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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

‘My Sister Is Pregnant and We Don’t Know Which of My Brothers is the Father’

The quoted sentence was spoken by a child on a school playground. Overheard by a teacher, this triggered an investigation that exposed a multigenerational horror story in rural Australia: Police raided the Colt family home in rural south-western New South Wales in July 2012 after a teacher alerted authorities to a conversation overheard in the […]

Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘Rapists Serve All Men by Enforcing Male Supremacy’

Left to right: Kate Millett, Ann Jones, Jenny Kitzinger “Patriarchy’s chief institution is the family. . . . [T]he family effects control and conformity where political and other authorities are insufficient. As the fundamental instrument and the foundation unit of patriarchal society the family and its roles are prototypical. . . . “The concept of […]

Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘Most Women Have to Be Coerced into Heterosexuality’

Audre Lorde (left), Marilyn Frye (center) and Monique Wittig (right) “I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . . “I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of black […]

Slate Scrapes the Bottom

Or maybe “Slate Spanks the Bottom” would be a better way to describe the nadir of editorial judgment whereby the desperate quest for traffic — let’s face it, they’ll do anything to get hits — led them to publish Jillian Keenan’s perverted prose: Once again, I’ve been accused of pedophilia. Well, to be technical, my […]

Why Do They Make It So Easy?

Feminist blogger @joyintorah18 RT’d the above image on Twitter, which was noticed by MRA (Men’s Rights Activist) Mike Buchanan, and someone then called it to my attention. OK, so who is this feminist? Not the naked lady in the picture, I mean @joyintorah18? Joy is a Canadian who runs a site called “Mancheeze,” which she describes […]

The Mythic World of Women’s Studies

Are you tired of reality? Do you feel that you are being oppressed by facts and logic? Then you should consider majoring in Women’s Studies at one of our nation’s elite universities, where your liberated consciousness is protected from these hateful forces of patriarchy. Just ask Sarah Blugis of George Washington University: Why you should […]

‘Erection Equals Consent’?

This is a phrase I never expected to encounter and, when I saw the headline, I misunderstood what the writer meant by it: The flesh is weak: On the Erection Equals Consent rape myth What I expected, based on that headline, was an argument by a feminist “deconstructing” the common claim that men are unable to […]

‘I Was Drunk. After That, It All Gets Kind of Blurry. … I Know We Had Sex.’

The headline is a quote from atheist Alison Smith, describing her hookup with atheist Michael Shermer at a 2008 atheist conference in Las Vegas, in a BuzzFeed article headlined: Will Misogyny Bring Down The Atheist Movement? My headline is better. Just sayin’ . . . Also, the BuzzFeed headline is asking the wrong question. It […]

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