Via Dana who found it via Kylie, a Facebook note by Harriet Page. I know, not everyone is on Facebook. But that’s where it is! She introduced it with This week I wrote a response to the several occasions on which I had been challenged on my feminism by men and women who felt that …
Tag Archive: Feminism
Mar 03 2013
Sarah Palin what now?
Oh this is fun – I was poking around with Google, searching for this and that, and turned up this 2010 post at Jezebel on “Sarah Palin Feminism.” Say what? Yes, apparently Sarah Palin was calling for a new, conservative feminism (starring Sarah Palin, presumably?), and Kate Harding came up with five ways to look …
Feb 26 2013
We are told we are respected, and yet
Feminism is resurging, says Ellie Mae O’Hagan at Comment is Free. It’s resurging because there is still so god damn much sexist shit going on. In that sense it would be nice if feminism could drop dead because it’s no longer needed. O’Hagan recently read The Feminine Mystique for the first time. To my mind, …
Feb 19 2013
In which I “show up” again
Well I was going to ignore it but no one else is, so I’ll say a thing or two. About Harriet Hall’s latest Address to the Feminists, which announces that she’s not our enemy by way of prelude to telling us what shits we are. I have been falsely identified as an enemy of feminism …
Feb 08 2013
Arithmetic via shopping
Chris Chambers and Kate Clancy point out at the Guardian that pseudoscience and stereotyping won’t solve gender inequality in science, via what they call a “stereotype-enforcing guide to addressing the gender imbalance in science” also published by the Guardian. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, a developmental neuroscientist at University College London, points out that finding reliable gender differences …
Feb 03 2013
Cultural crap
What is “radical feminism”? I see peculiar definitions here and there – or not so much definitions, as ad hoc explanations apparently pulled out of people’s…imaginary reference materials. The definitions or ad hoc explanations are crafted in such a way that they appear to fit feminists the crafters dislike, unless you actually know anything about …
Jan 17 2013
Uglies v pretties
Seen the 9 Ugliest Feminists In America thing? It ends with a bizarre non sequitur. Feminists want to be valued for their brainpower and ideas above all else, but they still engage in professional photoshoots to push the prettiest picture of themselves on their web sites and book jackets. I guess even feminism can’t completely …
Jan 16 2013
The heroic standard is too high
I’m thinking about the Romantic cult of the hero, and what a bad insidious idea it can be. Yesterday Sara Mayhew made a rather pointed remark on Twitter. If a retired US AirForce Col. who pioneered as one of the 1st female pilot and flight surgeons voices critique about your feminism, listen. Here again is what …
Oct 20 2012
This shit is sexist, and feminism is the fight against sexism
Soraya says hell yes she’s a feminist. Remember the woman who asked Romney about the wage gap? You know what she got for her efforts? A good and proper Slutshaming 101 from conservatives who dug up her Facebook page and her Twitter account to reveal that she has in the past used alcohol and maybe …
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