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I'm warning you right now, if you read the full text of the article I'm about to give you the scoop on, you WILL BE DUMBER for it. I know I am, and I feel like all of you clever and competent readers deserve to save yourselves. So if you continue to read this post or worse yet - the article that it's about - don't say I didn't warn you. I'm serious. Now's your chance to bail. Still with me? Ok. Then just sit back, and behold the twisted, psychotic, completely mental freakshow that is the radical feminist mind....

<p>Apparently the Brisbane Times and Sydney Morning Herald will not allow articles to be posted, due to copyright complaints ... so I've provided a link to the article.</p> <p>The gist of the article is that a few radical feminist blogs (such as the Womens Space and Gentle Sprit) have recently been attacked and shut down in severe denial of service attacks.</p>

The American feminist icon, writer and campaigner Andrea Dworkin, who linked pornography to rape and violence, died at the weekend, her agent said today. She was 59 years old. Her radical-feminist critique of pornography began with her first book, Woman Hating, published when she was 27. She campaigned frequently on the subject, helping to draft a law in 1983 that defined pornography as a civil rights violation against women. The law, later overturned by an appeal court as unconstitutional, was inspired by the case of Linda Marchiano, who as Linda Lovelace said she had had been violently coerced into pornography,...

Martha Burk takes aim at Augusta again Martha Burk, who last year picketed the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta in a failed attempt to get the Augusta National Golf Club to accept female members, is going on the offensive again. The day before the Augusta National Golf Club's official press conference for the Masters Golf Tournament, National Council of Women's Organizations Chairman Burk joined Mehri & Skalet PLLC, the civil rights law firm known for high-profile employment discrimination cases against Texaco and The Coca-Cola Co., to launch the "Women on Wall Street" initiative. This project will investigate allegations of sex...

LOS ANGELES -- A Claremont college professor who claimed she was targeted in a hate crime that provoked campus protests denied police allegations that she staged the vandalism. "This is like a very big deal if they think I'm a suspect," Kerri F. Dunn, a visiting professor of psychology at Claremont McKenna College, told the Los Angeles Times. "I didn't want any of this from the beginning. This is so overshadowing the bigger problem on campus, which is that the administration has turned its head regularly on hate speech and hate crimes." But police said two witnesses came forward with...

"When I first saw that, I was taken aback," says Greene, 51, a long time volunteer with her son's former Boy Scout troop in San Leandro. "I remember thinking, 'Why?"' The image on the shirt shows a row of rocks hurtling through the air toward a stick-figure boy's head. Harmless humor or injurious insult? Opinions differ, but consumers have embraced anti-boy products, such as the "throw rocks" T-shirt created by Clearwater, Fla.-based David and Goliath, which also markets journals with the same slogan, pajamas that read "Boys are smelly" and T-shirts emblazoned with "Lobotomy: How to train boys." It's a...

U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, praising the former Soviet Union yesterday for its 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, said that the attack helped bring women's rights to the fundamentalist Muslim country. "The Soviets tried to provide more opportunities for women," Clinton told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, in a speech billed by her office as "her first major foreign policy address as a U.S. senator." In quotes picked up by the New York Sun, Mrs. Clinton noted that Afghanistan was "the place where September 11 was conceived and implemented." She then criticized the Bush administration for not focusing more...

On the eve of the Masters Tournament, Katie Couric just finished a segment on the controversy surrounding the male-only membership of Augusta National, the host of the Masters. Immediately preceding the interview, The Today Show cunningly positioned a segment focused on women in combat in Iraq, including an extended interview with a woman pilot of a Chinook helicopter. The obvious message: "women are willing to fight and die for their country overseas, but back home are denied access to Augusta." Boo-hoo. How about all those men at war who couldn't have attended Hillary's alma mater, Wellesley, and similar institutions? In...