The Other McCain

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

Disease-Infected Queer Feminist @FYeahMFabello Is Smarter Than You

    You remember Melissa Fabello (@FYeahMFabello on Twitter), managing editor of the LGBTQIA site Everyday Feminism. She is the queer woman who hates white people, heterosexuality and men, not necessarily in that order. She is also notorious for being infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually-transmitted disease otherwise known as genital warts.   When […]

The Myth-Making of Academic Feminism

‘Rebirth of the Goddess’ author Carol Christ. “We question the most unquestioned assumption of all, the notion that scholarship is or should be objective. . . . “Feminists understand that the ethos of scholarly objectivity is in fact mythos. We know that there is no dispassionate, disinterested scholarship.” — Carol P. Christ, 1997 “If life […]

‘Heteropatriarchy’ as a Dye Marker: Feminism as Lesbian Supremacy

  If you are in a hurry, and don’t have time to read what I’m about to explain, do yourself a favor: Go to Twitter and search for the word “heteropatriarchy.” This word did not exist 30 years ago, and I will explain its origins and significance, but just scroll down through those Twitter search […]

Feminism and the Cult of the True Self

“The stigma around STDs normally makes people think of cheaters, liars, teenagers who don’t know any better, and other various ‘dirty’ things when they think of sexually transmitted diseases. But there’s a new name circulating in the news lately who’s trying to battle this stigma: Ella Dawson.” — Torii Johnson, April 30, 2015 Once upon […]

Doctor Kook and the Mysterious Case of the Bill-Paying Sperm Donor

Suppose you were a very intelligent young man from Massachusetts. You are not only smart, but tall and handsome. You go to college, then go to law school, hire on with a good firm, you’re making good money and then you meet a woman. She’s from the Midwest and attended a good state university where […]

Radical Feminist @MeghanEMurphy Confronts the Transgender Menace

  Having often mocked the notorious Canadian man-hater Meghan Murphy, I am rather amused that she has (belatedly) realized that facts and logic might be rather important, even for Canadian feminists: On [Oct. 19], the [Canadian] House of Commons voted by a margin of 248 to 40 to pass Bill C-16 at second reading. If […]

The Really Important Headlines

Randi Zurenko is charged with having sex with two girls. Teacher hit with 200 charges in teen lesbian sex scandal: Cops — Oct. 21 Nia Davies was charged with having sex with a girl. Lesbian teacher who had 10-month affair with teen pupil faces being struck off — Oct. 12 Kimberly Naquin was charged with having sex […]

Queer Feminism at Marquette University

“To me as a queer activist and young scholar in the early 1990s, the term queer seemed to capture it all — the political urgency of combating heterosexism, my feeling and knowledge that the binaries of gender and sexual orientation were created through forced conformity and repression, the indeterminateness of my own experiences of gender […]

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