I’m a day late, but here I am Taking Back the Blog. Today’s rant: the passive voice. When it comes to reports of men abusing and oppressing women, the passive voice prevails. Women are discriminated against Women are paid less… Read More ›
gender & feminism
Kate Harding on inhabiting her own body
Kate Harding has a wonderful post, “Happy Yogaversary to Me“, on reclaiming her self as an embodied subject: Like just about all girls in this culture, I was always taught that my body was primarily something for other people to… Read More ›
It’s only hurting women
Austin, TX. Shorter World Media: For some reason, terrorism doesn’t count if it’s directed against women and their health care providers. From zuzu.
Camille Paglia: still a intellectual minnow pretending to be a shark
Shorter Camille Paglia: young women who “hookup” for sex are degrading themselves terribly and should be less slutty, and if only one of those silly sluts had given the VTech shooter a mercy fuck then they wouldn’t be dead, which… Read More ›
Sex and stereotypes: What’s wrong with individualist fluffy-feminism
I love those blog posts that make me shout, “Yes!” Infinitethought has posted a biting critique of the bulging strawfeminist-packed closets of the so-called “sex-positive” individualist feminist, the second, larval stage of the embryonic INAFBer [1]: Trotting out the tired… Read More ›
Silencing with “attack”, the misuses of logic, and reclaiming emotion
I’ve been contemplating the buzzword “attack”. While it is worth keeping a lid on egregious, unwarranted, off-topic ad hominem remarks, “personal attack” seems to verge on being a means to shut down dissent in some online discussions. It can function… Read More ›
Equality, all packaged up (Open obstreperation thread)
originally uploaded by LT See the comparative superheroine art at I Read Comics: Equalism Then check out the broken-back barbies in the Oh, Just Stop It. Now. post. Longstanding readers may remember a post on my original tigtogblog linking to… Read More ›
Draft Blog Reader’s Code of Conduct: Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.
I can’t help thinking that this whole brouhaha over O’Reilly’s proposed “Blogger’s Code” is begging to be re-jiggered along the lines of that “Don’t rape her” meme from a while back. So, my draft Blog Reader’s Code: * If a… Read More ›
Feed the FAQs?
Updated to add: if Haloscan eats your comments over at FF101 or you have any other problems commenting there, please leave your FAQ suggestions in comments to this post. Further Update: apparently many workplace networks block Haloscan. [more] I’ve just… Read More ›
McBrickWall on Mother’s Milk
Further to this post about a family being threatened with removal from a Ronald McDonald House for breastfeeding – in the eating area – with one twin post-op from brain surgery and exclusively on breastmilk – and with their banishment… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 