And another one! https://babylonbee.com/news/south-carolina-womens-basketball-coach-announces-incoming-freshmen-steve-greg-and-dave ..read more

And another good one: https://babylonbee.com/news/after-asking-for-preferred-gender-pronouns-doctor-asks-patient-ok-now-whats-your-actual-gender Download ..read more

Delightful post at the Babylon Bee: https://babylonbee.com/news/8-handy-tricks-women-can-use-to-beat-trans-athletes ..read more

Reeves quotes Kristof and WuDunn about the recent trend (which started in the 2010s): “Men in particular felt the loss not only of income but also of dignity that accompanied a good job.” from Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (p62) Poor babies.  Need I point out that women would not have felt that loss because they so often didn’t have an income in the first place or the dignity that accompanied a good job. “Men are much more likely to commit suicide than women.”  (p63) Yeah.  They are the weaker sex.  And now, without the propping ..read more

(thanks to Dead Wild Roses https://deadwildroses.com/2023/03/05/the-dwr-sunday-religious-disservice-eggs ..read more

When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court? Her answer: When there are nine. “[L]egal challenges to undue restrictions on abortion procedures … center on a woman’s autonomy to determine her life’s course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature …” Gonzales v. Carhart [She wasn’t pleased with the argument of Roe v Wage b/c it focused on privacy instead of autonomy] “[T]he ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives …” Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v ..read more

Be sure to look at both slides, 6 then 7: https://www.theonion.com/birth-control-myth-vs-fact-1851274941/slides/6 https://www.theonion.com/birth-control-myth-vs-fact-1851274941/slides/7 ..read more

So I watched “The Assault” (on peacock) last night … about a cheerleader who gets raped by the team … sigh … but there was something that really made me stop and think.  (Always a good thing.) They claimed she consented, she was drunk/unconscious so even if she had consented, it would be considered invalid because when drunk, you’re incapable of consent.  All good.  (Well, sort of.  I think it’s more complicated than that: as I argued in my Master’s thesis 30 years ago, I think consent is best conceptualized as continuum …)  But then one of the boys said “I was drunk t ..read more

“Adrienne Rich (1979) [commented that] objectivity is the name we give to male subjectivity.” Introduction, p5 “Anna Bexall (1980) [ has suggested that] males have a great emotional investment in objectivity.”  Introduction, p5 “… the ways we have been ‘protected’ from obscenity, yet made the object of much of it.” from “A Thief in the House: Women and Language,” Mercilee M. Jenkins and Cheris Kramarae, p11 “For those of us who studied literature, a previously unspoken sense of exclusion from authorship, and a painfully personal distress at discoverin whores, bitches, muses, and heroines ..read more

Great video. Watch to the end, as Irene Brit expresses the situation so … succinctly ..read more