The Other McCain

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

Lena Dunham and the Politics of Vagina

“If you’ve ever watched Girls or have been aware of the things Lena Dunham says, you’d see a portrait of narcissism and entitlement. … “It is the idea that the women on the show are entitled to men wanting them. Despite any flaw — whether it be physical, emotional, or a lack of accomplishments — they are owed a relationship […]

Elizabeth Plank (@feministabulous) Proves She Is a Special Kind of Stupid™

Why are so many female journalists like Margaret Wente using their voice to reify rape culture, instead of criticizing it? — Elizabeth Plank (@feministabulous) October 22, 2013 It was not my plan to write about Elizabeth Plank today because, until about 2 p.m., I’d never even heard of this particular idiot, but then a commenter […]

Marriage, Success and Feminism

Bradley Wilcox has an excellent article at The Atlantic showing the data that correlates marriage to economic outcomes for children. This is reminiscent of one of the most best articles ever published by The Atlantic, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead’s 1993 “Dan Quayle Was Right.” You may remember the controversy referenced in the title: Vice President Quayle […]

The Drunk Sluts Rights Movement

Back in August, when I covered “SlutWalk DC,” I observed: Date rape is an apparently common campus crime that usually involves two drunk young people, one of whom has an erect penis, and the other of whom is unable to avert what the erect penis typically does. Of course, feminists would denounce such a statement […]

Meg Lanker, Feminist Who Threatened to ‘Hate-F*ck’ Herself, Cops a Plea Bargain

Who can forget the terror that gripped the University of Wyoming campus in spring after this ominous Facebook threat: “I want to hatef–k Meg Lanker Simons so hard. That chick that runs her liberal mouth all the time and doesn’t care who knows it. I think its hot and it makes me angry. One night […]

The Secret Sell-Out of ‘Pro-Sex Feminism’

Yesterday’s mention of pornography’s influence (“The Vagina as Commodity: What Does the Pubic Depilation Phenomenon Mean?“) stirred the memory of one reader, who e-mailed: That got me to thinking about the relation between feminism and porn. Back around the 1980s or so, there was an important strand of feminism which was vocally and unashamedly anti-porn. […]

Woman Lawyer Offers Helpful Career Advice, Gets Slammed by Feminist

Vanessa James is a British lawyer who wrote a column for the Guardian newspaper with the headline, “Formal complaints over sexism should be last resort for women,” which included this: The point is that everyone has boundaries and communicating these to colleagues through behaviour is key to avoiding unnecessary offence. It is also important to […]

Complementarity vs. Androgyny

“If Americans can be divorced for ‘incompatibility of temper’ I cannot conceive why they are not all divorced. I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are […]

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