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Recently I attended a domestic violence conference hosted by a church in my community. "The Church's Role in Addressing Domestic Violence in the Faith Community," the glossy brochure explained. The program featured a Proclamation by President Barack Obama filled with heart-rending language about the "devastating impact" of domestic violence on women and children. The conference included a workshop a dramatic presentation of The Yellow Dress, a play based on stories of women who were victims of dating violence. I opted to screen a video called "Defending our Lives," featuring the accounts of five women incarcerated for murdering their partners. All...

Here is video of Keith Olbermann talking with The Huffington Post's Lawrence O'Donnell about Sarah Palin's impact on Dede Scozzafava having to drop out. Olbermann said that Sarah Palin's campaign last year "within hours of her selection by Senator McCain, began to be enveloped by their perpetual charges of sexism, every criticism of her was sexism." He then asked "why did she just push another Republican woman off the cliff, and where are the charges of sexism about that?" O'Donnell said "they beat her out of the place" and that Republicans "don't even quite qualify for party status anymore." (Video)

When a sonogram showed that Stephanie Lewis, a writer and party planner living in San Diego, was expecting boy-girl twins, she was ecstatic. Lewis, already the mother of a two-year-old son, had always longed for a girl. “From an early age, I just remember wanting a daughter,” says Lewis, an effervescent brunette who recalls a Pleasantville childhood filled with mother-daughter fashion shows, ballet recitals, and tea parties. “Now, finally, I was getting her. I was just in heaven.” Not that the sonographer’s revelation had come as a shock. For this, her second pregnancy, the 28-year-old Lewis had done everything in...

Miss America officials have decided to kill off their beauty pageant. That's not what they're saying, but you tell me what it means when a beauty pageant that professes to champion America's young women issues a news release with "Rush" and "thrilled" in the same sentence: "We are thrilled to have Rush join us for our pageant this year," said the Miss America Organization's president and CEO, Art McMaster. "We know that the 2010 Miss America Pageant will be filled with new twists and exciting opportunities with him as one of our national judges." No, he's not talking about the...

SWEDISH tourism bodies have been swamped with inquiries from millions of men captivated by a mythical town rumoured to be home to 25,000 sex-mad lesbians. The town of "Chako Paul City" is said to have been founded in 1820 in the northern Swedish woods by a wealthy man-hating widow. Two blonde women are rumoured to stand guard at the town, which also features a medieval castle.

A sea change has occurred in the education of American women: young girls often academically out-perform boys, are more likely to succeed in college and have flooded once all-male professional schools, notably law and business. For example, U.S. Census Bureau figures show that while the male and female population is about equal, males comprise some 58 percent of all high school drop-outs. Similarly, the number of females entering college between 1967 and 2000 increased by 20 percent, while the proportion of men declined by 4 percent. The American Council on Education’s statistics revealed that in 2005 women earned 57 percent...

Now, you KNOW that had the roles been reversed the liberal media's race baiting journalists would be out there asking this very question. So, how about it? Was his motivation racial?

Sexy golf caddies for hire banned from courses for 'damaging the sport' By Dan Newling 31st August 2009 It is - at the very least - a sure-fire way for even the least talented golfer on the course to be guaranteed a birdie. At the most, however, it is a sexist gimmick which will only strengthen golf's image as a game for fusty old men with rather 'traditional' views of women. The golfing community has been split by the birth of a controversial new caddy service which provides attractive, nubile women to carry players' clubs. Banned: [Pics in URL] Eye...

Many pundits, Alaskans, and simple political observers have pondered why Former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin resigned from office. One answer now seems apparent—money. Since her resignation, Palin has been offered over 1,000 invitations to make paid speeches, appear, and campaign on behalf of politicians and political groups. She has received offers from numerous speakers’ bureaus (scouts for speechmakers) and has reportedly signed with at least one of them, the Washington Speakers Bureau. Washington Speakers Bureau’s clientele currently consist of Former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush, Bob Woodward, Katie Couric, Colin Powell, Rudy Giulianni, Alan Greenspan, and many...

Matthew Littman likes to use racist, incendiary, and sexist speech to attack his opposition. Do you think that Huffington Post should continue to have Littman on their staff? If not. follow this link to learn who sponsors HUFFPO. Let them know how you feel- video of the incident can be found here as well

Remember when the children of public figures were off-limits in the day-to-day hand-to-hand combat of political warfare? It's a rule that didn't just applied to the underage children of politicians, but the adult children. Witness the 2008 suspension of MSNBC's David Shuster for suggesting then-presidential contender Hillary Clinton's 28-year-old daughter Chelsea Clinton was being "pimped out" by the campaign. But maybe that rule only applied to Democrats. ...more (w/video)...

How sick and sad that Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed today by the US Senate for a seat on the US Supreme Court! Anyone who cares about individual rights and true justice has to be in despair. Sotomayor is a racist, sexist, bigot, and lowlife. Her "identity politics" philosophy, and "wise Latina" persona, violate the Greek ideal of "impartiality before the law," and the American ideal of "e pluribus unum." She's a drop-dead enemy of civil rights and neutral, impartial justice -- the only justice that even exists. Sotomayor reduces America to the level of savage, tribalist Afghanistan wherein the great...

Seth Rogen says Katherine Heigl is a hypocrite for labeling their 2007 hit Knocked Up sexist. Watch clips from Knocked Up now In the January 2008 issue of Vanity Fair, Heigl infamously said that she found the Judd Apatow comedy "a little sexist" because it "paints the women as shrews." But Heigl's latest cinematic offering, The Ugly Truth — in which her morning show producer must endure a series of tests about romance by Gerard Butler's chauvinistic correspondent — doesn't put women in a better light, according to Rogen and Apatow.

Yesterday, on a comment thread I reminded readers of a particular sexist trick used to disembowel female pols—the old: she’s too polarizing theme. Specifically, I mentioned Hollywood’s David (Obama) Geffen’s charge that Hillary Clinton was “incredibly polarizing.” Geffen and Obama had put their male heads together and decided the best way to beat the bi$ch was to paint her as “polarizing.” Missy Maureen Dowd was contacted and she agreed to printed Geffen’s orchestrated remarks in her column. Hillary=Polarizing now with the NYTimes imprimatur. Polarizing = Bi%ch=manipulative=shrill, and on it goes. Today, I had no sooner posted a comment on the...

   U.S. President Barack Obama (C) and France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (R) take their places with junior G8 delegates for a family photo at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, July 9, 2009. Leaders of the Group of Eight major industrial nations and the main developing economies are meeting in the central Italian city of L'Aquila until Friday to discuss issues ranging from global economic stimulus to climate change and oil prices.

"C'mon now ***. Let the real men do the thinking and the real woman the cooking...."

In Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Randy Cohen’s column titled "The Ethicist" has a perfectly liberal sense of ethics. First, he told a nurse-midwife to help illegal aliens use their aliases when they miss work due to pregnancy-related appointments. (His compromise: create a form and leave the name blank, and let them fill in the fraudulent name. How ethical.) From there, Cohen agreed with a Portland man studying to become a Catholic priest that receiving scholarships in preparation for a lifelong vow of poverty is sexist: "You might regard yourself as preparing to be a beneficiary of entrenched workplace discrimination,...

Save the Males by: Deborah Lambert, June 18, 2009 If you think male students have all succumbed to the politically correct powers-that-be on American campuses, think again. U. of Chicago student Steve Saltarelli has just formed a group called Men in Power. Although the group wants to focus on professional networking and the like, naysayers are already whispering that the boys might have a misogynist agenda. Others say, in effect, that it’s about time someone stood up for real men, according to the Chicago Tribune. Even former NOW board member Warren Farrell, author of The Myth of Male Power, praised...

it's a boy! Or a girl! A group of New York moms has filed suit against the makers of a "99.9-percent accurate" baby-gender test, claiming the results they got were 100 percent wrong. The product was advertised as "infallibly accurate in foretelling the gender of a healthy baby," and its Web site said the "prediction of your baby's gender is unmistakably correct or we will double your money back." The Baby Gender Mentor is touted as allowing women as little as five weeks pregnant to tell if they're expecting a boy or a girl, the suit says. That's nine to...

JOHNNY CARSON is rolling over in his grave. Even the late Lenny Bruce is having a fit. While you were watching David Letterman -- a bitter guy who never saw a woman or a Republican he could stand -- trash Sarah Palin's 14-year-old daughter by "joking" that she was date-raped by Alex Rodriguez and stalked by Eliot Spitzer, you may have missed the memo. Dave's in good company. His struggling brother up the dial, Conan O'Brien, on Thursday night was having a blast slurring women and Jews -- two groups that may constitute the last permissible sick-comedy staples. Here's Conan:...

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...

Brace yourselves, readers, because it’s not over yet. This year has been Misogyny Mania for liberals who claim to be “pro-woman.” First there was the character assassination of Miss California Carrie Prejean, in which liberals thought a deft response to her anti-gay marriage comments was to call her a slut. By saying that marriage should be between a man and a woman, Prejean did nothing more than restate the official position of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Bill Clinton—and every other male politician liberals adore. There’s no doubt that Prejean’s femininity determined how the media treated her. As Miss...

I wonder if Janet Napolitano and her unbiased *cough cough* DHS will issue a report on this left wing hatred? (via Hot Air) The Top 10 Conservative Women We’d Like To Filibuster (reminder: Playboy is not safe for work!) Obama promised us the dream of post-partisanship—a cuckoo land where party affiliation and factional animosity were forgotten. Turn on cable news or open any newspaper, however, and you’ll quickly discover that the dream has yet to materialize. But there is a way to reach across the aisle without letting principles fall by the wayside. We speak, naturally, of the hate [f**k]....

Yesterday judge Nadia Sotomayor was nominated for the US Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in a profoundly bigoted way, for notably racist and sexist reasons. And she has ruled in a profoundly bigoted way, with massive racism and sexism in her judicial decisions. One can't help but ask: What about the concept of a neutral, impartial, objective rule of law -- one in which no-one is a second class citizen? What about the notion that "justice is blind?" What about the ideal of equality before the law? And if this loathsome, anti-white, anti-male bigot is promoted to the United...

She’s the 69-year-old speaker of the House of Representatives, second in the line of succession and the most powerful woman in U.S. history. But when you see Nancy Pelosi, the Republican National Committee wants you to think “Pussy Galore.” At least that’s the takeaway from a video released by the committee this week – a video that puts Pelosi side-by-side with the aforementioned villainess from the 1964 James Bond film “Goldfinger.” The RNC video, which begins with the speaker’s head in the iconic spy-series gun sight, implies that Pelosi has used her feminine wiles to dodge the truth about...

Take a gander at the YouTube video embedded below, produced and posted online by Media Matters for America, a progressive media watchdog group. Or if you have more important things to do (and I don't blame you) than to watch this venom-spewing performance by a pompous parade of right-wing male commentators, let me describe it to you. A video cavalcade of pompous, annoying, thoroughly unattractive, low-brow guys poke fun at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent clarifications of her position on what she knew (about the Bush administration's use of torture) and when she knew it.

Swedish health authorities have ruled that under the current law, a woman is allowed to have an abortion, solely for the purpose of ending a pregnancy when the gender of the fetus is not what a woman wants. Health officials also decided that requests by pregnant women for gender testing, without a specific medical reason are allowed under the country’s laws.

IN THE CUTTHROAT world of business, companies are always looking for ways to increase their profits. They outsource to Bangalore. They endlessly tweak their "brands." Some even try to shed their least desirable customers. Now, a growing number of consultants and corporate leaders swear by a new strategy to boost the bottom line, one that departs from the standard bag of tricks: put more women in charge.

HAPPILY married men should pray their wives are not among the anonymous contributors to Romi Lassally's upcoming book, "True Mom Confessions: Real Moms Get Real," out next month from Berkeley. -snip- Another notes: "I constantly fantasize about leaving my husband . . . for another woman." And one reveals: "Sometimes when my husband and I are in a fight, I purposely wear sexy underwear just to rub it in that he won't be getting any that night."

First lady Michelle Obama arrives in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 11, 2009, prior to President Barack Obama signing an Executive Order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls. WNBA women's basketball player Lisa Leslie and President Barack Obama have their picture taken in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 11, 2009, by Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, right, after the president signed an Executive Order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls. Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes, left, and WNBA star Lisa Leslie pose for...

Few family law cases are as heartbreaking as those involving Parental Alienation, where one parent has turned his or her children against the other parent, destroying the loving bonds the children and the target parent once enjoyed. Many of my readers have experienced it in various forms and to varying degrees. Feminist groups, including the National Organization for Women, contend that Parental Alienation is a myth and a ruse used by abusive fathers to win control of their children in custody cases. To pick one example of many, Helen Grieco, until recently the Executive Director of California NOW, calls Parental...

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says he was surprised by John McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin because he believes the only difference between himself and the Alaska governor is “she looks better in stilettos than I do.” Reflecting on the Palin pick in an interview with the New Yorker posted Monday, Huckabee told the magazine that “I was scratching my head, saying, ‘Hey, wait a minute. She’s wonderful, but the only difference was she looks better in stilettos than I do, and she has better hair.’” Huckabee insisted that Palin “was given a pass by some of the very people...

"According to Dr. Donald Dutton, author of Rethinking Domestic Violence, research shows that domestic violence is actually more common in lesbian relationships than in heterosexual relationships. "For example, one study of 1,100 lesbian or bisexual women who are in abusive lesbian relationships found that the women were more likely to have experienced violence in their previous relationships with women than in their previous relationships with men." First the story, then a few comments. From Lindsay Lohan And Sam Ronson Fight, Get Couples Counseling (Huffington Post, 11/21/08): THE most talked-about twosome in Hollywood are talking with a couples counselor to resolve...

"Mothers are being forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars to men who paid child support over decades but were wrongly named as fathers....Ken Rodgers obtained orders for the repayment of $60,000 after making child-support contributions for a decade to a woman who refused to send him even a photograph of his alleged child... "The money is being garnished from mothers' incomes in the same way that payments are taken from fathers." Some good news, particularly given how badly paternity fraud cases usually go. ... read more

Hillary Camp Assails Obama Anti-Palin Ad Friday, October 31, 2008 1:59 PM By: Dave Eberhart Hillary Clinton supporters and Women for McCain leadership are slamming Barack Obama’s new ad, titled “His Choice,” as sexist and demeaning to women for its depiction of running mate Sarah Palin. The ad features a McCain quote about relying on his vice president for economic advice — and then shows an unrelated clip of Palin winking mischievously at the camera. The implication: She’s less than a person to be taken seriously

Do the Democrats fear strong willed women? Does Obama fear them? Why does the party that pretends to be so attuned to women’s rights and equality of the sexes, that pretends to be so open-minded and tolerant of all races, religions, sexual orientations and gender-related issues field the same old tired all-male ticket when there appear to be so many talented, experienced and strong willed women more qualified than Obama himself to lead or second chair the ticket? God only knows. But the reality is that the Democrat Party cannot seem to field a woman candidate. They prefer instead to...

By now I'm sure you've probably heard the news. An effigy of Obama hanged was discovered and immediately removed by police at Northern Kentucky University. The hordes of people expressing their shock was astounding. The president of the University also expressed that he would be calling Mr. and Mrs. Obama immediately to apologize. This is a big deal folks. Someone made fun of Obama and now all hell is breaking loose. You can't poke fun at The One without getting the police involved. And yes, I am choosing my words carefully. Because when an effigy of Sarah Palin hanging from...

By now I'm sure you've probably heard the news. An effigy of Obama hanged was discovered and immediately removed by police at Northern Kentucky University. The hordes of people expressing their shock was astounding. The president of the University also expressed that he would be calling Mr. and Mrs. Obama immediately to apologize. This is a big deal folks. Someone made fun of Obama and now all hell is breaking loose. You can't poke fun at The One without getting the police involved. And yes, I am choosing my words carefully. Because when an effigy of Sarah Palin hanging from...

Tina Brown is a New Labour/Democrat limousine liberal but, unlike the Obots running the snore-sheet monodailies, she's an editor first. And so, after the Buckley endorsement of Obama, she now presents Wendy Button, an Obama-Edwards-Clinton speechwriter who's voting for McCain: Not only has this party belittled working people in this campaign from Joe the Plumber to the bitter comments, it has also been part of tearing down two female candidates. At first, certain Democrats and the press called Senator Clinton “dishonest.” They went after her cleavage. They said her experience as First Lady consisted of having tea parties. There was...

For the first time, the Obama-Biden campaign directly slammed Sarah Palin today with a new TV ad called "His Choice." Wordlessly, images of John McCain appear on the screen with quotes he's made over the past couple of years The punchline, as it were, is what McCain said in a GOP debate in November: "I might have to rely on a vice president that I select" for expertise on economic issues . The words on the screen: "His choice?" Then it cuts to Palin, winking. So while Palin's negative ratings may be high, the Obama campaign must fear her at...

A new Barack Obama campaign ad targeting John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate is making buzz not so much for what it says, but for what it doesn’t. The 30-second spot is entirely without a narrator, and instead shows John McCain's past statements appearing to acknowledge he lacks expertise on economic issues. “I’m going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated," McCain said in a 2005 interview with the Wall Street Journal. A quote from McCain in a...

The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) ignores male intimate partner victimization (IPV). In its mission statement the OVW makes it clear that it is only concerned with the victimization of women and not men. If you search for a federal program or agency that is concerned with IPV against men, you will not find one. ... read more

Like much of the mainstream media, CNN anchor Jack Cafferty has set aside any pretense of objectivity in this year's presidential election. On today's Situation Room he used a "Cafferty File" segment, in which a question is posed to viewers for their response, to attack GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. He prefaced the question: But McCain chose Sarah Palin, who immediately became a national joke to everybody, except the conservative base of the Republican Party. Even some Republicans are convinced the Palin selection showed a total lack of judgment on McCain's part. Oh, what about Florida Governor Charlie Crist?...

Imagine just for a minute if this were Barack Obama hanging from that noose. Do you think for one minute that the entire mainstream media wouldn’t be up in arms, playing the race card? But apparently sexism and racism are not equal evils. I wonder how many people realize that blacks are women too. This is nothing less than misogyny gone wild. Watch the video here. It's disgusting.

Today, 10:08 AM Muzza Administrator Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: NYC Posts: 15,161 Poster Rank: #1 (Oct 26, 2008): "Palin Deserves Our Respect" (Philly Inquirer) Philly Inquirer Quote: Helen McCaffrey is the director of Women's Watch Inc., a nonprofit women's advocacy group based in Cape May. I cannot predict who will win the presidential campaign, but I already know who will lose big: all women. I realized this when I saw a 20-something male student who attends a class in the community college where I teach, wearing a T-shirt that read, "Sarah Palin is a C-." He wore it in...

After putting it on Thursday's front page, the New York Times was still harping on Gov. Palin's wardrobe and who picked it out in three I.Q. melting stories in Friday's edition: "Wardrobe Mysteries Linger..." by Michael Luo and Eric Wilson, "...And a Whiff of Clarity" by Luo alone, plus a Metro section story. In "Clarity," Luo tried to nail down the role in this grand conspiracy of one "Lisa A. Kine." The F.E.C. records showed a "Lisa L. Kine" was reimbursed for more than $2,000 in charges, including those made at Pacifier, as well as others at Macy's, the Gap,...

CNN anchor Campbell Brown led her Election Center program on Wednesday with a critique of the “double standard” concerning the recent attention on the $150,000 that the Republican National Committee spent on vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin: “My issue: there is an incredible double standard here, and we're ignoring a very simple reality. Women are judged based on their appearance far, far more than men. This is a statement of fact. There has been plenty of talk and plenty written about Sarah Palin’s jackets, her hair, her looks....Compare that to the attention given to Barack Obama’s $1,500 suits or John McCain’s...

[snip] But one of the most famous political fashion designers of the year, Susanna Chung Forest, who designed Hillary Clinton’s pantsuits says it would be unusual for a candidate as famous as Sarah Palin to need to buy clothes. “Why do you need to pay for it?” Forest told CBS News from her boutique Susanna Beverly Hills saying that most designers would offer to clothe a candidate for free. “It’s an honor, you are going to design for someone who could be the president of the United States,” noting that the exposure any designer would get from dressing someone as...

During the final debate between John McCain and Barack Obama at Long Island’s Hofstra University moderator Bob Schieffer asked about the abased tone of the campaign, and the GOP contender made this cryptic, inside baseball reference: “In fact, some T-shirts that are very... unacceptable.” What T-shirts? McCain never says. And unless you watch FOX News or regularly read political Web sites, you would not know what the heck he's taking about. Unacceptable? The Stiletto is perplexed and dismayed that McCain has never defended the honor of his running mate, who has been called a whore, a c**t - and worse....

And last but not least, in terms of irony and projection, this takes the cake...This one too, come ot think of it.