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Changing Themes in the GOP

Lee on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

Had the radio on driving to get coffee. Rush Limbaugh was denouncing sexism and patriarchal privilege. McCain ad comes on pitching expanding embryonic stem cell research. Boy, haven’t things changed in the Republican party? For the better, says me.

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Women’s Studies Unconstitutional

MikeR on Aug 20 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

Stop the ACLU“A man who is already crusading against ladies’ nights in bars has sued Columbia University, saying its women’s studies program is unconstitutional.”
“Maybe the whole absurd carousel of identity politics will turn full circle,
and one day an unqualified mulatto will expect us to vote for him because he’s
part white.”

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Pondering Feminism in Sana’a

Joshua Foust on Apr 17 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs

Over at Jezebel, my friend Moe scored a great interview with Sarah, an American woman who relocated to Yemen to work at a newspaper there.
No talking in the street, no laughing…what if you just went into the middle of the street and laid a really loud fart? Do you get caned for laughing, like in [...]

Sex Change Anyone?

Peg on Feb 11 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Peg's Page

After reading this, boy; do I want to disown being a woman or what? (Warning; do have an air sickness bag nearby prior to clicking on the link!)
Looking at the choices, we began, by rote, to reach up toward the candidate we liked the most, or respected most deeply, or felt was the [...]

Women, Not Woman

Lee on Feb 06 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

Radical feminist Robin Morgan, on why she’s rising in “furious energy” for Hillary Clinton as she did for Anita Hill: “I’m voting for Hillary not because she’s a woman–but because I am.” Which is of course an even more self-demeaning way of saying the same biologically sectarian thing: faction, conferred by circumstances beyond my control, [...]

The Age of Chivalry

Peg on Feb 02 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

That age has come and gone. This is the age of boorishness; sad, but true.

It is very hard to think like a Democrat. Please take this as a gentle reminder: to many of Hillary’s women fans the fact that Obama stood up and helped her with her chair is a reason [...]

A New Symbol

Peg on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: Humor, Peg's Page

(Cross posted at What if?)
After five years of heated debate, the Commission of Human Rights approved the official Symbol of Marriage.

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The Measure of a Man

Lance on Jan 20 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

Peg Kaplan looks askance at the reaction to Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama over Hillary.

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Ms. Magazine Won’t Publish Ad About Israel’s Powerful Women

Lance on Jan 12 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

From Meryl Yourish.

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