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6 years in anti-feminism

Whether it’s conservative women’s organizations or straight up hate mail – the folks at Feministing sure to love to post about anti-feminism. Here are some of my favorite anti-feminist posts…

This was actually a photo that accompanied an article about feminism destroying men. (Well, if they’re so tiny – how can we help but destroy them?!)

Anti-feminist org wants to “bring back the hope chest” In which Ann and I discuss the bizarreness that was the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute’s push to make the ‘hope chest’ trendy again.

Anti-feminist drinking game!!!

Feminism makes your kids gay. (Says the dude preaching with a toilet seat around his neck.)

The anxious masculinity award in ...

Whether it’s conservative women’s organizations or straight up hate mail – the folks at Feministing sure to love to post about anti-feminism. Here are some of my favorite anti-feminist posts…

This was actually a ...

By Jessica • 14 years ago

Quick Hit: Anti-feminist columnist wins a Pulitzer

Kathleen Parker, who thinks young women hooking up on college campuses are creating a “mental health crisis” and that women in the military should expect to be raped (because “men resent women because they’ve been forced to pretend that women are equals”) has won a Pulitzer prize for commentary. I think I need a drink.

By Lori Adelman • 14 years ago

In Today’s Alternative Advice Column, What Lies Behind “Slut”

A while back, Chloe wrote a terrific piece about the gap between increased awareness about unhealthy beauty standards in the media, and the unhealthy messages they’re actually internalizing. I think a similar gap exists regarding sexuality; many of us are able to articulate pride in our sexuality or pontificate about sex positivity, but we’re still internalizing harmful messages about sexuality and what these messages says about us and our value. We still buy into the Madonna/whore complex. We still believe purity and goodness reside with virginity, and dirtiness and badness reside with sex. We still feel shame about our desires, and feel less and less proud of ourselves as our “number” climbs higher and higher (and I’m not talking ...

By Jos Truitt • 14 years ago

Lilith Fair charity campaign includes anti-choice orgs

Looks like this year’s revival of Lilith Fair could follow in the footsteps of Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival as another for-profit music event marketed to feminists but with some very anti-feminist politics.
Lilith Fair’s Facebook page is running a “Choose Your Charity” campaign – fans in every city that will host Lilith Fair events can vote for local charities and the winners will receive $1 for every ticket sold in that city. However, as the Chicago Reader reports, anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) are included in the list of charities folks can vote to fund. CPCs misinform and outright lie to women with the aim of keeping them from accessing contraception and abortion. Not exactly my ...

By Jos Truitt • 14 years ago

Former Planned Parenthood ED calls for women’s silence around abortion

When Angie Jackson live tweeted her abortion she was speaking about what women have been told must remain private, secret, and yes, shameful. I support women telling their own stories without judgment or stigma. I want a culture where women can talk comfortably about their abortions, even if it is still a difficult choice for some, where women’s choices aren’t judged. Speaking openly about abortion helps to create this world.
In a piece published yesterday at Salon, former Executive Director of Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island Mary Ann Sorrentino argues Jackson’s choice and the procedure she underwent shouldn’t be talked about in public. Sorrentino attempts to make a generational argument, claiming pre-Roe feminists understand ...

By Jessica • 14 years ago

Superbowl Sexism: Tweeting asshole edition

Via Media Matters, I see that CNN contributor and RedState editor Erick Erickson was tweeting douchtastic last night.

I’m not going to link to his account, but it seems that the Twitter-feminist bashing has continued into today – complete with hackneyed comments about Birkenstocks, hairiness and having no sense of humor. I’m betting a tweet about castration is well on its way.

Via Feministe.

Via Media Matters, I see that CNN contributor and RedState editor Erick Erickson was tweeting douchtastic last night.

I’m not going to link to his account, but it seems that the Twitter-feminist bashing has continued into ...

By Jessica • 14 years ago

Superbowl Sexism: Focus on the Family edition

After all the controversy surrounding Focus on the Family’s ad featuring Tim and Pam Tebow – this commercial seems somewhat…well, meh.

Transcript after the jump
Outside of the inexplicable tackling (ha!), this ad doesn’t really say much of anything. In fact, it seems like it really just serves to promote Focus on the Family’s website – where, of course, you’ll find all sorts of anti-choice rhetoric including an interview where Tebow’s father speaks about “weeping over the loss of millions of babies in America that were never given a chance.”
But really, I have the same question that Jesse does: “[I]f the anti-choice position is so true, so mainstream and so critical to the future of ...

After all the controversy surrounding Focus on the Family’s ad featuring Tim and Pam Tebow – this commercial seems somewhat…well, meh.

Transcript after the jump
Outside of the inexplicable tackling (ha!), this ad doesn’t really say much ...

By Jessica • 14 years ago

Limbaugh: “I love the women’s movement, especially when walking behind it.”

Ah, Rush Limbaugh. Always so charming.

Transcript after the jump.
Thanks to Think Progress, who also point out that Limbaugh held a “Female Summit” to find out how he could “own women.”

Ah, Rush Limbaugh. Always so charming.

Transcript after the jump.
Thanks to Think Progress, who also point out that Limbaugh held a “Female Summit” to find out how he could “own women.”