She was 92. After decades of journalism and feminist activism, she died peacefully at her home.
I have to say it: Death must be drunk. He keeps flailing around and cutting down the wrong people. Come on, Death, you’ve got one important target: he’s fat, orange, reeks of shit, and has clown hair. How can you keep missing?
Reaper also grabbed Cassandra Wilson. She was only 70. Damn you reaper, you don’t even seem to be closing in on the obvious one.
Maybe he’s trying to get his favourite people to safety?
That’s a scary thought.
Vale and huge Respect to Gloria Steinem.
Rest in power – you will not be forgotten and you made our world better by what you did with your life.
Add Dave Nee (one of the people who started The Other Change of Hobbit book store) died at 73, recently. Probably only of interest or note to people in the SF Bay Area.
Maybe it’s so there will be a whole crowd of people on the escalator going up when the fat orange one begins his descent on the escalator going down, down into the depths.
Were you happy when Lindsey Graham died?
From ‘A Different Bias’:
“Where Do Experts Rank Trump’s Presidential Prowess?
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ve8DSO-U2Jc
“If Trump is third from the bottom, it is because America has had two previous Trumps”
Rohn Hokahey @ 6
An elevator going down. But I did not know Trump played a guitar.
Dio – The Last In Line
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=maFoGkSQQIc
Allan Lichtman live now on yt How Gloria Steinem Changed America — And What Happens Now?
Perhaps the most famous feminist (for being a feminist) and she (latterly) supported trans rights.
https://www.them.us/news/gloria-steinem-trans-rights
PBS Newshour on this liked here :
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/28/infinite-thread-xxxx/comment-page-5/#comment-2311024
Maybe Death is trying to protect us from J.D. Vance, creature of Peter Thiel; He should bag Vance, and Thiel himself, before harvesting Trump. (Read Gil Durán’s The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy if you really want to scare yourself shitless.)
You’re all addressing the wrong death. What you shoulD be saying is SQUEAK!
I was re-reading Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions a decade ago (it was thirty years after publication, now forty) and was in shock about just how optimistic she was about some very basic rights and civil kindnesses towards women that still hadn’t been realized yet.
Meh, I’ve never been a fan of her middle class, privileged white lady version of feminism. Later it was revealed that she was a CIA operative within the civil rights movement and was proud of her work destroying the black power movement.
Her support for Intersectionality came much later, with second and third wave feminism, and political expediency.
It may have been sincere, but doesn’t erase her harmful influence.
In the news: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/05/robin-morgan-feminist-poet-editor-dies-aged-85
@ KG ;
Agreed and another huge reason why everyone on the left should’ve done absolutely everything to unite behind and support and vote for Kamala Harris to stop Trump..
It isn;’t just Trump though he’s MORE than bad enough on his own; its now the fact that it is unchecked Repugs all the way down the line of succession and indefinitely ever onwards into the future. Then there’s Project 2025 as well and so much more.
@ StevoR
Of course you mean
FTFY
It surely goes without saying it’s not up to voters to vote for parties regardless, but up to parties to earn votes.
Let’s hope Harris doesn’t go down in history as the woman who prized genocide more than democracy.
In a vain attempt to get remotely back on topic, I’m sure Steinem would have been appalled at the way Harris crawled and licked Netanyahu’s boots.
https://youtube.com/shorts/-pzk1faiA58
@ Trump Troll’s Support troll Silentbob : “Of course you mean
No. I meant excactly what I said in those exact words ::
The left should’ve done absolutely everything to unite behind and support and vote for Kamala Harris to stop Trump.
What part of that don’t you get?
Fixed it for ya.
Whoever they put forward there will always be counter-productive toxic Bothsiderist and Only Unicornist Klowns that whinge and throw tanties rather than growing up and voting the ONLY possible ethical and rational way namely BLUE NO MATTER WHO given the alternative is Trump’s Fascism…
Note that it is the nature of politics that you never get your perfect Unicorn candidate and if you did they’d probly lose.
What precisely do you think they didn’t do that they should have done and who do yu think would’ve been better?
Clarity fix for blockquote fail & elaboration :
Actually the voters have a responsibility to vote for the better of the two candidates for POTUS. Period. Full stop. No exceptions.
USoAites had to choose between Fascist evil Trump or Non-Fascist & actually good Kamala.
She won’t because she did NOT support genocide.
You are simply factually wrong here. You have provided ZERO evidence or reason to support your pro-Trump position. So STOP LYING SILENTBOB.
Yet again, watch the proof of this here. Really WATCH it. Think and then apologise for your lies about her!
Also your video linked in @#20 that you falsely claimed was of Kamala ”crawled and licked Netanyahu’s boots” shows NO SUCH THING. In fact it doesn’t even mention Netanyahu at all let alone show him or her doing that.
For those who can’t be bothered watching it, Silentbob’s misleading YT short shows Kamala calling for a ceasefire & saying what every politician says and attending a political function that, political reality, almost all politicians attend as a basic obligation to one influential group of voters. A group that has proven its political power and that you do NOT want to mess with if you want to get elected which, by definition, politicians do. Disliking that reality does NOT make it go away.
Kamala does NOT lie in that YT short nor does she say anything controversial or, again, mention Netanyahu at all. Let alone “lick his boots.”
OTOH, that’s what Trump is metaphorically doing and Kamala has already proven in a much more accurate yt short here – that we would NOT be at war with Iran if she was POTUS rather than him.
Don’t you ever get sick of lying and making demonstrably false claims, Silentbob you disgraceful troll? Have you no integrity or respect for yourself let alone others here?
Your continued failure to answer the questions here:
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/11/this-is-what-happens-when-you-let-a-senile-fool-run-the-country/comment-page-1/#comment-2311021
is noted.
PS. Have you apologised to chigau (違う) yet?
Tethys @16 said something interesting about Steinem’s CIA connections. But then later in the thread we get the inevitable turn I just commented upon on another ongoing thread. Quoting myself there: