Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
She’ll not be participating. Her quibble has to do with the definition of what a feminist is…and evidently, there’s only one vote to be cast in such a matter and she gets to cast it:
As you may already know, MORE magazine* is hosting a panel tomorrow at the 92Y Tribeca: Naomi Wolf Talks With Feminism’s New Young Leaders based on the magazine’s recent feature on young feminists. I was originally slated to be a part of this panel, but when I found out that Allison Kasic – who works for the virulently anti-feminist Independent Women’s Forum – was also a panelist, I decided to pull out.
I’ve been writing a lot lately about the faux feminism of the Right – how conservative women who have long fought against feminist ideals and goals are now identifying as feminists in an attempt to woo women’s votes for the GOP. I think it’s an incredibly dangerous trend facing the movement – if those who work actively against women’s interests can claim feminism as their own, the movement will become meaningless.
Given all that, it felt hypocritical for me to be a part of a panel that named Kasic a feminist leader. I didn’t want my presence to lend credibility to the false notion that people who work against women’s rights are feminists.
Hat tip to blogger friend Cassy.
I’ve been noticing for awhile now that when Jessica Valenti wants to debate what exactly feminism is…or not debate it, just express a dictatorial rumination about it as she does here…the principles that emerge don’t seem to have a lot to do with women, let alone their rights, privileges or stature in society.
Two issues make their way to the forefront, with a vast distance to be traversed before you drift back to whatever is in third-place: abortion and gay marriage. Both of these leading contenders, as they achieve greater approval, appeal and practice, actually erode the place women occupy in our civilization. They both have to do with re-making our way of life into a protocol of social practices in which we do not need mothers and we do not need wives. Not the way we needed them before. It is a distinctly anti-woman revolution.
This thing we call “feminism,” nowadays, is to women like Col. Sanders is to a chicken.
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“Feminists” are to women what the “antiwar” movement is to peace — all for it when it benefits lowest-common-denominator brain-dead SWPL leftism; otherwise vehemently opposed.
That someone like Jessica Valenti can use the word “hypocritical” without her head exploding into a thousand fragments proves that “cognitive dissonance” is a myth.
- Severian | 11/13/2010 @ 15:14I think it’s an incredibly dangerous trend facing the movement – if those who work actively against women’s interests can claim feminism as their own, the movement will become meaningless.
Lady, (and I use the term loosely), that’s precisely what’s already been going on for forty years now. The moment you bitter hags started making the “movement” about abortion-on-demand, gay rights, sex-without-consequences, and men-are-the-enemy, you lost all credibility with the mainstream American female. Normal young ladies want nothing to do with the likes of you, and rightly so. You didn’t care about a sexual predator living in the White House, and you didn’t care what the Taliban were doing to women in Afghanistan.
What you’re now seeing is that a few of the mainstream females among us, have finally grown the spine to stand up to the likes of you, say, “Enough!” and attempt to recapture the original spirit of feminism – you know, the classic Susan B Anthony kind. Sarah Palin and her type drive you absolutely batty, because they embody everything you claim to represent, yet they couldn’t disagree with you more strongly. You hate it, you don’t understand it, you want to destroy it.
The real feminists of this country represent all that wild and crazy stuff about men and women being equals, about working together for a better world…instead of seeing the male gender as anathema to all that is holy and good?
- cylarz | 11/15/2010 @ 01:26