the coments, I’d say the bible rabble are welcome to support pandagon. How much does it matter whether we click through? The sponsor tells google which keywords [google is totally all about keywords] they want their ad triggered by…you skewer a fucked up fundie and their hotbutton issues will light up the keywords. I’d even click through if it guaranteed a bible thumper had to drop a nickle in your cup. [btw, for this post, the adsense ads are all about amateur publishing and publishing services…quite well tuned to the keywords]
Facebook, MySpace…hmm yes it does extend your reach. I may resent having to go three different places to catch all the conversations…and good as your posts are, your crowd is a huge part of the draw here. But from your standpoint this is quite beneficial and if new crowds form, I think that will be because they see a benefit or at least an interest for their own sake…good all around.
Keep Breathing, Keep Fighting: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
No I wont swallow this!
How should I know, I’m not the Secratery
I Have No Degree in Short-Skirtoligy!
Getting Verticaly Anywhere.
Keep Your Eyes On My Tits While I steal Your Promosion.
Leave the Cash on the Sidebord, don’t Forget the Bonus & Pension.
My Name Is Not Monica And This Office is Square.
I’m Bored With This Shit, Let’s do Some Work
Dinosaur Hunt: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
(or “Dinosaur Hunting”)
Alternatively…
Bake Your Own Damn Pie: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Just a few more:
Fighting Words: AFGTPHE
Out of Context: AFGTPHE
Miss, Represented: AFGTPHE
Left Turn in a Red State: AFGTPHE
WooHoo, I got three votes!
But, I think the best one was “Nice Girls Finish Last:”
Hell is Other Patriarchs (with a nod to Sartre)
Dismantling the Master’s House (with a not to Lourde)
Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow (with a nod to Zappa)
ARE YOU THERE GOD IT’S ME MARCOTTE!!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!
“Unclutch Your Pearls” is all that’s occurred to me so far.
Loving “Are you there, God? It’s me, Marcotte” and “Bitchslapped” so far. “Mutiny of the Booty” is also a personal fave.
These are all just too funny. Whatever Amanda doesn’t choose for her book should be used as titles for every pandagon post going forward. This will get you through at least a couple months, contributing blogger folks…
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DON’T PANIC!: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
Are We There Yet?: A Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments
How to be a **Happy** Heathen Man-Hating Uppity Bitch: A Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments