ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Acid attacks tend to have female victims .  The numbers quoted in this article suggest that 75-80% of the victims are female.  Why that i...

In case you like a bitter laugh to complete your day : In that video Stossel tells us that there is nothing that remains undone for femi...

This bit of quicksand has to do with my frustration with so much of the debate on various political issues including feminism.  The more sa...

(Contents include racism and sexism and weird pseudoscience) That guy is like Teflon.  Nothing seems to stick to him, sigh. On the ot...

I've been on the beach, building sand-mountains (breast or penis symbols, perhaps) and using my bare toes as sand-shifters.  Such fun. ...

First read Katha Pollitt's discussion of the newest anti-choice idea:  That making abortion illegal after twenty weeks is AOK because ...

That's part of the title of a Slate post by Matthew Yglesias (he probably didn't choose the title).  The rest of it is "Ameri...

Writes she, while happily skipping about, cracking jokes and then bursting into feminine tears.  Well not really.  But I was trying to re...

I specialize in those.  This one is about two things.  First, what  USA Today wrote about Simon Cowell yesterday: 'X Factor' cr...

That whip-and-carrot business applies to the old adage about how to make a donkey or a horse do your bidding.  American conservatives like ...

I'm happy to see you all but not so happy right now otherwise.  A humongous plant has sprouted from seed to five feet in four weeks, in...

I think it's a good list, and offer it here for free!   Isn't that wonderful? I have several posts on similar stuff and I'm ...

(Originally posted here) These stories are as regular as a menstrual cycle, you know.  And about as exciting.  Feminism is dead so of...

(Originally posted here .) This story about labiaplasty may not describe a truly common new type of surgery, but that something called...

Soon We'll Be Found

Are better leaders than younger elephants.  That makes sense, because old age means more different types of experiences.  Also, if an elep...

(Originally posted here ). Lynne Paltrow and Jeanne Flavin have just published a survey on the arrest rates of pregnant women since Wad...

Originally posted here, but still every bit as relevant.  Money is always relevant, sadly. This post is about speech and money. ...

(Originally from here.   I repost it so that you can see my feminazi side, too) That's the current era in terms of gender equality (...

(Originally posted here) Contents:  Sexual Violence, Suicide, Ostracism Rehtaeh Parsons in Canada and Audrie Potts in the United State...