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• Daly and Limbaughs Peculiar Dynamic

  
  Figleaf's Real Adult Sex - Confessions of a libertine prude / grumblings of a prudish libertine — Authority: 532
  By the way, you know who I think is going to be more sad about Mary Daly’s passing than anyone in feminism or on the left? Rush Limbaugh. In the last 30 years he’s made on the order of billions of dollars tarring all of feminism with her supremacist, separatist spew. When he said “feminazi” he meant her and ...
  9 hours ago

• First Transgender Appointee - And She’s Jewish Too!

  
  Jewschool — Authority: 137
  We’ve reported on transgender Jewish news before. I don’t think it’s a surprise to any of you Jewschool readers that we’re all in favour of queer and transgender equality around here. And today’s news is just another step in the right direction. Amanda Simpson, who, in addition to being a highly skilled ...
  12 hours ago

• Just One of the Guys

  
  Cockpit Conversation — Authority: 423
  An image for you from North Carolina. It looks like the building was designed to standard building codes, but as there was very rarely a female in the building, the guys were using whichever washroom was available, so someone made it official. The washroom door locks and inside is a toilet and a washbasin with shaving ...
  1 day ago

• Joan Rivers Deemed Possible Terrorist & Bumped Off Continental Flight

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 136
  So now comedian Joan Rivers is a threat to national security? Sheesh. Welcome to another strange chapter in the Onionesque movie that we call life in 2010. Rivers, 76, was deemed a danger to national security and booted from a Newark-bound flight in Costa Rica on Sunday by a jittery Continental Airlines ...
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• Womens Campaign Forum Endorses Kim McMillan for Governor of Tennessee

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 136
  The good old boy state of Tennessee is one of 27 states that have only had women as wives in the Governors mansion. Kim McMillan would be the first woman to move in as the Governor of Tennessee. The following blurb is from the national Womens Campaign Forum endorsement page. The Womens Campaign Forum was founded ...
  2 days ago

• Census 2010 can count on controversy

  
  Anderson Cooper 360 — Authority: 464
  National Urban League President Marc Morial says action is needed to ensure a complete census count in 2010. Audrey Singer Special to CNN Its almost that time: the once-a-decade-moment when the U.S. Bureau of the Census tries to determine the population. Counting more than 300 million residents is a complex ...
  2 days ago

• Poll: 45% of Democrats Thinking of Not Voting in 2010

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 136
  A new poll finds that 45 percent of Democrats say "they are either unlikely to vote, or certain not to vote." In other words, the base is pissed. Read the comments of some disillusioned lefties here . President Obama is famous for saying that the Left has nowhere to go. I guess hell be surprised to discover ...
  3 days ago

• Nader: Liberals Bailing on Obama

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 136
  In his latest column , Ralph Nader provides a list of progressives who have lost hope for any change coming from Obama. Nader notes that most of the critics of the "masterspeaker of Hope and Change" will once again become silent in 2012. When election year comes around all Obamas progressive critics will censor ...
  5 days ago

• AT&T Dumps Tiger Woods

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 136
  Tiger Woods multiple extramarital affairs have cost his sponsors billions , reports NPR. Meanwhile, Golf Digest has suspended Woods column , and AT & T is the latest corporate sponsor to dump the unethical lying and cheating golf pro. AT&T, whose logo had been emblazoned on Woods’s golf bag, said ...
  6 days ago

• Minnesota University Wants K-12 Teachers to Hate America

  
  Big Government — Authority: 820
  We’re accustomed to strange political phenomena rising out of Minnesota. We can accept the occasional Jesse Ventura or Al Franken winning statewide office, because the state’s voters obviously like to be different. But we doubt even the most offbeat citizens of that state would approve of the new K-12 teacher ...
  1 week ago

• Women to Get $19 Million from Outback Steakhouse for Sex Discrimination

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 136
  Women who have worked at Outback Steakhouse for 3 years or more since 2002 are eligible for a cut of the $19 million. They just have to fill out the forms. And the EEOC and some brave women win another one! Outback Steakhouse got caught promoting men and not women. Hello? Is there a restaurant in this country ...
  1 week ago

• Ticket Replay: Code Pink, fearful of setbacks, rethinks call for U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

  
  Top of the Ticket — Authority: 771
  As the holiday season arrives, our thoughts on The Ticket turn toworking not quite so hard for a few days. So we are re-publishing someof our favorite or most-read items from 2009. This item originally appeared on Oct. 7. Known for disruptive tactics and distinctive costumes, Code Pink wasfounded in 2002 to ...
  1 week ago

• Ms. Claus Banned from Xmas Parade

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 136
  Apparently only men can be the center of attention in parades and receive adoration and acclaim for taking care of the children. Sheesh. The Greater Raleigh Merchants Association banned Mrs. Claus from the parade , saying that the sight would "confuse" the children. John Odom, executive director of the ...
  1 week ago

• Notes from the Cracked Ceiling

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 136
  Anne Kornblut has a new book , which Im going to have to read: " Notes from the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin and What It Will Take for a Woman to Win. " According to the Washington Post, the book explains why women lost. Kornblut touched on the topic of young women who "dont vote for women" ...
  1 week ago

• Laurie Penny, Bernhard Schlink and generational guilt

  
  Though Cowards Flinch — Authority: 513
  There’s a point near the end Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader , when the narrator travels from Germany to New York to meet the sole survivor of a war atrocity to which his ex-lover, a then illiterate Romany girl who found herself employed as a concentration camp guard, had pleaded guilty in order to mask her ...
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• Misogyny Ad Watch: Redtape Shoes Puts Women in Vending Machines

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 136
  Heres the ultimate in objectifying women. An ad campaign in India by Redtape Shoes portrays men selecting women out of closets and vending machines. Redtapes sexist ads include a male drooling over women trapped inside a giant fishbowl and a male office worker being amused by women performing a pole dance on ...
  1 week ago

• Jane Hamsher: Left & Right Fed Up With Two-Party Tyranny (Video)

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 163
  A diary at Daily Kos is attacking Jane Hamsher for going on Fox News where Jane basically pointed out that whether you are a Dem or a Repub, you are being played. I notice there is a diary up on Daily Kos attacking me for going on Fox & Friends. Unsurprisingly, it doesn’t say what I actually said: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Yes, they said that

  
  Sue's Place — Authority: 136
  Outrageous comments of 2009. Some of my favorites:Ingraham: “Nancy Pelosi basically did everything except sell her own body” to pass health care reform billRobertson: Many “made homosexual because of a coach or a guidance counselor or some other male figure who has abused them”Pat Robertson suggests ...
  2 weeks ago

• NOW Condemns Health Care Bills Abortion Compromise

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 136
  Apparently there are now 60 votes for the senates health care reform bill. Ben Nelson is on board because he got another compromise on abortion and because he got a hefty bribe of money for Medicaid in his state, but not in my state, nor in anyone elses. Briefly, heres the latest compromise on abortion : (1) ...
  2 weeks ago

• Passing As Men Still Pays: Men With Pens Blogger is a Woman

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 136
  Women have a long history of posing as men in order to earn a living or pursue a dream. Women have passed as men in order to play jazz, publish books, fight in wars, and be free from sexual assault and compulsory marriage. Kate Harding has the interesting story of a woman who found financial success by posing as ...
  2 weeks ago

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