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

On ‘Feminist Men’ and Unicorns

Chelsea Bock (@ChelseaCristene) is a young feminist writer and community college English instructor who came to my attention because of a blog post she wrote about E.J. Levy, but that’s another story for another day, or maybe later today. Anyway, curiosity led me to check Bock’s Twitter feed, where she was RT’ing stuff from the […]

Historian Erupts: ‘I Will Not Be Lectured to by a Public School Girl Like You!’

Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) was the subject of an item here yesterday because of her quarrel with lesbian feminist Cathy Brennan, an argument that highlights the profound schism between radicals like Brennan (who are and always have been the core of the feminist movement) and trendy opportunists like Ms. Penny. The American reader may ask, “Who […]

The Incoherence of Liberal Feminism

Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) is a trendy young female British writer who, like trendy young women everywhere, calls herself a “feminist,” a habit that annoys the hell out of actual feminists: From: “Catherine Brennan” <[email protected]> Date: October 20, 2013 7:05:21 PM To: Jason Cowley, [email protected] Subject: Fwd: Internet bullying Mr. Cowley – I am writing because […]

‘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 […]

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