Ask Me Anything.
via Amanda, I find that Molly is offering to answer your good-faith questions about feminism. Since she’s encouraging other bloggers to do the same — and since feminist bloggers have widely varying perspectives — I’ll open up the floor here, too. None of us represent The Feminism in its entirety, but I hope that we’re [...]
...read morePlanned Parenthood = Terrorist Organization
Planned Parenthood was doing the same accursed thing on 9/11 that the terrorists were doing: Killing innocent people. And just like the terrorists, they’re proud of themselves and consider each death to be something to celebrate. But the terrorists are at least honest enough to admit that they’re killing, and they identify their victims as [...]
...read moreThe opposite of forgetting.
Yes, some of these tributes are repulsive. “It was this drought, this tearlessness that brought those who could afford it to Schmuh’s Onion Cellar, where the host handed them a little chopping board–pig or fish–a paring knife for eighty pfennigs, and for twelve marks an ordinary, field-, garden-, and kitchen-variety onion, and induced them to [...]
...read moreRape in Pakistan
I wrote a big fat post on this last night, and then it got deleted. But Molly emailed me today with this article, and it’s an important issue that’s definitely worth mentioning, so here we go. The issue is a little bit confusing, so Ali Eteraz provides us with a handy cheat sheet. The essential [...]
...read moreJesus Doesn’t Want Me For a Sunbeam*
Hip fundies with cool tattoos are spreading the gospel in my lovely, liberal hometown of Seattle. But this isn’t the earth-loving, soup-kitchen-running, “consider your personal relationship with Jesus” hippie-church that a lot of Seattlites are used to. No, this is a “trifecta of indoctrinating, voting, and breeding.” Following Driscoll’s biblical reading of prescribed gender roles, [...]
...read moreScott Writes a Post So I Don’t Have To
Lucky for me, as I’m swamped with work today. Self-appointed upholder of academic standards Harvey Mansfield, in a column arguing that universities should become depoliticized by adopting a whole bundle of reactionary bromides familiar to anyone who’s seen The O’Reilly Factor, recycles this bit of abject nonsense: The feminists at Harvard seek to remove every [...]
...read moreLysistrata Comes to Colombia
My sister* sends on this article about the wives and girlfriends of Colombian gangsters withholding sex until their partners give up violence. Studies found that local gang members were drawn to criminality by the desire for status, power, and sexual attractiveness, not economic necessity, Colombian radio reported. One of the girlfriends, Jennifer Bayer, told Britain’s [...]
...read moreA comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. –Sholom Aleichem I originally planned to write about Bubot Niyar (Paper Dolls) two or three months ago, but I’m a big slacker. Az over at goingsomewhere reminded me: (I’m going to cheat and [...]
...read moreEspresso Comes to New York
Let it be said that I am a coffee addict. I grew up in Seattle. I’ve lived in Italy twice.* I am a coffee whore to the max, and I have a hard time getting through a day without it. So it’s very exciting to me that New York is finally getting some decent coffee [...]
...read moreMashed potatoes and gravy!
This is seriously one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while. It had me in tears last night.
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