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Ken Buck can choose: either he admits to violating prosecutor’s ethics rules, or he admits that he thinks date rape isn’t serious.
Archive for the ‘Feminism’ Category
October 20th, 2010
July 2nd, 2010
If the New York Times editoral board really wants to get rid of female genital cutting, then it needs to understand the actual work going on in the Global South.
March 27th, 2010
The slow drip of acid on the Catholic church, and especially on the pope, from the daily revelations of non-feasance, malfeasance, and active coverup is going to go on corroding the machinery, and burning the gilt off the façade, for a long time. We haven’t even started to hear the horror stories screaming to be [...]
February 19th, 2010
A personal report on the 2010 Rio Carnival.
November 17th, 2009
A listserv I belong to had an admiring post about the Pacquiao-Cotto fight (you don’t need a link, one guy beat the sh*t out of the other one, and the ref had to stop the fight in the 12th), and I rose to the bait with some snark about people who get off on that [...]
June 14th, 2009
Category: Feminism, Garbage pail
Larry Summers and Tim Geithner seem to have a problem with highly qualified women who disagree with them.
February 22nd, 2009
III. Garments … C. Modern era… 4. Pockets (denial of) In the middle of a long thread on a writers’ list-serv, provoked by my post on fashion models, it occurred to me that one of the unrecognized ways women are kept dependent and threatened is simply denying them pockets. This is more important than one [...]
February 12th, 2009
Category: Feminism, Financial crises
Geneder parity on bank boards would contribute a needed cultural shock.
March 7th, 2008
An ode of thanks to the now old lady warriors of WW II.
