The Other McCain

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

‘Stacy Threw Out Fake Statistics
That Portray a Skewed Reality’

Q. Do you consider yourself a feminist, or not? Yes . . . . 24% No . . . . 70% CBS News Poll, Oct. 23, 2004 This post originally continued with an on-point response to Little Miss Attila’s assertion in the comments that I “threw out fake statistics,” but then I woke up at […]

‘Other’? I Mean, Really? ‘Other’?

Greg at Rhymes with Right took an online questionnaire and discovered that, under “gender,” the choices were “male,” “female” and “other,” with a blank available for the ambiguous respondent to fill in . . . ?? Insert punchline here. My own objection is to the use of “gender” instead of “sex.” As an old editor […]

Coyote and Roadrunner

But which is which in this eternal argument with Little Miss Attila? No sooner have I dug what I intended as the last shovel-load of my ongoing violation of the First Rule of Holes than Attila delivers yet another provocation. Meep-meep!

Re-Reading Susan Brownmiller
Confronting the Radical Facts of Feminism

“God help us if she ever gets raped — we will be buried under an avalanche of rhetoric.” — James Wolcott, letter to the Village Voice, 1971 Little Miss Attila vowed Monday that she owes me an essay in response to a post I wrote, and she can write a damned book for all I […]

What I Said to Pete

Pete Da Tech Guy took a gander at my recent go-rounds with Little Miss Attila — as I’ve called it, “blogospheric badminton with ‘feminism’ for a shuttlecock” — and expressed his enjoyment of the discourse. So I left this comment at Pete’s post: Glad you enjoyed the spectacle. Joy is one of my favorite people […]

‘A Vagina . . . and a Brain’

Contrary to feminist myth, many of us guys actually prefer women who have both a vagina and a brain, especially when a woman knows which organ to think with: I have a mind of my own, and I don’t need to be told I’m a victim. Or that society must change utterly for my convenience. […]

‘Stacy’s Insult Against Governor Palin’?

Well, it’s come to this. Not content to accuse me of arguing by means of ”oversimplified fiddle faddle,” now Little Miss Attila comes into the comments and accuses one of my defenders of “trying to slide away from Stacy’s insult against Governor Palin — and me — by simply throwing away the word that is […]

The Feminist Omerta

Permit me to offer a simple analogy: Feminism is to women as Mafia is to Sicilians. Students of organized crime know that what we call “mafia” was, during its heyday, actually known to its members as La Cosa Nostra — roughly translated, “this thing of ours.” That wild thought occurred to me as I contemplated […]

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