The Other McCain

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

Hey, You Guys, It Is Now ‘Anti-Feminist’ to Say Feminists Are ‘Not All Lesbians’

Carmen Rios (@carmenriosss) has described how she “became a women’s studies major and a raging lesbian feminist in college.” She is communications coordinator at the Feminist Majority Foundation. She speaks on behalf of the movement, and Carmen Rios is tired of hearing heterosexual women say the wrong thing: 3 Things ‘We’re Not All Lesbians’ Is […]

The Value of Motherhood

  Charles Murray (@charlesmurray on Twitter) co-authored with the late Richard Herrnstein one of the most controversial books of the 20th century, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (1994). When it was first published, the harsh criticism from liberals — who claimed the book was practically neo-Nazi propaganda — led me to […]

Dear @Clementine_Ford …

  Let’s play a game, you and me. Call it, “Yours and Mine.” You are in Australia (yours) and I am in America (mine). You are female (yours) and I am male (mine). You are a “progressive” (yours) and I am conservative (mine). It would be a simple gambit, as an opening move in Yours […]

On ‘Fragile Masculinity’

Sarah Taylor Gibson (@s_t_gibson on Twitter) is a young Christian college student who also calls herself a feminist, evidently having failed to understand what feminism actually requires. “There are no Christian feminists, because feminism is a sort of narcissistic idolatry, wherein women deny God and instead worship themselves as their own divinity.” — Robert Stacy […]

Queer Vegan Witch Accuses Radical Feminists of ‘Anti-Trans Violence’

David Salisbury (@davidsalisbury) describes himself as “a queer, vegan, Witch . . . chief of the DC Bureau of the Pagan Newswire Collective . . . High Priest of Coven of the Spiral Moon . . . involved with street activism with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and . . . a full […]

‘Rape Culture’ Rhetoric as Bad Poetry

Alleged poet Rupi Kaur (@rupikaur_) Just when you think feminism cannot possibly become more absurd, they always manage to push beyond the limits of imagination. sex takes the consent of two if one person is lying there not doing anything cause they are not ready or not in the mood or simply don’t want to […]

What ‘Rape Culture’ Really Means: Your Male Heterosexuality Is Problematic

“[T]he curse of having been born a heterosexual male . . . meant being consumed by desires that one couldn’t act on or even admit without running the risk of becoming an objectifier or a stalker or a harasser or some other creature of the darkness.” — Scott Aaronson, Dec. 14, 2014 The Internet erupted […]

Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘I’ve Gone Down and Dirty With Strangers’

Left to right: bell hooks, Jaclyn Friedman, Heather Hlavka. “Feminist movement to eradicate heterosexism — compulsory heterosexuality — is central to efforts to end sexual oppression. . . . “Feminist movement to end female sexual oppression is linked to lesbian liberation. . . . “Feminist efforts to develop a political theory of sexuality must continue […]

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