Tag Archives: Michele Bachmann

“You can’t pray away the gay—baby, I was born this way!”

By Samhita | Published: July 21, 2011

TweetIs what a group of gay activists were screaming as they bombarded Michele Bachmann’s hubby Marcus’s anti-gay center wherein he “reforms” those “gay barbarians.” Their ask? To tame away the gay–they wanted to be disciplined by Marcus Bachman himself. The new trend in glitter flash mobs already took my breath away, but asking an anti-gay evangelist to discipline you, [...]

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Friday (Not) Feminist Fuck Yeah: Michele Bachmann

By Vanessa | Published: July 1, 2011

Tweet I know what you’re thinking: Why would I ever give a Feminist Fuck Yeah to Michele Bachmann? Because she isn’t one — a feminist, that is — and acknowledges that very fact. So, yes — thank you, Michele Bachmann, for not appropriating the word and the movement like fellow GOP lady Sarah Palin did. [...]

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Why there is no way in hell Michele Bachmann can become America’s first woman president

By Vanessa | Published: June 15, 2011

Tweet Pic via I turn to my wise friend and Feministing alumna Ann Friedman, who said in response to John McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin as his VP in the 2008 election: “A woman candidate is not the same thing as a woman’s candidate.” Sure, we could say it’s unlikely Michele Bachmann will get a [...]

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