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I also think a lot of people genuinely think that a woman can not be strong enough to be president…
If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking…
Alas USA is not a multiparty system so each party only has to seem more desirable than the other one.…
Ah but the Russia that conservatives hated presented* itself as a progressive force for worker's empowerment and anti-imperialism. Putin's Russia…
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Monthly Archives: August 2005
The Anti-Feminists Want to Give You $5000!
Assuming that you’re a female undergraduate, that is. The IWF, a partisan think tank that specializes in hewing to the GOP party line (the “I” stands for “independent,” which I assume is a joke) and attacking feminism, is holding a … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-feminists and their pals
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Iraq and American Masculinity
Just came across this passage on another blog and it cracked me up. A ragtag bunch of ignorant losers who want to have sex with 72 virgins against a military increasingly de-balled by an effete media and seemingly intimidated president. … Continue reading
Posted in Iraq, Whatever
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Why Feminism?
Recently I have had an interesting question put to me, first in terms of trying to understand the origins of feminism or an overlook of feminism, and now more specifically ‘why feminism?’ Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc
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"The true legacy of Margaret Sanger"-Ms.
One of the cover stories of Ms. Magazine this past summer dealt with the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and what is all at stake for women’s reproductive rights in this country, and the changing Supreme Court. And with … Continue reading
Four more years over there and is this our 'Nam?
With some even more bad news about the war in Iraq, thanks to The New York Times, top Army officials have openly spoken of the possibility of American troops staying over in Iraq for four more years. Joy. And the … Continue reading
On that Dove Ad Campaign and Unruly Fat
Mind the Gap is one of my favorite new feminist blogs (new to me, at least!). Check out Winter Woods’ post on the Dove Beauty Campaign: But at the risk of sounding like a humourless, spoil sport, never satisfied feminist … Continue reading
Bush ambassador said to broker flushing Iraqi women's rights down toilet
From yesterday’s New York Times: Iraqi leaders said they had also reached a tentative agreement to relegate marriage and family matters to adjudication by clerics, an arrangement opposed by secular leaders and women’s groups here, Iraqi leaders said. The tentative … Continue reading
Posted in Iraq, Whatever
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No big difference between the two
For me personally, there are really only very few differences between fundamentalist Christianity and fundamentalist Islam. Race and ethnicity are the obvious ones, then there’s the language gap, fashion, and location of course of where you are likely to find … Continue reading
A letter from your body
Amanda Marcotte fisks an offering from Not a Desperate Housewife that veers between the risible and the disturbing – a letter to a young woman from her vagina. Although the notion of a literate vagina invites mockery, it strikes me … Continue reading
Lady Madonna, baby at your breast…
This is an edited version of an essay that first appeared on The Iron-On Line Although my baby’s still a few months away from eating anything other than amniotic fluid, my midwife has already asked whether I’ve decided how I’m … Continue reading
It is inevitable that people will detransition – no medical treatment has a 100% satisfaction rate. But 94% of trans…