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Fox News Touts Ridiculous ‘War on Men’

Ladies—especially you, feminists—listen up: If you want to know the real reason men don’t want to get married these days, you have only yourselves to blame. That’s according to anti-feminist and ardent Michele Bachmann defender Suzanne Venker.

Posted on Nov 26, 2012 READ MORE


Limbaugh Makes Outrageous New Claim About ‘Feminazis’

An Italian study found a man’s penis size, on average, is 10 percent smaller than it was 50 years ago. According to Rush Limbaugh, the shrinkage must be because of feminism. Obviously.

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Activists Strip Down to Mark Opening Up of Paris Office

Radical feminist group FEMEN on Tuesday christened its new European headquarters with a topless march through Paris’ 18th Arrondissement, a predominantly Muslim neighborhood.

Posted on Sep 19, 2012 READ MORE


Obama’s Feminist Touch

The Kagan nomination reminds us that Barack Obama is the first president raised on feminist principles.

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Iceland: ‘The World’s Most Feminist Country’?

What does it mean to be a “female-friendly country”? According to the Guardian, banning prostitution and stripping, as Iceland has now done, makes it the clear winner in the global feminist sweepstakes.

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Clinton Plays the Rescuer Card

Politicians almost always exploit gender.  What Sen. Clinton is doing now is auditioning for the role of rescuer on a feminist frontier.

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Ellen Goodman: Bustiers and Niqabs

Whether they’re donning a slutty Halloween costume or a full-body Islamic veil, many modern women believe they are making their own choices of self-representation—but they’re actually caught in a cultural vise.

Posted on Oct 26, 2006 READ MORE  |  12 COMMENTS


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So a Militant Feminist and a Pro-Lifer Walk Into a Bar…

Well, not a bar, actually—a house. On this week’s episode of his FX network series “Thirty Days,” Morgan Spurlock, the documentarian behind “Super Size Me,” is putting two women with radically different worldviews in the same house for 30 days.

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Feminist Blogs Afire Over Oral Sex Debate

Salon wittily wades through a debate raging in the feminist blogosphere over whether the act of a woman performing oral sex on a man is inherently demeaning. It’s reg req’d for Salon, but Pandagon sums up most of the argument on her free site.

Posted on Jun 20, 2006 READ MORE  |  2 COMMENTS


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Nicole Holofcener: The Truthdig Interview

The director who has been called the “Woody Allen of the West Coast” talks about her new ensemble film, Friends With Money,Ӕ starring Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener and Joan Cusack, which opened last week.

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