Why We Still Need Feminism
“That’s their society; they’ve chosen it”
Remember a couple of months ago when I was talking about how women’s rights are treated as cultural quirks, like food or architecture (here and here, for example)?
Watch this:
Women are getting raped and arrested and locked up at fucking gunpoint, and all Geraldo can say is, “That’s their society, they’ve chosen it…”
Who is [...]
Women’s equality under the law: nice while it lasted
People tend to think that the world they’re born into is normal, even immutable. That’s a big reason why young people in the West take women’s rights for granted. How could it be any different?
I’m just old enough to have experienced the world before women’s equality under the law was in place. [...]
Five women buried alive in “honor” killings; Pakistani lawmaker unsure what the big deal is
Women buried alive in ‘honour’ killings
Aug 30, 2008 09:37 AM
ROBIN McDOWELL
The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD–A Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by southwestern tribesmen to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands, telling stunned members of Parliament this week to spare him their outrage.
“These are centuries-old traditions and I will [...]
A hypothetical
Imagine, for a moment, that the United States was militarily occupying a country where a certain kind of ethnic prejudice was endemic among traditional segments of the population. Imagine that as part of its occupation plan, the U.S. was allowing these traditionalists to assume greater political control. And imagine that one of [...]
Thanksgiving, Life and Death, and Anti-feminism
My family is trying to talk me into coming back to life. They liked having me alive — I guess it’s some kind of love thing — and with the holidays approaching they’ve been pressuring me pretty heavily to climb back into the ol’ meat suit. My mother keeps calling me up [...]
Ann Coulter meets the lizard man
Ann Coulter was in the news last week for making the following statement while plugging her latest asinine book:
If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. [...]
God’s obsession with penises
It’s a curious thing about the God of the Universe, the Creator of All That Exists, the Ground of Being: He (and it is a “He”) is utterly transfixed by human penises. It is His burning focus. You would think that He might have bigger fish to fry, maybe a nebula to [...]
When Godbags Attack
Catholic leaders in Nicaruaga are pushing through a law to block abortion in all cases, including those where the life of the mother is at stake:
“The current law allows a small door in which abortions can be performed, and we are trying to close that door,” said Dr. Rafael Cabrera, an obstetrician and [...]
Who hates who?
A letter to a young feminist:
Now after hearing a lot about you from our American brothers, I strongly believe that each of you feminists deserved to be anal-fucked and gang-raped and then we will cut your boobs and empty whole magazines of 16 bullets into your vaginas. Then post live digital videos of [...]
The Culture of Life
Remember Biting Beaver and the condom that broke and the emergency contraception that was withheld because BB’s an unmarried slut? When last we checked, BB had secured a last-minute dosage of EC and was hoping for the best.
The best did not happen.
Now pregnant, Biting Beaver is trying to deal with her [...]
