I heart David Paterson

By Violet Socks · Saturday, January 24th, 2009 · 19 Comments »

If you’re going to put a dude on the cover of Ms. and call him a feminist, shouldn’t you at least pick a dude who is, in fact, a feminist?
The photoshopped Ms. cover at right came to me in an email from Nigeria, so it may be the work of the Scaife foundation. [...]

My life as a mole

By Violet Socks · Saturday, January 17th, 2009 · 23 Comments »

(Originally published at The New Agenda.)
I’ve been outed. A couple of days ago Naomi Wolf was on CNN, talking about The New Agenda. It seems she’d had a look around the website and saw some posts criticizing Obama. I’ll say one thing for Naomi; she’s a smart one.
“I’m [...]

The reason it’s offensive to put Obama on the cover of Ms. as a feminist is because he is not a feminist

By Violet Socks · Friday, January 16th, 2009 · 61 Comments »

There, I thought I’d put the whole thing right there in the title, for the twits who are having trouble following along.
I visited my friend Ann Bartow’s blog and discovered that the Obama Girls at Jezebel and Slate are crazy-mad because some of us are failing to adequately worship Dreamboat Barry. [...]

Naomi Wolf is still mad at me about Jesus, I see

By Violet Socks · Thursday, January 15th, 2009 · 57 Comments »

Make sure you watch through to see Naomi Wolf:

Notice how she insinuates that The New Agenda website, which I built and of which I am the editor, thank you very much, is funded by right-wing Republican money.
Oh, Naomi. Are you still mad about the Jesus thing?
It’s true, a few years ago I [...]