Its a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
No Countries No Religion (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
“The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that’s why it’s especially dangerous.” Amanda Marcotte
Gold-Plated Witch on Wheels (Free subscription) | yesterday
So, the Kentucky census worker killed by those eeeeeevilllll rightwingers has been ruled a suicide. Worse, it was a suicide designed to bilk the insurance company. But those inconvenient facts don't get in the way of a good narrative for Amanda Marcotte. No, Amanda still finds a way to blame the Right for this man's decision to off himself. But as much as the hate-mongerers will...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
by Amanda Marcotte Sorry I didn’t do a Friday Genius Ten yesterday; the holiday got my internal schedule off. That, and packing. We’re leaving town early next week, so blogging will be spotty for awhile, until my work statio...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
by Amanda Marcotte Perhaps the most disturbing part of reading female conservative bloggers is the routine scrapping and bowing they do to their largely male audience, and the pandering to those men’s ridiculous fears of emasculation, in exch...
Figleaf's Real Adult Sex (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Summary: An inquiry into gendered assumptions about nutrition and “manliness.” Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon notes a conservative columnist, Debbie Schlussel, has taken up a banner raised by some actor, Jeremy Piven, who claims drinking a bunch of soy milk gave him “man boobs.” Soy being some kind proxy for liberalism or something, Schlussel tried to make some kind...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
by Amanda Marcotte Fundamentalist Christians believe that Satan is a real being, and that he is always around, dogging people and tempting them to sin. They teach that one must always be on guard against Satan’s trickery. The Bibl...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
by Amanda Marcotte Bill Sparkman, the Census worker found dead hanging from a tree with the word “Fed” scrawled across his body, was found to be a suicide. This news is sure to cause some darkly amoral celebrating on the right, wh...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
by Amanda Marcotte Bill Sparkman, the Census worker found dead hanging from a tree with the word “Fed” scrawled across his body, was found to be a suicide. This news is sure to cause some darkly amoral celebrating on the right, wh...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
by Amanda Marcotte Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about how a panel was convened to look at the breast cancer screening recommendations, and taking new evidence into account, they suggested the screening should...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
by Amanda Marcotte Overthinking It tackles the all-important question that consumes many of my politically astute friends who are also fans of “30 Rock”: where does the show’s politics lay? (They also recently had me on as a guest...
The Constitution Club (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
"Hate site? w00t! Get out the Bud Ice and Lawrence Welk albums, because we’re about to PAR-TEE!" – Amanda Marcotte, fired Edwards blogger at Pandagon.net ----------------------- ------------ "It's a right/left group blog that reads sorta like Obsidian Wings, if they did whip-its between postings." – from a reader at Driftglass.blogspot.com ----------------------- "Personally, I’d go there...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
by Amanda Marcotte Image by Kate O’Brien. It’s been fascinating to me, as someone who takes an interest in skeptical and atheist activism, to watch the growing feminist/egalitarian consciousness rising up in the movement, as women and...
Dennis The Peasant (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... Our Constitutional Rights in Obetz, Ohio". April. Entitled "Adapted for Hydrogen". May. Entitled "Amanda Marcotte Headlines Disney On Ice in Apple Creek, Ohio". June. Entitled "Death of $28 Worth of Stuffed Toys, Plus A Pillow". July. Entitled "I Blame Bush". August. Entitled "Impressions: Dog Foot, Dog Nose, Furry Dog Bed". September. Entitled "The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization,...
