I picked up a copy of the Minnesota Women’s Press (the local feminist paper) while we were out and about today. This column was, well, interesting: a Bloomington woman found herself without a car to drive to the transit Park and Ride (a mile and a half away), and transit adventures ensued.
She ended [...]
Some things that are floating through my head after wandering around the blogs:
I get the impression from some feminist blogs that they really hold both these beliefs, at the same time: 1) Abstinence does not prevent either pregnancy or STDs, and 2) Condoms are super-magical, perfectly reliable protection against both pregnancy and STDs–most of [...]
Linda Hirshman is so far out there that even many feminists don’t agree with her. In this article, she chronicles some of the reactions she’s gotten:
Everybody started hating Linda, apparently, when I published an article in the progressive magazine the American Prospect last December, saying that women who quit their jobs to stay home [...]
1. Last night I felt the first definite, unmistakeable baby movement! Up until now it’s been little flutterings.
2. Who has more gender-related proscriptions on their behavior and participation: Christian women in the Church or feminist men in feminism? I came across a spirited discussion the other day about whether men [...]
I really don’t know why I keep reading Ilyka Damen; it’s clear that she has had a deep drink of the feminist Kool-Aid.
In reference to this:
We’re also not supposed to equate the word “pussy” with “hopeless coward.” That’s really demeaning to women! It must stop.
….I’d like to know why “pussy” is offensive, but [...]
You can tell the real hard-core feminists by their candy dishes full of emergency contraception pills. And how they keep repeating the line, “Pregnancy begins with implantation, not with conception.” Technically that’s true, but that new little life in there, the one they don’t want to think about, started at conception.
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Hugo Schwyzer on Laura Bush calling herself a feminist:
What heartens me about the First Lady’s use of the term to describe herself is that it serves as a useful corrective to the “I’m not a feminist, but…” view we hear so often from conservative young (and not so young) women. By embracing the word [...]
It’s Equal Pay Day–when feminists complain that women don’t make as much as men, and blame it all on sexism. The Independent Women’s Forum offers a different look (more here and here) at the “wage gap”, and how much of it comes from the different choices that men and women make.
For myself, I don’t [...]
This is the first time I’ve seen a woman actually agree with Linda Hirshman. (Some of my past reaction to Hirshman can be found here.) The focus this time is on women who get advanced degrees in law, medicine, and business from the best schools, and then drop out of the work force, and [...]
More words of wisdom from feministing.org:
Generally, we feminists react more angrily to female critics of feminism than we do to male critics. By default we assume that critics of feminism must be male; we become livid whenever this assumption turns-out to be wrong. Men, being mentally inferior bastards, can be easily dismissed. We never listen [...]