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What should a feminist wear?

For me, at least, the intuitive answer is 'whatever she wants.'  Why do I suspect it will turn out to be way more complicated than that?

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I want to live in the paradise where the worst thing that's going to happen today is that I get socially or culturally marginalized.

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I make no bones about having serious misgivings about social justice as she is spoke currently. As noted, just about everybody will be in favor of "social justice"; there are going to be disagreements about what it is and how to bring it about ( Read more... )

The ever-adorable online feminist community has driven Joss Whedon off Twitter, because

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Greenpeace has vandalized the petroglyphs on the plains of Nazca.

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I, for myself, wonder how the 'feminist' label got so toxic. To the point that people say stuff like 'I'm for equal rights for women but I'm not a feminist.'

This sort of thing is part of the problem. The sheer priggishness of it all, and the drive to inject unanswerable personal drama, are simply unhelpful. ("Tone argument". Yes, I've heard it ( Read more... )

To claim that "the personal is political" is to invite the United States Senate to supervise your sex life. What else could it mean ( Read more... )

When Women Become Men at WellesleyOne of those T-shirted helpers was a junior named Timothy Boatwright. Like every other matriculating student at Wellesley, which is just west of Boston, Timothy was raised a girl and checked “female” when he applied. Though he had told his high-school friends that he was transgender, he did not reveal that on his ( Read more... )

You have to admit that this 39 year old story about a much younger Hillary Clinton and her professional victory is a well crafted piece of political attack theater ( Read more... )

Exactly.

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