Why Do We Put Up With This??

It’s not that O’Reilly is a conservative—it’s that he’s a nasty conservative. I was appalled by his behavior in this video. Is that the kind of role model we want for our children?  One woman wrote in and asked him that very question because of the way that he says “Shut up” so often. His [...]

All too often, actions against women are brushed aside as cultural rites of passage. In some cultures it’s normal to stone a woman to death if she has besmirched the honor of her family, or to subject her to genital mutilation (so that she can’t dishonor her family), or to rape women as one of [...]

I don’t pretend to understand the health care debate, but I know what concerns me the most: the fact that so many people are intent on protecting private insurers. I don’t think they have done anything to earn that loyalty. Even the best of them have repeatedly raised premiums, copays and deductibles, often by astounding [...]

A little outdated, since the election is over, but this interview with Letty Cottin Pogrebin and her daughter, Abigail Pogrebin, illustrates some of the differences between Second Wave and Third Wave feminists. A bonus: a short video on why Hilary Clinton doesn’t fit the “New Feminism.”

Beware of organizations which carry the feminist label but follow a secret, or not so secret, agenda, such as: Feminists For Life The Women’s Freedom Network Independent Women’s Forum Network for Empowering Women Renaissance Women Rightgrrl – A take-off on Riotgrrls which is a feminist movement made up of young women with a punk attitude. [...]

In , Brenda Laurel refers to “certain kinds of feminists” who think that they know what little girls are like. She seems to be implying that these feminists have an ideal in mind of what girls–and women–should be like. And would be like if they weren’t socialized by our patriarchal society to be stereotypically feminine. [...]

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