http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/feminism/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 03:38:08 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286267/posts Andrew Breitbart takes on the elitist media, specifically the three female "feminists" who have been on the trash Sarah bandwagon from the beginning, and he does it with gusto: What a shock that Maureen Dowd devoted her New York Times column Sunday to attack Sarah Palin. It did not so much criticize Alaska's governor for prematurely stepping down from her official duties as to finish off what sister snipers Katie Couric and Tina Fey began last fall. The assassination of Sarah Palin - by media. For those who didn't pay attention, Mrs. Palin's unexpected stratospheric rise as a national political... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286267/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 03:38:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2283784/posts SYDNEY -- Tennis great Chris Evert has joined the chorus of complaints about the noise level in women's tennis, saying the "grunting" was getting out of hand. Evert stopped short of joining former rival Martina Navratilova in labelling the practice as cheating, but agreed it had reached unacceptable levels. Evert: "Grunting is one thing but the shrill sound that you hear with players nowadays, and especially they get louder when they hit a winner, that's the thing that I observe as a player," the former world No. 1 told reporters in Sydney on Monday. "It comes before they hit the... ESPN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2283784/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 01:57:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2282454/posts A couple of Swedish parents have stirred up debate in the country by refusing to reveal whether their two-and-a-half-year-old child is a boy or a girl. Tax agency ready for June 1st ID card rush (29 May 09) Sweden rules 'gender-based' abortion legal (12 May 09) Swedish gays made to wait for church wedding (3 May 09) Pop’s parents [see footnote], both 24, made a decision when their baby was born to keep Pop’s sex a secret. Aside from a select few – those who have changed the child’s diaper – nobody knows Pop’s gender; if anyone enquires, Pop’s parents... The Local: Sweden's News in English http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2282454/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:07:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2280031/posts TV and movies are rife with tough, violent women nowadays. And it’s a scary thing. The movie tough girl look likes a starlet but fights like Rambo. I am reminded of the Greeks who invented the Amazon myth as a kind of horror story....The modern version is not just a horror story; it is feminist vicarious revenge, although, as usual, women are the losers in this gender horseplay. Misandry just ends in the frustration that women aren’t really men. Not only are feminists in the mood to caricature men as jerks and buffoons, now they are literally kicking men’s rear... Mary Victrix blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2280031/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:56:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276552/posts Thank you, Barbara Boxer, for hammering the final nail in the coffin of angry and irrelevant pseudo-feminism. If there were any life left in its wheezing and flailing body, her latest experiment in the utterly ridiculous effectively pulled the plug. The venomous brand of feminism that cuts men off at the knees to make women arbitrarily taller is no longer credible. When Boxer had the audacity – and some would argue, questionable mental clarity – to publicly scold a US Army general for calling her “ma’am” instead of “senator,” it telegraphed to the rest of the world the sheer inanity... Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276552/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:43:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274929/posts Dear editor: Calling all women. Where are you? Mr. David Letterman just unleashed a very cruel joke on one of our fellow sisters. I've been made to understand that any woman would never tolerate this ugly unjust treatment of any woman. Sarah Palin's daughter was verbally attacked and abused by the thoughtless, unkind man. Where is your outrage? Is your lack of support because it is Sarah Palin? Why? She's a woman and I might add, a very pretty lady. Or do you consider her a dumb conservative right wing loon? I'm absolutely appalled at the lack of support and... The Warren Times Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274929/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:24:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272748/posts The National Bureau of Economic Research released a study to be published soon in the American Economic Journal that shows women's happiness has measurably declined since 1970. It's no surprise that this has stimulated much comment. This study covers the same time period as the rise of the so-called women's liberation or feminist movement. The correlation demands an explanation. You can read the entire study at www.eagleforum.org/links. One theory advanced by the authors, University of Pennsylvania economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, is that the women's liberation movement "raised women's expectations" (sold them a bill of goods), making them feel... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272748/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:38:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2272006/posts Not long ago, I wrote of how the English language is being destroyed by the stupidity of feminism. Well, today I've found another perfect example of how feminism is making our language trite and silly. The example turns up in a report on new prehistoric discoveries near Stonehenge, in Hampshire, England. Apparently, a pair of Neolithic tombs was discovered in the English countryside and researchers are all excited. I can’t say I blame them for this is very interesting news. It isn't the discovery that served as a vehicle for a stupid feminazi trick, though, but the coverage. Tucked into... Publius' Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2272006/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:49:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271913/posts Now Amanda Fortini at Salon has jumped on the anti-misogynist Letterman bandwagon, also calling out feminists who avert their eyes when conservative women are the targets. In an overall good piece just out: "If there was any question that a stubborn strain of old-school sexism persists in Obama's America, one has only to look at certain leaders of what the right wing loves to call the "liberal media" but which is sounding and acting, recently, more like the frat-house media. There, like a virus hiding in the body before, perhaps, staging a comeback, misogyny has found a place to lurk... Opposing Views http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271913/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:42:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2270910/posts NORTH AMERICANS of my generation grew up with the 1970s children’s record Free to Be...You and Me, on which Rosey Grier, an immense former football star, sang ‘It’s Alright to Cry’. The message: girls could be tough, and boys were allowed not to be. For almost 40 years, that era’s Western feminist critique of rigid sex-role stereotyping has prevailed. In many ways, it has eroded or even eliminated the kind of arbitrary constraints that turned peaceable boys into aggressive men and stuck ambitious girls in low-paying jobs. Feminists understandably have often shied away from scientific evidence that challenges this critique... Cyrprus Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2270910/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:21:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2269908/posts Recently the Barna Research Group released a study on the religious practices of liberals and Christians. According to the report: "The research...discovered that liberals are more likely than conservatives to develop their own set of religious beliefs rather than adopt those proposed by a church or other entity. A greater percentage of liberals also indicated they are very open to accepting different moral views than those they presently possess." [1] Liberal "Christians" abhor "fundamentalist" Christianity so they cast it aside and adopt their own set of religious beliefs and values. Times have changed, after all, so they feel it's incumbent... Renew America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2269908/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:07:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269567/posts In the minds of many, evil is epitomized by Nazi Germany. An embittered Austrian corporal, a racist ideology, and an amoral eugenics movement all came together at the same point in human history, eventually spelling the deaths of six million Jews and others. Others view Communism as the far greater evil, a godless philosophy that eventually doomed many more millions of souls in the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, and elsewhere. Yet these staggering numbers pale in comparison to the toll of unborn children whose lives are claimed each year by abortion. Each year 42 million of these procedures are performed... Renew America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269567/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:07:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2269344/posts I was raised by a working, single mother. She went to Stanford, majored in economics, became a public school teacher, wrote a book, and now works as a journalist. She didn’t give up her job when she had my sister or me, and she certainly didn’t give it up after she and my father divorced. I consider her the ultimate feminist—she’s worked her butt off, made a living on her own, and raised two perfect daughters (just kidding). She’s my hero. But if she had quit her job when I was born, retiring at age 31, would she still be... The Frisky http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2269344/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:26:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269336/posts Who is worse? The father molesting the daughter, or the mother who knows and looks the other way? The man raping the girl in the alleyway, or the passive bystander who neither stops the attack nor calls the police? The mother beating her children, or the husband who goes to work and leaves the children with her? Who is worse? The abuser, the attacker is worse. But we are revulsed and disgusted by the people who aid and abet and ignore the perpetrators, and rightly so. Last week, ten women were the subject of a cyber-rape. That is, without their... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269336/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:51:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2268218/posts Over the last four decades, American women have got almost everything the feminist movement promised. Lucky us! Are we happy now? No, we are not. All across the industrialized world, wherever egalitarian feminism has sprinkled its fairy dust, women report that they are considerably less happy and satisfied with life then were their benighted, patriarchy-oppressed, apron-wearing sisters of yore. “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness,” a new study conducted by Wharton academics Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, finds that the happiness of Western women has been steadily declining over the exact period during which egalitarian feminism has supposedly been delivering... The Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2268218/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:52:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2268092/posts Since writing The Thrill of the Chaste -- a recovery manual for grown-ups who missed the memo on abstinence -- I have addressed all kinds of people, from fishermen in Alaska to unwed moms in New York City, pornographers at "Sex Week at Yale" to hooting Catholic schoolboys in Drougheda, Ireland. But never have I been so affected by audiences as I was in Poland, meeting readers of the Polish translation of my book.   What struck me about the Polish readers -- most of them young women in their 20s and 30s -- was their consciousness of sin.  ... Inside Catholic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2268092/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:45:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2263080/posts Politico blogger Anne Schroeder Mullins forgot that she, too, is a woman yesterday when she decided to promote a vulgar, hate-filled rant about rape fantasies with conservative women by a guy named Guy Cimbalo. Playboy published the piece but scrubbed its Web site of the evidence a few hours later after harsh criticism across the political spectrum but especially from conservative bloggers. Now Politico has pulled a Playboy by letting Mullins replace her original post with a quasi-apology: The Playboy article linked to on this blog listed 10 conservative women "they love to hate" adding their reasons why. The blog... Accuracy In Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2263080/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 18:17:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2262608/posts Boston Vigil for Dr. Tiller Join the Boston community in sharing our grief and celebrating the life of Dr. George Tiller, a true hero for women across the country. Monday, June 1st 6pm St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral 138 Tremont St., Boston Across from the Park St. T stop Please help us spread the word via email, Facebook, Twitter, and texts. Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=88629078374&ref=nf Twitter hashtag: #BostonVigil and #Tiller (this one is attracting some unpleasant tweets, however) Dr. Tiller was shot and killed Sunday morning while serving as an usher at his church in Witchita, Kansas. Since the 1970s, Dr. Tiller... feministing.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2262608/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 02:12:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259668/posts Over the Memorial Day weekend, many college administrators attended a conference about the absence of men on today's college campuses and expressed concern about the negative experiences and unprecedented challenges facing college men today. The "2nd Conference on College Men" at the University of Pennsylvania featured sessions examining the implications of negative comments about men that are prevalent on college campuses and the sexist campus activism of participants in the nation's 500 college gender studies departments. The conference program, attended by about 100 professors and student affairs personnel, exposed some unpleasant facts: men are "overrepresented" in drug and alcohol abuse,... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259668/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 09:48:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258343/posts American women are wealthier, healthier and better educated than they were 30 years ago. They’re more likely to work outside the home, and more likely to earn salaries comparable to men’s when they do. They can leave abusive marriages and sue sexist employers. They enjoy unprecedented control over their own fertility. On some fronts — graduation rates, life expectancy and even job security — men look increasingly like the second sex. But all the achievements of the feminist era may have delivered women to greater unhappiness. In the 1960s, when Betty Friedan diagnosed her fellow wives and daughters as the... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258343/posts#comment Tue, 26 May 2009 15:16:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2258204/posts Feminists are in essence an anti-intellectual lot. After all, the back flips they have to do to justify their anti-male crusade is an act worthy of Olympics style awards. Such are the illogical back bends that feminists must to do to justify their ideology that men become wholly unnecessary, biology and nature be damned. There are many intellectual outrages to education and tradition that feminists employ to make themselves feel superior. But I want to focus here on just one of these. The example I'd like to discuss today is the elimination of the masculine pronoun. For those not "up"... Publius' Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2258204/posts#comment Tue, 26 May 2009 10:37:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250079/posts Conservatives and Feminists Take Aim At Muslim Student Union Reenacting Stoning a Woman to Death during Speech by Ex Congresswoman IRVINE, CA – Members of the conservative youth group, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), announced that they will graphically reenact the execution of a woman accused of adultery as prescribed by Islamic Law during a speech by Ex Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The protest will be held Wednesday May 13 at 6:00 pm outside the UC Irvine Student Center. Demonstrators, dressed in Islamic garb, will hurl over a hundred “rocks” at a woman dressed in a burka at the entrance of... Young Americans for Freedom -- emailed news release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250079/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 16:33:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249367/posts An Allen woman accused of killing her husband said she stabbed him in the heart after he turned up the volume of a Dallas Cowboys game, according to media reports. Kimberly Shanks A grand jury indicted Kimberly Shanks, 51, on May 7 for fatally stabbing Charles Shanks, 49, on Dec. 14. She will appear before a judge on May 27. Shanks admitted to killing her husband at their home in the 1400 block of Lone Star Court on Dec. 14 after he turned up the volume of a Dallas Cowboys game “knowing it would keep her awake,” the Star Community... The Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249367/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 17:43:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249227/posts Imagine a world where ideology takes the place of truth and laws are rooted in dubious factoids from nowhere. That pretty much sums up the fact-challenged, hysteria-mongering domestic violence industry that is propped up by $1 billion of federal money each year. Industry ideologues are loathe to admit the fact, but they truly believe the cause of partner abuse is patriarchal oppression. Not convinced? Just take it on the authority of feminist Gloria Steinem who once made this randy claim, "The patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself." In her now-famous PBS interview,... Renew America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249227/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 14:23:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249020/posts In their efforts to improve the situation of women around the globe, a handful in the international community believe there should be no honoring of motherhood in public policy since motherhood "traps" women in lowly domestic endeavors instead of using their talents in the workforce. Concerned Women For America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249020/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 03:39:04 GMT