I finished the book - Equal: Women Reshape American Law which was good, because of the women lawyers fighting to make the laws more equal in how they treat women, and depressing, because this book is not talking about the damn Stone Age, it only really goes back to the 1960s.  The Pregnancy Discrimination Act which actually made it illegal to ( Read more... )

 I'm reading Equal: Women Reshape American Law as semi-prep for my final paper and this one jumped out at me.  It comes from a then-law clerk's opinion on a sex discrimination case :

"The pedestal upon which women have been placed has all too often, upon closer inspection, been revealed as a cage."

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 Resa LaRu Kirkland.  I succumbed to the lure of the Google.

 Can't Find A Good Man? Blame Feminism!

This piece predates the one on which tepintzin and I discovered Ms. Kirkland - it's written in September 2004.

Does any decent American man want a modern American woman?
Signs are there…no, they don’t, or given our behavior, they shouldn’t. And we ( Read more... )

 Since I need to get the human-beings-are-depressing-me vibe out of my head (yes, maybe I am too sensitive sometimes), allow me to present some of the WTF-y links that have been collecting in my Bookmarks folder.

These mock one or more of the following topics: anti-feminist views, anti-choice views, religious right-wing whack jobs, people who think ( Read more... )

So, Washington University in St. Louis is presenting Phyllis Schlafly with a honorary doctrate.  It wouldn't be my choice, but I'm not the one making it.

She did an interview with their school paper which makes for some interesting reading.

Phyllis Schlafly Interview

What do you mean when you say, "Feminists want women to think that they can't ( Read more... )

At least, I know this female soldier is ( Read more... )

Holy f*ck ( Read more... )

Cross-posted to womenwarriors http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/17/AR2008021702324.htmlRead more... )

I lurk at Feministing a lot, but I had to pass this gem along:

http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080220/OPINION/802200400/1028/OPINION02

Most people believe not only that the 19th Amendment permitted women the ( Read more... )

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22558665/

Once-a-day Cialis approved by FDA ( Read more... )