anti-feminist

Feminist burnout: the toll of continually responding to the news cycle

By tigtog on 2015-12-05 • ( 14 )

Late last year, writer Tanya Ashworth contacted me for my answers to some questions she had about the effects of immersing oneself in the background media consumption required to write regularly about feminist issues: the drip-drip-drip of piece after piece of anti-women incident coverage and condescending/fatuous/abusively sexist op-eds. Yesterday she finally managed to get that article published, and my answers are in fine company – Clementine Ford, Van Badham, Lou Heinrich and Viv Smythe: optimism in the face of online abuse.

A screenshot of John Cleese as Anne Elk on the Monty Python's Flying Circus TV Show

Today in Wikiwalks: Rational Wiki’s Pseudolaws section.

By tigtog on 2015-01-03 • ( 5 )

I started reading about the “freeman on the land” concept because of that grandiose Manbook misogynist. From the looks of what else is documented in Rational Wiki’s pseudolaw section, I might not emerge for several days. I knew people are strange, but wow.

A middle aged pale skinned woman laughing unabashedly, holding a mug

Don’t read Paglia, read Ivins

By tigtog on 2014-10-01 • ( 1 )

The late great Molly Ivins wrote everything anyone needs to know about Camille Paglia way back in 1991.

A woman in early twentieth century dress, gazing into a yawning chasm 5000 feet deep, Moran's Point. (c1902-1903) rift

QOTD: Neutrality is not neutral. Neutrality supports the status quo.

By tigtog on 2014-07-26 • ( 3 )

[Content Note: discussion of graphic rape threats and links to posts that quote them]
the way you personally feel about rape threats is irrelevant. What’s relevant is how you behave when they happen. When you support and promote the work of someone who makes rape threats, you are tolerating rape threats.

Quote Of The Day: Consider A Birdcage

By tigtog on 2013-05-31 • ( 6 )

If you look very closely at just one wire in the cage, you cannot see the other wires. If your conception of what is before you is determined by this myopic focus, you could look at that one wire, up and down the length of it, and be unable to see why a bird would not just fly around the wire any time it wanted to go somewhere.