With all the depressing aspect of the horrifying Steubenville, Ohio rape case, here’s a bit of good news. The victim’s attorney has asked people to donate to the Madden House, which provides services to victims of domestic and family violence. And the response has been overwhelming:
Category Archive: Feminism
Mar 22 2013
Misogynist Imam Arrested for Attempted Sexual Assault
A Danish imam who became infamous for saying that women who don’t wear a hijab deserve to be raped has been arrested and charged for attempted sexual assault himself. Here’s what he had to say about women deserving no respect and it’s all their fault if they get raped:
Mar 19 2013
Pastor Picks Up Wife to Show Her Who’s Boss
In the ongoing battle for the title of the nation’s second most repulsive preacher (Fred Phelps is pretty much unbeatable in first place), Steven Anderson may have taken the lead over Terry Jones with a recent sermon explaining how he keeps his wife in her proper place by picking her up and carrying her across …
Mar 18 2013
Why Republicans Can’t Reach Out to Black Voters
One of the panel discussions at CPAC last week focused on how the Republican Party could more effectively reach out to minority voters. It featured K. Carl Smith of the Frederick Douglass Republicans, but one of the audience members, who claims to be a descendant of Jefferson Davis, showed exactly why the GOP has such …
Mar 13 2013
Wingnuts: Female Justices Rude to Scalia
Sandy Rios of the American Family Association joins the long list of fundamentalist Christian women who help keep women in their proper place (according to the Bible) in a discussion with Curt Levey about how the female Supreme Court justices are being rude to poor Justice Scalia by — gasp — interrupting him and disagreeing …
Mar 12 2013
Bravo, Lawrence Krauss
I’ll join the chorus of atheists and secularists applauding Lawrence Krauss for taking a stand against gender segregation at a debate over Islam and atheism in London. Krauss was invited to the debate but when told that single men and women would not be allowed to sit together and women would be seated in the …
Mar 12 2013
How Wingnut Women Celebrate Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month and Christian right anti-feminist group Concerned Women for America has put out a video to commemorate it. It’s bad. Really bad. They try so hard to seem hip and cool and it comes off as so cheesy you could make fondue with it. Oh, and it only celebrates “virtuous women” …
Mar 04 2013
South Dakota: Women Can’t Think on Weekends or Holidays
South Dakota has long had the longest mandatory waiting period for women seeking an abortion, but now they’re about to make it even longer, 72 hours. And to make things even worse, the new law says that weekends and holidays don’t count toward the 72 hour wait:
Feb 15 2013
Israel Again Arrests Women for Illegal Prayers
Israel has once again arrested a group of women for daring to pray at the Western Wall in ways that the state does not allow. That is, they were arrested for wearing traditional male prayer shawls rather than the female ones. Because that’s really important for some reason.
Feb 06 2013
Slate Writer Hammers Venker Book
I’m sure you remember Suzanne Venker, Phyllis Schlafly’s niece and the author of the appalling Fox News article about the mythical “war on men.” She has a new book out called How to Choose a Husband and Allison Benedikt has a hilarious review of it at Slate. I’ll just quote the beginning and you can …
Feb 05 2013
The Worldnutdaily Has Some Advice for the Ladies
For all my female friends who are constantly told that they should be raped (or that they’re too ugly to be raped, depending on the asshole responding to them) or that they should stop worrying their pretty (or ugly) little heads over being called a bitch or a cunt for acting like anything other than …
Feb 03 2013
Another Invasive Ultrasound Bill? Yep
Man, you’d think the Republican party would have learned a thing or two from last year, when they got blasted for a whole range of authoritarian policies that harm women and lost the female vote by a sizable margin. Not in Arkansas, where they want to require invasive vaginal probes before a woman can get …
Feb 01 2013
Schlafly’s Disgusting Views on Rape
Phyllis Schlafly is, predictably, throwing a tantrum about the Pentagon’s decision to allow women to serve in combat roles. Among other things, she claims that putting women into more military assignments will cause rape to skyrocket and that “feminist ideology” will wrongly blame the men who commit those rapes:
Jan 29 2013
Wingnuts: Feminists Are ‘Selfish, Narcissistic, Family-Destroying Whores’
Kevin Swanson and Dave Buehner of Generations Radio spend pretty much their entire show every day saying things that are abysmally inane. But this exchange is over the top, even for them. They think Sarah Palin is a feminist, but only a mildly bad one. The really bad ones…well, just watch. Right Wing Watch has …
Jan 29 2013
Banning Abortion Increases Their Number?
A new study of abortion rates around the world finds that the rates are higher in countries where the procedure is illegal, and those abortions are, of course, unregulated and far less safe and a lot of women die as a result of botched illegal abortions.
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