May 17, 2008
In the vitriol over primacy claims to victimhood between females and blacks, we see our two candidates draining the pustulous boil of the once-silent liberal majority. That in the end, is going to be a good thing. It might not get either of them elected against the rich white guy...
Melissa Silverstein | Posted May 15, 2008 | Entertainment
As the opening of Sex and the City gets closer I've noticed a bunch of articles asking whether you can be a feminist and still like Sex and the City. Give me a break. Of course you can be a feminist and like Sex...
Stacie Krajchir | Posted May 15, 2008 | Living
I have been the Fed Ex poster girl for 15 years. I signed up for a Fed Ex account before I ever bought my first laptop or even my first car. Fed Ex is more valuable than my refrigerator and maybe even my dog. Fed Ex has always there for...
Caryl Rivers | Posted May 14, 2008 | Politics
Does anyone wonder why women who support Hillary Clinton for president get (excuse the vernacular) PO'd at some of our fellow Democrats?
It's because very time we turn around, someone is dissing our candidate in ways that infuriate us. He (or she) is using sexist, insulting language about the first...
Joyce McFadden | Posted May 14, 2008 | Living
Grown daughters yearn to know how their mothers' sexuality informed them as women when they were at the most important crossroads of their lives. They want to know these things because they want to understand their mothers as women, and let that understanding flow over how they see themselves in...
Mona Gable | Posted May 13, 2008 | Politics
This morning I asked my 15-year-old daughter what she didn't like about Hillary Clinton.
"I mean at the beginning, before she started going negative and attacking Barack Obama," I said, trying to rewind history.
My daughter was sitting at the kitchen table, where thousands of impassioned conversations in...
For far too long, conservatives have made political hay with the notion that they are the party of ideas and the party of values -- even as they've held a far too timid opposition at bay for having neither.
Enough, already.
The free ride is over: conservatives have not had...
Stephen Ducat | Posted May 12, 2008 | Politics
Hi, I'm Hillary Clinton. But tonight, in honor of the WWE, you can call me Hill-Rod. This election is starting to feel a lot like "King of the Ring." The only difference? The last man standing may just be a woman. -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, from her opening monologue prior...
Bob Ostertag | Posted May 10, 2008 | Politics
Two months ago I wrote about the emerging parallels between the bitterness of the current Democratic primary and the split between early white women's rights activists and abolitionists after the Civil War. With the campaign of Hillary Clinton sputtering to its final end, it is appropriate to revisit these issue...
Denise Clapsaddle | Posted April 29, 2008 | Off The Bus
I recently paid on overdue visit to a professor from the seminary where I received my Master of Divinity degree. She's a woman in her seventies, an ordained pastor and a retired professor of Christian Education. After the usual chit-chat about family life, she asked me if I had been...
Joyce McFadden | Posted April 28, 2008 | Living
Since the Relationship with Your Mother questionnaire draws such rich responses, this will be the first in a few posts teasing out some of its thicker themes, beginning with what women aged 20-88 referred to as the controlling/judgmental/martyring mother.
Here's a fairly benign sample...
Jessica Wakeman | Posted April 27, 2008 | Media
Espousing feminist viewpoints is so often really not cool -- in fact, feminists even have our own joke about how humorless we are:
JOKE: How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
PUNCHLINE: That's not funny.
(And that's the clean punchline.)
Whether they call themselves a...
Liza Palmer | Posted April 23, 2008 | Living
Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing fellow author, Megan Crane, on the release of her fourth book, Names My Sisters Call Me. You can read the full transcript of the interview on Megan's website (www.megancrane.com).
It was during this interview that we touched on the chick-lit debate....
Isabel Kaplan | Posted April 23, 2008 | Living
It's not that often that I feel absolutely infuriated during English class.
But this semester, at my all-girls school, I'm taking an elective entitled "Gender and Sexuality." Last night, our homework was to read about date rape from the point of view of Paglia.
My mother teaches...
Jeff Norman | Posted April 18, 2008 | Media
The same people who excoriated Randi Rhodes for merely opining two prominent Democrats are political whores, have nothing to say about virtually the entire media calling innocent women hookers, even though the accused have neither confessed to nor been convicted of prostitution. Rather than condemning this real misogyny, many "progressives"...
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted April 18, 2008 | Living
Dear Pope Benedict XVI:
As an American Catholic, I want to take the opportunity of your visit to our country to call upon you to reverse some of the mistakes of the distant past that have made the Church a major force in subordinating women and in devaluing the very...
Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted April 17, 2008 | Politics
If Hillary's candidacy runs its course, feminists and Hillary supporters must continue battling misogyny, despite their former loyalties, by rallying to defend Obama's cause.
Those still in denial about the pervasive presence of sexism and misogyny in the 2008 primary will find Amanda Fortini's "Feminist Reawakening" in New York...
http://nymag.com/news/features/46011/
This article recently published in New York Magazine called The Feminist Reawakening is all of course, about Hillary and the Hillary bashing that has been going on. The anti-feminism, feminism, new feminism whatever it is that is going on at present with a woman in the race for President....
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted April 15, 2008 | Living
On Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI asked the crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square to pray that his first visit to the United States as pontiff this week would "be a time of spiritual renewal for all Americans." Surely spiritual renewal would be beneficial to all of us -- not least...
tomdispatch.com | Rebecca Solnit | April 15, 2008 04:30 PM
On Tuesday night's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert had fun with...
From the AP: Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a...
*** UPDATED BELOW *** President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the...
As the odds get longer and longer, the obvious question is: Why doesn't Hillary Clinton gracefully concede...
Utterly insane goings-on tonight on...
It's a pretty well known fact that most women - attractive women -...
NEW UPDATE BELOW As violence in Iraq continues -- clashes today left 11 dead and 19 injured -- President...
Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two...
Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his...
The Democratic Party has finally decided who's going to break it to Hillary that it's time...
George W. Bush is unworthy of the presidency. He is a disgrace to himself,...
Nina Burleigh | Posted May 17, 2008 | Politics