November, 2008
In Which Feminism Finally Bends Over And Eats Itself From The Ass Up
That was the title of a post at the Insider last summer, prompted by the notorious TV interview in which a couple of Jezebel editors — allegedly feminists — made drunken jokes about rape and other hilarious topics. It could serve as the theme of 2008. (By the way, the Insider was behind the curve [...]
Change we can be scared shitless by
Any hope that the hatred unleashed by the Obama movement would subside post-election is starting to fade. The signal features of Obama’s movement have always been fanaticism and misogyny — and note that I’m talking about the real Obama movement, not the Obama™ movement — and these were ratified at the polls on November 4. They’re now part of acceptable behavior.
I was over at Lynette Long’s blog this morning, and two of her front-page posts are disturbing testament to this phenomenon.
The New Feminism (part 1)
Grandmother and granddaughter have a chat by the fence. I’ve got about forty zillion things to attend to today, so I don’t have time this morning to write a full post. But I want to start pulling together some of our thoughts about the new feminism we’re building, what I think of as the Fourth [...]
More of the interview with Palin
Several people have asked about the videos of Greta’s interview with Palin, so I’m posting them here. I already posted Part 1 of the interview in Palin’s office. Office Interview Part 2 (Palin refers again to the cheeto dicks, mentions a vulgar T-shirt, and more): Part 3 (on being a conservative feminist and her desire [...]
Obama the fantasy construct
Now that Obama has been elected, I think we need a systematic way to distinguish the real Obama from the fantasy construct who occupies so many people’s minds. You know what I’m talking about, of course: the tendency to attribute to Obama any and all qualities deemed desirable by the fantasist. Thus we have Obama [...]
Palin takes on the cheeto dicks
“…some blogger, probably sitting in his parents’ basement in his pajamas…” I’ve only had a chance to watch Part 1 so far.
Some things are big
That’s my profound thought for the day. Over the weekend I was emailing with friends about the death of establishment feminism this year, and about the new feminism we need to create going forward. A few days ago I was asking you all to think about why there is still so much deeply-felt resistance to [...]
Teaching women’s history
New post to pick up on the great conversation we started in this thread. I think this stuff is critical. If we can crack the education angle, that could be the key. This strikes me as the perfect time to share a BBC feature I discovered a couple of years ago: a computer game to [...]
Guess there’s something wrong with me
Jesus Christ, is there no escape from the propaganda steamroller? Even Paul Krugman has succumbed: Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, is a date that will live in fame (the opposite of infamy) forever. If the election of our first African-American president didn’t stir you, if it didn’t leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, there’s [...]
This is religion
From Julia: I was standing under an awning at Eugene’s Saturday market today, waiting for rain to let up. A woman I haven’t seen in ages said ‘Hello’ and told me how excited she is. “About what?” I ask – it’s raining, work is slow, two friends of mine just lost their jobs. She looks [...]
