Bob Herbert at Majority Report Radio asks the question I was wondering during the Amish school shooting coverage:
BOB HERBERT: Why Aren’t We Shocked?
In the recent shootings at an Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania and a large public high school in Colorado, the killers went out of their way to separate the girls from the boys, […]
Pandagon has an illuminating post up about feminism and porn.
It’s true porn reinforces misogynist attitudes, but it’s hardly the cause and it’s probably undeserving of the reputation many anti-porn feminists give it as such a big instigator of violence against women. As Jensen noted in his talk, the group of men who don’t look at […]
As much as I like Keith Olbermann and as much as I dislike all the attention that Paris Hilton gets and the way she manipulates that attention to get more of it (like I’m doing now), I have to agree with this commentator’s take on what happened during Countdown’s celebrity gossip round-up:
Last night in his […]
I meant to write something about this post when I first read it but never got to it. By now a lot of people have read it and commented on it so I don’t really feel like getting into a discussion of the original post. But I do want to write about a […]
This author makes some good points about Little Mermaid.
Now, aside from the obvious class situation (both Eric and Ariel are the children of royalty), this is a pretty decent feminist tale. A feminist girl gets taken in by the claims of the patriarchy that the best way to get the man she wants […]
