Category Archives: Feminism, sexism, etc

An experiment

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Maia

So I haven’t posted much. That much is obvious. I think of posts occasionally. My friend texted me ‘if we can’t trust celebrities to fight the class war, who can we trust?’ and it’d make a great title for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Prisons and Justice and Police | 3 Comments

Sexy?

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Maia

It’s a very loaded word ‘sexy’. And I’ve been thinking about it since reading a post on Yes Means Yes, about striptease aerobics (admittedly a topic I know nothing about). Jacinda, who wrote the post, enjoys the classes, they make … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Gender and the Body | 19 Comments

Quote: A bit more on malebashing

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Ampersand

This post is quoted from “A Feminist Theory of Malebashing,” by Susan H. Williams and David C. Williams, published in 1996 in Michigan Journal of Gender & Law. The original article has lots of footnotes, which I have rather lazily omitted.
Nicholas Davidson, a well-known critic of feminism, opines in the journal Society that malebashing – […] Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-feminists and their pals, Feminism, sexism, etc, Syndicated feeds | 2 Comments

Women and Children – On Innocence

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Maia

You may have seen the status updates on facebook. Although it depends on who your friends are I guess. At the moment they look like this: In 17 days 919 Palestinians killed by Israel including 284 children & 100 women, … Continue reading →

Posted in Colonialism, Feminism, sexism, etc, Palestine & Israel | 13 Comments

Quote: Kyriarchy, Not Patriarchy

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Ampersand

Sudy at My Ecdysis writes:
Let me break this down for you. When people talk about patriarchy and then it divulges into a complex conversation about the shifting circles of privilege, power, and domination — they’re talking about kyriarchy. When you talk about power assertion of a White woman over a Brown man, that’s […] Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Syndicated feeds | 15 Comments

Big Conservative Media Me

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Jeff Fecke

I will be on the Dennis Prager Show tomorrow — yes, you heard me right, the Dennis Prager Show — discussing his wonderful advice on how it’s a good wife’s duty to endure marital rape. I’ll be on with the … Continue reading →

Posted in About the Bloggers, Feminism, sexism, etc | 3 Comments

Eleventh Doctor: Another White Dude

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Mandolin

I’m sure he’ll be great. But can we please have a doctor who is non-white or non-male, or, I dunno, maybe both? At the VERY least, I demand Rowan Atkinson.

Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Popular (and unpopular) culture, Race, racism and related issues | 25 Comments

The Poetry Brothel…Satire Or What?

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

There is a new kind of poetry happening in NYC called The Poetry Brothel. The basic idea is that the poets are prostitutes and the patrons are johns who pay to have poetry read to them in private. There is … Continue reading →

Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Feminism, sexism, etc, Free speech, censorship, copyright law, etc., Gender and the Body, literature, Sex work, porn, etc | 6 Comments

Dennis Prager: Men are from Mars, Women are Frigid Bitches

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Jeff Fecke

As you may recall, last week Dennis Prager wrote a long and tedious column about how women just don’t give up the nookie to their spouses enough, and how everyone would be happier if only women would stop worrying about … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc | 24 Comments

Sun Rises in East, Sets in West

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Jeff Fecke

Hey, you know what else is just that shocking? Virginity pledges don’t work: Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc | 9 Comments