Pete Hoekstra is super racist, doesn’t understand the word “satire”
If you’ve gotten someone’s attention by giving them policies to challenge and facts to debate, you’re doing something right. You’re putting yourself out there as a contender. You’re making yourself part of the conversation. Good for you! If you’ve gotten someone’s attention by putting a young Asian woman on a bicycle to pedal through rice fields in a sedge hat to the tune of a gong and a pentatonic scale, so she can smilingly criticize your opponent in broken English, it’s not because you’re a contender–it’s because you’re a racist asshole.
...read moreCome Talk about Women and the 2012 Election
On Monday Feb. 6th, I’ll be speaking at NYU Law with former President of Planned Parenthood Faye Wattleton, Director of MergerWatch Lois Uttley, and conservative scholar Christina Hoff Sommers about women and the 2012 election. It should be an interesting discussion — if you’re in New York, drop by! Just make sure you RSVP to ssb363@nyu.edu.
...read moreNew Rules.
Bill Maher, who I alternately love and loathe (so funny, sometimes! but so misogynist, a lot of the time!) has some New Rules for the new year. And I like them. He suggests, among others:
...read moreNew Rule If you were a Republican in 2011, and you liked Donald Trump, and then you liked Michele Bachmann, and then you liked Rick Perry, and then you liked Herman Cain, and then you liked Newt Gingrich … you can still hate Mitt Romney, but you can’t say it’s because he’s always changing his mind.
New Rule Internet headlines have to be more like newspaper headlines. That means they have to tell me something instead of just tricking me into clicking on them. If you write the headline, “She Wore That?” you have to go to your journalism school and give your degree back.
New Rule You can’t be against same-sex marriage and for Newt Gingrich. No man has ever loved another man as much as Newt Gingrich loves Newt Gingrich.
Whoops.
I am fairly confident that this could have been avoided.
...read moreOn wresting good from stupid: Herman Cain, sexual harassment and sexual assault
This is a guest post by Emily L. Hauser.
With the revelation of what is turning into quite a slew of accusations of sexual harassment and/or assault (“Hey, baby, you’re lookin’ gooood tonight!” [or some such] being the former; grabbing a woman’s inner thigh and pulling her head toward his crotch [the actual accusation that Sharon Bialek has leveled] being the latter) we have an opportunity to wrest some objective good out of this mountain of stupid.
Netroots Nation 2011
This is a guest post by April Lukes-Streich.
It was difficult to choose, as so many [sessions] looked interesting and were sure to be helpful, but I was extremely happy with each of the session I attended. Highlights of some of the panels I attended:
Voter Intimidation
I had a rather unpleasant experience when I went to vote in my first state election. As we know, I voted in my first federal election last year, and it was a wonderful experience. All the party volunteers out the front got along beautifully, and they were all excited about my first vote, no matter [...]
...read moreMeet Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s New President
Three cheers for Brazil for electing their first woman President. Dilma Rousseff of the Worker’s Party won yesterday’s runoff election against Jose Serra and will be inaugurated this coming January. Learn a bit more about Rousseff here. Feminist agendas in Latin America still need work but hopefully as more women come into positions of power, [...]
...read moreTalking about one’s views on sex does not equal “sexualizing”
So apparently I’m a bad feminist for pointing out that Christine O’Donnell is opposed to masturbation, and that she thinks it’s akin to adultery. As bad a feminist as Rachel Maddow, even! Listen guys (or Legal Insurrection Guy, as the case may be): No one is talking about Christine O’Donnell’s personal masturbatory habits (or lack [...]
...read moreBig wins for the Tea Party; losses for hairy palms
Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell won the Republican primary in Delaware last night, which is a big victory for the far right. While O’Donnell isn’t hugely opposed to sins like lying and stealing, she is very much against the horrors of masturbation, which is about as bad as cheating on your spouse. But she also [...]
...read moreDo you live in New York? Remember to vote tomorrow.
If you’re wondering who to support, the Working Families Party has great endorsements — check ‘em out. I’ll put in an extra plug for my representative, Yvette Clark, who has done great work in Congress. And even though he’s not my rep, I’ll also plug Jerry Nadler, who has been at the forefront of many [...]
...read moreThe Coming Race War
Well, Andrew Breitbart, smearing Shirley Sherrod in order to refute the NAACP’s resolution against “racist elements” in the Tea Party turned out to be a pretty bad idea. Yes, you cost her her job, but she’s making black people look good. It’s too bad you’re not like, a journalist, or something, and did some digging [...]
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