The Other McCain

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

‘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 […]

Feminism: Wrong From the Start

Betty Friedan (left) leads a 1971 protest supporting the Equal Rights Amendment Instapundit links to a column by Barbara Kay that is premised on a counterfactual revisionist narrative: The feminist revolution began as a necessary reform movement, but unfortunately evolved into a marxism-imbued, revolutionary one. Second-wave feminism’s focus soon shifted from women’s equal rights (which […]

Mr. G Misses the Point

Responding to my earlier post about Echidne of the Snakes, That Mr. G Guy writes: “I’ve been a single man and a married man and I feel . . . that I’m much better off and happier as a married man.” Wow — talk about not getting it!  Mr. G obviously doesn’t realize that his […]

Echidne of the Snakes Really Hates Christianity and Marriage Doesn’t She?

Jaana Goodrich (“Echdne of the Snakes“) participates in an economics panel with Paul Krugman and Duncan “Atrios” Black, at EschaCon ’08 Conference, Philadelphia, March 29, 2008 (Photo by A Spork in the Drawer) Yesterday, there was a Memeorandum thread about Ross Douthat’s latest column. I glanced at the column, and considered blogging about it, but then […]

Soap Operas Are Not Documentaries (and ‘Feminism’ Is a Word With a Definition)

There has been, as Da Tech Tech Guy notes, quite a bit of sex talk lately on the right side of blogosphere. The Kathryn Jean Lopez column that inspired my musings on the Contraceptive Culture leads Little Miss Attila to many musings of her own, including this: [A]s a former hippie I find the notion of […]

‘Incredibly Sexist Assertion’

The Lara Logan story proves to be the gift that keeps on giving, thanks to a predictable pattern: Someone attempts a reaction more complex than “rape is bad,” and immediately gets shouted down by angry feminists. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Thank God for Nirs Rosen’s ne plus ultra moonbat response, or otherwise I might have been […]

Fear and Loathing in Cairo

“In this case, rightwingers who have an interest in stoking fear and loathing of Muslims worldwide pounced at the opportunity to smear all Egyptians with this crime. Popular rightwing bloggers Debbie Schlussel, Robert Stacy McCain, and Sister Toldjah were among those who immediately used the attack to reinforce their anti-Muslim, anti-revolution arguments. But the real […]

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