Category Archives: Anti-feminists and their pals

The Anxious Masculinity of Conservatives

Media Girl has an interesting post on the current presidential administration’s and conservatives’ obsession with appearing to be macho, while scorning liberals and Democrats for being feminine–and therefore “weak as women.” Our society’s contemptuous sentiments for anything in the least … Continue reading

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New Rape Culture and Gender Thread

Okay here’s the “sequel” to my other Rape Culture post. For a lead-in I bring you the very brutally honest and true comment by Q Grrl from the ‘Amanda presents some real Anti-Rape Advice’ thread. Q Grrl Writes: June 28th, … Continue reading

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Yes some guys are assholes, but it's still your fault if you get raped

(First, kudos to Amanda Marcotte whose comment and link here in the Daily Kos Kerfuzzle thread served as the inspiration for this post) How ingrained is our culture’s prominent “past-time” of ‘guilt tripping the sexual assault/rape victim for the attack’ … Continue reading

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Dubya and Republicans whining about "obstructionist Democrats" and another confirmed arch-Rightwing judicial nominee

Now, someone please explain to me why Dubya and his neoconservative brethren on the Hill are pissing and moaning about not getting their way due to “obstructionist Democrats?” When yet again, another one of their loyal ultra-conservative judges, Thomas Griffith, … Continue reading

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What Media Girl and Lorraine said…

Media Girl along with Lorraine pretty much sum all of this up for us. Feminism, so called “liberal/progressive” men’s attitudes towards women’s rights issues, social equality, confronting male privilege within our culture and the political sphere… Back in April, I … Continue reading

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Forty years later and women are still putting up with b.s. about their birth control

With the slow rolling back of women’s reproductive rights taking place within our country let’s take a moment and observe the forty-year anniversary of a landmark Supreme Court decision that guaranteed a woman’s privacy and right to control her reproductive … Continue reading

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The issue of violence against women and why it's so damn hard to talk about

I wonder how long it will take for a possible thread of this post to turn into a “oh, wah, you’re forgetting about the violence and abuses men suffer,” flame war. Though this post is about violence against women and … Continue reading

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So why can't we feminists "play nice" with the boys?

Well after reading through this post by Becky over at Archaeopteryx (a fellow Hoosier feminist–yes we do exist), I can see why women and girls can’t “play nice” with certain men and boys, who have certain preconceived notions about a … Continue reading

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More anti-women-having-sex and anti-comprehensive sex-ed from the Rightwing

I’m beginning to loose track of all the hysterically anti-woman-having-sex, anti-comprehensive sex-ed, and anti-contraception rhetoric we’ve heard from the Radical Rightwing, which is now being taught to young people in schools and has supplanted reason and science. Most of this … Continue reading

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Men's Egos are *that* frail?!…really?!

Since the time they were little girls, women have been conditioned to pet the male ego and never dare threaten or bruise it. So as some of these girls become young women, enter college–ambitious to excel in the academia, then … Continue reading

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