I am continually amazed by people and their ability to be rational in one aspect of their life and the ability to completely ignore rationality in other aspects of their life. The example that I often see is people who are in evidence based professions, especially the ones that require
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Women in politics: the “squeeze” factor
As any student of Canadian politics knows, Ellen Fairclough was Canada’s first female cabinet minister, appointed by Diefenbaker in 1957 and serving until her defeat as MP for Hamilton West in 1963. I have mixed feelings about Fairclough’s politics: she did good work on the immigration file, but she was
Continue readingFive of Five: Identity Politics and Some Numbers
The No True Scotsman fallacy often appears in arguments about philosophy or religion. It has some bearing on the change that is about to engulf Alberta. The fallacy would sound something like this in a conversation about Alberta politics: You: No conservative would vote for the Progressive Conservative
Continue readingVatican’s virgin bishops tell women what to do, call nuns in U.S. radical feminists
First of all, if you’re a 40+ year old virgin and you believe in God, well then you need to shut the fuck up. Your opinions don’t matter when it comes to what women can and cannot do. I don’t care what your cowardly God says, but you stay away from meddling
Continue readingConservative Taliban punks poison 150 schoolgirls in Afghanistan
Older Afghan schoolgirl poisoning video from 2009. OK, so I’ve seen the beheading videos, the videos where these Taliban extremists fuck donkeys, the one’s where they prepare a statement of suicide, the one’s where you know, they blow shit up etc. but I never thought I was going to hear
Continue readingbastard.logic: The Pre-Butterfly Effect
Gee, I can’t imagine why the gender gap between the Democratic Party and the GOP has widened into a yawning chasm: HUNT: Let me ask you this. The Democrats of course say you are waging, the GOP is waging a war on women. I know you don’t agree with that,
Continue readingRight’s war on women, er girls, reaches new lows with this lovely cartoon
The closer it gets to November, the more emboldened they come. But this poster from far-right blog Protein Wisdom is OK because a woman drew it and it’s satire. Yeah right. Remember when the right was so upset over Playboy’s admittedly sexist accounting of the top conservative women? Not so
Continue readingAlmost one in 10 Albertan men say it’s OK to physically assault a woman
Words fail. On the one hand, some of the responses are cause for optimism — for example, 56 per cent of men say they are more aware of domestic violence issues than they were five years ago, and 91 per cent say they would intervene if they knew someone in
Continue readingMike Lester presents the south’s take on Obama and Sandra Fluke
From Georgia’s Rome News Tribune. Yeah, let that sink in. You’ve got the African-American President is a 70′s pimp angle, the Sandra Fluke is a whore angle, the “evil light-skinned brother” angle, the white girl subservient to the black man angle, a complete misrepresentation of Ms. Fluke’s statements to boot
Continue readingArt Threat: It’s International Women’s Day – And we’re digging through the Art Threat archives
Sarah Maple — Signs, C-Type Print, 2007 As today is International Women’s Day, I thought it would be worthwhile to dig though our archives and offer up a selection of past content focused on women and feminist issues. Also, here’s a worthy read from The Guardian a few years back:
Continue readingHunter “Where Are the Feminists”? Hates Birth Control, Apparently
Boys ‘n’ girls, remember Hunter who always wonders where the feminists are? Well, apparently, her would be crush on Rush is showing these days as she jumps on his bandwagon, agreeing with him that law student, Sandra Fluke is a “slut” for simply saying that birth control should be covered
Continue readingArt Threat: Rush (band) pulls music from Rush (bigot)
North America has always been home to one good Rush and one evil Rush, but never have they engaged in battle … until now. Canadian prog rock legends Rush have demanded that the Rush Limbaugh Show stops using their music. The band’s music was regularly played leading in and out
Continue readingWhat Rush hath wrought: 16-year-old harassed for being a “slut, a prostitute, a horny piece of trash that is out to sleep with every guy in school”
The fallout from Rush Limbaugh’s attack on Sandra Fluke has more far-reaching consequences than the public humiliation Fluke received at the hands of the radio star and the subsequent withdrawal of advertisers from the blowhard’s show. Caught in the headlines suddenly are the young women of America who have become the new Easy
Continue readingSandra Fluke gets the Brigette DePape treatment
To Fox News, “slut” + “prostitute” = “Fame-Hungry Activist” Remember Brigette DePape and the sexist, vile treatment she received at the hands of our media and the Conservative party? Welcome to the hatefest, Sandra. Rushbo was just the beginning. Sexism is a complicated business. It’s especially ugly if you are
Continue readingFive advertisers drop Rush Limbaugh after Sandra Fluke slander
After Limbaugh called the woman refused at place at Darrell Issa’s birth control table ”slut” and “prostitute”, the media and the progressive blogosphere and even Republican presidential contenders (save Romney who just couldn’t bring himself to criticize Limbaugh – Bain Capital co-owns Limbaugh’s broadcaster) denounced Limbaugh’s remarks. Now, thanks to social media, five advertisers have quit Limbaugh.
Continue readingLiz Trotta, why do you hate the IDF?
Liz Trotta, the shrill Fox News talking head who declared about women being raped in the US military, “What did they expect? These people are in close contact”, doubles down on her implied contention that US military men are rapists. Of course, Trotta is refusing to apologize for her insult
Continue readingForget Nazi comparisons. MLK is the new go-to-guy for beleaguered Republicans. Darrell Issa edition.
What do you do when you’re a right winger and the blowback against a sexist and ‘autocratic regime’ brings a shitstorm to your door? If you’re disgraced Darrell Issa, you don’t try to accommodate the overwhelming opposition to your unequal actions or amend your operation, you double down by bringing in a
Continue readingWhat a Republican panel of witnesses on contraception looks like
That’s right, no women. The only woman, a minority one at that, suggested to appear was refused by the committee chairman Darrell Issa. What is it about contraception that precludes women from the discussion?
Continue readingUS cable and the contraception debate. Male guests dominate the airwaves 2 to 1 over females.
Last week, at the height of the kerfuffle over Obama’s regulation to include free birth control in health insurance plans, cable news networks featured an overwhelming number of males. Out of a total of 146 guests who discussed contraception, the cables invited 91 men compared to 55 women as commentators.
Continue readingConservative Senator Irving Gerstein removes Liberal and only woman Vice-Chair since Confederation, 17-year member Céline Hervieux-Payette
Shocking is right. But par for the course when it comes to heavy-handed Conservatives. I love the part how Gerstein blacked out “his motion, the debates and the vote”. Transparency? Free society? Guess again. Ottawa, February 9, 2012 – Yesterday, Senator Irving Gerstein, the new Chair of the Senate Standing Committee
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