The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘Most Women Have to Be Coerced into Heterosexuality’

Audre Lorde (left), Marilyn Frye (center) and Monique Wittig (right) “I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . . “I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of black […]

Slate Scrapes the Bottom

Or maybe “Slate Spanks the Bottom” would be a better way to describe the nadir of editorial judgment whereby the desperate quest for traffic — let’s face it, they’ll do anything to get hits — led them to publish Jillian Keenan’s perverted prose: Once again, I’ve been accused of pedophilia. Well, to be technical, my […]

Why Do They Make It So Easy?

Feminist blogger @joyintorah18 RT’d the above image on Twitter, which was noticed by MRA (Men’s Rights Activist) Mike Buchanan, and someone then called it to my attention. OK, so who is this feminist? Not the naked lady in the picture, I mean @joyintorah18? Joy is a Canadian who runs a site called “Mancheeze,” which she describes […]

The Mythic World of Women’s Studies

Are you tired of reality? Do you feel that you are being oppressed by facts and logic? Then you should consider majoring in Women’s Studies at one of our nation’s elite universities, where your liberated consciousness is protected from these hateful forces of patriarchy. Just ask Sarah Blugis of George Washington University: Why you should […]

‘Erection Equals Consent’?

This is a phrase I never expected to encounter and, when I saw the headline, I misunderstood what the writer meant by it: The flesh is weak: On the Erection Equals Consent rape myth What I expected, based on that headline, was an argument by a feminist “deconstructing” the common claim that men are unable to […]

‘I Was Drunk. After That, It All Gets Kind of Blurry. … I Know We Had Sex.’

The headline is a quote from atheist Alison Smith, describing her hookup with atheist Michael Shermer at a 2008 atheist conference in Las Vegas, in a BuzzFeed article headlined: Will Misogyny Bring Down The Atheist Movement? My headline is better. Just sayin’ . . . Also, the BuzzFeed headline is asking the wrong question. It […]

Sudden Onset Lesbian Syndrome

“Men who rule, and male leftists who seek to rule, try to depoliticize sex . . . in order to prevent us from acting to end our oppression and challenging their power. As the question of homosexuality has become public, reformists define it as a private question of who you sleep with in order to […]

Feminism: The Final Solution?

Sally Miller Gearhart is a feminist and a lesbian (but I repeat myself) who as a professor at San Francisco State University in the 1970s helped develop one of the first Women’s Studies programs in the nation. For quite some time, I’ve seen a quote from Professor Gearhart posted in various places around the Internet: […]

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