On Manne’s "Down Girl"
With thorough argumentation and heavily footnoted facts brought to the table, Down Girl, by Kate Manne delineates misogyny from sexism and hopes “to offer a useful toolkit for asking, answering,…
Feminism
First Time for Everything
I wonder what would have happened to Sleeping Beauty had she slept for, oh, say 20, 30 years or so, but continued to age. I’m thinking Shrek, but with the…
congratulations to the people of ireland! #repealedthe8th
While this blog was offline, an amazing and incredibly important thing happened: the people of the Republic of Ireland affirmed the human right to control our own bodies. In a…
Ontario Elects Doug Ford; Alberta Unleashes the Valkyries
Valkyrie: from Norse mythology, meaning “chooser of the slain”; female figures who choose who will die in battle and who will live. Ms Soapbox has a message for all the…
Handmaids For Kenney Attend The UCP Policy Convention
This would be funny in the ironic ha-ha sense if it wasn’t so damned serious. While the rest of us were watching UCP members debate policy resolutions in a conference…
Where Is The Walk?
Justin Trudeau’s increasing propensity for talking the talk but not walking the walk has been noticed by the anti-poverty organization One Campaign, led by Trudeau’s good ‘friend,’ U2’s Bono, in…
Who is Jordan Peterson and Why Should I Care?
I’ve heard the name. He’s some professor from Toronto. But apparently he’s a big deal, enough so that Foreign Policy thinks he’s some sort of latter day Pied Piper luring…
beyond #iwd: fight for women by opposing privatization
Visit We Own It for all the facts on privatization. When public services are privatized, everyone loses — except, of course, shareholders of a private company, who increase their wealth…
International Women’s Day 2018 (#IWD2018)
Inspired by the struggles of working class women and led by the early socialist movement, a strategy formed to hold an annual day to demand equal rights, suffrage, an end…
Justin Trudeau and the Women’s Budget
Of all the good things that Justin Trudeau has done since he liberated us from Stephen Harper's monstrous regime, the one thing I like the most is his support for…
#Metoo?
Can we talk? Many men (and some women) worry that the #metoo movement has morphed into a man-hating witch hunt where innocent men will be publicly humiliated and deprived of…
Why Do We March?
Of the 120,000 people who attended the Women’s March in Canada, 10,000 marched in Alberta and 3,500 marched in Calgary. They were repeatedly asked, “Why do you march?” They replied…
White Men Need Intersectionality Expertise, Oluo 6/18
Intersectionality needs to become the most understood word as we wind down this decade. I’ve been thinking that for a few years now, but chapter 5 of Ijeoma Oluo’s So…
Louis C.K.’s “Victims” Didn’t Put Vancouver Animators Out of Work
We need more from the CBC. And the Canadian Press. “Sexual Misconduct Claims Against Louis C.K. put Vancouver Animators Out of Work” was the initial headline of a Canadian Press…
Remembering the Murdered Women of the École Polytechnique.
In Montreal this evening, fourteen rays of light will rise into the sky, one after the other, from the summit of Mount Royal.So all Montrealers can see them, and remember…
Men Steal Women’s Due Process
I didn’t think this up, but it’s been gnawing at me for years and many times in recent months with all the sexual predators being outed…with still millions more to…
The USA Is Disconnecting From Reality
The US government is a deranged, terrorist state. There is a broad epidemic of people throughout America with damaged mental health who are unhinged from reality. That people are trolling…
rotd: thank you celina caesar-chavannes for speaking out on body-shaming
Today’s Revolutionary Thought of the Day is very unusual, in that it belongs to a member of government. This thought should not be revolutionary. It should not even need to…
Why is Britain Moving Towards a 2-Child Policy?
While a royal family can embrace a third child, Britain is instituting a de facto 2-child policy for the poor. This is classist, racist, anti-feminist, misogynist, anti-human, inhumane and it…
Trudeau’s Empty “Yes We Can” Moment
Obama’s “Yes We Can” mantra made many question, yes we can do what exactly? That was its brilliance. He became whatever to whoever. Trudeau’s commitment to a national inquiry on…