Feminists Against Women
Exciting new growth sector in feminism: bashing women
Oh, this is wonderful. Just wonderful.
A start-up publishing house called O/R is planning a kind of semi-spoof of Sarah Palin’s upcoming memoir. The title of Palin’s book is Going Rogue: An American Life. The spoofy thing — actually a collection of essays about Palin — will be called Going [...]
Feminists and the mystery of Sarah Palin
I don’t usually comment on other blogs; I have little enough time to keep my own gig in working order. But the other day I was over at I Blame The Patriarchy, where I was dismayed to find in the comment threads some of the same Palin-bashing that has become drearily familiar from the [...]
Feminists Against Women strike again
Unfuckingbelievable. Those lying twits at Feministing are doing it again: they’re actually repeating the rape kit smear.
The bogus story about Sarah Palin and the rape kits was one of the ugliest smears I’ve ever seen in politics. It was orchestrated by the Obama campaign, fueled with conference calls to reporters and stories [...]
NOW rises from the dead, speaks
Quelle coïncidence! I was just getting ready to post a link to a lovely essay by MadamaB, wherein she bewails the moribund status of establishment feminism (a stance with which I entirely agree, though I’m not sure about MadamaB’s proposed solution. More on that later.)
Anyhoo, here I was, merrily linking away, [...]
Why NOW needs new leadership, and why you should care
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you already know that many of the leaders of the feminist establishment in this country behaved shamefully last year. (And if you don’t know it, read this and this and this and this). If life were an Akira Kurosawa movie, Ellie Smeal and Kim Gandy [...]
I’ve decided Obama is a messenger from God
It’s today’s announcement on polar bears that has prompted my epiphany. Obama was sent here by God as a kind of catharsis-inducing hypocrisy-detector, designed to expose the misogyny of those who worship him while simultaneously reviling (in explicitly sexist terms) women who hold similar political positions. I mean, it’s gotta be that, right? [...]
The patriarchy enablers
Originally posted at The New Agenda. Yes, I AM still pissed off about what happened last year. Why do you ask?
As we all know, patriarchy bestows its smiles and kisses on the women who do its bidding, especially those women who take on the front-line enforcer jobs of shredding other women to bits. [...]
Obama’s Man in Virginia, and the state of feminism
This week Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia signed a bill that includes state funding for “crisis pregnancy centers,” which are basically anti-abortion propaganda bunkers. Now here are a few interesting things to think about:
Tim Kaine is the chair of the Democratic National Committee, a post to which he was appointed by his good buddy [...]
Slate’s XX Factor: what antifeminist women really think
I set out this morning to write about the depressing Rihanna-Chris Brown case, but I got distracted. My attention was caught by Samantha Henig’s post on Slate’s The XX Factor, in which she asks, “Should We Give Chris A Break?” Her answer, incredible as it may seem, is yes:
When I heard that Rihanna [...]
Kim Gandy defends patriarchy, rejects efforts to combat violence against women
I know I put a provocative title on this post, but I call ‘em like I see ‘em. In her Below The Belt column of February 20, Kim Gandy spends half a sentence mourning the fate of Aasiya Hassan, and then three paragraphs explaining that the husband’s crime had nothing whatsoever to do with [...]
