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

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: […]

Fat Feminist: ‘Stop Staring at Me!’

Erin McKelle Fischer (@ErinMcKelle) is a Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies major at Ohio University we’ve encountered a few times previously. She has expressed hostility toward “penis-in-vagina sex” and the “norm” of heterosexuality. In June, we took note of her column about “the very real struggles that young feminists face.” Now she has another “very […]

Sex Trouble: Feminists Worry That Disney Movies Are Making Girls Heterosexual

Jasmine was a victim of Aladdin’s magic patriarchal carpet. Is your daughter a victim of male oppression? Blame Aladdin — as well as The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, The Lion King and Toy Story 2. Disney cartoons and other G-rated children’s movies are full of “gendered sexuality,” subjecting women to the male “objectifying gaze,” as “heterosexuality is constructed through hetero-romantic […]

Fun With #RadFem: ‘You Magnificent Lesbians — I Read Your Books!’

“Something very strange happened toward the end of the twentieth century. Heterosexuality went from being the norm to being on the defensive. By calling this phenomenon ‘heterophobia,’ I am not speaking abstractly. Rather, I am referring to a distinct current within feminism [since the late 1960s], a current that has been ‘theorized’ explicitly by feminist […]

Feminist College Girls Gone … Well, OK, Not ‘Wild,’ Exactly. But My Point Is …

Future Cat Ladies of America, unite! Looking at photos from the “Young Feminist Leadership Conference,” one cannot help feeling a sense of pity: Here they are, young women just starting out in life — some of them moderately attractive, even — committing themselves to a philosophy that guarantees their futures will be consumed by angry […]

Sexual Equality, Sexual Decadence: The Emerging Menace of Female Predators

Christy Smith had sex with a 15-year-old boy. “A jury has found a former Lancaster County teacher guilty of having sex with a 15-year-old student in 2008. “It took less than an hour for the jury to return with the verdict Wednesday against 35-year-old Christy Smith. “The jury convicted her of four counts including sexual […]

Because @kmcdonovgh Knows You’re a Victim of Heteronormative Patriarchy

Salon.com assistant editor Katie McDonough: Evangelical Christianity makes visible — through purity pledges and doctrine assigning women the role of man’s “helpmate” — the norms and expectations about female virginity and subservience that so often remain hidden in the secular world. While it may be tempting to draw a red line around Christian fundamentalist views […]

RadFem: ‘No Woman Is Heterosexual’

How many times have I explained that feminism is an ideology of man-hating Marxist lesbian baby-killers? This is what feminists themselves say, if you bother to study feminist theory: [University of California-Santa Cruz Women’s Studies] Professor Bettina Aptheker is the daughter of a famous American Communist, the late Herbert Aptheker . . . Professor Bettina Aptheker is by […]

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