Gender Issues
Dudes search for something important in hate crime to be upset about
Pages and pages of hate-filled ranting against women. Fifty bullets sprayed into a crowd of female strangers. Three women dead, nine wounded. Clearly a hate crime against women, right? Not if you’re Markos Moulitsas or Greg Mitchell or this dude. If you’re one of these guys, “hate crime against women” doesn’t even quite make sense. [...]
Hate crime disappears into the memory hole
I didn’t hear about the Pennsylvania misogyny massacre until late last night, when I was too tired to write about it. I figured I’d post on it today, by which time I expected there would be more articles about the story on the Google News front page and perhaps some political commentary on Memeorandum. But [...]
You HAVE to watch this!
Somebody made a movie about feminism! Over at The Widdershins, Taggles has posted video clips from the documentary, “I Was A Teenage Feminist.” Women on whether they consider themselves feminist: Dudes on what being a feminist means: Taggles also has a clip from an absolutely batshit pro-life feminist who argues that giving birth to your [...]
Jimmy Carter should join the Church of Trope
Jimmy Carter was in the news this past week because of an editorial he wrote for the Observer about how godbaggism is used to oppress women. Carter is a lifelong godbag himself, but he left the Baptist Church some time ago when he realized that the dudes running the Southern Baptist Convention weren’t going to [...]
Shave and get drunk, because you’re already brilliant
Apparently British commercials are just like American commercials: Via Hoyden, who snagged it from Sociological Images. This reminds me of a conversation I was having with a friend about how men seem to lack the crippling self-doubt that is part of the Joy of Womanhood. Getting naked, for example: this is not a problem for [...]
David Letterman, the voice of dude nation
I was about to hit the sack this morning (don’t ask) when I noticed a few emails in my inbox about David Letterman. “Is he still alive?” I wondered. It occurred to me that perhaps he’d died in an autoerotic asphyxiation accident, and would soon be joining David Carradine and Michael Hutchence in the Freakazoids [...]
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 his [...]
Women’s rights and culture
Originally posted at The New Agenda. Earlier this week I wrote about the horrific murder of Aasiya Hassan, whose husband beheaded her in what may have been an honor killing. For many commenters on the web, it is apparently impossible to condemn this nightmare without hastening to add that American culture has plenty of its [...]
It’s the system, stupid
James Carville is upset with The New Agenda. “This New Agenda crowd need to get a new agenda, a new agenda of women that are losing their jobs, a new agenda of battered women and women that are victims of sex discrimination and not this kind of silliness,” he says. This kind of silliness, of [...]
One Perfect Sentence
Twisty: The idea that women’s public sexuality can so precisely mirror traditional male fantasy while simultaneously existing in a kind of pro-woman, I-do-it-for-myself alternate universe is the cornerstone of funfeminist “thought.”
