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

Facts Are the New Hate

The #YesAllWomen hashtag has been going crazy all day because of a Washington Post column by Brad Wilcox and Robin Wilson which demonstrates — as a matter of social science — what all social scientists already know: Marriage is highly correlated with good outcomes for women and children. This isn’t really controversial, if you have […]

‘This Feminist Community That I’d Like to Consider Myself a Part Of’

The pathetic phrase quoted in the headline was spoken by Daniel Kopin in an interview with Cathy Young. Kopin, 21, is a Brown University student who was suspended after a school disciplinary proceeding in which he was found responsible for “sexual misconduct” with his ex-girlfriend and fellow Brown student Lena Sclove. It’s an interesting story: […]

#RapeCulture Liberal Logic™

Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit today published a commentary on a story that seemed familiar, so I double-checked. Amanda Kijera’s account of being raped in Haiti was originally published at the progressive blog Alternet in April 2010, but has apparently been deleted since then. However, its authenticity can be verified from other contemporaneous sources, e.g., […]

Feminists Protest Against Equality

Despite my extensive critical writing about feminism, I have never considered myself a “Men’s Rights Activist” (MRA), simply because I have different concerns than do MRAs and see the problem of feminism differently. MRAs seem to spend a lot of time complaining that men get screwed over in divorce settlements and child custody; I’m a […]

‘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 […]

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