Melissa Harris-Perry draws on her own experience to explain rape and its consequences to Richard Mourdock.
Gender Pay Gap Among Elite Doctors
June 14, 2012 By 2 Comments
Just another piece of data to support the notion that implicitly sex discrimination is to blame for disparities between men and women in Western society: The researchers surveyed 800 physicians who had received a highly competitive early career research grant from the National Institutes of Health in 2000-2003. By focusing on these grants, the researchers [...]
Governor Walker and Wisconsin Republicans Repeal Equal Pay Law
April 7, 2012 By 5 Comments
War on women? What war on women? WASHINGTON — A Wisconsin law that made it easier for victims of wage discrimination to have their day in court was repealed on Thursday, after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) quietly signed the bill. The 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act was meant to deter employers from discriminating against certain groups by giving workers more [...]
No Feminist Books Were Required
April 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Taslima Nasreen describes her awakening to the oppressive ways women were treated as she grew up in Bangladesh: Let alone ‘Western feminism’, I had no idea about ‘Eastern feminism’. Without any familiarity with these concepts, I have since childhood questioned a lot of diktat, advice and proscriptions from the family and from society at large. [...]
The Vagina Status Updates
March 17, 2012 By 6 Comments
Recently women have begun leaving updates on their vaginas on the Facebook page of Virginia State Senator Ryan McDougle, since he has shown such an interest in their vaginas that he has supported the proposed Virginia bill calling for invasive transvaginal ultrasounds: “You know, Senator, I’ve wished all my life that a man would know [...]
Contra de Botton: Religions Are NOT To Credit With Universalistic Humanistic Values
March 12, 2012 By 6 Comments
Alain de Botton’s chapter on community in his book Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion is filled with half-baked thinking. After one-sidedly disparaging modern social life from numerous selective (and sometimes specious) angles, he goes on to model really effectively how not to try to learn from religion (Kindle Location 189):
The Brothel Next Door
March 6, 2012 By 30 Comments
No, You Can't Call People Sluts.
March 5, 2012 By 195 Comments
Ever since Rush Limbaugh tried to slut-shame a law student for testifying at a forum hosted by Congressional Democrats about the medical needs that contraception serves, I had wanted to go through all Limbaugh’s remarks and detail the millions of ways they were awful for the morally obtuse. But I kept thinking, no, it’s just too [...]
Why Misogynistic Language Matters
March 5, 2012 By 50 Comments
In response to the vileness of Rush Limbaugh giving Physicalist pause about whether to consume any right wing media (even out of concern for rational fairness), Bret asks: I’m curious: do you see how conservatives verbally address women as more offensive than their stance on pretty much anything else, from their treatment of the poor [...]
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