My best friend recently got married. She’s leaning towards not taking her husband’s last name, mainly because, as she puts it, “did you realize what a pain the ass it is to legally change your name?”
I’m not against women taking their husbands’ names — there are a lot of good reasons to do so. [...]
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A bride by any other name …
Posted in Feminism, Marriage/Weddings on August 15, 2007 | 9 Comments »
One emotionally disturbed woman v. A Gaggle of Violent Misogynist Loons: the Internet at its finest
Posted in Bloggers, Conservative Craziness, Feminism, Internet, Misogyny on August 10, 2007 | 27 Comments »
Ugh. In the grand scheme of intense angry blog fights that seem omnipresent in certain circles and make it damn hard to forget that it’s only about .000005 percent of the US population who has any indication that this is going on, — we’ve got quite a doozy on our hands.
Here is the summary, [...]
Making that choice a choice
Posted in Democrats, Feminism, Framing, Journalism, Reproductive Rights on July 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The L.A. Times has an article today titled “Democrats shift approach on abortion.” Here is how it opens.
Sensing an opportunity to impress religious voters — and tip elections — Democrats in Congress and on the campaign trail have begun to adopt some of the language and policy goals of the antiabortion movement.
The rest of the [...]
Clinton, the pink jacket, and thoughts about cleavage
Posted in Feminism, Gender, Snarking, Would-Be Presidents on July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll admit it. I saw the headline of this column (“Pretty Formidable in Pink“) and I was so ready to pounce with my snark claws extended. Here comes another vacuous article about the fact that Hillary is a woman and whether the country is ready and the other day we saw cleavage and did we [...]
It’s just a gentlemanly game of checking out that ass
Posted in Feminism, Gender, Sex on July 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon comments on the passive aggressive nature of Cary Tennis’s advice/response to this letter.
Basically, a women writes in to complain about her catch of a boyfriend who has a habit of oogling other women when she’s around.
Cary Tennis warns the letter-writer not to get too nagging by trying to discipline him or [...]
an ode to -isms: my feminist libertarian manifesto (or, I propose a truce?)
Posted in Feminism, Libertarians, Me on July 9, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Keep reading — this post is not as self-indulgent as the title may lead you to believe, I swear!
One of my favorite libertarian button/bumper-sticker slogans is, “Libertarians: Pro-Choice on everything.” Libertarians, as a whole, like choice. Know who else likes choice? Feminists. In fact, “choice” forms the basis for a lot rhetoric [...]
Food & Feminism
Posted in Feminism, Food Politics on July 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Jennifer Jeffrey explores whether the “eat local” movement is anti-feminist in that it places undue expectations and burdens on women. Now I’m sure there are people who would immediately leap to point out that, duh, men cook too! Which, you know, obviously. But women — especially married women and women with children — are still [...]
hilary’s vagina fails to be one ring to unite us all
Posted in Democrats, Feminism on June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Shock and awe. Feminists aren’t all supportive of Hillary just because she’s a woman.
Um, duh.
Because maybe feminism really isn’t all about man-hating sister-solidarity. Maybe it really is about equal treatment of both genders, meaning you judge a person (or a politiian) based on who they are, rather than on their genitals. Imagine that! [...]
“Like many Americans, I’m sure you are concerned about the feminist indoctrination that occurs on college campuses.”
Posted in Feminism, What the Fuck? on June 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t imagine what incentive a college administration would have to lie to incoming students about the number of rapes occurring on the campus by inflating this number. Colleges deflating crime (including rape) statistics to make their campuses appear safer? Sure. But I doubt there are many administration officials out there who just can’t wait [...]
porn, choices and hippie philosophy books
Posted in Blogging Bandwagon, Feminism on May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a bad blogger, because I’m always so late to the game responding to anything going on. But that’s okay, because the people who read this are mostly my friends who don’t read a lot of other blogs (which is neat, because then they actually think I have something novel to say!), or the 20-or-so [...]
just admiring
Posted in Feminism on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Jill at Feministe defends Jessica Valenti’s new book, Full Frontal Feminism, against criticisms of it being too “fluffy” or patronizing to young women. I haven’t read the book yet. But I thought this paragraph in Jill’s post was beautiful and spot-on:
The fact is that feminism is a wide movement that encompasses a wide range [...]
Unhooked, again and again …
Posted in Feminism, Kids These Days, Sex on May 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
People are going to begin to get the idea that I’m obsessed with Laura Sessions Stepp. I’m not, I swear. It’s just that damn woman keeps coming up everywhere i go. Yesterday, she snuck up on me in a conversation I was having in the computer lab up at school. A classmate is writing her [...]
girls and boys in america…
Posted in Feminism, Pop Culture, Snarking on April 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Because of school projects, my printed word diet lately has consisted solely of a strange combination of articles about copyright and 1990s issues of Us and People magazines (and, as a break, Elements of Style by the late great Wendy Wasserstein), but today I finally got around to catching up on some news/blog reading. Things [...]
Status-of-Women delegate to DC women: you are all ugly barren hags who should cling more tightly to your men while riding the metro
Posted in City Life, Feminism, Sex, What the Fuck? on April 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Oh, wow. Sometimes that’s all there is to say about things like this, a Concerned Women for America op-ed penned by Janice Shaw Crouse, a senior fellow at CWA who was also a Bush-appointed delegate to the 2003 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and “is not hoping to join the ranks of [...]
well, pulling out is still free
Posted in Education, Feminism, Reproductive Rights, Sex on March 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Check out this article about a huge hike in the cost of birth control at colleges. I direct you to it as I almost missed it entirely. It’s in the ‘Student News’ section of the Education section of today’s CNN website. Even though, per the article, 39% of undergraduate women are on oral contraception, [...]
how ’bout we opt-out of sloppy, manufactured-trend pieces, eh?
Posted in Economics, Feminism, Media, Mommy Wars on March 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The March/April issue of Columbia Journalism Review has an amazing article about “the opt-out” myth (thanks to Feministe for steering me toward the online article, even though I have a damn hard-copy of the magazine sitting on my table collecting dust — why do I even bother with non-Internet magazine subscriptions?).
E.J. Graff points out [...]
links
Posted in Conservative Craziness, Feminism, Privacy on March 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t read any blogs in about a week and a half, so I’m going back through my favorites and trying to catch up and getting overwhelmed reading and thinking about things (do you people all have to be so damn smart and witty?), so I’m just going to post approximately 8.7 billion links right [...]
a feminist book review in WaPo?
Posted in Feminism on February 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
WaPo has a whole series of book reviews on love-romance-and-sex books up right now, called “Down With Love: Our Grouchy Valentine Issue.”
It covers “Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both” by Laura Session Stepp (which seems similar to another book that’s gotten a lot of attention lately, “Uncovered,” by [...]
strangely, you don’t see a lot of drunk-driving-apologists
Posted in Feminism, Violence Against Women on January 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Punkass Marc has the best response to conservative hand-wringing that women who go out Drinking! in Bars! and Clubs! and dare to be in public after dark! are really just asking to be raped:
Yep. Drinking is dangerous. Problem is, the conservatives never ask themselves what’s worse: drinking which puts you in danger of being [...]
collective moratorium on sex-and-the-city references, anybody?
Posted in Feminism, Pop Culture, Sex on January 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Why does it seem that Dawn Eden is everywhere lately?
In America’s Future Foundation’s latest issue of Doublethink, Cheryl Miller interviews Eden, along with two other virginity cheerleaders I haven’t heard of before but who apparently also have wrangled book deals by spewing oh-what-have-the-radical-feminists-done-to-us rhetoric about how some combination of the “sexual revolution,” Seventeen magazine [...]
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