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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’ […]

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, […]

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