Archive for the 'Women' Category
Bookworm on Jun 21 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Government, Immigration, Islam, Silly Stuff, Women
Tweet To: American Citizens From: Your Government Date: Today It has come to our attention that citizens on your side of the aisle (“WN’s”, aka Wing Nuts) are doing a lot of talking. What in the world are you gabbing about? Talk Radio, talking amongst yourselves, chatting on the Internet. What is with you [...]
Bookworm on Jan 08 2010 | Filed under: Islam, Women
Tweet One of the defining features of Islam is its obsession with sex. Every rule regarding women is based upon a driving need to control their sexuality. They are married off as children, sequestered, dressed in clothes that rob them of any hint of femininity, deprived of any opportunities to function outside the reproductive sphere, [...]
Bookworm on Oct 28 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Women
Tweet With the trigger being Obama’s obsession with niqabs and hijabs, I did a lengthy post about my belief that Obama fundamentally does not like women. He depends on strong women (his wife, Valerie Jarrett), but he doesn’t like them. In fact, I’m willing to bet that his dependence on them only increases that dislike. [...]
Bookworm on Sep 18 2009 | Filed under: Women
Tweet I need help from you guys developing a thought. The thought started with this picture of Michelle Obama in a deep-veed, fluffy blouse; a saggy sweater; a bondage belt; and the gypsy skirt from hell: Aside from the fact that the picture pretty much puts the lie forever to the media’s desparate attempt to [...]
Bookworm on Sep 13 2009 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, England, Islam, Muslim violence, Women
Tweet There is no bliss inherent in the ignorance displayed by one judge in England: A judge lambasted a rapist for claiming his victim was a liar – then commended him for becoming a muslim. Judge Anthony Goldstaub QC sentenced Stuart Wood for seven years for the attack, then told him: ‘You have turned to [...]
Bookworm on Sep 01 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Islam, Women
Tweet I’m noticing an interesting pattern in Obama’s Muslim speeches. He thinks it’s a very good thing for women to cover up. In his Cairo speech, he made that point, not once, not twice, but three times. As I caught in the post I wrote at the time, he said: Moreover, freedom in America is [...]
Bookworm on Jun 24 2009 | Filed under: Hollywood, Men, Women
Tweet As you all know, over the years I’ve been fascinated by male and female roles in America. As the mother of a very manly little 10 year old, I take male role models in this culture very seriously. I’ve therefore noticed (and commented upon) the way in which our society consigns boys to perpetual [...]
Bookworm on Oct 23 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Feminism, Military, Women
Tweet 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. [...]
Bookworm on Oct 06 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Feminism, Islam, Saudi Arabia, Sex, Women
Tweet 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) [...]
Bookworm on Oct 04 2008 | Filed under: San Francisco, Women
Tweet I found fascinating the fact that, even in San Francisco, the most liberal, diverse, open to everything (except conservatism and religion) city in the whole US (except for Berkeley), women are not making headway in politics: In a year when gender has played a significant role in the presidential campaign – 18 million people [...]
Bookworm on Sep 09 2008 | Filed under: Feminism, Sarah Palin, Women
Tweet 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, [...]
Bookworm on Sep 07 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Sarah Palin, Women
Tweet I don’t know how much difference this will make, but it’s a petition to show that the media is wrong — women will and do support Sarah Palin. Hat tip: Bloggers for John McCain
Bookworm on Aug 29 2008 | Filed under: Women
Tweet I’m not naming names, but my career as a soccer mom has me hanging with one of the most powerful women in America. Strange world.
Bookworm on Jul 13 2008 | Filed under: Women
Tweet This is kind of cool — I’m on a list that Michelle Malkin heads! The young man who runs the Enkay Blog has assembled a list of the top 100 female bloggers and I’m currently in there at number 78. Of course, if this list gets more play (and he hopes it does and [...]
Bookworm on Apr 27 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Islam, Muslim violence, Women
Tweet Honest to God, I really do wonder sometimes if the garden-variety fusion betwen Islamic and Arabic culture is salvageable: A teenage Iraqi girl who fell in love with a British soldier when he was in Basra was murdered by her father in an “honour killing”, it was revealed today. Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, was suffocated [...]
Bookworm on Mar 18 2008 | Filed under: Women
Tweet A few weeks ago, I linked to a Right Wing News post about top female bloggers. John Hawkins is back with another in the series, which again describes some of the garbage hurled at prominent conservative women who blog, and their grounded courage in dealing with this stuff. This time, the women profiled are [...]
Bookworm on Mar 04 2008 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Education, Feminism, Women
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Dec 18 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff, Women
Tweet Hardcore stuff for real women. And two jokes: Joke, the first: A man comes home from work one day to find the house in complete chaos. The kitchen is piled high with dirty dishes, food is strewn across the floor, the living room looks like a bomb hit it, and two filthy, fighting children [...]
Bookworm on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence, Saudi Arabia, Women
Tweet For those of you still wondering about what life will be like in the resurgent Islamic 7th century, here’s a bit more information, this time out of Saudi Arabia: A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, [...]
Bookworm on Oct 22 2007 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence, Women
Tweet A friend of mine who has, over the years, proven remarkably prescient in diagnosing global ills, told me after 9/11 that a significant element in Islam’s rage against the West has to do with women — Islam demands the total subjugation of women, and Islamists view the West as a profound threat to their [...]
Bookworm on Sep 28 2007 | Filed under: Marriage, Men, Women
Tweet Back in December 2004, I wrote a post over at my old blog site about how difficult life is in the 21st Century for June Cleaver. Since Blogger posts, after a certain period of time, lose all formatting, I’ll reprint it here, in an easy to read format: I’ve been looking around at friends’ [...]
Bookworm on Sep 17 2007 | Filed under: Feminism, Saudi Arabia, Women
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Sep 15 2007 | Filed under: China, Women
Tweet In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, a very common expression was that “the rich get richer and the poor get children.” In China, that’s been turned on its head. Not only do the rich (probably) get richer, they also get the children — and their Communist overlords are cracking down: Rich Chinese [...]
Bookworm on Sep 11 2007 | Filed under: Islam, Women
Tweet I’m reading Gone With The Wind again, for the first time in about 30 years. I didn’t mean to, but I found a lovely, perfectly clean copy at Goodwill for $1.49 and couldn’t resist buying it (such a bargain). And then, of course, once it was in the house, I kind of opened it [...]
Bookworm on Aug 31 2007 | Filed under: Democrats, Elections, Presidential elections, Republicans, Women
Tweet In an inspired Wall Street Journal article, Kimberley Strassel points out that Republican candidates, at their peril, are ignoring women, while Democratic candidates, knowing that women voters are the statistical difference for them between success and failure, are wooing them aggressively. This wooing needed go well. Strassel explains that the Democrats are locked in [...]
