“Health of the Mother”?

It’s making the rounds - over at Shakesville,The Curvature, Feministing, and Hoyden About Town - as it should be. Most of the sites I’ve linked to have the video of McCain puting scarequotes round the …


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October 18, 2008   44 Comments

Go-go Gadget Hate Crimes!

the OTHER Maria

Wowzers. One of McCain’s supporters, the Clarion Fund, has been mailing out millions of anti-Islamic DVDs — Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West.

I actually think my sister got one, since she’s in Florida.

Anyways, these incredibly WTF DVDs have …


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September 29, 2008   6 Comments

Stop yelling. I can’t help you if you are yelling.

the OTHER Maria

You know what? Stories like this make me physically sick. Here, you have a woman being chased by a man. She’s begging for help, and is pretty clear what that help would need to be. She needs an address …


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September 21, 2008   10 Comments

Sarah Palin — A Zombie Feminist of the RNC!!

the OTHER Maria

Finally, someone else who understands that Palin desperately wants to eat my brains!!

Rebecca Traister at Salon has a great article up on this topsy turvy election, where she dissects the significance of Palin’s gender, and bemoans the lack o’ …


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September 14, 2008   1 Comment

How to survive as a feminist in the L.A. film community

Jennifer Kesler

A while back, reader Wemblee posted this comment:
I hope this doesn’t seem too weird, and it’s kind of off-topic, but: okay, this is my first time at this blog, and this post really struck a chord with me, as …


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August 24, 2008   3 Comments