September 29th, 2008
It’s refreshing to see a piece like this that gets that Palin is not gawd’s gift to feminism. Unfortunately, Rasna Warah’s commentary appeared in The Nation (Kenya), it will likely not be read by too many American voters. Maybe we should outsource our media?
“Women who have had to struggle all their lives to survive and […]
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September 26th, 2008
Sit down and put your feet up, we’re going to be here for awhile. All of the kerfuffle about Sarah Palin being saved from witchcraft is truly unfortunate because witch wisdom is precisely what we need in this time of peril.
There were 2 stories this week, that while not subjects that are directly the focus […]
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September 18th, 2008
Many thanks to Feminist Peace Network member Gila Svirsky for allowing us to post her comments regarding Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s victory in gaining the Kadima party’s leadership by a thin margin:
“As Carole King sings:
You know, the people were quite pleased
‘Cause the outlaw had been seized
And on the whole, it was a very good […]
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August 30th, 2008
Sorry, swore I wouldn’t join in the media Palin-drone, but just had to write that headline.
Figuring that it would take the media maybe 5 seconds to start slobbering about how McCain’s Veep pick would be very appealing to women who were disappointed that Clinton had not gotten the Democratic nomination, my first inclination after […]
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August 27th, 2008
With a big h/t to Buzzflash for posting this link, thought y’all would love this list of reasons that men shouldn’t vote, penned by writer Alice Duer Miller in 1915:
Why We Don’t Want Men to Vote
Because man’s place is in the army.
Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise than by fighting […]
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August 14th, 2008
Many thanks to Heart for posting a link to You Are Not Crazy If…, which is based on Patricia Evans book, The Verbally Abusive Relationship. This book has a permanent place in my heart because I credit it with being the one thing that helped me understand the demise of my marriage and its aftermath. […]
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July 27th, 2008
As some of you may have noted, several weeks ago I added a button to the sidebar of the blog that allows you to donate to the Feminist Peace Network. I have always run both FPN and this blog as what I call a No Profit–we don’t have income to speak of and very […]
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June 15th, 2008
I’m not particularly a Nicholas Kristof fan, but he has an excellent column out about rape as a weapon to war. Writing about why rape has always been a weapon of war, he writes,
“There are two reasons for this. First, mass rape is very effective militarily. From the viewpoint of a militia, getting into […]
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June 4th, 2008
I have always thought that the creators of Superman missed a bet. Had they been a tad more gender sensitive, they would have realized that as a girl reporter, Lois Lane possessed the power of invisibility, a special power unfortunately still possessed by women in the media today. Despite many gains for women […]
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May 1st, 2008
(Note–While this might at first seem a meandering away from the usual subject matter on this blog, read on for the connection between racism and sexism and the voices of some very wise feminists.)
I confess that it wasn’t until I opened my morning newspaper morning and found almost an entire Op Ed page dedicated to […]
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