Two things from Sunday's Twitter stream left me somewhat frustrated, as
I agreed a lot with one part of a discussion, and disagreed a lot with another.

Very different topics. ( Read more... )

Books have been written about verbal abuse, and this isn't one.  This is specific to verbal abuse of women on the internet who speak out on issues affecting women ( Read more... )

From the many-many-many emails and tweets women (including me) have gotten about That Shirt, it's clear that for many of the angry crowd, keeping straight exactly what the argument is about is...unimportant or unrecognized.  This is an attempt to unpack the various issues involved, and why it's still a live topic.
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Part one.  The BBC couldn't find a 12th woman as interesting as a female panda named Sweetie for its "female faces of the year 2011."   See this site's discussion: http://jezebel.com/5871634/

One wonders who at the BBC--what gender, that is--decided on the ones they did pick, including Sweetie.  (I suppose we should be glad there weren't more non- ( Read more... )

Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an incredible book--a combination of personal memoir and political statement.  Read it and weep.  Read it and be astounded, engaged, fascinated, repelled...above all, read it and learn.

For those of you who don't already know, Ali was the originator of the idea that became the short movie Submission...which she and ( Read more... )