June, 2006
It’s too fucking polite around here
I think I need to start a flamewar with somebody. But who? Any suggestions?
A particularly nasty strain of the FRA virus
A lot of the men who are drawn to the FRA/MRA movement are probably just garden-variety assholes who are happy to blame feminism for their problems. But then there are the actual monsters: rapists, child-abusers, and wife-beaters who find the FRA/MRA rhetoric a convenient cover for their crimes. The rapists are aided by a number [...]
Godbags elect woman as chief godbag
Which is really nice, if you’re into that godbag thing. Those wild and crazy homo-ordaining Episcopalians have broken yet another barrier by electing a woman to head up the entire U.S. church. The conservatives are muttering darkly about schism. Well, they’ve been muttering darkly about it, but the darkness of the muttering is now approaching [...]
Happy Father’s Day
Happy Fathers’ Day and all that — though I have to be honest that the main father I’m worried about today is the sparrow and his mate* who are building a nest in the rose planter on the deck. At least I think they’re sparrows. The rose planter is not a good place, and when [...]
The only thing I’m going to say about that blowjob shitstorm
As someone once said to me in a private email (and forgive me for quoting you, Someone): I really think Twisty ought to get a stick, post it at the entrance to her blog at about 4 foot 6 inches off the ground, like at the carnival rides, and post a sign saying “You must [...]
MRAs exposed
Red State Feminist has compiled a bunch of comments from MRA/FRA boards about the shooting of a family court judge in Nevada who had angered the fathers’ rights crowd. (MRA=Men’s Rights Activists, FRA=Fathers’ Rights Activists.) The shooter is believed to be Darren Mack, a deranged MRA (is that redundant?) who is also wanted for murdering [...]
Hugo responds, and in the process makes things worse
I do not hate Hugo Schwyzer. I don’t think he’s evil, I don’t think he’s a bad person. I just think his idea of feminism is extremely problematic, even detrimental to the cause of women’s liberation. Our story so far: Hugo wrote a post detailing the advice on feminism he gave to a student, and [...]
Haven’t we already done this once?
Whoops! Today was the Queen’s official birthday (as opposed to her real birthday), and I almost missed it. Haven’t been paying close enough attention to the hereditary monarchy news lately. At a thanksgiving service today at St. Paul’s, the Queen was praised for “giving the monarchy a human face.” That is so true. The Queen’s [...]
Southern Batshit-Crazy Convention
The Southern Baptist Convention just had its big shindig where they elected a new president and passed some batshit crazy resolutions, the way they always do. The biggest news item is that the Convention voted not to back a pullout from the godless Darwin-worshipping homosexuality-teaching public schools, which was kind of a surprise, really, since [...]
Flocking Behavior
The highly coordinated movements of flocks of birds or schools of fish are among the most fascinating phenomena to be found in nature. The group seems to turn and maneuver as a single unit, changing direction almost instantaneously… …Research by Wayne Potts, published in the journal Nature in 1984, helped explain how flock movements are [...]
