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

The @AmandaMarcotte Agenda

So, the New York Times does a feature article about “women’s empowerment conferences” — upscale corporate-sponsored events for career women — and Everybody’s Favorite Feminist™ Amanda Marcotte has “mixed feelings,” because “corporate sponsors have a way of quietly refocusing these kinds of conferences away from the nitty-gritty issues that face ordinary American women and toward […]

University Shuts Down Women’s Center After ‘How to Be a Lesbian’ Controversy

  Controversy flared in March when it was reported that the University of South Carolina Upstate (USCU) Center for Women’s & Gender Studies would host Leigh Hendrix’s one-woman show, “How to Be a Lesbian in 10 Days or Less.” Now, USCU officials have announced that the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies will be closed: […]

Democrat Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Recycles ‘War on Women’ Theme

The DNC chairwoman issued a statement on Women’s Health Week in which she evidently presumes that (a) abortion is essential to “women’s health,” (b) opposition to abortion is an “extreme agenda,” and (c) all women think ObamaCare is awesome: [A]t the state and national level, Republicans have repeatedly taken actions that restrict access to health […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Armed Forces Day Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho Yep, time once again for a break from politics, feminism and other unpleasant realities – well, I suppose you could argue that Rule 5 is an important part of National Offend A Feminist Week, and in fact last week’s Rule 5 Sunday was the most linked post of NOAFW. As usual, […]

Feminism: Love as Oppression and Heterosexuality as Subordination

Anyone who studies feminist theory quickly realizes a truth first expressed by Women’s Liberation pioneer Ti-Grace Atkinson in 1971: “Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.” That is to say, when feminists condemn “patriarchy,” they are not merely condemning all men, but also heterosexuality, viewing heterosexual women as victims of male oppression. Insofar as […]

‘Superior Male Mathematical Ability’

  Does anyone else remember the “Teen Talk Barbie” controversy? In July 1992, Mattel issued a talking Barbie doll which said various phrases that a teenager might say. One of these phrases was “math class is tough” and, to judge from the reaction by feminists, Barbie might as well have said, “All girls are stupid”: A […]

Generally Speaking, @AmandaMarcotte Is Insane, and Feminism Is Always Wrong

So now, reacting to the firing of Jill Abramson discussed previously, we encounter this commentary from Amanda Marcotte: Women, particularly ambitious women, often feel like they’re in a no-win situation when it comes to climbing the career ladder. They’re told to “lean in” and stop being afraid to ask for what we want. They’re told […]

Was She Too … Bossy?

Gossip swirls after New York Times publisher Pinch Sulzberger fires the paper’s top editor Jill Abramson: Sulzberger and Abramson had a fraught relationship almost from the start of her tenure as executive editor, nearly three years ago. He saw her as difficult, high-handed, and lacking in finesse in her management of people at the paper. […]

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