Archive for the 'gender' Category
That’s Change We Can Believe In
Posted on January 29, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Barack Obama, Lily Ledbetter legislation, gender | Leave a Comment
President Obama has signed his first law, and it’s The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act.
Taking Time Away From My Busy Schedule Of Sitting Here Waiting For The Inauguration To Happen Already, Dammit, To Make Fun Of Stupid Columns
Posted on January 14, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Caroline Kennedy, Politico, Roland Burris, gender, race, the media | Leave a Comment
Steve Benen questions a silly Politico column in which Roger Simon argues that “the race card trumps the gender card in U.S. politics” because Roland Burris will successfully claim his Senate seat while Caroline Kennedy is still fighting for one of her own. Benen addresses the inherent stupidity, but he doesn’t insult Simon or the [...]
John McCain’s Scorn For Women
Posted on October 16, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John McCain, gender, presidential debates, reproductive rights | Leave a Comment
To make up for my having missed it while I was writing, here’s the clip of John McCain mocking anyone who would care about the <scarequotes>health</scarequotes> of women.
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I’ll Bet They’d Be Happy To Let Her Bake For The Press
Posted on September 23, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Sarah Palin, gender | Leave a Comment
I’m not sure why so many people are pretending to be confused by the McCain campaign’s efforts to keep the media from talking to Sarah Palin. It’s all very simple. Women are to be seen and not heard.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Shatters All Of My Previously Held Beliefs About Women
Posted on September 9, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 elections, female voters, gender | Leave a Comment
Disturbing news:
The United States won’t be electing a Madame President this year. But if there’s one thing this campaign season has made especially vivid, it’s this:
American women don’t speak with a single political voice, not even to each other.
Suddenly, any monolithic notion of the “woman voter” has been cracked wide open.
All my life, I thought [...]
Parody Or Not Parody?
Posted on July 2, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under gender | 1 Comment
Either way, why did Hax publish it? She can’t possibly agree with it, so is she that desperate for the ensuing firestorm?
Connecting The Day’s News
Posted on June 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Southern Baptists, domestic violence, gender, religion | Leave a Comment
Dear Women,
Stop running businesses if you don’t like being abused.
Sincerely,
A seriously deranged Southern Baptist (of course!) “scholar”
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Things I STILL Don’t Care About
Posted on May 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 democratic primary, Geraldine Ferraro, Things I Don't Care About, gender, race | Leave a Comment
(Part seventeen in an ongoing series)
Geraldine Ferraro.
“It’s not racism that is driving them, it’s racial resentment.” Seriously? Are you sure you wouldn’t be better suited to working on a Republican’s campaign in some backwater in the South?
How could someone so irrelevant to everything be annoying me so much? Why won’t she go away?
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Bad Rape Reporting
Posted on May 13, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under gender, rape, the media | 1 Comment
This struck me as some pretty awful writing about a fairly sensitive topic:
Starting next year across the country, rape victims too afraid or too ashamed to go to police can undergo an emergency-room forensic rape exam, and the evidence gathered will be kept on file in a sealed envelope in case they decide to press [...]
Republicans Support Discrimination
Posted on April 23, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Discrimination, Republican party, Senate, equal pay, gender | Leave a Comment
There is no other way to look at the vote to block legislation that would allow a worker a fair opportunity to sue his or her employer when the worker discovers he or she is being discriminated against. Republicans want to allow your employer to pay you less based on your gender or race. They [...]
In Which I Ruminate On Sexism Again
Posted on April 21, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 democratic primary, Hillary Clinton, gender | Leave a Comment
Matthew Yglesias says something I agree with, but that also deserves some more thought.
The alternative story is that in uncertain times we need to turn the pages on disastrous policies that have gotten us into our current mess. But Clinton often, from her vote to authorize the war through to a lot of her primary [...]
Blog For Fair Pay Day
Posted on April 18, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Blog For Fair Pay Day, gender | Leave a Comment
Ann at Feministing informs me that it’s Blog For Fair Pay Day. I wasn’t aware there was a whole day for that, but it certainly strikes me as a good idea.
Why do women still get paid roughly 3/4 of what men get paid for the same work? Why did the Supreme Court limit the rights [...]
In Which I Embark On A One-Man Crusade
Posted on April 9, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Cindy McCain, John McCain, gender, misogyny | Leave a Comment
New daily feature: I’m going to write a post every single day about how McCain called his wife a “trollop” and a “cunt” until this story gets the national media attention it deserves. Here’s what I said about the story two days ago:
The temper thing is a pretty serious issue here, but to be honest, [...]
John McCain Is A Raging Mega-Asshole
Posted on April 7, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Cindy McCain, John McCain, gender, misogyny | 2 Comments
Via C&L, this story strikes me as awfully damaging to McCain, not to mention really fucking disturbing on its own merits regardless of political implications:
The Real McCain by Cliff Schecter, which will arrive in bookstores next month, reports an angry exchange between McCain and his wife that happened in full view of aides and reporters [...]
Gender Studies With Bill Simmons
Posted on April 2, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bill Simmons, ESPN, gender | 1 Comment
Alright, one of the good feminist blogs really needs to catch this:
Q: I can confirm your buddy Sully’s Twelve Percent Theory from the last mailbag (about mothers getting 12 percent crazier after each childbirth), although your Hillary Clinton example is wrong because it misses another key data point: Every time a man cheats on [...]
