The Other McCain

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

FMJRA 2.0: D-Day On The Purple Heart Trail

— compiled by Wombat-socho War on Human Nature: The Celebrity Fantasy Dress-Up With ‘Caitlyn’ Game Da Tech Guy Batshit Crazy News Rotten Chestnuts Dark Brightness Dyspepsia Generation The Camp of the Saints Living In Anglo-America Regular Right Guy A View from the Beach The Feminist-Industrial Complex: Fat Lesbians vs. the ‘Heteronormative Gaze’ Dyspepsia Generation Zipline […]

Exceptions, Rules and Tumblr Feminism

How many data points are necessary to demonstrate a pattern? In the news business, the old joke was, “Three’s a trend,” describing the unfortunately too-common method by which feature writers manufacture “trend” stories from thin air. When the “Sex Trouble” series began way back when, I was extraordinarily conscious of the “arguing by exceptions” trick […]

Credit Where Credit Is Due

Excuse my long spells of non-blogging this week, but I spent Wednesday and Thursday writing a 3,000-word post  that still needs a few final touches. My sloth is more apparent than real and, also, I keep getting distracted by, y’know, news. Just a few odds and ends before I return to the Siberian salt mines . . […]

Hating Babies, Hating Mothers

“I don’t want a baby. . . . Nothing will make me want a baby. . . . “This is why, if my birth control fails, I am totally having an abortion.” — Amanda Marcotte, January 2014 “No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. […]

FMJRA 2.0: For The Northern Lights And The Southern Comfort

— compiled by Wombat-socho Anarchy in Baltimore Batshit Crazy News Regular Right Guy Da Tech Guy Watcher Of Weasels VA Right Nice Deb Noisy Room Trevor Loudon The Razor The Right Planet The Feminist-Industrial Complex: Academia and the Means of Production Batshit Crazy News First Street Journal The Pirate’s Cove Political Hat A View from […]

Teaching Literary Feminism

“Why invite the potential headaches of teaching a lesbian graphic novel in a religious institution?” asks Professor Scott A. Dimowitz in an essay published in an academic anthology this month. “In the course of several iterations of a class on Literary Feminism that I teach at Regis University, a Jesuit school in Denver, Colorado, I […]

Feminism’s ‘Rape Culture’ Insanity

Does anyone else remember the “Culture War” of the 1990s? Conservatives like Bill Bennett and Robert Bork argued at the time that the decadence of popular culture — as evidenced in everything from gangsta rap to video games to Quentin Tarantino movies — was corrupting morality, inciting violence and sexual perversion. Here we are, two […]

Or Maybe It’s You

Jillian Dunham was 37 when she made a desperate choice: When David Keefe made egg freezing a part of his clinical practice a decade ago, he imagined that single women looking to delay childbearing would be a small percentage of his patients. Before then, few women froze their eggs, and those in his clinic who […]

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