ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Shulamith Firestone has died .  You can read the first chapter of The Dialectic of Sex here . This essay on children of rape (CONTENT W...

This is a neat timeline (to June 2012) of the Republican political initiatives having to do with women.  Remember that Chris Christie argu...

Yeah, that headline makes little sense.  It's the thought I have after the Paul Ryan speech in which he mentions the evils of central p...

Last night I was grumbling about bad journalism.  This morning I saw a proper fact check article on the Paul Ryan speech.  I haven't f...

Atrios linked to a story which suggests that this the new job of political journalists: Blitzer: So there he is, the republican vice p...

This video of Chris Christie speaking about why the Republican Party shouldn't have to cater to women voters or the minorities made me...

A nasty racist incident led to the culprit being thrown out of the Convention.  Then there was this: An unscripted moment happened la...

More from the Republican Convention.  Ann Romney, the wife of Mitt Romney, gave a speech yesterday.  The transcript is here and the video ...

I watched Chris Christie's speech at the RNC Convention.  My, he was good on the emotions!  Your task:  Find a transcript of that speec...

Roxane Gay has written a beautiful article on the futility of trigger warnings : Many feminist communities use trigger warnings, particu...

Well, goddesses are.  When I was five I drew this picture of a horse.  As you can see I already questioned received wisdom in at least two ...

The wolf ones.  The ones that the Pickup Artists tell us they emulate.  Manboobs has an interesting piece about actual wolves: Because ...

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-Texas)  has t old us that the Republican Party doesn't have a problem with women!   So that's all ri...

This , about a new Pew Study on the middle class,  is a few days ago but still worth pointing out: The Pew study is just the latest indi...

I don't usually do this kind of writing but it seems deserved,  what with the recent Republican platform's Personhood Amendment (wh...

The Republicans really do fight a war against women and all things with female cooties!  I find this truly fascinating!  Well, not the war ...

That would be the Republican platform on abortion: The draft official platform strongly supports a "a human life amendment" to...

WOW . The things I learn by going through my posts for 2012 (so far) all in a row!  This is the way a woman gets on the cover of a gener...

I almost forgot t his post about David Brooks.

I do tend to dissect Brooks' writings often, don't I?  But the truth is that I stopped reading him so obsessively some years ago an...