Super Bowl = Patriarchy
I’m not really paying attention to the Super Bowl news, seeing as how I’m still busy with my secret new women’s group thingy. Actually I wouldn’t be paying attention even if I weren’t busy, because jesus, who gives a shit? In fact, I was surprised to realize today that the stupid game hasn’t [...]
Christie Hefner, Sarah Palin, and the meaning of feminism
Last year I got into several disputes over whether it was appropriate for Sarah Palin to consider herself a feminist. Most people, including me, consider her abortion stance anti-feminist, but is that alone enough to disqualify her? She clearly embraces the feminist message in other respects, and self-identifies as a feminist. [...]
Is Sotomayor pro-choice?
Anna Belle may deserve a prize. Here’s what she said last week:
Trust me on this: Neither Obama or Bush would ever have the balls to appoint a pro-choice justice to the Supreme Court, but that’s just what Palin did (Alaskan Supreme Court). That’s just one difference between her and the likes of those two. [...]
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 [...]
The President is a man, the First Lady is talking fashion, and all is right with the world
There were a few scary moments last year when it seemed a woman might actually be the next President of the United States, but then the patriarchy got things back under control with Barack Obama. Just as Obama’s inauguration was an aggressive and carefully calculated display of male dominance, the media coverage of his [...]
The Triumph of Patriarchy
Originally published at The New Agenda.
The dominant narrative of Barack Obama’s inauguration is that it represents the triumph of civil rights for African-Americans. And it does, undeniably. It’s a transcendent moment in America’s tortured history of race relations.
But there’s another, unacknowledged narrative. This one is about the role of men [...]
The Turning Point
There are some turns that are so clear you can’t miss them. They loom up before you like an accident scene on the highway, all flashing lights and broken glass. Detour ahead.
Such is the Ms. magazine cover proclaiming Barack Obama a super-feminist. It’s not that men can’t be feminists. They definitely can, [...]
Yet another insult to women: Obama chooses a sexist pastor for his Inaugural
(Originally published at The New Agenda.)
An almost all-male Cabinet. A speechwriter who thinks sexual assault is funny. A senior advisor who’s on record with his belief that innate inferiority, not discrimination, is what’s keeping women back.
And now, with another twist of the knife, President-elect Obama has invited Rick Warren to deliver the [...]
For the record
During the campaign I wrote a few times about the bewildering behavior of the many feminists who attacked Sarah Palin in astonishingly sexist (and dishonest) terms — and did so in the name of feminism. The situation was appalling to many of us who have been lifelong feminists and who care deeply about the [...]
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 [...]
