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 […]
From Feministing.org (not to be confused with feministing.com):
16. Any criticism of feminism is a form of Hate-Speech. A feminist’s own speech is allowed to be as hateful as she wants it to be.
17. If somebody has the temerity to criticize the behavior of feminists, you should dismissively sneer that they’re attacking “strawfeminists”– absurdist caricatures who […]
About once a month, there’s a free pizza lunch at the University for female graduate students in engineering and science. They bring in women that work in academia and industry to speak about their experiences as professional women. Basically, the program is to encourage us (the students) to go for those kinds of […]
Not from morning sickness, this time. Ilyka Damen is doing a “Blog Against the Strawfeminist” week. Whatever that means. Personally, I do most of my feminist-watching at Feminist Blogs, which I can skim through quickly without getting too riled up. There are plenty of examples there of feminists that are far-left, […]
Someone else had about the same reaction to Linda Hirshman as I did:
A couple days ago I got an email from a reader named Sara (hi Sara!) who asked if I’d comment on what law professor Linda Hirshman recently said on “Good Morning America” about how it’s a mistake for educated women to stay at […]
This made me laugh so loud that MFH, who has the day off, came to see what it was. Better yet, he brought some Hershey’s kisses with him. Serious oppression ensued.
A short excerpt from the link:
Beyond the capitalist motivations of creating a holiday that embraces the experience of *normal* straight couples, I think […]
Mike S. Adams, a Townhall columnist, has written a series of columns on “Why I Don’t Take Feminists Seriously”. Well worth reading.
I particularly like this point from Part V:
15. Feminists can’t understand the difference between anti-feminism and sexism.
If men were the only ones opposed to feminism, Lavender might have a point. But feminists […]