Archive for the 'Feminism' Category
Bookworm on Aug 29 2011 | Filed under: Feminism
Sometimes a post just nails things at every level and explains so much. That’s the case with a Front Page Magazine article about feminism and Marxism. I especially loved this: Phyllis Schlafly, who has spent a lifetime pointing out liberal hypocrisy on issues of gender, says that it’s no wonder liberal women think men are [...]
Bookworm on Jun 09 2011 | Filed under: Abortion, Feminism
A few months ago a movie came out based on a premise that was, for me, an entirely new concept: a Hall Pass or, license from ones spouse to have sex, once, outside of marriage. (I understand that the movie, which I didn’t see, ultimately made the point that having an affair isn’t as easy [...]
Bookworm on Mar 09 2011 | Filed under: Feminism, Iran, United Nations, Women
Everyone is commenting on the travesty that sees countries such as the Sudan and Iran on the UN Commission on the Status of Women. It makes perfect sense to me. If the commission had been named “Commission for the Protection of Women,” or “Commission for the Liberation of Women,” things might have been different, but [...]
Bookworm on Oct 15 2010 | Filed under: Feminism, Israel
Just two posts I really wanted to bring to your attention, written by two bloggers whose intelligence and good sense I admire: First, Elizabeth Scalia (the Anchoress), with a lovely, polite savagery, gives NOW the pounding it deserves. Second, Bruce Kesler reports on a speech that Barry Rubin gave (Rubin blogs here, by the way), [...]
Bookworm on Jul 02 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Feminism, Identity politics, Judges, Judicial activism, Women
Kim Priestap, who blogs at Up North Mommy, got an impassioned email from the Democratic Party, raving about Elena Kagan. Does it rave about her brains? No (although it mentions as an aside that she’s “among the best legal minds this country has to offer,” which is a depressing comment about legal minds in America). [...]
Bookworm on May 14 2009 | Filed under: Feminism
If you’re over thirty, you remember the shampoo commercials that had the tag line “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.” If you’ve forgotten, let me refresh your memory: That slogan started repeating itself in my head with the attacks on Sarah Palin. I won’t repeat here (or link to) the startling savagery of the hatred [...]
Bookworm on Oct 23 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Feminism, Military, Women
When my mother was liberated from concentation camp in Indonesia at the end of WWII, she found herself facing another threat: the native Indonesians were rising up against the colonial Dutch. For them, killing the sick, starved Dutch ex-POWs, all still clustered in the camps pending repatriation, was like shooting fish in a barrel. Relief [...]
Bookworm on Oct 06 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Feminism, Islam, Saudi Arabia, Sex, Women
American feminists, who have done quite a number on Palin, are remarkably silent about the mind-boggling restrictions placed upon, and indignities visited upon, their sisters in Saudi Arabia: A new prohibition may be added to the long list of those placed on women in Saudi Arabia: A new sentence according to Islamic law (fatwa) determines [...]
Bookworm on Sep 12 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Feminism, Leftist morality
One of the things that’s been playing through my head lately is the distance between the liberal worldview and actual reality. The media arguments directed at Palin, especially those that deal with women’s issues, really highlighted that divide for me. Let’s begin with the way in which liberals distinguish themselves from conservativeds, something David Smithee [...]
Bookworm on Sep 09 2008 | Filed under: Feminism, Sarah Palin, Women
In the past couple of days, I’ve read more than a few articles in which liberal women express incendiary anger about Sarah Palin. I blogged yesterday about Michelle Cottle’s screed, and today read equally over-the-top material from Judith Warner (h/t The Anchoress) and Heather Malick (h/t Small Dead Animals). In each of these articles, women [...]
Bookworm on Sep 05 2008 | Filed under: Feminism, Sarah Palin
After pointing out how ignoble the attack on Palin is coming from the self-appointed coastal elites, Victor Davis Hanson sums up how Palin is the ultimate feminist triumph: Sarah Palin is the emblem of what feminism was supposed to be all about: an unafraid, independent, audacious woman, who soared on her own merits without the [...]
Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Feminism, Hillary Clinton
Christopher Hitchens has written a post-mortem on the alleged sexism characterizing Hillary Clinton’s abortive race to the top. Aside from scathingly examining both Hillary’s and the media’s myriad failings, he has this wonderful point to make about the double-edged sword her gender became in the race: Going as far as it dared on the point, [...]
Bookworm on May 11 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Barack Obama, Feminism, Iraq, Islam, Muslim violence
The British press was rocked for a few minutes a couple of weeks ago by the story of an Iraqi girl whose father murdered her quite brutally because she’d fallen in love with a British soldier. (There was no hint, by the way, that she’d done anything about the love; it was an infatuation from [...]
Bookworm on Mar 11 2008 | Filed under: Feminism, Sex
One of the things the feminists insist upon is absolute equality, whether that means depriving men of the opportunity to participate in college sports simply because there aren’t enough women to create parity, something that’s now being done in the sciences as well; or allowing women to engage in sexual activity as if they were [...]
Bookworm on Mar 04 2008 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Education, Feminism, Women
If you haven’t already read Heather MacDonald’s debunking of the “Rape Epidemic” on college campuses, you must. The whole article is replete with gems such as this one: The campus rape movement highlights the current condition of radical feminism, from its self-indulgent bathos to its embrace of ever more vulnerable female victimhood. But the movement [...]
Bookworm on Jan 21 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Feminism, Identity politics, Political correctness
Noemie Emery perfectly summarizes the nightmare the Dems have created for themselves: Sometime back in the 1990s, when the culture wars were the only ones we thought we had going, a cartoon showed three coworkers viewing each other with narrowed and questioning eyes. “Those whites don’t know how to deal with a competent black man,” [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2007 | Filed under: Children, Education, Feminism
Last month, when a Colorado school issued an edict banning tag because someone might get emotionally hurt, I did a long post about how I thought the long-term consequences of that decision were infinitely worse than the short term issue of kids having a playground conflict. In the last couple of paragraphs of that same [...]
Bookworm on Sep 17 2007 | Filed under: Feminism, Saudi Arabia, Women
Some Saudi women are bravely taking a stand and trying to overturn the prohibition against women drivers in that medieval theocracy: For the first time ever, a group of women in the only country that bans female drivers have formed a committee to lobby for the right to get in the driver’s seat. They plan [...]
Bookworm on Aug 21 2007 | Filed under: Feminism, Media matters
Why am I ashamed? I’m ashamed because I didn’t even know that there was a radio talk show network directed at women. How in the world could I have missed that! And yet today I suddenly discover that, while I was blithely listening to Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved, poor Jane Fonda (along [...]
Bookworm on Aug 13 2007 | Filed under: Children, Feminism, Women
I’m quite heterosexual, but I’ve dreamed for years of having a wife. Turns out I’m not the only one: Now that women have solidly earned their place in the work force, many find themselves still yearning for something men often have: wives. “The thing I most want in life is a wife. I’m not kidding,” [...]
Bookworm on Jul 27 2007 | Filed under: Feminism, Media matters, Political correctness
I’ve been reading the New York Times’ movie reviews for decades now. I don’t know if they were always so politicized and laden with PC instruction, and I just didn’t notice, or if they’ve gotten more and more liberally pedantic with the passage of time. I do know, though, that today’s set of reviews was [...]
Bookworm on Mar 28 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Christians, Congress, Feminism, Islam
The title of my post is reflective of what’s been going through my mind since I saw the Drudge headline announcing that the U.S. Senate, led by Democrats, has joined the surrender brigade. In what war in history, I ask you, has a country, with victory still more than possible, ever announced in advance to [...]
Bookworm on Mar 17 2007 | Filed under: Feminism
Here’s the lady’s bio, which reads like a nightmare or a free spirit’s life, depending on your world view: Left to her own devices by parents she thought were preoccupied with their careers, Rebecca Walker experimented with drugs, had sexual encounters with men and women, and had an abortion at 14. But by the time [...]
Bookworm on Feb 06 2007 | Filed under: Culture, Education, Feminism, Sex
My son asked me how Valentine’s Day began. I explained that, a long time ago, there was a man named Valentine who was known for his kindness to young couples who wished to get married (and he may have given doweries to poor girls so they could marry). He was also a Christian who died [...]
Bookworm on Jan 30 2007 | Filed under: Feminism
The Museum of Modern Art hosted a symposium about feminist art. The story covering the symposium noted that the only time these feminist artists contemplated Islam they did so, not to discuss how their art could be used to help Islamic women break free from their invisibility and from the abuse heaped upon them, but [...]