The Other McCain

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

A 21st-Century Feminist Family

Elizabeth Fierro describes her teenage life in Austin, Texas: I used to be self-conscious about the fact that I have three moms. I worried no one would understand my experience of having divorced biological parents, both recently remarried to beautiful women. . . . I did hear about families with same-sex parents — never from […]

Feminist Foreign Policy

Feminists specialize in promoting misery and insanity in domestic life, but they also occasionally stray into international affairs: Journalist and author Naomi Wolf suggested Saturday that videos of Islamic State militants beheading American and British hostages may have been staged. The news site Vox flagged a series of Facebook posts in which Wolf questioned the […]

Because This Never Happens, Right?

See these two lesbians? One of them is named Jackie. She wasn’t always a lesbian. Jackie was not “born that way.” She grew up in a “very traditional Irish Catholic” family and attended Catholic schools. She never had any youthful feelings or experience of being gay. Lesbianism never crossed her mind: “There was no question I’d ever […]

Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘Lesbianism and Feminism Have Been Coterminous’

Left to right: Judith Butler, Bonnie Zimmerman, Diane Richardson “Is there some commonality among ‘women’ that preexists their oppression, or do ‘women’ have a bond by virtue of their oppression alone? Is there a specificity to women’s cultures that is independent of their subordination by hegemonic, masculinist cultures? . . . “Is the construction of […]

Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘Rapists Serve All Men by Enforcing Male Supremacy’

Left to right: Kate Millett, Ann Jones, Jenny Kitzinger “Patriarchy’s chief institution is the family. . . . [T]he family effects control and conformity where political and other authorities are insufficient. As the fundamental instrument and the foundation unit of patriarchal society the family and its roles are prototypical. . . . “The concept of […]

Feminist Theory, Human Nature and the Punch Seen ‘Round the World

It’s all so calculated. She’s got a calculator. She’s my soft touch typewriter And I’m the great dictator. Two little Hitlers Will fight it out until One little Hitler Does the other one’s will. — Elvis Costello, 1979 Watching the video in which Ray Rice knocked out his fiancée (now wife) Janay, the thought occurs: […]

Feminist ‘Facts’ Aren’t True

Nothing is more tenacious than feminist mythology. This was what I pointed out yesterday deep into a 5,000-word article: When one of the foremost leaders of your “social revolution” is revealed to be a raving lunatic, doesn’t this call into question the theories she had previously proclaimed? Alas, it was the ’70s, when people didn’t feel ridiculous […]

A Lesbian Feminist Horror Movie

Lesbian actress Ingrid Jungermann (left) and director Stewart Thorndike. Working on “Sex Trouble,” my continuing series about radical feminism, I routinely search Twitter for relevant news and commentary. Searching for “lesbian feminist,” this headline popped up: Lyle Director Stewart Thorndike on Making the Lesbian Version of Rosemary’s Baby and the Need for Feminist Horror We […]

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