Surprise! Sarah: There are sexist jerks in both parties

I will be the first to admit that Sarah Palin’s recent pandering to the right-wing ideologues has turned me off to her politically.  She had an excellent opportunity to forge her “maverick” style by ignoring left-wing or right-wing purity standards and just doing what’s right.  Her record as Governor of Alaska revealed shades of this [...]

Coakley for President

It’s about damn time this started being said. (h/t Suburban Guerrilla):
Coakley, in her boldest gamble of the campaign, said that fighting for women’s access to abortions was more important than passing the overall bill, despite its aim of providing coverage for 36 million people, establishing a public insurance option, and prohibiting insurers from discriminating [...]

Women under Carriages, under Street Cars, and under Buses

I’m reprinting a thread I wrote about a 1 1/2 years ago because they’ve just done it to us again. We’re supposed to go along for the greater good of the “health” plan. Give Obama a win. Hope they correct the injustices against women later. Well, ladies and sympathetic gentlemen, they [...]

Republicans Hate Pro Choice Women

Nothing these days makes the Republican Party act like cannibals more than a pro-choice woman in their midst. They can talk all they want about the big tent, but it’s an imaginary concept. It  always has and always will be.  Since the club for growth hooked up with the theocrats, the more traditional Rockefeller Republicans [...]

Why can’t they just call themselves Bigots?

The appalling thing about Conservative Republicans in the “old time values” vein is that they can make up all kinds of excuses for the Southern Strategy or DOMA but it still boils down to good old fashion bigotry.  Why not just own up to it?
Here’s one from Matt Frassica at the New York Observer on [...]

The three pillars of alpha male social dominance

The battle rages on between feminists over whether a “women-only” or “liberal women-only” strategy is the best path to upending the current patriarchal system.  This system is one that deprives the female gender of appropriate representation in the power structures of our nation.  I believe this is *the* question of our generation for women who [...]

The Tide of Public Opinion Appears to be Turning on Polanski

I admit to being really angry that so many people have been defending Polanski around the world and on the ‘net. I got really worked up yesterday and even snapped at a a couple of commenters. So I’m very happy to see that the tide seems to be turning–especially in the media. [...]

Mather does not Cotton to the Pseudo-Puritanism of O’Keefe and Giles

O’Keefe and Giles, in their portrayal of pimp and prostitute, reek of puerile classism. Were it not for the overwhelmingly noxious fumes emanating from the handful of ACORN employees who were apparently willing to enable a child prostitution ring exploiting illegal immigrants, the stink of the ill-informed moral superiority of O’Keefe and Giles would [...]

Stupid should hurt

The Palin haters are at it again.  From Business Insider:
Hong Kong Broker Pulling A “Borat” On Sarah Palin
Hopefully Sarah Palin realizes she’s been invited to Hong Kong as a practical joke.
CLSA, the Asia-focused broker who invited Mrs. Palin as keynote speaker for an Asian investment conference, is well known for their cheeky takes on investment [...]

Jaycee Lee Dugard Lived for 18 Years in a “Paedophile Ghetto.”

Warning: Read this post only if you have a strong stomach and a burning desire to end violence against women and children.
Jaycee Lee Dugard is a young woman, now 29, who was abducted in 1991 at age 11 by convicted sex offender Philip Garrido and his wife Nancy Dugard. The Garridos kept Dugard in [...]