The Other McCain

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

‘Feminist Lezzy Heaven’

Lea DeLaria in the Netflix series ‘Orange Is the New Black’ “It’s like I’ve died and gone to feminist lezzy heaven. I’ve been a professional lesbian for over 30 years — before that I freelanced — but my entire career has been about that, putting a human face on what a butch is.” — Lea […]

In Which @AmandaMarcotte Gets Crazy About High School Dress Codes

Maybe you missed the story about a Utah high school that Photoshopped yearbook photos of girls to make them more “appropriate.” Most people who even noticed the story just shrugged: Whatever. Yet this story inspired Everybody’s Favorite Feminist™ Amanda Marcotte to go off on a tangent about “modesty” as a weapon of patriarchal social control of […]

Why Did the Patriarchy Make @JustineHarman Write About Her Boobs?

The #fem2 hashtag is Twitter’s shorthand for feminism and, while surfing it last night, I came across a column by Justine Harman, an editor for the web site of Elle magazine: Rihanna’s Boobs Make Me Feel Better About My Body OK, then. This is an issue feminists call “body image,” which isn’t really an issue […]

Toward Anarchy and Oblivion

“It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. . . . I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look […]

Trigger Warning: Violence, Scapegoating, Misogyny and a Creepy Little Weirdo

The Mass Murder Blame Game: Elliot Rodger, Gunman in California Mass Shooting, was influenced by the “Men’s Rights Movement” — Will McLeod, Daily Kos UCSB Shooter Elliot Rodger Posted Racist Messages on ‘Puahate’ Website — Matt Willstein, Mediaite The Pick-Up Artist Community’s Predictable, Horrible Response to a Mass Murder — Amanda Hess, Slate Elliot Rodger’s […]

The Darwinian Dead End: Feminists Subtract Themselves From the Future

“To live for the moment is the prevailing passion — to live for yourself, not for your predecessors or posterity. We are fast losing the sense of historical continuity, the sense of belonging to a succession of generations originating in the past and stretching into the future. . . . “Narcissism emerges as the typical […]

‘Trigger Warning’: How Feminism Promotes Harmful Stereotypes

Is there any stereotype of women more harmful than the idea that women are emotionally delicate creatures incapable of handling stress, prone to hysterical crying at the slightest provocation? And doesn’t the contemporary feminist trope of putting “trigger warnings” on potentially disturbing material tend to justify that stereotype? But we are just too stupid to […]

Feminists Outraged After Young Actress Shailene Woodley Says, ‘I Like Men’

She refused to join the Angry Marxist Lesbian Man-Haters Club: In a recent interview with Time magazine, the actress Shailene Woodley was asked if she considered herself a feminist. “No,” said Ms. Woodley, 22. “Because I love men, and I think the idea of ‘raise women to power, take the men away from the power’ […]

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