The Other McCain

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

Kinder, Küche, Kirche

Perhaps I should leave this one to Smitty — Frau Smitty ist Deutsch — but our gallant hero is probably too busy saving the world from Taliban terrorists to notice that the New York Times has decided that Germany is insufficiently feminist: [W]hen it comes to empowering women, no Teutonic drive or deference seems to work […]

The Beast of Babylon Wears Bangs: Amanda Marcotte’s ‘Pure Feminist Evil’

“I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication […]

Civil Rights and ‘Elevator Eyes’

“Elevator Eyes: When someone looks another person up and down, giving their eyes the resemblance of elevators.” — Urban Dictionary Michael Barone explains that the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights sent a 19-page letter to colleges and universities in April: The OCR letter includes a requirement that universities adopt a “preponderance of the […]

Crazy Stuff Liberals Say

At Memeorandum last night, I notice an item by liberal feminist blogger Riverdaughter with the interesting title “Suburban Soccer Mom Values.” OK, so I clicked over and read through a long rambling anti-suburban diatribe. And then, like a sudden 90-degree turn, it swerved off into being about . . . Anthony Weiner: So, I am […]

Feminism and the ‘Friendly Stranger’

“How many coeds do you have to dick-dial behind the back of your pregnant wife before someone notices that maybe that’s not exactly congruent with the teachings of Gloria Steinem?” — Ace of Spades, “In Which I Confess Some Doubts” Having resisted the temptation to re-open my long war with Little Miss Attila over the […]

Weiner’s Secret Desire
UPDATED: ‘X-Rated’ Photo Emerges; Weiner’s Wife Is Pregnant; More Democrats Now Calling for Resignation

“To be sure, Weiner stayed true to his 1996 pronouncement when, 14 years later, he wed a member of the cognitive elite, a high-powered career woman. But the details of his online shenanigans suggest that he harbored secret desires for female admiration and deference — that he was a closet male chauvinist.” — James Taranto, […]

WeinerGate Götterdämmerung

“If these new standards come in to play, it will mean a drastic reduction in the number of people willing to risk running for office — or be activists or writers or anyone that Andrew Breitbart deems interesting enough to start a harassment campaign against.” — Amanda Marcotte, “The Worst Thing About Weinergate? The Total […]

Beware of ‘Feminist’ Men

The Triumph of Civic Virtue is a 1922 neoclassical statue by Frederick MacMonnies which, since 1941, has been displayed in front of Borough Hall in Queens, N.Y. The allegorical figure shows a male warrior, symbolizing civic virtue, having conquered two prone female figures symbolizing the twin sirens of vice and corruption. Feminists have objected to […]

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